September 2018

Contents

• Museum upgrade plans - page 1Ian Mackey outlines 2018 plans for renovating the museum and developing a digital gallery and wine-history exhibition.
• Family history stories and Society notices - page 2Bruce Moore reflects on family stories that changed under research; the issue also prints historical membership and museum information.
• Coachmen of the Nowra district - page 3Introduces Shoalhaven historian Alan Clark’s work on coachmen and the route between Nowra and the Southern Highlands.
• Mittagong Fire Station centenary - page 4Describes the Society’s research assistance and reproduces a 1918 newspaper report of the fire station’s official opening.
• Mittagong’s early fire engines - page 5Reproduces a 1976 account of the brigade’s horse-drawn equipment, Sundowner and the introduction of a motor fire engine in 1926.
• Archives resources and oral history workshop - page 6Linda Emery introduces digitised Tooth & Co hotel records and theatre scene books; the Society announces an oral-history workshop.
• Carrington Falls reserve and sawmill - page 7Philip Morton traces the falls trust, the Missingham and Vandenbergh families, the sawmill and a severe 1907-08 drought.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in 2018; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Shoalhaven historian Alan Clark and a Bundanoon book sale are introduced (p.3).
• Society researchers assist a centenary history of Mittagong Fire Brigade (p.4).
• The Mittagong fire brigade history describes its early station and equipment; another article follows Carrington Falls and the Missingham family’s sawmill (pp.5-7).

Original Society source