July 2019

Contents

• President’s column and June lunch - page 1Ian Mackey reports on the museum’s Pie Time exhibition and Nick Rheinberger’s talk and instrument display at the Society lunch.
• Travel humour and meeting venue - page 2Bruce Moore shares travel-announcement humour; the Society announces a trial of the accessible Mittagong Playhouse meeting venue.
• Garry Barnsley and researching military service - page 3Profiles Garry Barnsley’s Southern Highlands connections and community work and introduces his talk on researching service personnel.
• Historical photographs and railway holdings - page 4Describes historical photographs used in a local litter campaign and Frank Mitchell’s guide to the Society’s railway history files.
• The railway to Goulburn and Mittagong gatehouse - page 5Reviews a railway sesquicentenary publication and notes a former Mittagong gatehouse and an uncertain identification of an early railway photograph.
• Yerrinbool railway centenary and village history - page 6Philip Morton recounts the 1919 railway deviation, the Yerrinbool Station Estate, orchards, school and community hall.
• Sarah Loseby’s centenary - page 7Recounts Bowral’s 1947 celebration of Sarah Loseby’s hundredth birthday and reproduces recollections of her garden and family life at Harby Farm.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in 2019; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Garry Barnsley discusses local military history and his Highlands family connections (p.3).
• The Society outlines its railway-history holdings and a project using historical photographs (p.4).
• A railway retrospective, Yerrinbool’s 1919 deviation and village history accompany the continuing account of Sarah Loseby’s centenary (pp.5-7).

Original Society source