August 2019

Contents

• Migrant hostel at New Berrima - page 1Former cement-works engineer Ian Mackey recalls the Taylor Avenue migrant hostel, its cabins and dining room, and the workers who came from postwar Europe.
• Australian slang and digitised records - page 2Bruce Moore discusses Australian slang; Linda Emery introduces digitised Australian Joint Copying Project records, including material about Bong Bong veterans.
• Poppy Seed Project and Sutton Forest plaque - page 3Introduces a Poppy Seed Project talk and records a plaque at All Saints, Sutton Forest, commemorating victims of John Lynch.
• Bowral children’s library - page 4Maureen Townsing recounts Noni Pearce’s creation of the children’s library, its move to St Jude’s grounds and librarian Elva Shaw’s appointment.
• Bowral children’s library and its later home - page 5Continues the library’s story through council takeover in 1968, relocation to Stafford House and later use of the former library building.
• Stephen and Eugenia Deneka: wartime separation - page 6A 1978 company-magazine account, adapted by Ros Dale, follows two Polish forced labourers from their meeting in Germany to Stephen’s work at Berrima.
• The Denekas reunited - page 7Concludes the Denekas’ reunion and marriage after decades apart; also includes a poem by Nick Rheinberger.
• 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

• Linda Emery introduces the Poppy Seed Project and a Sutton Forest memorial plaque (p.3).
• Maureen Townsing traces the history of Bowral’s children’s library (p.4).
• The Bowral children’s library history continues, followed by Stephen and Eugenia Deneka’s wartime separation and later reunion in Berrima (pp.5-7).

Original Society source