December 2019

Contents

• President’s column and annual meeting - page 1Reports the Society’s 2019 annual meeting, a screening of Bradstow about Bowral and an award for the museum’s makers exhibition.
• Clive James and Society notices - page 2Bruce Moore remembers writer Clive James; historical holiday and Society notices accompany a 1914 Bowral streetscape photograph.
• Museum award and Digging up the Past - page 3Describes the award-winning makers exhibition and Carol Nolan and Carolyn Dougherty’s research into nineteenth-century deaths and obituaries.
• The Chapman brothers - page 4Frank Mitchell and Ros Dale begin a researched account of Israel and Noel Chapman, transported to NSW and later involved in colonial policing.
• Israel and Noel Chapman’s careers - page 5Continues Israel’s controversial career and Noel’s path through the police force to appointment as Berrima chief constable.
• Noel Chapman and John George Morris - page 6Concludes Chapman’s Berrima career and begins Philip Morton’s account of Bowral auctioneer and mayor John George Morris.
• Morris, Bowral business and local government - page 7Follows Morris’s commercial and civic roles, municipal incorporation, the fire in Bong Bong Street and the later auctioneering firm.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in December 2019; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• The museum receives an IMAGinE award for its Makers exhibition and introduces Digging up the Past (p.3).
• Frank Mitchell and Ros Dale research brothers Israel and Noel Chapman, including Noel’s Berrima service (p.4).
• The Chapman brothers’ histories continue alongside John George Morris’s Bowral business and local government work (pp.5-7).

Original Society source