May 2020

Contents

• President’s column: pandemics past and present - page 1Reflects on the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the 1919 influenza pandemic, introducing the State Archives’ Windows into Wartime exhibition.
• Society notices and an influenza photograph - page 2Includes Bruce Moore’s lockdown humour, historical Society notices and a 1919 photograph of health workers from the State Archives exhibition.
• Windows into Wartime and Archie Homann - page 3Introduces State Archives’ wartime exhibition and Linda Emery’s account of decorator and designer Archie Homann’s London career before migration.
• Archie Homann in Bowral and Burradoo - page 4Follows Homann’s work and bowling interests in Bowral, and describes family donations of his decorative and theatre designs, including a ceiling design for Trelm, Burradoo.
• Society history: 2014 - page 5Reviews the museum expansion, a heritage grant, the Forgotten Soldiers launch and events marking local history and Bowral trachyte.
• Society history: 2014-2015 - page 6Continues with the historical inns book launch, Williams Gallery and Southern Highlands 1200 exhibition, Willow Vale history and visit to Oldbury.
• Society history: 2016 - page 7Remembers Nancy Reynolds and other volunteers, conservation work, a northern-villages tour and the donation of a wooden water pipe from Moss Vale.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in May 2020; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Linda Emery profiles decorator Archie Homann’s career and his work and family life in Bowral and Burradoo (pp.3-4).
• A review of Society activities in 2014-16 recalls the Williams Gallery, local history publications, volunteer Nancy Reynolds and a tour of the northern villages (pp.5-7).

Original Society source