April 2022

Contents

• President’s column and Society news - page 1The Mittagong street-name booklet, Roy Baker Walkway and opening of the gardens exhibition at Berrima museum.
• Museum exhibition and Society notices - page 2A photograph from the exhibition opening and Bruce Moore’s column about post offices.
• Mittagong street names - page 3The Society introduces its illustrated research booklet and some of the people and themes reflected in local street names.
• Roy Baker Walkway, Moss Vale - page 4The Rotary pathway along Whites Creek, the 1989 Lone Pine planting and the life of engineer Roy Baker.
• Gardens and Landscapes exhibition - page 5The 2022 opening, contributors and objects in the joint Society and Australian Garden History Society exhibition.
• Mittagong’s school became a library - page 6Philip Morton traces New Sheffield’s first public school, the 1878 Queen Street building and successive expansions.
• Mittagong library history - page 7The new Pioneer Street school, a children’s library established in 1944 and the later district library service in the sandstone building.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Contact, opening and committee details as printed in April 2022; they may have changed.

Issue highlights

• The Society introduces its local street-names research and a collection-photograph presentation (p.3).
• Research traces the Roy Baker Walkway and the engineer after whom it is named (p.4).
• The 2022 Gardens and Landscapes exhibition brought together photographs and objects from local collections (p.5).
• Mittagong’s early public school and the Queen Street building’s later use as a children’s library are traced (pp.6-7).

Original Society source