May 2022

Contents

• President’s column and Society news - page 1ANZAC commemorations, historical photographs, forthcoming talks and Berrima school history.
• Mittagong street names and Berrima school - page 2The Society’s street-name booklet and a 1907 photograph of children in Berrima Public School gardens.
• Irish immigration and local-history talks - page 3Introduces Perry McIntyre’s presentation and Judith Dunn’s historical luncheon talk.
• Bert Hinkler and Bowral photographer Jessie Duprez - page 4Linda Emery describes Hinkler’s 1928 landing at Bong Bong and Duprez’s photographs of Bowral streets and processions.
• Berrima school exhibition and early schools - page 5Lyn Hall’s museum display and an education-department history of Berrima’s nineteenth-century schools.
• The establishment of Berrima Public School - page 6The 1860s funding, construction and board disputes, and the move into the new building in January 1870.
• Reverends Thomas and James Hassall - page 7Philip Morton traces their ministries and James Hassall’s connections to Berrima’s school, church, rectory and gaol.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Contact, opening and committee details as printed in May 2022; they may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Genealogist Perry McIntyre introduces a talk on Irish history and research (p.3).
• A feature recalls aviator Bert Hinkler’s landing at Bong Bong and the use of Society photographs in Bowral (p.4).
• A museum display introduces Berrima’s early schools; a history follows the disputes and construction preceding the public school’s opening (pp.5-6).
• Philip Morton profiles Anglican ministers Thomas and James Hassall and their connections with the district (p.7).

Original Society source