November 2022

Contents

• President’s column and annual meeting - page 1Society membership, the antiques roadshow, meeting notices and local-history features.
• Society notices and Bruce Moore’s column - page 2A light-hearted tour of Australian place names and a photograph of the Society’s antiques-roadshow team.
• A rally driver and Moss Vale baker - page 3Georgina Chaseling’s London-Sydney rally presentation and Alan Clark’s account of baker John Sexton’s success at the 1964 Shoalhaven show.
• Freckles and the President’s annual report - page 4Linda Emery describes a Sutton Forest photograph album and Lord Chelmsford’s horse; Ian Mackey reports on Society activities.
• Museum, archives and publications reports - page 5Annual reports cover the museum, the digitisation of biography files, research and publications.
• Library, conservation and family history reports - page 6Reports on collections, archival preservation and the Family History Group, plus a 2022 list of missing Highlife magazine issues.
• Bowral’s 1889 spring flower show - page 7Philip Morton reproduces a Bowral Free Press account of the Horticultural Society’s show at the School of Arts.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Contact, opening and committee details as printed in November 2022; they may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Georgina Chaseling introduces a talk on the London-Sydney rallies; a Moss Vale baker’s success is recalled (p.3).
• Linda Emery introduces an early Sutton Forest photograph album and the vice-regal horse Freckles (p.4).
• Annual reports cover museum, archives, library and conservation work (pp.5-6).
• A Bowral Free Press account describes the Horticultural Society’s 1889 spring flower show at the School of Arts (p.7).

Original Society source