December 2022

Contents

• President’s column and annual meeting - page 1Society office holders, restoration of a grandfather clock, the Berrima courthouse and forthcoming articles.
• Clock restoration and Society news - page 2Peter Donnan’s restoration of the Society’s grandfather clock, a photograph from the Return to Tipperary seminar and Bruce Moore’s column.
• Local and family history books - page 3A historical list of donated and surplus books offered to members, including district, family and convict-history titles.
• Printmaker Tony Ameneiro - page 4The local artist’s award-winning Nattai River print and his response to the landscape and Fred Williams’s work.
• Landscape with Rock - page 5An account of Ameneiro’s Sturt Gallery exhibition and its connections to the Nattai River valley and Fred Williams.
• Berrima gaol and courthouse during World War I - page 6Wendy Hamilton describes the courthouse as a reading room, classroom, chapel and accommodation for some internees.
• The district’s other courthouses - page 7Philip Morton traces police and court buildings at Mittagong, Moss Vale, Robertson and Bowral after the railway arrived.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Contact, opening and committee details as printed in December 2022; they may have changed.

Issue highlights

• A December 2022 list of second-hand books includes local history and genealogical titles (p.3).
• The list includes From Jordan’s Crossing to Bundanoon and James Jervis’s history of the Berrima district (p.3).
• Printmaker Tony Ameneiro’s Nattai River Landscape receives a Swan Hill print award (p.4).
• An exhibition article discusses Tony Ameneiro’s landscape prints; histories of Berrima’s gaol and courthouse and other district court buildings follow (pp.5-7).

Original Society source