July 2023

Contents

• President’s column and Society news - page 1Family history, the June luncheon, museum exhibitions and the forthcoming community heritage study.
• Music and Society notices - page 2Bruce Moore’s column and a photograph of the Australian Commonwealth Band, including Archie Moore.
• Archives research and Berrima Bridge Nursery - page 3Martyn Killion introduces the Museums of History NSW website; a museum exhibition traces Claude and Isobel Crowe’s nursery.
• Archie Moore and his cornet - page 4Bruce Moore traces his father’s Wildes Meadow family, railway work, music lessons and selection for the Australian Commonwealth Band.
• Archie Moore’s band tour and later life - page 5The band’s 1925-27 world tour and Archie’s subsequent railway work, family and return to Burrawang for burial.
• Community heritage study in 2023 - page 6Dennis McManus describes the proposed study, consultation and listing process as understood in July 2023; the status may have changed.
• Heritage study and the local dairy industry - page 7The study’s themes and Philip Morton’s account of the 1890s cooperative, milk and butter production.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Contact, opening and committee details as printed in July 2023; they may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Martyn Killion introduces the Museums of History NSW website and State Archives research (p.3).
• A new edition of Shylie Brown’s Life Behind the Bar lists and describes more than 450 local inn and hotel licensees and families, 1824-1924 (p.3).
• Bruce Moore follows Wildes Meadow-born cornet player Archie Moore, his railway work and the Australian Commonwealth Band’s 1925-27 world tour (pp.4-5).
• A July 2023 statement explains a proposed Wingecarribee heritage study and consultation; current listing status must be checked separately (pp.6-7).
• Philip Morton introduces the growth of dairy cooperatives and small butter factories across the eastern district (p.7).

Original Society source