March 2024

Contents

• President’s column and Society activities - page 1Museum storytelling, the Moss Vale courthouse centenary and archive work, with a forthcoming talk on Gwen Meredith.
• Museum and oral history notices - page 2Introduces the Mittagong Motor Cycle Club scrapbook and a request for oral-history volunteers.
• Gwen Meredith and Blue Hills - page 3Introduces the ABC serial and its author’s connections with Moss Vale, Berrima and Bowral, alongside museum volunteer news.
• Moss Vale Court House centenary - page 4The commemoration of the first sitting in the 1924 courthouse, and Linda Emery’s presentation on local legal history.
• Local law and order: Bowral and Mittagong - page 5The development of police stations and courts, including Bowral’s trachyte courthouse and rivalry over district headquarters.
• Moss Vale police and court buildings - page 6Temporary premises after the 1914 railway works and the construction of the 1923 police station and 1924 courthouse.
• Mittagong Motor Cycle Club scrapbook - page 7Philip Morton introduces photographs and clippings from John McColgan’s 1946-49 club scrapbook, a scanned copy of which is held in the Society archive.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Contact, opening and committee details as printed in March 2024; they may have changed.

Issue highlights

• A forthcoming talk introduces radio writer Gwen Meredith and Blue Hills (p.3).
• The centenary of Moss Vale Court House and a history of Bowral, Mittagong and Moss Vale police and court buildings feature across the issue (pp.4-6).
• John McColgan’s 1946-49 Mittagong Motor Cycle Club scrapbook offers photographs and clippings for local sporting history (p.7).

Original Society source