November 2024

Contents

• President’s column - page 1Reports on museum visitors, volunteer recognition, annual reports and Hillview.
• Musings and Ryerson Index - page 2Bruce Moore writes about family clichés; the editor clarifies the Ryerson Index’s historical coverage.
• Certificates of achievement - page 3Recognises the Society service of Denyse Barker, Patricia Doris and Ian Mackey.
• President and archives annual reports - page 4Reports on Society activities, streetscape photographs and digitisation of biography and building files.
• Archives, museum and conservation - page 5Reports describe collection accessions, cement newsletter digitisation, museum visits and conservation work.
• Family history, library and publications - page 6Annual reports cover interest groups, acquisitions, book sales and the start of a Hillview update.
• Hillview and surplus books - page 7A 2024 account follows Hillview’s history and proposed restoration; a historical book-sale list appears.
• Society information - page 8Contact and committee details as printed in November 2024.

Issue highlights

• RAHS Certificates of Achievement for three Society members are reported from the 2024 Campbelltown conference (p.3).
• Denyse Barker's service since joining in 2007 is profiled (p.3).
• Stuart Handley's annual report records Marie Chalker's Life Membership and Jill Lees' fifty years as a member (p.4).
• Annual reports describe property research, collection conservation and family history and library activities (pp.5-6).
• An update discusses Hillview’s history and proposed restoration as reported in 2024 (pp.6-7).

Original Society source