April 2025

Contents

• President’s column - page 1Introduces the archives relocation, cement newsletter digitisation and local service remembrance.
• Musings and family memories - page 2Bruce Moore writes about hearing; a Lee family enquiry recalls Leslie Cottage in Mittagong.
• Service histories and cement newsletters - page 3Linda Emery’s talk, a Gallipoli book event and the digitised cement newsletter launch are introduced.
• Pre-loved books - page 4A historical list of books offered in April 2025; prices and availability may have changed.
• Moss Vale Civic Centre history - page 5Begins the story of the proposed baths and the Donkin family’s community-centre gift.
• War Memorial Centre and the Donkin family - page 6Describes the 1948 plans, fundraising, family history and the swimming pool.
• Swimming pool and Civic Centre - page 7Follows community fundraising, the 1965 pool and the Civic Centre’s later development.
• Society information - page 8Contact and committee details as printed in April 2025.

Issue highlights

• Linda Emery's Anzac-season talk remembers Southern Highlands people who served in the wars (p.3).
• The Society launches digitised SPC-Blue Circle-Southern Cement newsletters from 1959-85 (p.3).
• A history of the Moss Vale Civic Centre explains its origins as a community centre and war memorial (p.5).
• The Civic Centre history follows the Donkin family’s land donations, the war memorial grounds and the development of the swimming pool (pp.5-7).

Original Society source