Updates
Discover what has been added or improved on this website, with the newest updates first. Early entries have been reconstructed from publication records and group related changes together. Historical research and photographs are credited on the linked pages.
Website updates coordinated by Angus McKinnon with Codex.
- Corrected a misplaced note in the historical Mittagong infectious diseases table after checking the original register transcription. View
- Added detailed contents for three 2017 newsletters, with new Moss Vale and Mittagong stories. View
- Expanded the December 2017 to March 2018 newsletter contents and added Bowral railway and Moss Vale remembrance stories. View
- Improved the Stats page fallback and added dated website quality scores. View
- Expanded the April to June 2018 newsletter contents and added Moss Vale rectory and Bowral sampler histories. View
- Added this Updates page and a plain-text record of website changes. View
- Added a maintenance guide for future website updates.
- Refined site search to keep utility pages out of research results. View
- Reviewed the original newsletters from July 2018 to August 2023, adding detailed contents and selected highlights. View
- Expanded Moss Vale history with the Scrutineer newspaper, street names, coaches, wartime farm workers, a bus rescue and the wooden water pipes. View
- Added Bowral stories about the Cordeaux family, the hospital, the March to Freedom, artist Archie Homann and the town water supply. View
- Expanded Mittagong’s fire brigade history, from its first coach-house to horse-drawn and motor fire engines. View
- Added Robertson’s early bank manager, the Pritchett family and the 1907-08 drought at Carrington Falls. View
- Added Berrima stories including contrasting 1853 newspaper accounts and Society conservation work. View
- Expanded history and sources for Bong Bong, Burrawang, Wingello, Meryla and other towns and villages. View
- Added practical oral-history guidance and more about the Society’s conservation work. View
- Expanded Website Stats with daily, weekly, monthly and yearly views, traffic charts and crawler information. View
- Made page headings bold throughout the Society site for a clearer visual hierarchy. View
Website updates coordinated by Angus McKinnon with Codex.
- Reviewed original newsletters from September 2023 to October 2026, adding detailed article contents and selected highlights. View
- Expanded Moss Vale stories on coaching, the Lansley family, postal services, courts and the community centre. View
- Added Bowral stories on George Vincent, telephone operators, pigeon racing, courts, Bradstow and local businesses. View
- Expanded Mittagong history with music, railway, hospital, motorcycle and wartime stories. View
- Added stories and pictures for Robertson, Berrima, Bundanoon, Sutton Forest, Fitzroy Falls, Canyonleigh and other places. View
- Added photographs and illustrations including a Moss Vale courthouse scene, the Machotka family and Bowral telephone operators. View
- Improved town-page headings, document introductions, captions and the display of historical images. View
- Added searchable research tables and finding aids for local records, with links back to the originals. View
- Updated search to cover the site and non-SPC documents while keeping the cement archive available to browse. View
Website updates coordinated by Angus McKinnon with Codex.
- Redesigned the Society site with a larger photographic header, clearer reading layouts and illustrated historical stories. View
- Reorganised Berrima’s history into illustrated chapters with maps and sources alongside the story. View
- Published researched additions to many town and village histories, including Avoca, Balaclava, Canyonleigh, Woodlands, East Kangaloon and Balmoral. View
- Added research on Joadja’s shale transport, Wingello’s railway village and Tallong’s station name. View
- Added historical parish maps and land-sale plans to town histories, including Moss Vale, Bowral, Bong Bong, Bargo and Balmoral. View
- Added the 1886 Throsby suburban-lots poster and related newspaper evidence to the Moss Vale and Bong Bong histories. View
- Expanded Mittagong history with its windmill, School of Arts and Talgarno hospital. View
- Expanded newsletter summaries and connected relevant issues to town histories. View
Website updates coordinated by Angus McKinnon with Codex.
- Launched the Society website with town histories, newsletters, photographs, maps, research guides and the library catalogue. View
- Published The Cottage at 7 Lee Street, Mittagong, with its property history, sources and questions for further research. View
- Added histories of Yerrinbool, High Range and Mandemar, with their schools and railway connections. View
- Expanded Exeter and Fitzroy Falls stories and the contents of newsletters 588 and 589. View
- Added the Meryla story and expanded newsletters 590 and 591. View
Website updates coordinated by Angus McKinnon.
- The bd.org.au domain was registered and planning began for a new Society website. The first pages were published on 29 October.