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PO Box 17 WENTWORTH FALLS 2782 'HOBBY'S REACH' 99 Blaxland Road WENTWORTH FALLS
Phone No. 02 4757 3824 Vol.11 No.3 Sept/Oct 2000
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Valerie Craven 4757 3433 Vice President John Glass 4757 1821 Roberta Johnstone 4757 2024 Treasurer Shirley Jones 4757 2270 Josephine Adam 4759 1022 Members Peter Gunton 4787 7335 Barrie Reynolds 4757 4735 Graham Warmbath 4757 3402
SUB-COMMITTEE CO-ORDINATORS
Joan Smith 4757 4009 Curator Coral Ewan 4784 1831 Clyde Francis 4759 1774 Native Garden Noreen Skellam 4757 1845 Valerie Craven 4757 3433 Walks & Talks Josephine Adam 4759 1022 Michael Finlay 4757 1584 Publishing Graham Warmbath 4757 3402 Susan Warmbath 4757 3402 Editor Susan Warmbath 4757 3402 Elizabeth Finlay 4757 1584 Publicity Geoffrey Dunn 4757 3233
Meetings
The Saturday meetings commence promptly at 10.30 am but members are welcome to come at 10 am as the Research Room is open with a researcher on hand, the Library is open for members to select and return books, the coffee shop and Cottage Shop are open for business.
After the meeting closes at 12 noon a light lunch of soup and rolls is available at a modest price which has to be paid for before the meeting to ensure that sufficient is available. The Cottage Shop is again open.
Saturday 2 September
Monday 11 September
Meet Bring
Walks and Talks and other Information
10.30 am our speaker today is Ted Green on 'The most dangerous job in the world -At the Coalface'. Ted is a retired coal miner having worked for 45 years in coal mines in the UK, Queensland and NSW, the latter in the Blue Mountains.
Excursion to Hartley Vale including afternoon tea at the restored Comet Inn. We will spend the morning walking [level walk approx 1112 kms each way] on the bed of the early railway track to escarpment where we will have lunch, admire the views over Hartley Vale and inspect ruins of the funicular railway. We will then return to the cars and drive into the valley for a 2 pm. guided tour and Devonshire Tea at the restored Comet Inn.
10 am. Mount Victoria Rail Station
Bring backpack with food and drink for a bush picnic lunch away from cars. Wear suitable shoes for walking on unsealed surfaces and clothing for outdoor conditions. Cost $8.00 each which includes guided tour and afternoon tea at the Comet Inn.
Duration Usual day trip finishing around 3.30 pm. Sunday 24 September Saturday 7 October Monday 9 October Meet Bring Cost Duration Sunday 22 October Saturday 4 November Monday 13 November
Tarella Open to visitors from IO am to 4 pm, please check the Roster to see if you are on duty.
10.30 am - our speaker today is Kerrin Cooke on 'The discovery of gold in Australia and the development of the Central West'. Kerrin has many varying facets having studied Accountancy before obtaining a B.Sc Hons in Biochemistry. She became interested in family history and photography writing several books. On moving to Orange the City Council commissioned her to write a history of Lucknow and a flow-on from this was the book 'Glint of Gold" which is a full history of goldmining in the area and which is for sale in the bookshop.
Excursion to Ophir near Orange where gold was first discovered in Australia in 1851. ~
We plan to visit a working gold mine and see where the gold for 'THE' medals was mined.
Hartley Courthouse, ready to depart at 9 am. prompt.
Food and drink for a full days outing, lunch at picnic area near cars. Wear suitable shoes for walking on uneven surfaces and outdoor clothing. There will be a cost if we visit a working gold mine.
This will be a long day of approx 9 hours including travelling time. Home in daylight. Tarella Open to visitors from 10 am to 4 pm, please check the Roster to see if you are on duty.
10.30 am - Dr Brian Craven will entertain us with tales of early Alchemy or 'All that Glitters is not Gold'
A Ramble with Colin Slade around sites of historical interest in Wentworth Falls.
Walks and Talks Reports Excursion to Glenbrook led by Jack Austin, 12.5.00
To follow the early history of the construction of the railway over the Blue Mountains, Jack took us to Dark's Common at Lapstone where we saw the entrance to Lapstone Tunnel (the subject of Arthur Steeton's 1891 painting.
'Fire's On'). We walked the construction line and saw the funicular route to the eastern end of Glenbrook Tunnel, the
winding house and, nearby 'Dead Man's Steps". JA
A sketch map identffying the Historical Sites of Dark~,, Common is in the Research Centre.
The History of Customs & Excise In Australia in the 19th Century Talk hy Peter Chin, 3.6.00
A lifetime of experience in the Australian Customs Service speaks for itself.. "In 1800, Governor Hunter started to
collect revenue. A naval officer, William Balmain, was given the task of collecting a shilling a gallon on spirits and threepence a gallon on beer. A five per cent duty applied on all wares in order to fund orphanages. The collectors were known as Coast Waiters, Tide Waiters, Landing Waiters, descriptions which reflected the need to protect against smuggling. Sir Henry Parkes was a Tide Waiter - but he blew a whistle on the organisation .. and resigned.
The first Customs House was on the site of the Sydney GPO building and, later ( 1885), another was built by the Tank Stream, closer to where the flag was first raised.
In 1852, the State of Victoria adopted duties on vine fruits which varied from those applied by New South Wales. So,
for example, sultanas were cooked to avoid tax in Victoria! The anomalies led to the setting up of I 5 customs houses from Hungerford to Eden, along the entire length of the Murray river. In 1877, duty on tobacco was two shillings per pound
~ '•"lday it is $236 per kilo), rice was sixty shillings per ton and opium ten shillings per pound. In 1881, revenue collected
'---'Albury was $64,000 and in Sydney $1,200,000.
Although Victoria stopped searching boats in 1894, because it was "impolite and injurious to trade," the States' differences were never resolved until Federation.
In 1901, customs duty amounted to the main revenue for the colony." Peter reflected .. "Governments always need money. Excise was brought in - was it Dr Johnson said? - by 'wretches' to finance the civil war in Britain." Robert Burns fancied "The deil 's awa wi' th' Exciseman".
Questions and answers flowed fast: "Barrenjoey was to stop elicit liquor runs from the Hawkesbury." Gwen Silvey wanted to know if the fish in the Murray were New South Wales' or Victoria's? "It all depends on the scale of the fish -Alan Smith - or if they're cooked''. Peter warned us against ever agreeing to carry cargo not our own, however apparently harmless .. for example. "eggs don't make much noise." Last question - when did Income tax begin? - "1915 - as a
temporary measure -at 5%." GW
Excursion to Lapstone Hill Zig Zag and RAAF Base 14.8.00
Bull's Camp rendezvous and a bright cheerful group to match a bright cheerful morning. Down to Lapstone HUI, through the gates of the RAAF Base to our first stop at the top end of the original Zig'Zag route of the railway line. Here we were joined by Tim Miers from the Glenbrook & District Historical Society who, with our leader Jack Austin, gave us
c0me interesting information about the original line and the houses near by.
'---' The route of the rail line, Whitton's first zig zag, is now obviously a popular track for walkers and joggers. The top
road, fthe trains always went forward on the top and bottom lines and reversed in the middlel. passes through a narrow cutting filled with fems and is the site of Lucasville Station built for the Hon John Lucas, Minister for Mines, to service his holiday home later destroyed by fire. The famous Knapsack Viaduct [1867], which carried the trains and eventually road traffic, can be seen from Top Points and there is a walking track below it from which to admire the sandstone
structure. Much of the original hillside cutting for the middle section has been obliterated by road work and from the final section we were able to see the Eastern Portal of the Lapstone Tunnel [1892} which the Society visited on a previous excursion.
Lunch in the park at Glenbrook then off for our meeting with the Heritage Officer at the RAAF Base. For most of us who have travelled up from the plains and admired the Lapstone Hotel from afar, it was a treat to find that it does indeed command a glorious view and is actually as grand as it seem from a distance. But first to the round gatehouse - no longer gates since the road was widened - now used as offices by the Air Force. This was originally a roadside bar for the Hotel intended to catch passing traffic! Past new administrative buildings to the hotel which is now the Officers' Mess. The building started as 'Logie', the holiday home of Captain Charles Smith built on part of the Lucas' land. It was extended and became the Lapstone Hotel in 1928 - a holiday resort famous for its panoramic views. Many old photographs in the lounge where we began our tour tell of its history through its occupation by the Defence Forces during the war and its return as an hotel and finally its purchase by the Commonwealth Govt in 1949 for RAAF Eastern Area HQ.
The Art Deco style was preserved when two wings were added to enlarge the hotel continuing throughout the magnificent dining moms, bars, verandahs and courtyards. The gardens have been well maintained and only the wood ducks trying to swim on the blue swimming pool cover seemed out of harmony. RJ
The Making of the Colony Talk by J
ohn McClymont, 1.7.00
"This is a world of technology" John wryly observes, the tape failing to play
..
"
'-Press a button - wrong one
- Roberta, what do I do?" "First. call an expert!" A woof and tweet and the sound of the
Hebridesflows over
us -
"
Mendelssohn
's o
v
erture - listen to the sea
.. This talk is Lachlan Macquarie part 2. For those who missed
part l
:
Lachlan Macquarie was born into an impoverished Scottish island family, was sent to Edinburgh to learn
English. joined the army, served i.n India and ever
sought higher rank
, so as to make money to enable him to
return home. Macquarie married well but, sadly, Jane did not live long. On the screen, John Opie
'
s picture of
Macquarie age 41.
Itwas ten years before Macquarie remarried. He was 47 and Elizabeth Campbell of Moy was
30 - 'her youth had passed her by.· Macquarie was promoted Colonel of the Black W.atch, the regiment n.amed
to replace the mutinous New South Wales Corps that had deposed Governor Bligh. Listen .. the wave is coming
in
, gets to its height, then declines .. this music describes Macquarie's life."
Lachlan Macquarie part 2:
"Macarthur, a man of profound machinations, is the
villain in the peace. He led
the interreanum aaains-t Bli-ah who was aoino to put down the rum trade - his character had come ahead of him
0 0 0 0 0 .What the
'
exclusives' wanted was land and money .. after all
,
they
were paying for war with Napoleon
.
On New Year'
s Day 1810, Macquarie sailed into Sydney Cove. He ordered his men to dean muskets and fix
bayonets .. if there was to be an insurrection,
it had to be put down
. He said no more, nor needed to: his first order
restored vice-regal authority.
Making his way to Government House at Parramatta, he pondered: 'how can
-
I
make them
(convicts)
good citizens without civilisation'?'
-
straight away,
-
he
-
began
m~jorimprovements to tl
.,_____,,,
Governor
's domain, including the building of a dairy which still stands
(only Elizabeth Farm is older). Cattle
went to Macdonald
's farm,
so meat could be sold back to the government. Five towns were proclaimed
-Richmond, Windsor,
Pitt Town, Castlereagh and Wilberforce - and a turnpike road from Sydney
to Windsor
started - tolls to be used to maintain the road.
(The Rev.Marsden
, objecting to being put on the Turnpike Tmst
with two convicts, got short shrift: Brigadier General Macquarie had given the order and Marsden, parson or not,
would do his duty). Macquarie believed that once a crime was paid for, the individual should be restored to his
or her former position in the community. He got convict architect Greenway to build a porch on Government
House, St Matthews Church at Windsor and a house for the Rev. Marsden in O'Connell Street. He also got an
extra sixpence out of every five shillings! How?
By
asking ex-forgers to cut out the centre of each Spanish coin
in his large collection. ffe knew money was another appurtenance of civilisation.
Macquarie gave people hope: '
I took this imbecile country and made it something
'
. 92 brick, 22 stone and
-S2 weatherboard
-
buildings, 4 bridges, 7 quays, fog buildings, fomber yards
, market places, fountains and 200
niiles of roads were
-
built during Macquarie_,s governorship .. He transformed a ramshackle commuriity of 5000
- turned a deaf ear to London's anxieties about costs.
On the screen, Mrs Macquarie
's Female Orphan School built in Palladian style (like her home at Moy
)-_
Marsden didn
'
t like it. 'But, Rev.Marsden, isn't it better to give those who hope to serve the feel of a big hon
•
.,_____,,,
and not of a ramshackle building?'
In 1818, Elizabeth gave birth to a son and he was named after his father. With the prospect of a pension
after eight years service Macquarie had in the previous year tendered his resignation, but it had been refused. He
tried again to no avail
(the application was lost). Those whose self-interests had suffered under Macquarie had
lobbied London and now London was wondering if indeed Macquarie had
'
gone native.' Lord Bathurst
reluctantly appointed a Royal Commissioner to look into the Colony
's affairs.
On the screen, John Thomas Bigge .. a measly-looking man if ever there was one. '
What d'
you want with
fountains?
'
Or Mrs Macquarie's pagoda-like lighthouse at Newcastle .. The population of New South Wales
doubled under Macquarie .. but the mood in London swung against Macquarie and Bigge knew it. Macquarie
wrote to the Duke of York, his boss. His resignation was accepted. Bigge's report actually repudiated the reform
policies approved by Lord Bathurst and benevolently applied by Macquarie. Four years later,
still intent on
dispelling the misinformation that clouded his good name, Macquarie died in London.
Listen
..
to the waves. Macquarie is buried in Mull."
GW
The Rouse Family's Connection to the Blue Mountains
In 1815 after the road was made over the Blue Mountains a number of explorers including Evans, Oxley and Cunningham pushed further west and north of Bathurst discovering more good grazing land and hard on their heels came the squatters. In addition to the famous explorers Gregory Blaxland and William Lawson there were Richard Rouse, Richard Fitzgerald and the Reverend Samuel Marsden who were all farming land between Windsor and Cowpastures. Their servants, most of them convicts, JX)Ssibly including Andrew Gardiner (who in about 1820 was assigned to the Rev. Marsden), drove the flocks and herds of those early squatters out west onto the plains - in many cases far beyond the boundaries of the nineteen counties allowed in 1825. In 1837 to control the situation, Governor Bourke decided to introduce a licensing system for the Crown land beyond the boundaries. The license fee of£ 10 was negligible in relation to the wealth being won from the land by men who held huge areas, many of whose names live on in this country. Prior to the gold rush period Richard Rouse held 32,000 acres near Manilla in addition to 10 stations in other districts, the smallest of them being a holding of 16,000 acres near Coonabarabran.
Rouse was born in Oxford, England and was a descendant of a Norman noble who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066. In the early Cl9 Rouse can1e to Sydney as a free settler with his family on board the ship
'The Nile' and soon after his arrival took the position of Superintendent of Buildings. He acquired a grant of land towards Windsor and built his fine house, which still stands at Rouse Hill on the Windsor Road, not far from Vinegar Hill the site
of the infamous convict uprising in 1804. Rouse's great wealth enabled him to give whole properties to each of his three daughters. In 1841 'Mamre' was given to Elizabeth Rouse as a dowry on her marriage to the Hon. Robert Fitzgerald MLC,
~Windsor, the son of another wealthy squatter. Mamre had been established by the Rev. Samuel Marsden but had passed
o Richard Rouse after Marsden's son had been unable to maintain the property.
It is the story of Elizabeth's descendants which concern a number of properties familiar to us in the Blue Mountains. The Fitzgeralds were Irish and had not always been members of the colony's elite. Robert Fitzgerald's father Richard, although apparently a man of means and aristocratic ancestry, had been involved in Irish politics, convicted of high treason and was transported to Sydney in 1791. Richard had some knowledge of agriculture and having worked out his servitude later impressed John Macarthur with "his remarkable activity and regular conduct" and was chosen to replace
Andrew Thompson as Superintendent of the convict prisons along the Nepean River. He lived at Windsor and, like Rouse, became involved in the political machinations of the Bligh era which had culminated in the uprising in 1804 at Vinegar Hill.
It is interesting to note that in 1817 the labour of the convicts assigned to him was used in the building St Matthew's Church at Windsor then being overseen by Buildings Superintendent Richard Rouse.
Richard Fitzgerald's wife was also of convict origin. They had two sons but only Robert survived to adulthood. Richard Fitzgerald, like Blaxland, was one of the earliest squatters west of the Blue Mountains and his son Robert, as the years went by, went on the take up more land.
· Robert and Elizabeth Fitzgerald, both having inherited richly from their respective squatter fathers, would probably have been some of the wealthiest people in Sydney. They had seven daughters and spent most of their time in Sydney
•1here the social !if e kept them busy. The Fitzgeralds did not reside permanently at Mamre, the homestead being used as
holiday house. They were great horse lovers and under their ownership the property was soon transformed into a famous horse stud. Tanbark was laid down for racing which, it is said, was used to train the famous Melbourne Cup winner Archer.
Meanwhile the very eligible daughters of Robert and Elizabeth had grown up in Sydney and the youngest, Emily, married a young solicitor George Evans - at least that was the name that he was known by in Australia. Apparently he was from an aristocratic English family who had been ruined overnight by the collapse of wheat prices which had exerted a catastrophic effect on the London Stock Exchange. The family could not tolerate the stigma of a business failure so George's poverty stricken family was given the opportunity to go to Australia under an assumed name. In Sydney the
family members had to work for a living and George took a job at the GPO sorting letters while studying law in his spare
time, becoming an articled clerk to a solicitor.
Each day George walked to work in the city passing the home of the Hon. Robert Fitzgerald and his family of pretty daughters. One of them, 18 year old Emily, fell in love with George Evans who used to toss bouquets of flowers to her over the back fence. So this granddaughter of Richard Rouse became the bride of George Evans and bore him six children. George, who was by then succeeding as a partner in a legal practice, kept up with the late 1870's fashion of having a holiday home on the Blue Mountains. Initially they joined with another couple leasing Gardiner's Inn at Blackheath which had been closed following the coming of the railway and had fallen into decay.
George was a keen bushwalker and fancied to live further out near the Grose Valley so he bought land and built a
fine house named 'Eirene', the Greek word for peace. That house still stands and is known now as 'Cleopatra'.
Evans Lookout is named after George who, it is said, was the first white man to walk through the Grose Valley from Blackheath to Mt. Hay. Most of the exotic trees still standing in the extensive grounds of Cleopatra were planted by George Evans, the property becoming a gracious and comfortable home of the 1880s.
George later subdivided his Blackheath property, the homestead block passing to William Hargreaves son of Edward Greaves of gold rush fame. The lengthy description in the local paper gave minute details of the house, garden and outbuildings when the property was sold again in 1894. At that time the house was set in 12 acres of land which
was "beautifully planted with groups of fancy trees and shrubs with a broad sweeping carriage drive ... immediately
in front of the verandah is a splendid tennis court... .. there is also a good asphalt cricket pitch ... the blackberry bushes planted here were specially imported from America at a cost of £15."
Eirene was at a later stage sold to Alderman Harris well-known on the Sydney City Council where he was Mayor at the time that the Sydney Town Hall was built. The house remained in his family for many years during this time it was known as Marnyong passing through the hands of several other owners before being purchased in the 1980s and restored as Cleopatra, guesthouse and restaurant.
When the Evans family left Eirene they moved to Faulconbridge into a fine stone house which had been built by a Mr. McCullock who named his mansion Weemala, said to be an Aboriginal word meaning fine view. However George Evans once again turned to the Greek language and named it Eurama which has a similar meaning.
One of George and Emily's children, Emily, named after her mother, married James Briarcliffe MacLaurin the son of the eminent physician Sir Norman MacLaurin who was onetime Vice Chancellor of Sydney University. James MacLaurin was killed at Gallipoli and Emily was left with her small son Colin. The young war widow and her son lived at Eurama retaining the ownership until the 1920s. Eurama still stands in its acres of semi-cleared land at Faulconbridge but is only partially restored following severe damage in the 1960s bushfires.
E.Colin B.MacLaurin BA, BD, MA Cantab. was Lecturer-in-Charge of the Department of Semetic Studies at Sydney University where he was a contemporary of past President of the BMHS, Emeritus Professor Jack Still. Colin MacLaurin was married with two little daughters when in 1943, after being discharged from the Army due to ill health,"-..../
he moved to Wentworth Falls and purchased a house at the end of Falls Road. The house had been called Chalet Fontenelle having been built in the form of a Swiss Chalet for Rev. and Mrs. Stephen Childe. Rev. Childe was then Rector of St. Thomas' North Sydney. Vere Gordon Childe, their son, was the internationally respected prehistorian who later met his death by falling over the cliff at Govett's Leap, Blackheath.
The MacLaurins renamed their Wentworth Falls house Glenhurst. After a few years the marriage dissolved and Colin's mother came to care for her two little granddaughters. Colin and his mother became very interested in Protestant education and funded a private boarding school at Leura first known as the Maclaurin School and later as the MacLaurin Church of England Grammar School. This establishment flourished demanding more accommodation for students and in 1950 they remodelled their home Glenhurst filling in the verandahs providing more accommodation to house boarders.
This arrangement continued for two years by which time the Church of England Grammar School at Springwood was amalgamated with the Leura School at Coorah, the famous home of the Pitt family at Wentworth Falls. Glenhurst continued as a dormitory for the renamed 'Blue Mountains Grammar School' until suitable accommodation was built at Coorah. The first of many subsequent additions to the Grammar School was named The MacLaurin Building.
Colin Maclaurin although achieving success with the formation of the Blue Mountains Grammar School and still unhappy following his broken marriage decided to move. He sold Glenhurst which subsequently suffered greatly due to lack of maintenance becoming known as Whispering Pines. There followed years of dereliction with the house"----"
being used by squatters and people living alternative life styles eventually lying open to vandals. To the relief of local people it was saved by a Mr. and Mrs. McCabe who spent a great deal of money and effort in its restoration and is now known as a fine Bed and Breakfast establishment and nearing its lOOth birthday.
It was at Mamre, still owned by his family, that Colin Maclaurin spent the rest of his life thus completing the circle of family ownership since the acquisition of the property by his great-grandfather in 1841. Mamre had also deteriorated becoming a shelter for swagmen but Colin undertook major restoration work spending a happy retirement there with his second wife.
In the churchyard of St.Peters in Richmond there are adjacent graves of Colin MacLaurin and his mother together with graves of the Fitzgerald family who had owned Mamre for over 130 years.
Many of the details I have mentioned are taken from an extensive typescript of Mr.E.C.B.MacLaurin held at
Hobby~· Reach. Jn that document he tells much of his early life in the Blue Mountains and refers to members of his
nwther '.s family. the Fitzgeralds and their western properties. There are various stories of the horses. dogs and even a cat owned by the family when they lived at Eurama in F aulconbridge.
Those of you who pass by Cleopatra, Eurama. Gardiner '.s inn. Whispering Pines and the Blue Mountains Grammar School may be prompted to think of the interesting Evans and Maclaurin families, all descendants of Richard Rouse of the Rouse Hill Estate.
Gwen Silvey, July 2000 6
General Notices Management Committee
The Committee is delighted to announce that Colin Slade, our member and horticulturist extraodinaire, is willing to lead a garden working party once a month on the third Tuesday of the month at Hobby's Reach. Don't miss this golden opportunity to learn from the master. The first date will be Tuesday 19th September 2000 at 9 am.
The RAHS Annual Conference will be held at Yass on the 7th and 8th October and members are welcome to attend. Please contact the Secretary for any further information.
Hobby's Reach Research Centre
The Research Centre has recently received a large number of old newspapers and journals and would be very pleased to hear from any member who would be interested in reading through the papers noting any items that have relevance to the area. Please contact Joan Smith after the meetings or on any Tuesday from 10 am - 2 pm.
Friends of Tarella
For the past year we have been checking every one of the approx 2000 items to see if they are actually in the collection dare correctly accessioned and numbered. That done we are now re-categorising the items and when this job has been
'--.._/
completed we hope to enter all items on a database for ease of recall. We have also washed the walls and ceilings of three rooms and re-arranged pictures and furniture to more appropriate situations.
Tarella is improving all the time and we are very proud of our collection and feel it would be appreciated by many more visitors. To that aim we wonder if any members who may be involved in any other groups or Society, or may know of such a group that would be interested in visiting the cottage for a special opening. These are available on any day of the week, and would incur the following
charges:-Entrance $4 [no less than 20 members]
Morning/Afternoon tea/ coffee $2 [includes tea/coffee scone and a slice]
Light lunch $4
f
sandwiches and a slicelLunch $5 . .50 [soup, sandwiches and a slice]
Please phone Coral Ewan, Tel no 4784 1831 or Susan Warmbath, Tel no. 4757 3402 to discuss dates, thank you. Library
The library has quite a few new additions to borrow and with the new cataloguing completed it is simple to find the
1tegory you are looking for. There is a copy of Lachlan Macquarie, His Life, Adventures and Times by M.H.Ellis and
'-r11e Ref. is 210 .. 2. This is the most comprehensive account of his life. There are other books on Macquarie that John McClymont recommended
-1. Lachlan Macquarie by John Ritchie, this is not available in the public library. 2. The Era of L'lchlan Macquarie by Broadbent and Hughes
3. The Age of Macquarie by James Broadbent, public library reference 994.402/Age
All these books are now out of print so sources would be secondhand bookshops that have a reasonable Australian history section.
Bookshop News
There are three new additions in the shop, they are all new publications and sold at less than the recommended selling price that you will find in high street bookshops. So the message is - purchase at the BMHS bookshop!
The Blue Mountains on Foot by Bruce William and Reece Scannell priced at $21, this is different from the price published in the last magazine as the GST had not been taken into account. The book clearly describes 15 walks in the Blue Mountains with an accompanying map.
Sydney Takes Shape by Max Kelly priced at $24.95. This is a wonderful record of maps showing the development of
Sydney from 1788 up to the present time, there are also etchings and photographs, a book for reference and to keep.
The Australian Geographic Society's Glove Box Guide to the Blue Mountains priced at $21. This is a handy sized version of their earlier larger publication. It has information on all the facets of the Blue Mountains and would be a good gift. One other new item for sale in the shop is the Tarella Cottage Tea Towel with the wonderful drawings done by Valerie Paddock. It is priced at $10.50 and $10 to members. This can solve all you Christmas presents at one go!
Duty Roster
Sunday 24th September
Signs 9.30 am and 3.30 pm
East Graham Warmbath Graham Warmbath
West Bill Gilham Bill Gilham
9.45 am to l pm 12.45 pm to 4 pm
Kitchen Valerie Craven Valerie Craven
I
Admissions Laurie Harvey Geoff Dunn Tarella Shirley Harvey Roberta Johnstone
Barbara Milford Thea Dunn Dorothy Gilham Petra Thun Shop Susan Warmbath i/c Susan Wam1bath
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Sunday 22nd October
Signs 9.30 am and 3.30 pm
East Norman Skellam Norman Skellam West John Ewan John Ewan
9.45 am to l pm 12.45 pm to 4 pm Kitchen Noreen Skellam Noreen Skellam Admissions Jo Adam Keith Smith Tarella Coral Ewan i/c Coral Ewan
Judith Johnson Marion Vincent
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Joan Ross Valerie PaddockShop Susan Warmbath Susan Warmbath
If y ou are unable to do the dut yy ·ou are rostered for p lease make a chanae with a friend. In the last resort
p
honeCoral Ewan on 4784 1831, thank you.
Last Date for enclosure in the next issue
The editor would welcome items for the magazine or any notices that you feel might benefit members. Feedback on your thoughts on the magazine as it is would also be welcome. Please could all copy be in the editor's hands at the latest by 23rd. October. Items can be left in the HOR pigeonhole at the Secretary's desk in the research room which is open on Tuesday from 10 am to 2 pm, thank you. Ed.
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3. Rowan berry 16. 4. Sycamore Maple 17. 5. Strawberry Tree 18. 6. A1aleas 19. 7. Purple Crabapple 20. 8. Photinia Rnbusta 21. 9. Chinese Elm 22. IO. Filifera Aurea 23. II. Eucalyptus sp. 24. 12. Swedish Whitebeam ,, . I /!j I
Japanese Flowering Cherry Purple Weeping Beech Arlxi"'i lae
Lilly Pilly
Cupressus sp.
Birch Japanese Maple Blue Alias Cedar
Common Juniper Rough Treefern
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25. Serbus A ucuparia 37.
26. Chinese Windmill Palm 38.
27. Sycamore Maple 39.
28. No1wny Spruce 40.
29. Golden Monteray Cypress 41.
30. Bottle brush 42.
31. Japanese Sacred Bamboo 43.
32. Persian Ironwood 44.
33. False Cypress 45.
34. Apricot 46.
35. Dwarf Alberta Spruce
36. Protwine Magnolia 19 _.,·~~- . ~_.Y'. - 17 .--~:~ 14
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The Society's objective is to promote community interest in history in general and in the Blue Mountains in particular. Meetings are held on the first Saturday of each month (except December and January) at its headquarters at Hobby"s Reach. At these meetings a talk by an invited speaker or by a member is followed by general business .
An excursion to a place of historical interest is held on the second Monday of most months and Research Days are held each Tuesday at Hobby"s Reach from IO am to 2 pm under the supervision of the Research Co-ordinator.
The basic yearly membership is $15 and concessions are available.
Details of all activities are published in the newsletter, Hobby's Outreach, and further information may be obtained by phoning the Hobby"s Reach Research Centre - on 02 4757 3824.
