Month: November 2017

Former Camden High school site has a new retirement village development
Camden Gasworks · Camden High School · Camden Story · Camden Town Centre · Contamination · Gas · Heritage · Historical Research · History · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Lost Camden · Place making · Placemaking · Sense of place · Service utilities · Urban history · Utilities

Former Camden High school site has a new retirement village development

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The old Camden High site will be reborn as a retirement village

John Hawdon of Elderslie and his English origins
British colonialism · Colonial Camden · Colonialism · Cowpastures · Elderslie · England · Farming · Heritage · History · Local History · Macarthur · Newspapers · Place making · Sense of place · Settler colonialism

John Hawdon of Elderslie and his English origins

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John Hawdon of Elderslie came from the hamlet of Wackerfield County Durham England in 1828

A wedding and a little bit of 1920s modernism
Camden · Fashion · Interwar · Local History · Modernism · Sense of place · Weddings

A wedding and a little bit of 1920s modernism

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The 1925 wedding of Frank Duesbury to Ethel Burford was a touch of modernism.

The history of the local newspaper in the Macarthur region
Camden · Campbelltown · Communications · Community identity · History · Interwar · Local History · Macarthur · Newspapers · Picton · Settler colonialism · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · War

The history of the local newspaper in the Macarthur region

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The local newspapers of the Macarthur region have a very interesting history.

Menangle Australian Light Horse Camp
First World War · History · Local History · Menangle · Menangle Army Camp · Red Cross

Menangle Australian Light Horse Camp

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The Australian Light Horse Camp was set up at Menangle in 1916

2017 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award
Art · Attachment to place · Campbelltown · Campbelltown Art Centre · Colonialism · Convicts · Cowpastures · Entertainment · Heritage · Leisure · Local History · Macarthur · Myths · Sense of place · Tourism

2017 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award

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The Fishers Ghost Art Award has been an important cultural event in Campbelltown for over 50 years.