Month: January 2020

Spiked Rice-flower – a little plant causing a big fuss
Attachment to place · Camden · Community identity · Cumberland Plain · Cumberland Plain Woodland · Ecology · Gardening · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Native flora · Place making · Placemaking · Plants · Sense of place · Studley Park · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Urban growth · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Spiked Rice-flower – a little plant causing a big fuss

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A little plant causing a big fuss in the Camden area is the Spiked Rice Flower - Pimelea Spicata - adjacent to a proposed redevelopment of Studley Park House

The Patterson family of Elderslie, the value of family histories
1920s · Anzac · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Biography · Camden · Camden Cottage · Camden Story · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Dairying · Dr West · Economy · Elderslie · Families · Family history · Farming · First World War · Gardening · Genealogy · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · History of a house · House history · Interwar · Landscape · Living History · Local History · Local newspapers · Local Studies · Memory · Military history · Myths · Place making · Placemaking · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Social History · Storytelling · Voluntary Workers Association · War · War at home · welfare · World War One

The Patterson family of Elderslie, the value of family histories

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The story of the Patterson family of Elderslie NSW illustrates the value and importance of family history.

Pansy the Camden locomotive
1920s · Aesthetics · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Communications · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Economy · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Leisure · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Lost Sydney · Memory · Modernism · Moveable Heritage · Narellan · Place making · Railway · Re-enactments · Ruralism · Sense of place · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Streetscapes · Tourism · Transport · Travel · Utilities

Pansy the Camden locomotive

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The Camden train affectionately called Pansy is a distant memory that rekindles many memories and a nostalgia for the past.

Wartime volunteers and The War Workers’ Gazette
Anzac · Attachment to place · Australia · Camden · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · First World War · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Memory · Myths · Place making · Red Cross · Second World War · Sense of place · Storytelling · War · War at home · Women's history · Women's Writing

Wartime volunteers and The War Workers’ Gazette

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Wartime volunteers and The War Workers’ Gazette in New South Wales

Princess Mary Gift Tin 1914 Princess Mary Christmas Gift 1914
Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · England · First World War · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Living History · Local History · Place making · Sense of place · Storytelling · War · War at home

Princess Mary Christmas Gift 1914

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Princess Mary Christmas Gift 1914

Ministering Angels, the Camden District Red Cross, 1914-1945 Ian Willis Camden Historical Society Inc ISBN 978-0-9803039-6-4 Crisis relief in wartime and the peace
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Crisis relief in wartime and the peace

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Crisis relief in wartime and the peace from the Camden and district Red Cross volunteers