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The White House Farm, a lost Camden mid-20th century icon
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The White House Farm, a lost Camden mid-20th century icon

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The White House Farm is a lost part of the heritage of Camden NSW from the mid-20th century

Out and about at Cobbitty Markets
Cobbitty · Festivals · Macarthur · Sense of place · Tourism

Out and about at Cobbitty Markets

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On a frosty Saturday recently the CHN blogger attended the Cobbitty Markets. The carpark was covered with a light shade of white while the thermometer hovered around zero degrees. The markets have been on Cobbitty Public School site for what seems likes for ever. The stalls are tucked around every conceivable corner. In the front… Continue reading Out and about at Cobbitty Markets

Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital Concord NSW
Convalescent hospital · Edwardian · First World War · Historical consciousness · History · Interwar · Local History · Medical history · Red Cross · Second World War

Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital Concord NSW

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Out at Concord, located in Sydney's inner west, is the magnificent building of the former Thomas Walker Memorial Hospital for Convalescents, that is now the school Rivendell. It was recently open for inspection by the City of Canada Bay Heritage Society. The heritage society organises regular open days to continually raise public awareness of this… Continue reading Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital Concord NSW

Macarthur regional identity
Camden · Campbelltown · Colonialism · Community identity · Historical consciousness · History · Local History · Macarthur · Newspapers · Picton · Place making · Sense of place

Macarthur regional identity

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The Macarthur region is an area made of the Camden, Campbelltown and Wollondilly Local Government areas and is a formal region with an arbitrary political boundary. Regions come in all shapes and sizes from formal regions with definite boundaries, to geographic regions based on    landform types, to regions of the imagination with no real boundaries… Continue reading Macarthur regional identity

The Bennett wagon, a piece of transport history
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The Bennett wagon, a piece of transport history

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The historic Bennett (Percival) Wagon is a cultural icon of a different time when horse and bullock teams were kings of the road.

Civic Railway Station, revealing part of Newcastle modernism
1920s · 1930s · Adaptive Re-use · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Built heritag · Communications · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Design · Heritage · History · Industrial Heritage · Interwar · Local History · Local Studies · Memory · Modernism · Place making · Placemaking · Railway · Railway history · Sense of place · Social History · Storytelling · Transport · transport history · Urban history · Utilities

Civic Railway Station, revealing part of Newcastle modernism

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Civic Railway Station, now closed, reveals some of the aesthetics of Newcastle modernism.

Out and about in Singapore
Colonialism · Heritage · History · Monuments · Uncategorized · Urban growth

Out and about in Singapore

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The CHN blogger has recently been out and about in the Far East and took in some of the historic treasures and heritage gems of Singapore The origins of Singapore are based on British imperial interests with the  East India Company in 1819 when British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles negotiated a treaty with the Johor Sultanate… Continue reading Out and about in Singapore

Anzackery and Vimyism, national military myths
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Anzackery and Vimyism, national military myths

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Anzackery and Vimyism, national military myths derived in wartime in Australia and Canada

Camden Reflects on Anzac Day 2017
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Camden Reflects on Anzac Day 2017

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Camden Reflects on Anzac Day 2017

Richlands, an outpost of a colonial farming empire
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Richlands, an outpost of a colonial farming empire

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The Richlands estate, north of Goulburn in the NSW Southern Tablelands, was an important part of the Macarthur family pastoral empire for nearly 100 years.  The Richlands estate acted as an outstation about one days ride west of Camden Park estate.