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The Perkins family album of Cawdor
20th century · Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Agriculture history · Camden · Camden Story · Cawdor · Collective Memory · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Farming · Floods · Harold Perkins Photographer · Historical Research · Historical source · Local History · Local Studies · Memory · Photographs · Photography · Placemaking · Storytelling

The Perkins family album of Cawdor

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Photographs tell a story about the local area and represent a moment frozen in time. The Perkins family donated a family photograph album to the Camden Historical Society and it tells the story of the Cawdor area..

175th Anniversary of Camden’s foundation, 1840-2015
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175th Anniversary of Camden’s foundation, 1840-2015

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A Photographic Essay                              Source: Camden Images

Macquarie returns to the Cowpastures
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Macquarie returns to the Cowpastures

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Governor Macquarie returned for his third visit to the Cowpastures in 1820. Macquarie and his party set out from Parramatta Monday 16 October 1820 and journeyed through the Cowpasture in southern New South Wales. They returned to the Cowpasture on 3 November 1820. Read for yourself Governor Macquarie’s journal of the trip. Extracts from the… Continue reading Macquarie returns to the Cowpastures

The Bicentenary of the 1815 visit by Governor Macquarie
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The Bicentenary of the 1815 visit by Governor Macquarie

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Governor Macquarie made a second visit to the Cowpastures in 1815. It is 200 years since Governor Macquarie journeyed through the Cowpasture and 2015 is the bicentenary year visit to the local area. On Macquarie's 1815 journey to the Cowpasture he travelled with a group of colonial notables or gentlemen as he called them. Amongst those… Continue reading The Bicentenary of the 1815 visit by Governor Macquarie

Governor Macquarie’s visit to the Cowpasture 1810
British colonialism · Camden · Camden Story · Colonial Camden · Colonialism · Commemoration · Communications · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cowpastures Bicentennial · Cultural and Heritage Tourism · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Dharawal · European Exceptionalism · Frontier violence · Governor Macquarie · Heritage · History · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Legends · Local History · Macarthur · Memorial · Memorialisation · Memorials · Memory · Monuments · Place making · Settler colonialism · Settler Society · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Symbolism · Trauma · Uncategorized

Governor Macquarie’s visit to the Cowpasture 1810

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In November 1810, Governor Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824) and Mrs Elizabeth Macquarie visited the Cowpastures. On that occasion, the Governor and Elizabeth Macarthur met the Dharawal people.

The Yanks at Camden Airfield in 1942
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The Yanks at Camden Airfield in 1942

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What is little known in Camden is the interest the US Air Force took in Camden Airfield in November 1942 and again in February 1944. On both occasions the 5th US Air Force completed secret reports, now declassified and held by the National Archives of Australia, on the readiness of Camden Airfield to accommodate US… Continue reading The Yanks at Camden Airfield in 1942

Do or Die! Heritage and urban planning in the burbs
Adaptive Re-use · Agricultural heritage · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Edwardian · Family history · Farming · Heritage · Historical consciousness · History · History of a house · House history · Interwar · Kirkham · Lifestyle · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Narellan · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Storytelling · urban sprawl

Do or Die! Heritage and urban planning in the burbs

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There is a loss of Edwardian farming heritage on the urban-rural interface on Sydney’s edge. There is a distinct lack appreciation amongst many contemporaries of simple robust country farm cottages.

Nepean River, more than a water view
Aesthetics · Attachment to place · British colonialism · Camden · Cobbitty · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Entertainment · Floods · Heritage · Historical consciousness · History · Landscape aesthetics · Leisure · Local History · Macarthur · Memory · Menangle · Myths · Nepean River · Place making · Ruralism · Second World War · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Town planning · Urban growth · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · War · War at home · Water

Nepean River, more than a water view

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The Nepean River and its floodplain is much more than just a water view. It is cultural and natural icon in the Sydney basin.

Cobbitty New Year’s Day Village Sports Day Benefits War Effort
Active citizenship · Attachment to place · British colonialism · British Heritage · British Red Cross · Camden District · Cobbitty · Community celebrations · Community Engagement · Community Health · Community identity · Community organisations · Community work · Cultural Heritage · First World War · Heritage · History · Holidays · Local History · Memory · Monuments · Mount Hunter · New Year's Sports Day · Place making · Red Cross · Storytelling · Village · Volunteering · Volunteerism · War · War at home · Wartime · World War One

Cobbitty New Year’s Day Village Sports Day Benefits War Effort

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Cobbitty Sports Day on New Year's Day, 1915 A major event on the social calendar of a number of picturesque villages in the Camden district was the annual New Year’s Day Sports Carnivals. Cobbitty's St Paul's Anglican Church 1910 (Camden Images) The New Year's Sports Day was part of the English traditions brought to the… Continue reading Cobbitty New Year’s Day Village Sports Day Benefits War Effort

Camden Bibliography a Biography of a Country Town
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Camden Bibliography a Biography of a Country Town

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Camden Bibliography is a list of primary and secondary sources of the Camden township and district.