Category: Camden Story

History Magazine photoshoot for RAHS captures a window into the past in Camden
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History Magazine photoshoot for RAHS captures a window into the past in Camden

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A photo shoot for the History Magazine of the Royal Australia Historical Society at Camden NSW captures a window into the past.

Camden Hospital Nurses’ Quarters: cloistered veils
Architecture · Attachment to place · Built heritag · Camden · Camden Airfield · Camden Hospital · Camden Story · Collective Memory · Community Health · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Gender · Health History · Heritage · Historic Plaques · Historical consciousness · History · Interwar · Local History · Local Studies · localism · Medical history · Modernism · Nurses Quarters · Nursing · Place making · Placemaking · Regionalism · Sense of place · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Women's history

Camden Hospital Nurses’ Quarters: cloistered veils

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Over 700 people witnessed the opening of the Camden Hospital Nurses’ Quarters were opened in 1962 by the NSW Health Minister WF Sheahan.

CWA Camouflage Netting Volunteers
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CWA Camouflage Netting Volunteers

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CWA Camouflage Netting volunteers contributed thousands of hours towards the war at home during the Second World War

Camden Produce Market and Camden Community Garden, sites of community engagement
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Camden Produce Market and Camden Community Garden, sites of community engagement

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The Camden Produce Market and the Camden Community Garden are active sites of community engagement on land gifted to the Camden community by Llewella Davies.

A country show comes to town, Camden Show 2018
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A country show comes to town, Camden Show 2018

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The 2018 Camden Show is the 132nd event of this festival celebrating local rural life. In 2019 over 40,000 attended the annual festival.

Australia Day 2018 in Camden
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Australia Day 2018 in Camden

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Australia Day 2018 in Camden drew large crowds to the town centre for the festival for the street parade.

Supermarkets come to Camden, consumerism and modernism
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Supermarkets come to Camden, consumerism and modernism

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Self-service supermarkets were one expression of consumerism and modernism in Camden NSW

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

Camden Airfield and No 32 Squadron RAAF
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Camden Airfield and No 32 Squadron RAAF

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The RAAF Base Camden at Camden Airfield was the home of 32 Squadron during the Second World War. The members of the squadron have developed a special relationship with the local community that has been marked by tragedy and celebrations.

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.