Category: Local History

Dungog’s Royal Hotel, an Art Deco Bush Pub
1920s · 1930s · Advertising · Aesthetics · Architecture · Attachment to place · Built heritag · Business · Business History · Community identity · Country town · Cultural and Heritage Tourism · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Design · Dungog · Economy · Fashion · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · History · Hotel History · Hotels · Interwar · Lifestyle · Local History · Local Studies · Modernism · Place making · Placemaking · Royal Hotel Dungog · Sense of place · Storytelling · Urban growth · Urban history

Dungog’s Royal Hotel, an Art Deco Bush Pub

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The Dungog Royal Hotel is an example of an Interwar Art Deco style hotel in an Australian country town

Jeff McGill’s Pictorial History Campbelltown and District
Attachment to place · Cafes · Campbelltown · Colonialism · Community identity · Farming · Festivals · First World War · Governor Macquarie · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Interwar · Local History · Macarthur · Monuments · Myths · Newspapers · Place making · Second World War · Sense of place · Theatre · War

Jeff McGill’s Pictorial History Campbelltown and District

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Local historian and photographer Jeff McGill takes a fresh look at the history of Campbelltown in a new book

A local treat at The Argyle Affair
Aesthetics · Attachment to place · Cafes · Camden · Communications · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Entertainment · Festivals · First World War · Food · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · History · Leisure · Living History · Local History · Macarthur · Memory · Modernism · Music · Place making · Red Cross · Retailing · Ruralism · Sense of place · Tourism · Women's history

A local treat at The Argyle Affair

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One Camden festival held recently was The Argyle Affair at the Camden showground.

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.

Camden Airfield and No 32 Squadron RAAF
Anzac · Attachment to place · Camden · Camden Airfield · Camden Story · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Floods · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Landscape · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Macquarie Grove · Memory · Menangle RAAF Airfield · Modernism · Nationalism · Patriotism · Place making · Second World War · Sense of place · Storytelling · War · War at home · Wartime

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.