Category: Local 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.

Cobbitty Anglican Church, a little bit of England celebrates 190 years
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Cobbitty Anglican Church, a little bit of England celebrates 190 years

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The English-style village of Cobbitty celebrates 190 years of the presence of the Anglican church.

The Cowpastures, just like an English landscape
Australia · British colonialism · Camden · Colonialism · Cowpastures · Governor Macquarie · History · Landscape aesthetics · Local History · Settler colonialism

The Cowpastures, just like an English landscape

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The Cowpastures district of colonial New South Wales was just like an English landscape for some early settlers.

The local ‘rag’, the future of local newspapers
Local History · Macarthur · Newspapers · War

The local ‘rag’, the future of local newspapers

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What the is the future of the local newspaper in the disruptive digital age?

Whiteman & McIntosh, Camden Colonial Families Celebrate a Moderne Wedding at Cobbitty
1920s · 20th century · Attachment to place · Business History · Camden · Camden Story · Church History · Churches · Cobbitty · Costume History · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Denbigh · Dress history · Family history · Farming · Festivals · Heritage · History · Interwar · Lifestyle · Local History · localism · Modernism · Place making · Retailing · Ruralism · Sense of place · Sewing · Social History · Storytelling · Uncategorized · Weddings

Whiteman & McIntosh, Camden Colonial Families Celebrate a Moderne Wedding at Cobbitty

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A modern Cobbitty wedding for two important colonial families, the McIntosh family and the Whiteman family was an important social event in the district calendar.

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

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