Category: Place making

‘Remaking Cities’, a conference with a heady mix of urban delights
Architecture · Attachment to place · Australia · British colonialism · Colonialism · Community identity · Convicts · England · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Melbourne · Monuments · Myths · Place making · Sense of place · Urban growth · Victorian

‘Remaking Cities’, a conference with a heady mix of urban delights

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The 'Remaking Cities' Urban History Planning History 2018 Conference was held at RMIT University Melbourne.

Australia Day 2018 in Camden
Attachment to place · Australia · Australia Day · Camden · Camden Museum · Camden Red Cross · Camden Story · Collective Memory · Commemoration · Community celebrations · Community Engagement · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Entertainment · Fashion · Festivals · First World War · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · History · Holidays · Leisure · Local History · Memorial · Memorialisation · Memorials · Memory · Myths · Nationalism · Philanthropy · Place making · Placemaking · Red Cross · Sense of place · Tourism · Volunteering · War · War at home · Wartime

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.

Carrington Centennial Hospital for Convalescents and Incurables, Camden
Architecture · Attachment to place · Built heritag · Camden · Colonial Camden · Colonialism · Community Health · Community identity · Consumption · Convalescent Home · Convalescent hospital · Cultural Heritage · First World War · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · History · Interwar · Local History · Medical history · Modernism · Philanthropy · Place making · Placemaking · Sense of place · Storytelling · Tuberculosis · Volunteering

Carrington Centennial Hospital for Convalescents and Incurables, Camden

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Carrington Centennial Hospital for Convalescents, opened in 1890 in Camden, NSW, embodied Florence Nightingale’s principles, emphasizing fresh air and proper ventilation for recovery. Established by philanthropist WH Paling, it was the first major convalescent facility in New South Wales, providing a restorative environment away from the urban pollution.

Nepean News at Camden Produce Market
Community identity · Elizabeth Farm · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Local newspapers · Macarthur · Newspapers · Place making

Nepean News at Camden Produce Market

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A new local newspaper the Penrtih published Nepean News has made an appearance in the Macarthur Region

Supermarkets come to Camden, consumerism and modernism
20th century · Advertising · Architecture · Attachment to place · Built heritag · Business · Business History · Camden · Camden Story · Camden Town Centre · Community identity · Country town · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Fashion · Food · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · History · Lifestyle · Local History · Local Studies · localism · Memory · Modernism · Place making · Placemaking · Retailing · Sense of place · Shopping · Storytelling · Supermarkets · Urban growth · Urban Planning · Urbanism · Women's history

Supermarkets come to Camden, consumerism and modernism

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

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