Category: Place making

Mummel and a Cowpastures Oligarch
Attachment to place · British colonialism · Colonialism · Cowpastures · Farming · Goulburn · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Place making · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Victorian

Mummel and a Cowpastures Oligarch

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Mummel NSW is an important land grant at Goulburn Plains in colonial NSW and a part of the story of a settler society.

A field of flowers and steam at a festival of living history
Architecture · Attachment to place · Community identity · Farming · Festivals · Goulburn · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Modernism · Place making · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Technology · Victorian

A field of flowers and steam at a festival of living history

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Historic Goulburn has a number of important heritage sites including the Waterworks Pumphouse and Riversdale homestead

Alan Baker Art Gallery opening at Macaria, a brush of class
Architecture · Art · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Camden Art Group · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Entertainment · Gender · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · History of a house · House history · Interwar · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macaria · Macarthur · Memory · Modernism · Place making · Public art · Sense of place · Tourism · Victorian · Women's history

Alan Baker Art Gallery opening at Macaria, a brush of class

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The 2018 opening of the Alan Baker Art Collection in the colonial gentleman's townshouse of Macaria in Camden's John Street heritage precinct.

Oran Park Raceway: the finishing line as new horizons open up
Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Built heritag · Collective Memory · Colonialism · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Entertainment · Ghosts · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · House history · Housing · Industrial Heritage · Interwar · Land releases · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Legends · Leisure · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local newspapers · Local Studies · Lost Sydney · Macarthur · Memorials · Memory · Motoring History · Myths · Newspapers · Oran Park · Oran Park Raceway · Place making · Placemaking · Recreation · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Technology · Theme Parks · transport history · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Oran Park Raceway: the finishing line as new horizons open up

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Oran Park is a new suburb on Sydney's urban fringe on the site of the former Oran Park Raceway.

Macquarie Place: an overlooked city space of monumental importance
Aesthetics · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · British colonialism · Collective Memory · Colonialism · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · England · Governor Macquarie · Highways · History · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Memorialisation · Memorials · Memory · Mileposts · Monuments · Parks · Place making · Settler colonialism · Settler Society · Storytelling · Sydney · Urban development · Urban history · Wayfinding

Macquarie Place: an overlooked city space of monumental importance

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Macquarie Place is Sydney's oldest public square, established by Governor Macquarie over 200 years ago. Once a colonial elite space, it has transformed alongside the city into a hub for modern finance. The park features monuments and relics, symbolizing its historical significance and ongoing evolution amid urban change.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post and its Art-Deco newspaper office and printery
1920s · 1930s · Architecture · Art · Attachment to place · Business · Business History · Collective Memory · Communications · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Entertainment · Fashion · Goulburn · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Interwar · Local History · Local newspapers · Local Studies · Media History · Memory · Modernism · Newspapers · Place making · Placemaking · Sense of place · Storytelling · Tourism · Urban history · Victorian

Goulburn Evening Penny Post and its Art-Deco newspaper office and printery

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In 1935 a moderne Art-Deco style office was opened for the Goulburn Evening Penny Post

‘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