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The Cowpastures’ English-styled-gentry and their private villages

A certain type of self-styled-English gentry created a landscape in their own vision in the Cowpastures.

Camden Bowling Club · Carrington Aged-Care Complex · Catholic Women's League · Community identity · Community work · Cultural Heritage · Entertainment · Family history · Genealogy · Heritage · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Memory · Motherhood · Music · Music history · Orangeville · Place making · Radical history · Roman Catholic Church · Second World War · Sense of place · Storytelling · The Oaks · Volunteering · Volunteerism · Wartime · Weddings · Wollondilly Shire Council · Women's history

An amazing woman, Sheila Murdoch

Sheila Murdoch was a community worker, musician and mother of five children. She was a rural woman from Orangeville who served her community, church and family.

1920s · 1930s · Agricultural heritage · Agriculture history · Argyle Street · Artefacts · Attachment to place · Belonging · Built heritag · Camden · Camden Story · Cawdor · Churches · Cobbitty · Community identity · Country town · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Elderslie · Family history · Farming · Fashion History · Festivals · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · History · Interwar · Living History · Local Studies · Memory · Monuments · Mount Hunter · Photography · Place making · Placemaking · Retail history · Roy Dowle photographer · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Social History · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Teamsters · The Oaks · Transport · transport history · Urban history · War

The Roy Dowle collection and old photographs

Old photographs are a glimpse into the past and capture many memories of another time. The Roy Dowle Glass Plate collection at The Oaks Historical Society is a source of many local images.

1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · Airds · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Camden Story · Campbelltown · Elderslie · History · Hope and loss · Land releases · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Leppington · Local History · Local Studies · localism · Lost Sydney · Macarthur · Mount Annan · Mount Gilead · Narellan · Oran Park · Place making · Regionalism · rural-urban fringe · Ruralism · Sense of place · Storytelling · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · The Oaks · Town planning · Transition zone · Uncategorized · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Sydney’s urban fringe: a transition zone of hope and loss

Sydney’s rural-urban fringe is a site of winners and losers. It is a landscape where dreams are fulfilled and memories are lost. The promises of land developers in master-planned suburban utopias meet the hope and expectations of newcomers.