Category: Theme Parks

2025 Camden Show: A Photographic Journey
Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Agriculture history · Art · Artefacts · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden Festivals · Camden Show · Camden Story · Community · Community identity · Community organisations · Community work · Country Women's Association · Craft · Crafts · Cultural and Heritage Tourism · Cultural Heritage · CWA · Emergency Services · Entertainment · Farming · Farming history · Festivals · First Responders · Garden history · History · Horticulture · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur region · Nostalgia · Onslow Park · Pageant · Pioneers · Place · Place making · Placemaking · Recreation · Ruralism · Social History · Stories · Storytelling · Theme Parks · Transport · transport history · Travel · Travellers · Uncategorized · Volunteering · Volunteerism

2025 Camden Show: A Photographic Journey

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The photographic essay captures the vibrant atmosphere of the 2025 Camden Show, showcasing various activities, displays, and exhibitions. Highlights include the Woolworths produce pavilion, enthusiastic attendance from parents at performances, and contributions from local services like the Rural Fire Service, NSW Fire Brigade, and police, enriching the community experience.

The living history movement finds new supporters
Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Attachment to place · Belgenny Farm · Camden · Camden Museum · Camden Park House and Garden · Colonial Camden · Communications · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Dairying · Economy · Education · Entertainment · Families · Farming · Festivals · Food · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · House history · Howell Living History Farm · Landscape aesthetics · Leisure · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Memory · Moveable Heritage · Place making · Produce · Re-enactments · Ruralism · Sense of place · Storytelling · Theatre · Theme Parks · Tourism · USA

The living history movement finds new supporters

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The living history movement finds new supporters in Camden

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.

Greens Motorcade Museum Park Leppington, a lost Sydney icon
Aesthetics · Attachment to place · Cafes · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Edwardian · Entertainment · Fashion · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · History · Interwar · Leisure · Leppington · Living History · Local History · Lost Sydney · Macarthur · Modernism · Motoring History · Moveable Heritage · Parks · Place making · Retailing · Sense of place · Sydney · Theme Parks · Tourism · Volunteering

Greens Motorcade Museum Park Leppington, a lost Sydney icon

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Greens Motorcade Museum Park Leppington was a large private collection of vintage, veteran and classic motor cars.

El Caballo Blanco, A Forgotten Past
Architecture · Art · Attachment to place · Australia · Catherine Fields · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Entertainment · Fashion · Festivals · Heritage · History · Holidays · Leisure · Local History · Lost Sydney · Macarthur · Memory · Modernism · Music · Myths · Place making · Retailing · Sense of place · Sydney · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Theme Parks · Tourism

El Caballo Blanco, A Forgotten Past

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El Caballo Blanco was a horse show and theme park located at Catherine Fields on Sydney rural-urban fringe

Being a Historical Detective
Adaptive Re-use · Camden Historical Society · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Education · Family history · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · History of a house · History theory and practice · House history · Industrial Heritage · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Media History · Medical history · Military history · Monuments · Motoring History · Moveable Heritage · Myths · Place making · Public art · Re-enactments · Sense of place · Social media · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Theme Parks · Women's history

Being a Historical Detective

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There are a number of steps involved in being a historical detective and conducting an investigation (historical research).