Category: Travel

The Camden district in 1939
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The Camden district in 1939

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The 1939 Camden district concept was developed in the 1990s by UOW historian Dr Ian Willis as part of his research on the effect of the Second World War on Camden township.

Pansy the Camden locomotive
1920s · Aesthetics · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Communications · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Economy · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Leisure · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Lost Sydney · Memory · Modernism · Moveable Heritage · Narellan · Place making · Railway · Re-enactments · Ruralism · Sense of place · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Streetscapes · Tourism · Transport · Travel · Utilities

Pansy the Camden locomotive

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The Camden train affectionately called Pansy is a distant memory that rekindles many memories and a nostalgia for the past.

A scholarly visit to the harbour city
Adaptive Re-use · Anzac · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Community Health · Convalescent Home · Convalescent hospital · Cultural Heritage · First World War · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Job creation · Living History · Local History · Medical history · Memory · Place making · Red Cross · Second World War · Sense of place · Storytelling · Tourism · Travel · Volunteering · Volunteerism · War · War at home · Women's history

A scholarly visit to the harbour city

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A scholarly visit to the harbour city of Auckland New Zealand by UOW historian Dr Ian Willis was an opportunity to learn more about medical history.

Making short films to promote the 2019 Camden Jacarada festival
Adaptive Re-use · Aesthetics · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Business · Camden · Camden Council · Camden District · Camden Heritage Conservation Area · Camden Regional Economic Taskforce · Camden Story · Camden Town Centre · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Edwardian · Fashion · Festivals · Film · Film Making · Gender · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Interwar · Jacaranda · Job creation · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Media History · Memory · Modernism · Place making · Placemaking · Ruralism · Sense of place · Storytelling · Streetscapes · Tourism · Travel · Victorian

Making short films to promote the 2019 Camden Jacarada festival

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A group of amateur filmmakers undertook a photoshoot in the Camden town centre to promote the 2019 Camden Jacaranda Festival.

The Burragorang Valley, a lost Gothic fantasy
1920s · Aesthetics · Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Architecture · Attachment to place · Australia · Belonging · Burragorang Valley · Colonial frontier · Colonialism · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Edwardian · Ghosts · Gothic · Governor Macquarie · Guesthouse · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · Hotels · Interwar · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Legends · Leisure · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Memory · Mysteries · Myths · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Storytelling · Tourism · Travel

The Burragorang Valley, a lost Gothic fantasy

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The Burragorang Valley is a lost Gothic fantasy where many people were attracted to the grandeur and beauty of the valley's landscape. Much of the valley's mystery has been lost under Lake Burragorang.

Living history in southern Queensland
1920s · Adaptive Re-use · Aesthetics · Attachment to place · Belonging · Colonial frontier · Colonialism · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Edwardian · Farming · Georgian · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Leisure · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Lost trades · Memory · Modernism · Monuments · Moveable Heritage · Movies · Myths · Place making · Retailing · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Streetscapes · Theatre · Toowoomba · Tourism · Traditional Trades · Travel

Living history in southern Queensland

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Living history in southern Queensland in the regional centre of Toowoomba

Movie making Camden style
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Movie making Camden style

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Filmmakers have long been drawn to Camden's English countryside setting for movie backdrops. The area has hosted various films, including silent movie Silks and Saddles (1921), wartime drama The Rats of Tobruk (1944), series like A Place to Call Home (2012), and modern productions like Peter Rabbit (2018, 2020). It continues to attract filmmakers seeking a classic English aesthetic for their productions.

Going to London
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Going to London

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Going to London was an experience for thousands of young single Australian born women in the 20th century.

A 1950s country girl goes to London
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A 1950s country girl goes to London

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A 1950s country girl from Camden goes to London to have the adventure of her life.

The seaside holiday
Aesthetics · Attachment to place · Australia · Belonging · Blue Mile Pathway Wollongong · Camden · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Economy · Entertainment · Families · Fashion · Guesthouse · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Holidays · Leisure · Lifestyle · Local History · Memory · Motoring History · Sense of place · Storytelling · Stuart Park Wollongong · Tourism · Travel · Wollongong

The seaside holiday

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Seaside holidays on the NSW South Coast has been a popular holiday spot for Camden families. This is the story of seaside holidays in the Wollongong area.