Tag: Blue Mile Tramway

The mysteries of a photograph
1920s · 20th century · Aesthetics · Attachment to place · Australia · Camden · Camping · Coal mining · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Dairying · Dress history · Engineering Heritage · Family history · Farming · Fashion · Gender · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Industrial Heritage · Interwar · Leisure · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Memory · Mining · Modernism · Place making · Railway · Sense of place · Social media · Storytelling · Stuart Park Wollongong · Stuart Park, Wollongong · Technology · Travel · Urbanism · Wollongong · Women's history

The mysteries of a photograph

camdenhistorynotes1 Comment

How the mysteries of a pretty picture from yesteryear allows you to peel back the layers of the past. Each layer has a meaning and a story that is told by the historian. The stories provide context for the photograph and give it greater meaning.

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

camdenhistorynotes1 Comment

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.