Tag: Heritage

The army arrives at Narellan
Anzac · Attachment to place · Australia · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Narellan · Narellan Military Camp · Second World War · Sense of place · War

The army arrives at Narellan

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The Second World War arrived at Narellan with the establishment of the military camp on Cobbitty Road.

Governor Macquarie tours Cow Pastures and Illawarra 1822
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Governor Macquarie tours Cow Pastures and Illawarra 1822

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Governor Macquarie (SLNSW) Lachlan Macquarie on tour Governor Lachlan Macquarie, accompanied by Mrs Macquarie,  made his final visit to the Cowpastures and the Campbelltown area in January 1822. He inspected the area around Cawdor, Camden Park, Brownlow Hill, and Macquarie Grove. Macquarie also descended into the Illawarra and travelled through the area around Tom Thumb… Continue reading Governor Macquarie tours Cow Pastures and Illawarra 1822

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).

John Hawdon of Elderslie in a settler society
Aesthetics · Agriculture · Attachment to place · Australia · Belonging · British colonialism · Colonial Camden · Colonial frontier · Colonialism · Community identity · Convicts · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Curtilage · Economy · Elderslie · England · Farming · Frontier violence · Georgian · Gothic · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Narellan · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Storytelling · Stuart Park Wollongong

John Hawdon of Elderslie in a settler society

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John Hawdon of Elderslie was part of the story of settler colonialism in New South Wales in the early 19th century.

Viewing the Cowpastures landscape
Aesthetics · Agricultural heritage · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Camden Story · Collective Memory · Colonial Camden · Colonial frontier · Community identity · Cowpastures · Environment · Governor Macquarie · Heritage · Historical consciousness · History · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Local History · Local Studies · localism · Place making · Placemaking · Sense of place · Settler Society · Storytelling · Urbanism

Viewing the Cowpastures landscape

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The early colonists of the Sydney area viewed the landscape from a number of different perspectives according to historian Grace Karskins in her book The Colony a History of Early Sydney (2009) and this also applied to the Cowpastures.

Pictorial History of Camden and District
Camden · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Convicts · Cowpastures · Edwardian · Elderslie · Farming · First World War · Floods · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · History · Interwar · Local History · Macarthur · Modernism · Place making · Red Cross · Second World War · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Urban growth · Volunteering · War

Pictorial History of Camden and District

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The history of the Camden District is told in a recent publication that has been recently been republished by Kingsclear Books. Pictorial History of Camden & District.

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

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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.

Sydney’s urban sprawl invades the Macarthur region
1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · 20th century · Attachment to place · Camden · Campbelltown · Collective Memory · Country town · Cultural Heritage · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Macarthur region · Memory · Peri-urban region · Place making · Placemaking · Regionalism · rural-urban fringe · Ruralism · Sense of place · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urban Planning · Urbanism

Sydney’s urban sprawl invades the Macarthur region

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Urban sprawl has invaded the Macarthur region. It is re-run of the planning policies of the 1970s.

The Perkins family album of Cawdor
20th century · Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Agriculture history · Camden · Camden Story · Cawdor · Collective Memory · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Farming · Floods · Harold Perkins Photographer · Historical Research · Historical source · Local History · Local Studies · Memory · Photographs · Photography · Placemaking · Storytelling

The Perkins family album of Cawdor

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Photographs tell a story about the local area and represent a moment frozen in time. The Perkins family donated a family photograph album to the Camden Historical Society and it tells the story of the Cawdor area..

175th Anniversary of Camden’s foundation, 1840-2015
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175th Anniversary of Camden’s foundation, 1840-2015

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A Photographic Essay                              Source: Camden Images