Index To The Contents Of All Newsletters (1983

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Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Edmund Blacket - speakers Beverley & John McClymont Oral History Workshop/Seminar Parramatta Tour Story of St Ives - speaker Gay Halstead Gordon 'Eryldene', Art Exhibition Hillview book - speaker Beryl Marchant Life along the Lane Cove Road - Reminiscences Mini bus tour of Ku-ring-gai + walk to Bungaroo, Wahroonga. Etc Photo display - Life along the Lane Cove Rd About Henry Oliver - speaker Mr K Oliver Greengate Hotel - speaker Mr Sawkins New constitution (draft) passed Walk Ball's Head Visit "Don Bank" Greengate Hotel, 150th birthday celebration Ku-ring-gai Bushland - speaker J. Fairlie-Cunningham Oral History Interviewing Ku-ring-gai residents - Hilda Denmark, M McDonald (Lofberg), Mr Ritchie, Joan Fry Victoria Barracks & Mint Museum Research Project: Schools in Ku-ring-gai Roseville Public School - 70th year celebrations. St Johns Records filmed. KHS Headquarters to be Tulkiyan Sydney Ferries - speaker Bill Allen Bromley, Daphne Pearl Donaldson, Miss M made Life Member Heraldry - speaker W N Swan President W Sawkins announced Miss Donaldson had made provision for Tulkiyan to become the home of the Society Architectural styles in Ku-ring-gai; Historic homes in Ku-ring-gai speaker Wal Murphy Walking tour of Gordon - Janine Kitson Cameron, E.L Bushland Walks - speaker Barbara Hamilton Plumbing & Building in Ku-ring-gai - speaker Bert Cornish Schrader, Miss P The Rocks, Dangar Island Education in Ku-ring-gai - speakers Miss Drummond & Dr T Ross McKenzie Lots of items for Heritage Week Doctors & Dentists in Ku-ring-gai - Members and guests Killara Golf Club - speaker Dr Earle Bastian List of old some Residents M Saddington Alma Street Pymble Blacksmiths at Pymble Research Early days in Pymble - speaker Sid Cains & Wal Duckworth Fisk Monument, KHS donation for replica of ‘Winged Mercury’ $100 Mention of Miss Hurst's School 1-Feb-15 Heading General Meeting Oral History Tours/Walks General Meeting Exhibitions General Meeting Oral History Tours/Walks Exhibitions General Meeting General Meeting Rules Tours/Walks Built Heritage General Meeting Oral History Year 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 Vol 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 No 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 Tours/Walks Events/Activities Schools Microfilm History of KHS General Meeting Valedictory Notices Life Member General Meeting Research Centre 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 7 7 7 8 8 9 9 9 9 General Meeting 1983 1 10 Tours/Walks Valedictory Notices General Meeting General Meeting Valedictory Notices Tours/Walks General Meeting 1983 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 10 1 2 2 2 2 3 Exhibitions General Meeting General Meeting Biographies Valedictory Notices Street Names Local History General Meeting Monuments & Memorials Schools 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 1984 2 6 Page 1 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Bill Adams donated $1000 towards restoration of Fisk Monument. Council to commission a bronze cast and 3 replicas. 1 for monument Film on Hardy Wilson "A Living Memory" AGM Blacksmiths at Pymble - speaker Graham Robertson Oral History Sub-Committee formed Berrima Tour Mechanical Musical Instruments - speaker Barry Badham KHS 21st anniversary Lynton Park Tour School: Camelot College, Wahroonga Denmark, Hilda Duckworth, Mrs W H Gray, Archibald James The establishment of St Alban's Lindfield 1899-1904 - speaker Fay Richardson Guided Mini-bus tours Ku-ring-gai with KMC McIntosh, Alice Pymble in the 1920s & 1930s - speaker Sid Cains "Cazneaux in Ku-ring-gai" photographic exhibition Heritage walks North Turramurra, Warrawee, Dalrymple Hay State Parliament House with MP Tim Moore Bus tour of Ku-ring-gai's Historic buildings Early St Ives and Lorimers of Gordon - speaker Ken Lorimer Coach tour to Wentworth Falls, Springwood. The History of the NSW Police - speaker Mr Alex Lee Abbotsleigh centenary Bennett, Jim Christian, Millicent The Waterhouse Family - speaker John Waterhouse Heading Monuments & Memorials General Meeting General Meeting Oral History Tours/Walks General Meeting History of KHS Tours/Walks Built Heritage Valedictory Notices Valedictory Notices Valedictory Notices General Meeting Year 1984 Vol 2 No 7 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1985 1985 1985 1985 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 10 1 1 1 1 Tours/Walks Valedictory Notices General Meeting Exhibitions Tours/Walks Tours/Walks Tours/Walks General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Schools Valedictory Notices Valedictory Notices General Meeting 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 70th anniversary Garden Party Family History Weekend Slides of travels Thai, Pakistan & Nepal - M Wyatt Antarctica, The Great White Land - speaker Geoff Mills Coach tour & river cruise Windsor Bungaroo Walk (Gov. Phillip Track), Historical Markers & Historical Map Coach tour of the Southern Beaches Sir John Sulman Architect & resident of Ku-ring-gai - speaker Robert Staas Billy Blue - speaker Miss Meg Swords Bungaroo Walk (Gov. Phillip Track), Historical Markers & Historical Map George Cayley in Ku-ring-gai - speaker Mrs Joan Webb Heritage Week: Photographic exhibition: "The changing face of Ku-ringgai". Wiggan, Helen Grant Bungaroo Walk Coach tour to Penrith with River cruise Local history publications for schools - Grant to employ Louise Proudman (Little Orange books) The Great South Road - speaker Mrs Valerie Thompson Bus tour of Ku-ring-gai Events/Activities General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks Bicentennial Projects Tours/Walks General Meeting 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 7 7 8 8 9 9 9 General Meeting Bicentennial Projects General Meeting Exhibitions 1985 1985 1986 1986 3 3 4 4 10 10 1 1 Valedictory Notices Tours/Walks Tours/Walks Grants 1986 1986 1986 1986 4 4 4 4 1 2 2 2 General Meeting Tours/Walks 1986 1986 4 4 2 3 1-Feb-15 Page 2 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Local history publications for schools - Housing in Ku-ring-gai and Lindfield The St Ives Bus Co - speaker Mr Arthur Gillott Coach tour to Camden McLeod, Flora The Australian Contingent to Sudan 1885-86 - speaker Mr Pat Boland Flags of Australia - speaker John Vaughan Local history publications for schools - West Lindfield, Schools in Kuring-gai, Streets Council to buy St Ives Headmaster's cottage Memories of Ku-ring-gai prior to 1940 - Members and guests Food and Farming in the Settlement of NSW - speaker Malcolm O'Reilly Volunteers for 1986 Architectural Styles. Exhibition at Gordon and Lindfield Libraries of KHS & Municipal Council photographs Decorating Australian Houses - speaker Mrs Mary Nilsson An Historical walk in Gordon - Hazel Perdriau Christmas Luncheon Tour to Lake Illawarra Grant from RAHS for the conservation of a Sand's Directory KMC held conservation workshop On her broadcasting career - speaker Mrs Ethel Brunton-Gibb Bicentennial Education Kits Cruise on "Bushland Explorer" - Middle Harbour Old NSW Remembered - speaker Thurles Thomas A Fools Gold - speaker Lynette Silver Mini bus tour of Ku-ring-gai West side. Wahroonga to Lofburg Oval Bungaroo Walk Historical Markers, shape & Society input 1987 The Search for John Small First Fleeter - speaker Bessie Hooke Fulton, Barbara Slides of India - speaker Mrs Dorothy Johnson Film "Bush Beyond your Garden" & Ku-ring-gai's Natural Heritage speaker Lady Fairlie-Cunninghame Parramatta - No 2 RAHS is organising to collect details of NSW Monuments & Memorials incl Ku-ring-gai. Descendant of Pattinson - Chemist - speaker Mrs Jenny Smith Federation Streets of Turramurra Walk Monuments and Memorials. KHS Organising the collection Mrs Bernice Hill asked for help transcribing tombstones in St John's. First recorded meeting. Monuments and Memorials -work continuing Dixon, Mrs E Ku-ring-gai Bicentennial Park - speaker Ald Lennon. AGM Walking Tour Maps, proposal to produce Adelaide Ironside: Pilgrim of Art - speaker Mrs Jill Poulton Walking Tour Maps, proposal to produce Art of Bellringing and the history of bells - speaker Margaret Goodyer 1-Feb-15 Heading Publications Year 1986 Vol 4 No 3 General Meeting Tours/Walks Valedictory Notices General Meeting General Meeting Publications 1986 1986 1986 1986 1986 1986 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 5 Built Heritage General Meeting General Meeting Oral History Exhibitions 1986 1986 1986 1986 1986 4 4 4 4 4 6 6 7 7 8 General Meeting Tours/Walks Tours/Walks Grants Events/Activities General Meeting Bicentennial Projects Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks Tours/Walks Bicentennial Projects General Meeting Valedictory Notices General Meeting General Meeting 1986 1986 1986 1986 1986 1986 1987 1987 1987 1987 1987 1987 1987 1987 1987 1987 1987 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 8 9 10 10 10 10 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 Tours/Walks Monuments & Memorials General Meeting Tours/Walks Monuments & Memorials Events/Activities 1987 1987 5 5 5 5 1987 1987 1987 5 5 5 6 6 6 1987 5 6 Monuments & Memorials Valedictory Notices General Meeting Bicentennial Projects General Meeting Bicentennial Projects General Meeting 1987 5 7 1987 1987 1987 1987 1987 1987 5 5 5 5 5 5 8 8 8 9 9 10 Page 3 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Tour Hyde Park Barracks, Mint Museum, Mortuary station & St Stephen's Anglican Church & Cemetery - November Xmas Tour of Sir Thomas Walker Hospital, Concord Historical Society Museum, St Joseph's Hunters Hill - December Bust of Capt. Arthur Phillip unveiled in Soldiers Memorial Park, Mona Vale Road Collecting material for RAHS Monuments & Memorials - Members Streets of Ku-ring-gai, launch of book compiled by Society members History of the Railways from Sydney to Gosford - speaker Mr K Winney Railway Historical Society Seniors tour of Pacific H, Fox Valley, Commenara, Yanko, Livingstone. Power House Museum Bungaroo Track, opening Her study of South Turramurra - speaker Elizabeth Dokulil Phipps, Connie Walk along the B Track Bungaroo Track, opening Display showing where historical markers are to be installed Life behind the scenes in the Theatre - speaker Mrs Jean Hodgson Mt Wilson Tour First Fleet Re-enactment voyage - speaker Martin Woods Gordon Robinson submitted copies of a map of Historic walk in Wahroonga. Henry Street reserve to be named Annie Wyatt Artist Syd Long's home demolished Family History Weekend at Eryldene . Visit to Antarctic Peninsular, S America, Falklands - speaker Mr Rodney Higgs Capt Arthur Phillip - speaker Harry Morris AGM Gordon Public School-heritage classification "Wireless Commemoration Night - Organised by Margaret Wyatt Godlonton, Muriel Accepted Bark Hut logo Glebe Society's Open Day Services offered by Hillview - speaker Mrs Jean Brown Items with Australiana Theme - Members Lake Burragorang & Camden Nicol, George (Founding President) Life of Mrs AF Wyatt - speaker Ivor Wyatt O’Reilly, Betty Curator of Justice & Police Museum - speaker Christa Ludlow Recording of speakers available The principles of Heritage Architecture - speaker Robert Moore Tour in Council bus of Ku-ring-gai Bicentennial Plaques & historical walk in Wahroonga Activities of Surveyor Francis MacCabe - speaker Michael MacCabe First use of Wahroonga walk brochure Film and Sound Archives - speaker James McCarthy Prospect, St Marys & Penrith 1-Feb-15 Heading Tours/Walks Year 1987 Vol 5 No 10 Tours/Walks 1987 5 10 Monuments & Memorials General Meeting Publications General Meeting 1988 6 1 1988 1988 1988 6 6 6 1 1 2 Tours/Walks 1988 6 2 Bicentennial Projects General Meeting Valedictory Notices Tours/Walks Bicentennial Projects Monuments & Memorials General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Bicentennial Projects 1988 1988 1988 1988 1988 1988 6 6 6 6 6 6 3 3 3 3 4 4 1988 1988 1988 1988 6 6 6 6 4 4 5 5 Parks Built Heritage Events/Activities General Meeting 1988 1988 1988 1988 6 6 6 6 5 6 6 6 General Meeting Built Heritage General Meeting Valedictory Notices History of KHS Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks Valedictory Notices General Meeting Valedictory Notices General Meeting General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks 1988 1988 1988 1988 1988 1988 1988 1988 1988 1988 1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 1 1 2 3 3 3 General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Tours/Walks 1989 1989 1989 1989 7 7 7 7 4 4 5 5 Page 4 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject St Albans The Garden Palace - Site of Sydney's Expo 1886 - speaker Dr Lenore Coltheart AGM - Rules changed Antiquarian Bookseller - speaker Margaret Woodhouse Belgenny Farm & Camden Park House Conducted tour of Ku-ring-gai for the Bankstown Historical Society Perdriau, Arthur N Gore Hill Cemetery & Mosman Small competition - Sydney and Ku-ring-gai I have known or Predict for 2071 The Battle of Vinegar Hill - speaker Lynette Silver "Australiana" - members Georges River Cruise & Liverpool History of North Shore Railway - speaker Linda Dungey North Shore Railway Line 1890-1990, photographs, maps & documents Council Chambers History of Ku-ring-gai & Dharug Aboriginal People - speaker Dr Jim Kohen Margaret Wyatt collected photographs on Ku-ring-gai Bathurst & Hill End Silk Road through Asia & Europe - speaker Dorothy Johnson Walk to acknowledge the anniversary of 17Apr1788 when Governor Phillip led the first European exploration into the hills of Ku-ring-gai Royal National Park and Cataract Dam Talk on the Museum of Fire in Penrith - speaker Ken Poulton Illustrated lecture on Thirlmere Railway Museum - speaker Gordon Janson Guided tour of Bankstown History of Ku-ring-gai's Water Supply - speaker Hans Bandler Council proposal to adopt a new logo New newsletter heading Southern Highlands The Battle of the Tree - speaker Mrs Effie Bland Abbotsholme Preparatory School - speaker John Lancer Blue Mountains & Rhododendron "Australiana" - Members William McMahon & Harold Holt went to school at Abbotsholme. John Gorton went to Headfort (later renamed Milton grammar) in Stanhope Rd. This site became AWAS training camp WW2 Heading Tours/Walks General Meeting Year 1989 1989 Vol 7 7 No 6 6 Rules General Meeting Tours/Walks Tours/Walks Valedictory Notices Tours/Walks Events/Activities 1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 9 9 General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Exhibitions 1989 1989 1989 1990 1990 7 7 7 8 8 9 10 10 1 1 General Meeting 1990 8 2 Photographs Tours/Walks General Meeting Tours/Walks 1990 1990 1990 1990 8 8 8 8 2 3 3 3 Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting 1990 1990 1990 8 8 8 4 4 5 Tours/Walks General Meeting Council History of KHS Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Built Heritage 1990 1990 1990 1990 1990 1990 1990 1990 1990 1990 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 Xmas lunch on the Central Coast Gordon Public School (see also GPS) to be transferred to KMC Samuel Bate of Echo Farm - speaker Mr F Bate More Precious than Gold - Water - speaker Max Scott Opening of Local Studies Research Centre GPS Voting on Meeting times afternoon or evening. History of The Maples - Jim Murray Official opening of Centre Prudence Docker attended GPS teacher Miss Marjorie Wood our life member Tours/Walks Built Heritage General Meeting General Meeting History of KHS History of KHS General Meeting Local History Centre Schools 1990 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 1-Feb-15 Page 5 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Request for information on GPS School gardens which are disappearing after over 100 years of care. Mrs Joan Burke History of Avondale - speaker Pam Marr & Mavis McCreery Picton & Thirlmere - Walk the Bungaroo track Research Centre in the old Gordon Public School, Official opening Mt York & Hartley NSW Lancers - speaker Irene Phipps Illustrated talk on National Maritime Museum - speaker Gavin Fry Mt Annan Botanic Gardens and Wollondilly Heritage Centre "Bush Time" in Ku-ring-gai with film 50s/early 60s - speaker G E Brown Essay Competition, KHS offers $100 awards for an essay on a local historic house Mt Wilson Tour History of Weights & Measures & the establishment of National Measurement Laboratory - speaker Jack Humphries Hunter Valley Gordon School Bell, stand constructed for Kurnell/Bulli Heights Mary Christmas awarded RAHS Cert of Achievement. Remaining names embroidered on Turramurra RSL flag The Railway Came to Ku-ring-gai. Launch of book written by Kerrin Cook Suburban Development in Turramurra - speaker Nigel Barbour Mini bus tours for Seniors week The Struggle Westward - speaker Russ Morgan Thurles Thomas elected Life Member Death and the Victorians - Rookwood Necropolis - speaker Judith Hunter Walk Wombin Reserve, Swain Gardens, Seven Little Australians Park Ian Ramage - Wahroonga Walk "The Streets Where We Live" - speaker Max Farley Brown, George Rev Love, Margaret Mulgoa Valley & Warragamba Dam Rofe, Lucy Tour Wollombi/Pokolbin 74 attended afternoon meeting Corona for a Convict - speaker Sister Catherine O'Carrigan Australian National Maritime Museum Java le Grande - the cottage in the grounds of Hornsby Hospital speaker Jim Thornburn Gordon Golden Girls - returned to GPS Walk historic old road near Wiseman's Ferry 3 day South Coast tour Sinking of Matunga History of Twin or Sister Cities.- speaker Alla Kamaralli "Caddie House" & "Wandin Valley" Governor Bligh - a study in type-casting - speaker Paul Brunton Memorials in Ku-ring-gai Vinegar hill, Rouse Hill House, Wilberforce & Ebenezer. Seniors Week tours. Walk: Lindfield 1-Feb-15 Heading Schools Year 1991 Vol 9 No 3 General Meeting Tours/Walks Local History Centre Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Schools 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 4 4 4 5 5 6 7 8 8 Tours/Walks General Meeting 1991 1991 9 9 8 9 Tours/Walks Schools Tours/Walks Awards RSL Flag Publications General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Life Member General Meeting Tours/Walks 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 10 10 10 10 10 1 2 2 2 3 3 General Meeting Biographies Valedictory Notices Tours/Walks Valedictory Notices Tours/Walks History of KHS General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 6 Schools Tours/Walks Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Monuments & Memorials Tours/Walks 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 1993 1993 10 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 7 7 8 8 9 10 1 2 1993 11 2 Page 6 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Wahroonga Our Home - speaker Ian Ramage Broadway Historic Bushland Park. Society member on Committee Dapto & Kangaroo Valley Her flying experiences - speaker Nancy Bird Walton RSL Turramurra Flag. Flag hung outside Society meeting room. In corridor at the top of the stairs Curator at First Govt. House Museum - speaker Peter Emmett Paterson in the Hunter Valley; Heritage walk, Killara Artist John Barr lived in Kooringa, Gladstone Pde, Lindfield Notified 4 days before meeting that they could not use the GPS room The Great Days of Radio - speaker Will Newton "Bronte House" Waverley area Applied Know-How about Water Resources in Australian Pre-History speaker Hans Bandler Illuminating occasion in Sydney in 1814 - speaker Jack Clark AGM 3 days tour to Canberra Stall at Community Fair, Bi-centennial Park. The Evolution of the Australian Constitution - speaker John Dowd Anniversary Dinner (KHS) Ethel Turner's Biographer - speaker Sandy Yarwood Wireless Message Wales to Wahroonga in 1918. Celebration of anniversary 30th Anniversary Dinner Berrima & Craigieburn Society attended 75th anniversary of first wireless message from UK Changes to Constitution Grey, Nancy History Curriculum. Proposal to allow use of KHS research facilities by Secondary Schools. Intention to develop Schools program McQueen, Enid Opening hours to remain the same Mon-Fri 2pm to 5pm. From March will extend to 10am-12noon M-F and 7pm on Thurs. Broadway Bushland Park Opened. 65 attended The Australian Country Town - speaker Prof Denis Jeans Gordon Business Print printed the Newsletter for many years. Ray and Margaret Holland have now sold Informal oral history event at Turramurra Masonic Hall The great old-fashioned Spit and Polish Stem driven radio show speaker Fay Richardson Tomago House. Walks to Bungaroo and Around Turramurra. Provided Mini Bus tours for Seniors week Hope to collect and display memorabilia related to GPS James, Lilian Lithgow Old Dairies of Ku-ring-gai - search Barbara Burgess & Prue Docker Suburb photographic project The Old Shale Works of Newnes & Glen Davis - speaker Leonie Knapman Let us talk the Write way - speaker Warwick Hirst 1-Feb-15 Heading General Meeting Parks Tours/Walks General Meeting RSL Flag Year 1993 1993 1993 1993 1993 Vol 11 11 11 11 11 No 2 3 3 3 3 General Meeting Tours/Walks Built Heritage History of KHS General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting 1993 1993 1993 1993 1993 1993 1993 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 General Meeting Tours/Walks Events/Activities General Meeting History of KHS General Meeting Monuments & Memorials History of KHS Tours/Walks Monuments & Memorials Rules Valedictory Notices Schools 1993 1993 1993 1993 1993 1993 1993 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 1993 1993 1993 11 11 11 10 10 10 1994 1994 1994 12 12 12 1 1 1 Valedictory Notices History of KHS 1994 1994 12 12 1 1 Parks General Meeting History of KHS 1994 1994 1994 12 12 12 2 2 3 Oral History General Meeting 1994 1994 12 12 3 3 Tours/Walks 1994 12 3 Schools Valedictory Notices Tours/Walks General Meeting Events/Activities General Meeting 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 12 12 12 12 12 12 4 4 4 4 5 5 General Meeting 1994 12 6 Page 7 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Tour of GPS building. 350 visitors Tulkiyan - First open day Work and final fate of the floating crane Titan: - speaker Jack Clark AGM Ethel Turner Festival.12 to 28 October Ku-ring-gai National Park - search Robyn Jehne Life membership - Mary Christmas Sutherland Tulkiyan, First opening to the public Ethel Turner Festival to mark the centenary of the publication of Seven Little Australians Seven Little Australians100 yrs - search Philippa Poole Tulkiyan open day 350 people attended Ethel Turner Festival to mark the centenary of the publication of Seven Little Australians Local History Centre, extension of space Wiseman's ferry Efforts made to get more volunteers to "man" Local History Centre Ku-ring-gai on Fire, photographic exhibition of 1994 bushfires Newsletter format changed The development of Air Power in the SW Pacific during WW2 - speaker Air Commodore W H Garing Treweek, Dr Athanasius If only walls could talk - speaker Ken Wyatt Ku-ring-gai During the War - KMC 2-day Goulburn/Canberra Jaques, Elizabeth (Cobbie) Steps in time - A Different Slant on Australian History - speaker Nell Challingsworth About book Pioneers at Pearce - speaker Jill Lyons FOKE formed Government House/Elizabeth Bay House Focus on Roseville - speakers Val Kerr, Dr Neville Babbage, Douglas Barrie New logo drawn by Hazel Perdriau Bus tour of former RAAF Station and All Saints Church. Lindfield Bushfires, Jan 1994 - speaker Sergeant Cavanagh Roseville Chase: A Story of Beauty, Bushland, Boats and Bridges, Heritage Walk: Pymble the Architectural Melting Pot 3-day Yass/Cowra/Bathurst Experimental Wireless in Ku-ring-gai: Past & Present - speaker Jo Harris History Prize, joint Council-KHS history prize of $2,500 for area history Ku-ring-gai During the War Members Interviewed for Oral History, Helen transcribed Upper North Shore, 100 years on - speaker Ian Ramage Fagan Park/Australiana Village. Yarramalong Valley & Wyong. Chatelaines - speaker Genevieve Cummins Walks: Streets where we live Architects of Ku-ring-gai - speaker Zeny Edwards 1-Feb-15 Heading Research Centre Tulkiyan General Meeting Year 1994 1994 1994 Vol 12 12 12 No 7 7 7 Events/Activities General Meeting Life Member Tours/Walks Tulkiyan Exhibitions 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 12 12 12 12 12 12 8 8 8 8 8 9 General Meeting Tulkiyan Exhibitions 1994 1994 1994 12 12 12 9 9 10 Local History Centre Tours/Walks History of KHS Exhibitions History of KHS General Meeting 1994 1994 1995 1995 1995 1995 12 12 13 13 13 13 10 10 1 1 1 1 Valedictory Notices General Meeting Oral History Tours/Walks Valedictory Notices General Meeting 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 13 13 13 13 13 13 1 2 2 3 3 3 General Meeting Community Organisations Tours/Walks General Meeting 1995 1995 13 13 4 4 1995 1995 13 13 4 5 History of KHS Tours/Walks General Meeting Exhibitions Tours/Walks Tours/Walks General Meeting Awards Exhibitions Oral History General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 1996 1996 1996 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 5 6 6 6 7 8 8 8 8 8 9 10 1 1 2 Page 8 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Convict Timber getters of Ku-ring-gai - speaker Ralph Hawkins 3-day Newcastle An Italo Australian in Ku-ring-gai - speaker Anna Drago Collection to be relocated to Library Local History Centre to be closed Collection to be relocated to Library Killara Lawn Tennis Club - speaker Paul Metzler Local History Centre to be relocated to Library Members work with Tulkiyan Archbold family reunion Collection to be relocated to Library Doug Cumming - awarded OAM Early History of Beecroft & Cheltenham - speaker Helen Barker Focus on Ku-ring-gai King, Mollie Local History Centre to be closed Tweedieh, Heather Focus on Ku-ring-gai HMS Sirius- the Sculpture - search Wilbur Wright AGM Walk - North Turramurra. Auburn Botanic gardens & Gledswood Homestead Bungaroo Track - speaker Harry Morris Community Fair. Society participation at Bicentennial Park Community Fair Focus on Ku-ring-gai 2-Day Camden tour Australian Dictionary of Biography - search Ruth Frappell Community Fair. Society participation at Bicentennial Park Community Fair History Prize - Six of the best & From Raviscanina to Roseville. List of book entries. Focus on Ku-ring-gai launched. 76 members attended Mt Tomah Botanic Garden & Leura Turramurra Shopping Centre & village Fair - speaker Robert Burnett Cowley, Elwyn Newcastle Identity and Local History - speaker Jennifer Sloggett Convict trail to Newcastle in the 1820s - speaker Mari Metski La Perouse & Botany Bay 26 March Margaret Wyatt retirement and Way Ahead Membership Survey Steam Train 3801 - speaker Demmu Ellis Women of Ku-ring-gai. Book written by members Illawarra District 15 May Parramatta Society in the Nineteenth Century - speaker Ass. Prof. Carol Liston Newington House & Homebush Bay Olympic Site Outreach speakers: Nigel Barbour, Hans Bandler, Helen Malcher, Ruth Frappell, Max Farley Request for donation of computers etc The Barnet Lighthouses of NSW - speaker John Clark 1-Feb-15 Heading General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Local History Centre History of KHS Local History Centre General Meeting History of KHS Tulkiyan Biographies Local History Centre Awards General Meeting Publications Valedictory Notices History of KHS Valedictory Notices Publications General Meeting Tours/Walks Tours/Walks General Meeting Events/Activities Year 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 Vol 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 No 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 Publications Tours/Walks General Meeting Events/Activities 1996 1996 1996 1996 14 14 14 14 8 9 9 9 Awards 1996 14 9 Publications Tours/Walks General Meeting Valedictory Notices General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks History of KHS History of KHS General Meeting History of KHS Tours/Walks General Meeting 1996 1996 1996 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 14 14 14 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 10 10 10 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 Tours/Walks History of KHS 1997 1997 15 15 5 5 History of KHS General Meeting 1997 1997 15 15 5 5 Page 9 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Early History of the Lower North Shore - speaker Peter Tranter 15Jul1997 - formal approval for Society to occupy part of Archives Room. Historic Dresses & Dolls - speaker Grace Thompson & Louise Lucas RSL Turramurra Flag. Given to Roseville RSL Ruby Pymble book launched Phone installed Sydney Trams - speaker Barry Masters 2-day Cockatoo Run & villages of the Southern Highlands Archives Room, approval Society participation in Community Fair at Bicentennial Park The Crown Ridge Estate, Lindfield - speaker Ian Kirk Archbold Family of Roseville, The - speaker Dr Bill Archbold Horse Trough in St Ives Showground - Marrickville Newsletter Mulgoa Valley & Wallacia Photo Collection Day Natural Disaster in Sydney & Ku-ring-gai - search Alan Hedges - Ku-ringgai Camera Club Photographic collection. Scanning of historical photographs provided by members Rooke, Florence St Johns Cemetery walks Thomas, Thurles Goulburn & Canberra Roseville: Firs Estate Cottage. KHS support application to National Trust for heritage listing. Organised opening Use of Land Titles Office for Local history research - search Peter Chadwick Family History Group proposal Mixed - speakers Ian Thom, Doug Milne, Max Farley Walk - Roseville 75th anniversary celebrations House Names project Meeting re formation of Family History Group The use of regional libraries in local history research - speaker Margaret Park Water Supply in Sydney - speaker Jon Breen Wollombi & Windermere House Names project Interaction of National Heritage with Cultural Heritage in Ku-ring-gai speaker Dr Geoff Ford KHS room to be open 10.15-11.45 Meredith Clarke to work on identifying early photos Society wanted to set up a Museum at Firs Cottage. Amendments re life members House Names Project Ryde Society's activities and its Family History Group - speakers Sue Pacey & Julie Dawson AGM Development of the railway system through Gordon area incl signals speaker Dr Robert Taaffe 1-Feb-15 Heading General Meeting History of KHS Year 1997 1997 Vol 15 15 No 6 7 General Meeting RSL Flag Publications History of KHS General Meeting Tours/Walks Local History Centre Events/Activities General Meeting General Meeting Local History Tours/Walks Events/Activities General Meeting 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1998 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 16 7 7 7 8 8 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 1 Events/Activities 1998 16 1 Valedictory Notices Tours/Walks Valedictory Notices Tours/Walks Built Heritage 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 16 16 16 16 16 1 1 1 2 2 General Meeting 1998 16 2 History of FH General Meeting Tours/Walks Schools Events/Activities History of FH General Meeting 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 General Meeting Tours/Walks Events/Activities General Meeting 1998 1998 1998 1998 16 16 16 16 5 5 6 6 History of KHS Events/Activities History of KHS History of KHS Events/Activities General Meeting 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 16 16 16 16 16 16 6 6 6 7 7 7 General Meeting 1998 16 8 Page 10 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Female Orphan School Heading FH General Meeting Year 1998 Vol 16 No 8 First Regular Family History meeting October Grant of $1000 from RAHS for Women of Ku-ring-gai Meredith Clarke collecting material on Society history South Turramurra book published Heather Garnsey FH General Meeting Grants Events/Activities Publications FH General Meeting 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 16 16 16 16 16 8 8 8 8 9 Kiama & Jamberoo Remarks on the 1998 inaugural Ku-ring-gai Heritage Awards - search Prof Gareth Roberts Wireless Message Wales to Wahroonga in 1918. Celebration of anniversary Community Fair, Bicentennial Park Firs Estate Cottage, Roseville report Oral History and Local history - speaker Rosemary Block Robyn Hawes on cemeteries Tours/Walks General Meeting 1998 1998 16 16 9 9 Monuments & Memorials Events/Activities Local History General Meeting FH General Meeting 1998 16 9 1998 1998 1998 1998 16 16 16 16 10 10 10 10 Wentworth Falls, MaxVision Cinema at Katoomba How buildings and places are Heritage listed - speaker Bruce Baskerville Let's talk Ku-ring-gai - speaker Max Farley Members' experiences - Clarke, Fisher, King Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting FH General Meeting 1998 1999 1999 1999 16 17 17 17 10 1 1 1 Oral History-Ku-ring-gai Shops Musical Activities in Sydney's North - speaker Fred Blanks Visit to SAG A living Museum: Costumes in Ku-ring-gai - speaker Catherine Bartho, North Shore Cavalcade LDS Carlingford The future for Tulkiyan? Bate, Frank Brother Keeper Oral History General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting 1999 1999 1999 1999 17 17 17 17 1 2 2 3 Tours/Walks Tulkiyan Valedictory Notices FH General Meeting 1999 1999 1999 1999 17 17 17 17 3 3 4 4 John Horbury Hunt and Ku-ring-gai - speaker Dr Peter Reynolds Geddes, Richard Genealogy & the internet General Meeting Valedictory Notices FH General Meeting 1999 1999 1999 17 17 17 4 5 5 North Parramatta Day tour Oral History Project - Shopping in Ku-ring-gai Tulkiyan Turning History into fiction - speaker Jill Blee Oral History Project - Shopping in Ku-ring-gai Researching the 19th Century Chinese in NSW - search Philip Bramble Tulkiyan 200 years of shopping in Sydney - speaker Ass Prof Beverley Kingston Oral History Project - Shopping in Ku-ring-gai Pam's postcards Tours/Walks Oral History Tulkiyan General Meeting Oral History General Meeting Tulkiyan General Meeting Oral History FH General Meeting 1999 1999 1999 1999 1999 1999 1999 1999 1999 1999 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 Vidal, Mary Theresa Oral History Project - Shopping in Ku-ring-gai Biographies Oral History 1999 1999 17 17 7 8 1-Feb-15 Page 11 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Scotland Heading FH General Meeting Year 1999 Vol 17 No 8 Tea towels & gift cards for sale Treasures of the Mitchell Library - speaker Alan Ventress Cemeteries Events/Activities General Meeting FH General Meeting 1999 1999 1999 17 17 17 8 8 9 Firs Cottage Themes in Ku-ring-gai's History & Finding information in Ku-ring-gai speaker Penny Pike & Jennifer Sloggett A thousand miles from care - speaker Dorothy Blake Evans, Archibald KHS survey Newsletter format changed Waggers Walk Current local projects - speakers Joyce Cribb, Kathy Rieth, Barbara Henery Mary Christmas resigns as Tour Organiser Compiling, writing & Publishing your family History J G Edwards grave restoration Postcards produced by Society Sydney in 1913 - speaker Dr Robin Walker Properties of the historic Houses Trust - speaker Pat Cooper The role of oral history in family history research - speaker Rosemary Block Aborigines in Ku-ring-gai Cowan Search Ku-ring-gai database Tour Maritime Museum & Batavia Towers, Pylons, steeples & Obelisks - Sydney skyline since 1788 speaker Michael Clarke Ann Prendergast - Examining Unusual and resourceful sources for Family History Cadby, George J G Edwards Restoration of grave Maritime Archaeology - speaker Tim Smith Buying a new photocopier to replace current The Availability of records on births, deaths & marriages - speaker Ray Feeney The History of Silver tableware - speaker Ruth Pope Lenthall, Kathleen My darling: a re-interpretation of the life & career of Governor Darling speaker Brian Fletcher. Photographic Collection. Grant of $5,000 from NSW Centenary of Federation Committee to digitise Society photographic collection Eryldene's Story - speaker Harry Churchland Open day before General Meeting Ann Prendergast - Research techniques & primary sources Clever Conversions - The use of Historic buildings by Museums & Galleries - speaker Sarah-Jane Rennie Cliff, Frank Edgar Built Heritage General Meeting 1999 1999 17 17 9 9 General Meeting Biographies History of KHS History of KHS History of KHS General Meeting 1999 1999 1999 1999 1999 2000 17 17 17 17 17 18 10 10 10 10 10 1 History of KHS FH General Meeting Events/Activities History of KHS General Meeting General Meeting FH General Meeting 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 Local History Local History Local History Tours/Walks General Meeting 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 18 18 18 18 18 4 4 4 4 4 FH General Meeting 2000 18 5 Biographies Events/Activities General Meeting History of KHS FH General Meeting 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 18 18 18 18 18 5 5 5 6 6 General Meeting Valedictory Notices General Meeting 2000 2000 2000 18 18 18 6 7 7 History of KHS 2000 18 7 General Meeting Events/Activities FH General Meeting General Meeting 2000 2000 2000 2000 18 18 18 18 8 8 9 9 Biographies 2000 18 9 1-Feb-15 Page 12 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject King, Joan Mazlin, Thomas McEwing, Helen May Perdriau, Stephen Edward Aboriginal Ku-ring-gai - speaker Dr Jim Kohen Goat Island Peter Chadwick - Land Titles Office Heading Valedictory Notices Biographies Biographies Biographies General Meeting Tours/Walks FH General Meeting Year 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 Vol 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 No 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 Old Ashfield - speaker Chris Pratten Robertson, Grahame Wahroonga Fair Captain Henry Waterhouse RN - speaker Brian Evesson Smith, Amy Florence Tulkiyan Draft Management Plan The Centenary of the Royal Australian Historical Society - speaker Ruth Frappell Changing the name - 'Lane Cove' KHS Afternoon of Heritage talks Heritage Festival Talks Old Ashfield The Nineteenth Century Cemetery - speaker Lisa Murray Family History trip to Kiama Gardens between the Wars - speaker Stuart Read An Irreverent Australian History - speaker Bill Woods Henry, William 200th anniversary celebration Cockatoo Island Construction of the City Railway - speaker Bill Laidlaw Jennifer Sloggett, Research in Newcastle & the Hunter Valley A History of Gore Hill Cemetery - speaker Catherine Williams Announcement that KHS would have a representative on the Tulkiyan Management Committee Boyd, Thomas Judy McCaffery steps down from Family History leader Scottish families - speaker Sue Catterall Maitland & Morpeth Tuesday Group award Twentieth century Sydney - Film & quiz evening Little-known photographic collections of 19th century Sydney - speaker Dr Ken Knight Lindfield Chess & Whist Club Centenary visit Ollevant, Lila The Voyage of the City of Brisbane 1862 - speaker Bill Barlow Twibill, Nessie Changes to Family History structure William Hardy Wilson - Architect his life and work - Zeny Edwards Macquarie Towns Tour Sydney Shipwrecks - speaker Tim Smith Bridging the Divide. An afternoon of talks by local area historical societies sponsored by KHS. Ku-ring-gai, Ryde, North Shore, Lane Cove, Willoughby, Manly/Warringah, Hornsby Historical Societies General Meeting Valedictory Notices Events/Activities General Meeting Valedictory Notices Tulkiyan General Meeting 2000 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 18 19 19 19 19 19 19 11 1 1 2 2 2 3 Local History General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting Local History Tours/Walks General Meeting FH General Meeting General Meeting Tulkiyan 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 Local History History of FH FH General Meeting Tours/Walks Awards General Meeting General Meeting 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 FH General Meeting Valedictory Notices General Meeting Valedictory Notices History of FH General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 1-Feb-15 Page 13 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Changes to Constitution JG Edwards Grave - Function following restoration 2002 Macquarie Towns Tour II Irish Expert - speaker Terry Eakin JG Edwards grave restoration St James' Church, Sydney A Church & its People - speaker Dr Rosemary Annable Grandview Hearing in Land & Environment court In Foreign Fields - speaker Bob Cleworth Tulkiyan update Grandview Hearing in Land & Environment Court Henry Parkes - The Man - speaker Ian Thom Society participation in oral history project in connection with centenary of Lindfield Public School International Sydney 1879 - speaker Peter Moore Wollombi-Stroud Ku-ring-gai Regiment - speaker Rod White Significant trees Who & What is a Huguenot? - speaker Judith Staveley Heading Rules Events/Activities Tours/Walks FH General Meeting Events/Activities General Meeting Year 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 Vol 20 20 20 20 20 20 No 4 4 4 5 5 5 Built Heritage General Meeting Tulkiyan Built Heritage General Meeting Oral History 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 20 20 20 20 20 20 6 6 6 7 7 7 General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Built Heritage FH General Meeting 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 20 20 20 20 20 8 8 9 9 9 Yarramalong Valley Tour Family History Through Postage Stamps - speaker Paul Storm Tours/Walks FH General Meeting 2002 2002 20 20 9 10 Freemasonry & Ku-ring-gai - speaker Don Davis History week - photo of Research room Parramatta in Pictures - speaker John McClymont WW1 Memorial Project In our own Backyard - Archaeology in NSW - speaker Natalie Vinton Divorce 1873-1940 - speaker Angela Phippen Hughes, John Terry, (landowner in Ku-ring-gai) Joadja Creek Tour Pymble Village 1885-1900 - speaker Giles Tabuteau Gordon Public School (Old) Draft Management Plan KHS Aust War Research Day Land Titles Office visit Wahroonga's Past - speaker Ian Ramage Matthew Flinders: Indomitable Explorer - speaker Paul Brunton State Records Sydney The Lacemakers of Calais - speaker Elizabeth Bolton Gold Rush & Eureka Stockade - speaker Brian Fletcher Mystery Tour A window on our history - speaker Beverley Sherry Lindfield Public School Centenary Nola & Phillip Bramble discuss their research 3 G's Gallivant Goulburn, Gunning & Gundaroo The First Fleet and its people - speaker Peter Christian A Century of the "San" - speaker Dr Arthur Patrick Early Harbour Defence: the role of Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Sites - speaker Bob Clark Ramage, Ian - Inaugural Historian of the Year General Meeting History of KHS General Meeting Events/Activities General Meeting FH General Meeting Local History Tours/Walks General Meeting Built Heritage FH General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks FH General Meeting General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting Schools FH General Meeting Tours/Walks General Meeting General Meeting General Meeting 2002 2002 2002 2002 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 20 20 20 20 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 10 10 11 11 1 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 9 10 Awards 2003 21 10 1-Feb-15 Page 14 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Malcher, Helen RAHS award Playways Kindergarten Supreme Court Action against KHS The Independent Theatre North Sydney - speaker Carolyn Lowry Initial meeting of Friends of Tulkiyan The Sixty-milers - speaker Tom Ware Transcription agents - speaker Allan Murrin Heading Awards Schools Legal General Meeting Tulkiyan General Meeting FH General Meeting Year 2003 2003 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 Vol 21 21 21 21 22 22 22 No 11 11 11 11 1 1 1 Colonial Ladies - Lovely, Lively and Lamentable Loose - speaker Judith Dunne Gaukrodger, John John Macarthur: Man of Honour - speaker Michael Duffy SNAP 2004, Project to photograph properties in Ku-ring-gai Cockatoo Island: From Prison to Dockyard - speaker John Jeremy Founders Way & Bungaroo Track Grant from Council for Computer. Lesser used sources - if you see a list, look at it! - speaker Phillip Bramble Mt Wilson Tour Research Centre now opening Mondays. Festival on the Green Lachlan Macquarie: A soldier for life - speaker Robin Walsh Photographic Exhibition in connection with SNAP History of Abbotsleigh School - speaker Julie Gleaves SNAP 2004 Speaker Ian Ramage New look Centre Quiz afternoon Festival on the Green, St. Ives inaugural Old Sydney Theatres - speaker Jim Ruxton The Tarasov Saga - speaker Gary Nash FH General Meeting 2004 22 2 Biographies General Meeting Events/Activities General Meeting Local History Grants FH General Meeting 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 Tours/Walks History of KHS Events/Activities General Meeting Exhibitions General Meeting Events/Activities FH General Meeting History of KHS General Meeting Events/Activities General Meeting FH General Meeting 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 7 Charles Ulm - Airline Pioneer - speaker John Ulm Charlesworth, Joy Wireless Message Wales to Wahroonga in 1918. Celebration of anniversary Brown, John - Historian of Year 2004 B's Breakaway Tour Chadwick, Peter Jo Harris Talked about Society's resources Stories from a suitcase - speaker Harry Malcher Wireless Message Wales to Wahroonga in 1918. Celebration of anniversary Macquarie's Sydney - speaker Almis Simankevicius Photographic Exhibition in connection with SNAP Afternoon with John Brown Clark, Mary Shelley Headmasters Office Museum - Donation from Keith Bradfield The Last Great Cavalry Charge - speaker John Cox The story of Shale Mining in NSW - speaker Peter Sage General Meeting Valedictory Notices Monuments & Memorials Awards Tours/Walks Valedictory Notices General Meeting FH General Meeting Monuments & Memorials General Meeting Exhibitions Events/Activities Valedictory Notices Museum GPS General Meeting General Meeting 2004 2004 2004 22 22 22 8 8 8 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 22 22 22 22 22 22 9 9 9 9 9 9 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2005 2005 22 22 22 23 23 23 23 10 10 11 1 1 1 1 1-Feb-15 Page 15 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Chinese Ancestry - speaker Doris Yau-Chong Jones Heading FH General Meeting Year 2004 Vol 23 No 2 58 years of Granny - speaker George Richards Clark, Jack Lane Cove River, The Lavender Lady (Eveline Ferguson) Maitland Tour Number 13 Sailier, Mary Bligh the Man - speaker Geoff Falkenmire Cameron, Don General Meeting Valedictory Notices Local History Biographies Tours/Walks Built Heritage Valedictory Notices General Meeting Valedictory Notices 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 Houses - What's in a name Schools and Colleges in Ku-ring-gai Immigration New Year to Sydney - speaker Margaret Cary Built Heritage Schools FH General Meeting 2005 2005 2005 23 23 23 3 3 4 Luna Park and Art Barton - speaker Ian Hoskins Volunteer Day 21 May Bligh - speaker G Falkenmire Dogs - Pymble News Extra room space achieved and two bays of compactus Family History Hughes, W M Billy - A Touching Note: "Good night Will - always remember this" Jack Doherty doing website Johnson, Frances Johnson/Mills, Frances Lady Davidson Home (Hospital) - speaker Evelyn Wyatt Lady Davidson Hospital - speaker Evelyn Wyatt Luna Park and Art Barton (artist) - speaker Ian Hoskins Now opening on Saturdays The Brown Bess Musket - Randle, Brown story Bramble, Philip Captain John Fitzmaurice - Headstone dedication, St Johns Dalcross Hospital Dedication of memorial to John Fitz-Maurice Fitzsimons, Will Lindfield name - Frank List, William List Revised Accommodation Arrangements- KHS - photos 150 Years of Railways in NSW - speaker Don Hagarty Abbotts of Turramurra, The - A Very Ordinary Life by Gail Abbott Bennett, Jean 90th birthday - photo Chilton, Sir Fredrick (100th birthday) Fitz-Maurice Headstone Unveiled KHS room now open on Saturdays RAHS & Mr Maagard's photo collection - speaker Mari Metzke General Meeting Events/Activities General Meeting Local History History of KHS History of FH Biographies 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 History of KHS Biographies Biographies General Meeting General Meeting General Meeting History of KHS Biographies Valedictory Notices Events/Activities Local History Events/Activities Biographies Local History History of KHS General Meeting Biographies Biographies Biographies Events/Activities History of KHS FH General Meeting 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 Memorial Commemorates Nurses during WW2 Monuments & Memorials Tours/Walks 2005 23 8 2005 23 8 Roseville 1-Feb-15 Page 16 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Ryerson Index - its origin and our Joyce Ryerson Teece, Richard The British-Australian Connection - speaker Jo Harris The First Train (question) (Railway) - Kerrin Cook tells of train from Sandridge Pier to Melbourne The Flags of Australia - speakers Mac and Joyce McCoullough Thistlethwayte, C. Bowes, President of Ku-ring-gai Shire 1925-1927. Details of career Trees in Pymble/Hornsby - Pymble News 21Mar1901 Ups and Downs of Colonial Life: Robert McIntosh, William Baker McIntosh convicted and assigned to his own wife: William Baker a bushranger and Geary gang member Heading Biographies Biographies General Meeting History Year 2005 2005 2005 2005 Vol 23 23 23 23 No 8 8 8 8 General Meeting Biographies 2005 2005 23 23 8 8 Local History Local History 2005 2005 23 23 8 8 "The Classer"- speaker Bob Burnett A Raid Netted results Sly grog Bullock John Johnson and others - At McCarr's Creek in the 1830s/40s Devonshire St Cemetery - Exhibition at the Surry Hills Library Gordon. How named? Also the Gordon Post Office. Max Farley Morris, Harry O'Reilly, W Cresswell - Mayor Rifle Range in Pymble Widdis, Dorothy - 103rd birthday Grandview history Harris, Jo - Historian of the Year 2005 Hinder, Frank and Margaret Official Opening of Headmaster's Museum by Mayor Elaine Malicki Queen Narelle - Narelle Avenue State Record Tour Canberra Tour Irish Town, Turramurra Museum. Opening of the Headmaster's Office Museum by Mayor Malicki 19Nov2005 - photo Phillip’s Bungaroo Trek State Record tour Waterhouse, John and Prof Gowrie - The two different Waterhouses The British- Australian Connection 2 - speaker Jo Harris Council Grant for camera Henry, William - History as Writ, a convict Ku-ring-gai's 100th birthday Lady Teviot Visit Lane Cove Boatman - speaker Ken Meldrum Lane Cove District in 1867 - residents list Preservation Group starts Rawhiti, Babbage - Ku-ring-gai street Names research The British Australian Connection - speaker Jo Harris January meeting A Mystery Rock (Relief Rock) found on the side of Arterial Rd, Killara, just west of bridge. Refers to relief workers Book Maths, Marbles and Mates. Lindfield Public school - speaker Tracy Fiertl Forgotten William Fowler, The - timber High Rise Not New (Flats) - Flats not wanted in Ku-ring-gai in the 1890s FH General Meeting Local History 2005 2005 23 23 9 9 Exhibitions Local History Valedictory Notices Biographies Local History Biographies Local History Awards Biographies Events/Activities Street Names Tours/Walks Tours/Walks Local History History of KHS 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2006 2006 2006 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 24 24 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 1 1 Local History Tours/Walks Biographies General Meeting Grants Biographies Council Events/Activities General Meeting Local History History of KHS Street Names General Meeting Local History 2006 2006 2006 2005 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 General Meeting 2006 24 3 Local History Built Heritage 2006 2006 24 24 3 3 1-Feb-15 Page 17 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Ku-ring-gai's Centenary Dinner 7/3/2006 Notes from Ian Ramage - Wartime History of St Ives; Percy Bergan's butcher shop; The Billy Tree; Milkmaids Reserve Oral History - "How to" Tracey Fiertl Heading Council Local History Year 2006 2006 Vol 24 24 No 3 3 FH General Meeting 2006 24 3 Puflett, Lorna Ramage, Ian - Member Profile An Early Burial (William Baker, teacher) - A droll story about his lost coffin Camden, Picton & the Oaks Clara Reynolds, fickle fashion - Underclothing made from flour bags Fred Pymble on his grandparents McIntosh home - basic construction bark/hessian/paper walls Knox, Ken - Member Profile MacCabe, Francis - An early Surveyor by Michael MacCabe, grandson Memories of Eryldene - speaker Ian Waterhouse North Shore Railway- Jennifer Harvey - About the stations Roseville, Lindfield, Killara, Gordon, Pymble, Warrawee, Wahroonga Who Is Jo Harris. A brief biography Bitumen - laid in 1924 - The Historian March 1975 Bushells: A history of tea in Australia - Susie Khamis Festival on the Green 2006 Ku-ring-gai and its Industrial Heritage - Margaret and Ken Wyatt write about Ku-ring-gai's industrial heritage over 200 years Lindfield Cricket Club - a query - From Alastair Spate Valedictory Notices Biographies Local History 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 3 3 4 Tours/Walks Local History Local History 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 4 4 4 Biographies Biographies General Meeting Built Heritage 2006 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 24 4 4 4 4 Biographies Local History General Meeting Events/Activities Local History 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 24 24 4 5 5 5 5 Community Organisations Biographies Biographies Biographies 2006 24 5 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 5 5 5 Biographies Biographies Street Names Local History 2006 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 24 5 6 6 6 Local History 2006 24 6 Local History 2006 24 6 General Meeting Local History 2006 2006 24 24 6 6 Parks 2006 24 7 Valedictory Notices Street Names 2006 2006 24 24 7 7 Biographies Events/Activities 2006 2006 24 24 7 7 Power, Joseph Richardson, Phillip Fletcher - The Mysterious Squire - (of St Ives) Scholars and Gentlemen. The Mackerras family - Based on the book of that name by Joan Priest Wyatt, Evelyn - Member Profile Badham, Barry - Member Profile Clanville, Tryon, Lorne, Minns, Lynbara, Bromley, Stonecrop, Gilda Good for Man and Beast: Dr William Moore - biography of the homeopathic surgeon who owned much of West Lindfield, West Killara Love Springs Eternal - William Foster age 77 marries Sarah Fox (1840) After walking to Hunters Hill. See SMH 5May1840. Preserving Our History, J G George Edwards, Stuart Doyle, George Nicol, Cresswell O'Reilly - People who have helped preserve our history Publicans and Pubs of Early Sydney - talk by Ken Knight - May 06 Pymble Pub, The - various publicans discussed by Ken Knight - John Johnson, Kelsey, Bullock, Patrick Murphy, George Cadby, William Pymble (of the Orange Tree) Annie Forsyth Wyatt Garden (Joseph Maiden, Charles Tucker Musson) The story of the Park at Gordon - its names & creation incl Garden of Memory. Bradfield, Dr Churchill Lane (Gordon)- Church Hill - Consternation at a poor Lane named after Winston Churchill. A misunderstanding. Davies, Helen - Member Profile Festival on the Green report 1-Feb-15 Page 18 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Heraldry - speaker Stephen Szabo Heraldry in Australia - speaker Stephen Szabo Horse Racing in the Olden Days-Pymble - Rewritten from Doreen Wane. About Pymble Cook's Flat, McMahon etc Ku-ring-gai's Castle - Thomas Whitford Taylor MLA built L Killarney Castle in 1913 near the "Suspension" Bridge. Low, Wendy Maria Gaudrey Owing to Mud-Pentecost Highway 1933 - Extract from the Courier A Forgotten History (Charles Whitham). An unpublished history of Kuring-gai c1926 Before Ku-ring-gai Council - Dealing with local problems before Council was formed in 1906 Christmas, Mary - Member Profile Fowler Family of Roseville, The - About Robert Fowler and family, potter and Sydney Mayor - Firs Cottage Griffiths, Norman, "Mr Ku-ring-gai". Death of long-serving Town Clerk 22Jul2006 How "the Rocks" was won - speaker Brig. DO Magee Post-war Architecture in Ku-ring-gai - speaker Anne Higham The Cromla Fortalice - About Cromla in Roseville mentioned by Charles Whitham Archbold, Richard - Familiar Names Babbage, Eden - Familiar Names Cossington State Heritage listed English children evacuated to Australia in World War II - speaker Eric Ward Harvey, Jennifer - Historian of the Year 2006 Harvey, Jennifer - Member Profile McIntosh, Robert - Familiar Names Pymble, Robert - Familiar Names The Original Huon Park & George Edwards - George Bertrand Edwards MHR and his 1911 accidental death Tree in Hiding - Planted in Wahroonga Park by Sir Thomas Bavin on 7/10/33 Walking History - speaker Graham Spindler Bums, John Fitzgerald - more familiar names Burdett Smith, Robert - more familiar names Chambers, James - Architect Bio by Heather Chambers Chilton, Frederick - More familiar names Coleman, Thomas - Colemans Corner, Lindfield Ethel Turner's Woodlands Listed by NSW Heritage Council KHS Inaugural Meeting 7Nov1963 - attendees Lord, Francis - More Familiar Names Profile of KHS past: Sir John Northcott, Brig. Claude E Cameron, Gordon Richardson, Archibald Gray, Mrs AJ Gray, Russell Cowan, Mrs RB Cowan, Les A Jeckeln, RG Norminton, John Atkinson, Hugh Bickford, Mr & Mrs SH Peattie, Kenneth Polden, Mrs PL Davies, Mr & Mrs HD Silley, GR Nicol, Withers, George - more familiar names Woonona Avenue 14, Briars,Wahroonga 1-Feb-15 Heading General Meeting General Meeting Local History Year 2006 2006 2006 Vol 24 24 24 No 7 7 7 Built Heritage 2006 24 7 Biographies FH General Meeting Local History Local History 2006 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 24 7 7 7 8 Local History 2006 24 8 General Meeting Biographies 2006 2006 24 24 8 8 Valedictory Notices 2006 24 8 General Meeting General Meeting Built Heritage 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 8 8 8 Biographies Biographies Built Heritage FH General Meeting 2006 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 24 9 9 9 9 Awards Biographies Biographies Biographies Local History 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 24 24 9 9 9 9 9 Parks 2006 24 9 General Meeting Biographies Biographies Biographies Biographies Biographies Built Heritage History of KHS Biographies History of KHS 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Biographies Built Heritage 2006 2006 24 24 10 10 Page 19 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject The Sealers of Macquarie Island - speaker Tom Ware Wollomi Pine Planted - Gordon Library 2/12/06 A Sporting Life - List of people who have excelled in sport Barry, Ann - Member Profile From Triumph to Tragedy - Freda Du Faur Homan Family - Lace Makers who settled at Paterson - speaker Beth Williams Hyndes, Thomas - The Forgotten Man The History and Heritage of the Parramatta River - speaker Kevin Shaw The KURINGIAN - Some extracts from the short-lived NewsSheet published by John Lockley The Sealers of Macquarie Island - speaker John Ware Tocal/Paterson Tour Under the Canopy - Pauline Curby/Virginia Macleod - Book on History of Ku-ring-gai Council, released 8Dec2006 Westward Ho & St Annes Court , Gordon Jennifer Harvey Jerusalem Bay - speaker Dr Robert Rhodes Affinity with Nature. Amy Mack - A Lover of Nature Birthday of "Our Bridge" Bradfield. Opening. Headmasters Museum JJC Bradfield Different Days - Different Ways". Pymble/ McIntosh - Fosters wivesreuse of headstone. Devonshire St Cemetery & Green Gate Eastern Rd 134-8, Glenwood, Wahroonga - Jennifer Harvey Echo Point, Roseville. History. Samuel Bate (Brief Bio) Garden Square, Gordon - "A square that isn't there" Handler, Hans - Member Profile Japanese Visitors" from Osaka re Rev George Brown - Interested in anthropological information re Brown More on Hickey Murder/J Brown - Booklet written by Thomas Brown the central character with extracts from Court cases. St Ives Progress Association - Records donated to KHS St Swithins or St Swithuns -Explanation The "Odd" in Early Sydney History - Speaker Ian Barnett. Mentions Nicolas Baudin, the Three Bees ship Burgess, Barbara - Member Profile Christmas Memories WW1 - speaker Barbara King Heading General Meeting Events/Activities History of KHS Biographies Biographies FH General Meeting Year 2006 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 Vol 25 25 25 25 25 25 No 1 1 1 1 1 1 Biographies General Meeting Local History 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 1 1 1 General Meeting Tours/Walks Council 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 1 1 1 Built Heritage FH General Meeting Biographies Museum GPS 2007 2006 2007 2007 25 25 25 25 1 2 2 2 Local History 2007 25 2 Built Heritage Biographies Street Names Biographies Local History 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 25 25 2 2 2 2 2 Local History 2007 25 2 Donations Churches General Meeting 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 2 2 2 Biographies FH General Meeting 2007 2007 25 25 3 3 Davidson, Heather - Member Profile Early Turramurra photo, Lorna Macatta Early Visitors to Ku-ring-gai - Included references to botanist George Caley. Captain Hunter, Lieutenant Bradley Golden Girls Visit Gordon School/KHS 10Jun2007 KHS Logo Malvern Av 18, Roseville (War Service homes) Ryde - Our Elderly Neighbour - A little of its history prior to KHS tour Spycatchers of Telegraph Rd - Poses question re WW2 use of a Telegraph Rd house to intercept Japanese radio messages St John the Evangelist Church Telegraph Rd - Military Road (question) - Information unsuccessfully sought Biographies Local History Local History 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 3 3 3 Museum GPS History of KHS Built Heritage Local History Local History 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 25 25 3 3 3 3 3 Built Heritage Street Names 2007 2007 25 25 3 3 1-Feb-15 Page 20 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject The Halvorsen Story - speaker (Mrs) Randi Halvorsen WW1 War Service Homes His First Fleet ancestor - speaker Ian Palmer Heading General Meeting Built Heritage FH General Meeting Year 2007 2007 2007 Vol 25 25 25 No 3 3 4 A Difference of Opinion (Joseph Power/ Frederick Dodwell). A building dispute between Power and his son-in law Dodwell. Barry, Ann, Mayoral award Senior Week Bennett, Jean Cheppywood/Boongala, Jennifer Harvey Cheppywood 28 Ku-ring-gai and later another Cheppywood at 61. Col Eric Campbell (New Guard) bought the first and renamed it Boongala Built Heritage 2007 25 4 Awards Valedictory Notices Built Heritage 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 4 4 4 Cook, Kerrin - Member Profile Lacemakers of Calais - speaker Richard Lander Matong St, Gordon - What's in a Name. Named by William Francis Regan after Matong in NSW RAAF Memorial in Ku-ring-gai - Plaque at Bradfield Park. Sculpture Biographies General Meeting Street Names 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 4 4 4 Monuments & Memorials Valedictory Notices Convicts 2007 25 4 2007 2007 25 25 4 4 Werona Av extended from Stanhope to Treatts, 1942 - Max Farley A Meditating Monk' - St James Children's Chapel. Ethel Anderson, Turramurra Wall Painters Babbage, Eden Herschel 1844-1924 Book Turramurra Memorial Park entry gates - David Woods new booklet has information about the people listed Bradfield's Changing Fortunes, Michael MacCabe. Part of its history. Scouts, RAAF, Migrants Bundarra Av 1-15, Wahroonga Jennifer Harvey From Brecon to Broken Hill - David Wilkins Family History Lovers Jump - Naming - never "Lovers Leap" Milne, Doug - Member Profile Researching his German ancestry - speaker Peter Stehn Street Names Local History 2007 2007 25 25 4 5 Biographies Parks 2007 2007 25 25 5 5 Suburbs 2007 25 5 Built Heritage Biographies Local History Biographies FH General Meeting 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 25 25 5 5 5 5 5 Tales of the Early Settlement at the Basin in Coasters' Retreat, Pittwater - speaker Jim Macken "Myth, Reality and the Founding of Australia". Reasons for its existence speaker Prof Brian Fletcher 16May2007 Bancroft Highway (Avenue), The Bidencope, Peter - Member Profile Boundary Tree, The - Questions arise re its true location (Thorne) Kissing Point Rd (naming). Route to Kissing Point in Ryde. Never a Kuring-gai area so named Leonora Windsor (early Grantee near Fullers Bridge) - Mentions Bethia Foot (author and descendant) John Bryson (John Brian) Memory Banks - speaker John Jewell Pearces Corner. About Aaron Pearce (Aaron Pierce) Roseville first Church (Methodists/Uniting), Kathie Rieth General Meeting 2007 25 5 General Meeting 2007 25 6 Street Names Biographies Local History Street Names 2007 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 25 6 6 6 6 Local History 2007 25 6 FH General Meeting Biographies Built Heritage 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 6 6 6 Stuart, Marion The Fading Stain - some Ku-ring-gai convicts - Mentions David Edwards, Joseph Fidden, Michael Fitzgerald, William Fowler, William Henry, Thomas Hyndes, James Jenkins, Frances Mills (Frances Johnson), Henry Oliver, Aaron Pierce, Richard Porter 1-Feb-15 Page 21 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject What's in a Name - Lane Cove, Hunters Hill, St Leonards, North Sydney. Changing names over time 2006 Census Results for Ku-ring-gai A Sign in Lord St, Roseville. History of the sign "Danger Look Out For Cars" Book The Story of St Ives - A review of Halstead's book on St Ives Connections with Complications - Consanguinity - speaker Fay Murphy Creating Killara. Focusing on J G Edwards and his amalgamation and subdivision of Killara land Early women architects of NSW - speaker Dr Bronwyn Hanna Ermert, Wendy - Member Profile Killara Hall, the Soldiers Memorial Hall, Marian St Theatre. Kathie Rieth Lindfield Progress Association Noonans Platform - Origin of name. Noonans Track. Coonanbarra Road Publishing your Family History - speaker David Wilkins. "Connections with Complications - Consanguinity" - speaker Fay Murphy Turnidge, Elaine - Member Profile Two Ladies of Killara - Matilda Fish, Jane MacGillivray. Bio of Matilda Fish (Amelia Matilda Booker) and Jane MacGillivray) "In Search of the Pennant Hills" - speaker Trevor Patrick 21Jul2007 A Foreign Field. Musings from Mark Mealey re Flanders in WW1 Book North Turramurra - the Story of a Community - A Review of the book by Margaret Wyatt. Finding Geary's Cave - Below the Suspension Bridge. Not located Friends of Tulkiyan - speaker Helen Davies Ghost Trains - St Ives Railway - The Railway from Gordon to Narrabeen which did not eventuate John Brown's antecedents. About John Randall (Black Randall) , Frances Aiken Railway Timetable 1Jan1890 Ryerson Index - About Joyce Ryerson, new database address Skelton Family Reunion - scheduled for October 2007 Stehn, Peter - Member Profile Tulkiyan, 707 Pacific Highway, Gordon A Pledge - the birth of Rostrum in Australia near Bungaroo (21/7/1930). The location of Pulpit Rock later called Speakers Rock 1930 Dunbar Tragedy - 150 Years Ago. Lorne, Capt Robert Pockley Federal Grant for Laptop computer Fifer, Don - Member Profile Milk - Dairies in Ku-ring-gai - Utilising research by Barbara Burgess and Pru Docker Ramage, Ian died 19Aug2007 Sydney in the late 1860s and 1870s. Photographs - speaker - Dr Lesley Muir 18/8/07 Western Front Trip (Jan Cook) - Tells of her tour of WW1 cemeteries in France Yirrimbirri, 41 Stanhope Rd, Killara, Kathie Rieth An Oak Tree with History. Effie Bland/Kerrin Cook/Annie Weston Bean, CEW - WW1 Historian Council Grant for Disaster recovery software + Ancestry 1-Feb-15 Heading Suburbs Year 2007 Vol 25 No 6 Local History Street Names 2007 2007 25 25 7 7 Suburbs FH General Meeting Built Heritage 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 7 7 7 General Meeting Biographies Built Heritage Local History Street Names FH General Meeting 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 25 25 25 7 7 7 7 7 7 Biographies Biographies 2007 2007 25 25 7 7 General Meeting War Suburbs 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 8 8 8 Local History FH General Meeting Local History 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 8 8 8 Biographies 2007 25 8 Local History Biographies Biographies Biographies Built Heritage Local History 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 25 25 25 8 8 8 8 8 9 Local History Grants Biographies Local History 2007 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 25 9 9 9 9 Valedictory Notices General Meeting 2007 2007 25 25 9 9 War 2007 25 9 Built Heritage Local History Biographies Grants 2007 2007 2007 2007 25 25 25 25 9 10 10 10 Page 22 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Early wireless & Ku-ring-gai Connection - speaker Jo Harris Our One Prime Minister (William Hughes) - Lindfield resident Police Incidents in the 1830s SMH) Rendall & Tikini, Heydon Av, Warrawee, Kathie Rieth The Kurrajongs - speaker Ian Small The Risks of Going Home - Convicts Wilkins, David - Member Profile James Meehan - A most excellent surveyor - speaker Tony Dawson The Rum Rebellion - speaker Bill Woods A Deficient Local History - Ghosts An Unsolved Mystery - Andrew Bromley Black First Fleeters Captain Cook Series - George Collingridge Rieth, Kathie - Member Profile Rieth, Kathie Historian of the Year St Johns Cemetery Open Day The Maples' Flats Trip to Lithgow 27/10/2007 Wilkins, David - Inaugural Family Historian of the year A New Life for Firs Cottage Blue Gum Forest whole again - St Ives Eccleston Du Faur: Man of Vision - speaker Joan Webb 20Jan2008 Green, Stella - Member Profile Harris, Jo - Ku-ring-gai Citizen of the year 2008 Harry Seidler Reserve previously Geary's Way Justice and Shades of Grey - Mary Cecelia Thomas, Lane Cove National Park Lindfield Station The Rofes of Rofe Park The Rofes of Rofe Park 35-45 Water St, Wahroonga, Rippon Grange Accident at Gordon - Children and explosives - The Pymble News An Era Ends - Rast Brothers Callinan, Kevin - Member Profile Fire at Gordon - Cottage burnt down - The Pymble News Japanese Submarine Raiders 1942 20/2/08 speaker Steven Carruthers More on Telegraph Road Not without Comfort and Hopes - Porter, Hutchinson, Weavers, Wicks Rossville - Roseville Sally down the South Coast St Philip's Church or St Phillip's Church The Myth of the Sphinx - Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park Thoughtless Destruction - George Collingridge Tree Planting at Wahroonga - The Pymble News A Coincidence - William Holman Collingridge Cottage - George Collingridge Farley, Max - Member Profile Former Bank NSW 65 Hill Street, Roseville Pubs and Publicans - speaker Ken Knight Ten years On - Family History group first proposed 1-Feb-15 Heading General Meeting Biographies Local History Built Heritage FH General Meeting Local History Biographies General Meeting General Meeting Local History Local History Local History Local History Biographies Awards Events/Activities Built Heritage Tours/Walks Awards Built Heritage Parks General Meeting Biographies Awards Parks Local History Year 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 Vol 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 No 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Built Heritage Biographies Parks Built Heritage Local History Local History Biographies Local History General Meeting Local History Biographies Local History Tours/Walks Local History Local History Biographies Local History Biographies Biographies Biographies Built Heritage FH General Meeting History of FH 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 Page 23 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject The Sydney Harbour Bridge - speaker Peter Lalor Even more on Telegraph Road Greengate Court, Pacific Highway, Killara KHS Internet Connection Morris, Joan Heading General Meeting Local History Built Heritage History of KHS Valedictory Notices Year 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 Vol 26 26 26 26 26 No 4 5 5 5 5 Orientation Day 28Jun2008 Perdriau, Hazel - Member Profile Roseville Boys College Shot Machine Creek T W Edgeworth David - speaker Dr David Branigan 16Jul2008 Words from our past - terms used 3 Councillors Anderson, Malicki & Shelley Events/Activities Biographies Schools Local History General Meeting Local History FH General Meeting 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 Before our Bridge - Harbour crossing Council Chambers Currency Lads and Lasses - definitions Dixson and Mitchell Libraries History in Poetry - Duncan Miller Inter-war housing in Ku-ring-gai - speaker Scott Robertson Joyce, Jenny - Member Profile Research Team established Wilkins, David wins Alexander Henderson Award 2007 WW1 Soldier Settlement Schemes "Snippets" from Miss Flora McLeod - Gordon history Craignairn - Wahroonga Greenway flogged - Francis Greenway Johnson, Rainbow turns 100 Killara Golf Club, The - first in Australia to own its own land? Sorry, No Ghosts The Murder of Jane Ellen Brockbank The Nellie - steamship on the Lane Cove River The Twists of Fate - convicts Under the canopy - speaker Pauline Curby & Virginia McLeod Volunteer Day 31 July Wyatt, Margaret - Member Profile Another Snippet from Miss Flora McLeod Council Duties in 1911 - Councillors Dunstan, Beverley - Member Profile Family History Course - 17 Oct , 8 weeks Pity Castle Hill - Tolls are not new Pymble Station Stories to Uncover - early settlers The Legendary Dr Susie O'Reilly Two Sydney Scandals of 1820s - speaker Carol Baxter 90th Anniversary - Fisk Memorial Local History Built Heritage Local History Local History Local History General Meeting Biographies History of KHS Awards Local History Local History Built Heritage Biographies Biographies Local History Local History Biographies Local History Biographies General Meeting Events/Activities Biographies Local History Council Biographies Events/Activities Local History Built Heritage Local History Biographies General Meeting Monuments & Memorials Built Heritage History of KHS General Meeting 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 9 2008 2008 2008 26 26 26 9 9 9 A Lost Eryldene Ancestry Library edition available Ben Hall - speaker Peter Bradley 1-Feb-15 Page 24 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Done, Lyn - Member Profile Floors of yore - Fred Pymble's memories Medium Density - Heritage Hit Our Public Utilities: Water, Gas, Telephones, Sewerage, Electricity, Garbage, Postal St Johns Cemetery Open Day 18 Oct State Archives They were not always so: Unfamiliar names Fox Grounds, River, Chinaman's Hollow, Orange Grove, Forked Ridge A Gentleman Rejected - Pymble Park Mr Orme, Dr Kottmann and Dr Hood A Memorial to Ian Ramage in Wahroonga Heading Biographies Local History Built Heritage Local History Year 2008 2008 2008 2008 Vol 26 26 26 26 No 9 9 9 9 Events/Activities Tours/Walks Local History 2008 2008 2008 26 26 26 9 9 9 Local History 2008 26 10 Monuments & Memorials Local History Local History FH General Meeting General Meeting 2008 26 10 2008 2008 2008 2008 26 26 26 26 10 10 10 10 Tours/Walks Biographies History of KHS Natural Disasters Valedictory Notices 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 26 26 26 27 27 10 10 10 1 1 FOKE won NSW Heritage Volunteers Award Gordon's Little Acre - Ravenswood MacCabe Corner - Francis MacCabe Mount View 102 Grosvenor Street Wahroonga Naming of Roseville Skewers - Lindfield Post Office photo Upper North Shore in WW1 - speaker Tony Cuneen Whitehead, Trevor - Member Profile A Bridge to Bridge Walk - Killara, Lindfield A Mathew Mystery - Daniel Dering Mathew Australiana in the Applied Arts - speaker Paul Storm Awards Local History Biographies Built Heritage Local History Local History General Meeting Biographies Tours/Walks Local History FH General Meeting 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 Australia's First Female Star - Lottie Lyell Dunston, Susan - Member Profile Editors of KHS Newsletter 2002-2009 Inauspicious Beginnings, Happy Endings - Geary's Gang, William Baker Killiecrankie, 1 Maclaurin Pde, Roseville Life and Times of Dr Thomas Parmeter and his Family - speaker Bill Greenhalgh Sydney's First Street Posting Boxes Vinegar Hill Yesterday's Fashions - Pymble News 1908 2009 Gems of Ku-ring-gai - Jennifer Harvey and Kathie Rieth A Gem - The Swain garden in Lindfield Admirable Acts of Contrition - Horse Troughs, Annis and George Bills Fibro Homes in Ku-ring-gai Local History Biographies History of KHS Local History Built Heritage FH General Meeting 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 27 27 27 27 27 27 2 2 2 2 2 2 Local History Local History Local History Awards Parks Local History Built Heritage 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 A River of History - Lane Cove River Flora McLeod and the Swagman - photo of Lindfield Post Office Genetics in genealogy - speaker Ray Thornburn Lachlan Macquarie's Travels through Three Empires - speaker Robin Wood Mudgee, Sofala & Hill End Ross, Bob - Member Profile Volunteer list Bushfires back then: Maitland Mercury 1850 Fifer, Don 1-Feb-15 Page 25 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Fighting Ku-ring-gai's Fires Growing up in Asquith - speaker Bob Davis Handley Kindergarten History More on Telegraph Road Society Outreach - a busy month van Bergen, Jackie - Member Profile Abolish Barmaids? 1902 Australian Convict Sites - World Heritage Listing Proposal - speaker Patricia Hale Crookwell, Cowra, Carcoar Defining Ku-ring-gai Gail Davis - State Records Heading Local History General Meeting Schools Local History Events/Activities Biographies Local History General Meeting Year 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 Vol 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 No 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 Tours/Walks Local History FH General Meeting 2009 2009 2009 27 27 27 4 4 4 Oliver, Judy - Member Profile Our Postal Past Proud Pymble War Service Homes in West Pymble Before "PC" Occupation titles KHS Room extension Medicine in the Twenties Old Pymble Town Sydney's Natural World - speaker John Martyn Take a stroll around Lindfield - Eton, Grosvenor, Westbourne, Bayswater Streets Volunteer list Yesteryear's Kuringians A pleasant Memorial Cnr Tryon & Eastern Valley Roads Biographies Local History Local History Built Heritage History of KHS History of KHS History of KHS History of KHS General Meeting Built Heritage 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 History of KHS History of KHS Monuments & Memorials General Meeting Biographies General Meeting 2009 2009 2009 27 27 27 5 5 6 2009 2009 2009 27 27 27 6 6 6 Built Heritage Biographies Local History Local History Local History FH General Meeting 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2005 27 27 27 27 27 27 6 6 6 6 6 7 Information files Biographies General Meeting Built Heritage Schools Biographies General Meeting Street Names Built Heritage FH General Meeting Biographies 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2009 2009 2009 2009 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 Janine Kitson - Member Profile Macquarie - A Paradox Magnificent Obsession: The Mitchell Library Story - speaker Brian Fletcher Roadhouse & boathouse at Bobbin Head Selkirk, Alexander "Forgotten, but not Forgotten" Sydney Hyde Park That Elusive Tree Wanted - Dead or Alive "Boundary Tree" Yesteryear's Kuringians "I know who I am - her life story" - speaker Lorraine McGee-Sippel Drafts from the Society's Archives - Edward Clarke Windybank Forgotten Francis Foy, The From St Andrew's to St Ives - speaker Bob Ross Geraldine, 10 Culworth Ave, Killara Gordon Public School enrolment database Malcher, Helen - Member Profile Sydney's Northern Railways - speaker Dr Lesley Muir "Themed" Streets 48,50,52 Shirley Road, Roseville Cavalcade of Fashion - speakers Madeleine Sweeny & Sue Crawford Correction - Francis Foy 1-Feb-15 Page 26 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Our Lane Cove school School in Ku-ring-gai 1920s Walker, Joy - Member Profile William Hetzer's Photographs of Sydney - speaker Geoff Barker Bandler, Hans Heading Schools Schools Biographies General Meeting Valedictory Notices Year 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 Vol 27 27 27 27 27 No 8 8 8 8 9 Bo-ra-ne Ya-goo-na Local Aboriginal History - speaker Jessica Currie MacCabe, Michael - Member Profile May Gibbs - Her life and works - speaker Stewart Reed Our neighbour - Chatswood Our website - Graham Lewis, new webmaster Rathlee 270 Pacific Hwy Lindfield This Gate Hangs Well - Greengate Hotel A Baltic Refugee - speaker Vic Winterfeldt General Meeting Biographies General Meeting Local History History of KHS Built Heritage Local History FH General Meeting 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 Flags & Communication - speaker John Vaughan Gore Hill Biographies, The - Gore Hill Cemetery Governor Phillip Memorial General Meeting Local History Monuments & Memorials Local History Street Names Built Heritage Local History Biographies Local History Local History Churches General Meeting Tours/Walks Local History Local History FH General Meeting 2009 2009 2009 27 27 27 10 10 10 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 28 28 28 28 28 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 1 1 1 1 1 Harris, Jo - Certificate of achievement award from RAHS Michael MacCabe - Life Member Regular workshops start Ross, Bob - Historian of the Year for his publication "Pymble - A Biography of Pymble Golf Club" 2010 St Martin's and its architect Oliver Harley Unravelling The Lofbergs "Mr Smith" and John Woolcott Forbes "The unlikely Bushman" - speaker Ron Hicks Awards Life Member History of KHS Awards 2010 2010 2010 2010 28 28 28 28 1 1 1 1 Built Heritage Biographies Biographies FH General Meeting 2010 2010 2010 2010 28 28 28 28 1 1 2 2 Aboriginal House Names Donation from Ku-ring-gai Lions for Ancestry Family History Course - 18 May 8 weeks Federal Government for Document Scanner Historian Index added to website Lindfield Library Macquarie's Kingdom - speaker Almis Simans Built Heritage History of KHS Events/Activities Grants History of KHS Built Heritage General Meeting 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Hornsby - Our Northern Neighbour More Themed Streets Provost & Ruwald, architects Religion in Early Ku-ring-gai Rowland, Joan - Member Profile Scandals, Crime and Corruption Dr Tozer Society Newsletters from other Societies St Martin's Anglican Church, Killara A nice cup of tea - speaker Ian Bersten Adelong, Gundagai, Tumut, Yass An early "Open Garden" - Woolcott Forbes Exploding a Myth? Captain Moonlite From Vienna to the North Shore - speaker Lee Shrubb 1-Feb-15 Page 27 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Saunders, Suzanne - Ku-ring-gai Citizen of the Year 2010 Saunders, Suzanne - Member Profile Why not here? - Ku-ring-gai gardens 37 Telegraph Road & PLC A Lithograph by Frank Hinder - Gordon An Illustrious Historian - John Ferguson, 81 Clanville Road, Roseville Lind, Angela - Member Profile Sydney Harbour: A History - speaker Ian Hoskins Sydney in 1816 A Magnificent Orangery - Pymble, George Edwards, Richard Hill, William McKeown Archbolds of Roseville, The Lewis, Graham - Member Profile Strathmore 51 Lindfield Avenue, Lindfield The Spirits of Gallipoli project - Kim Phillips Venables Vernon, Margaret Heading Awards Biographies Local History Built Heritage Built Heritage Biographies Biographies General Meeting Local History Local History Year 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 Vol 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 No 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 Biographies Biographies Built Heritage War Valedictory Notices 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 28 28 28 28 28 4 4 4 4 4 Volunteer list Volunteer Luncheon 15 May War Memorials in NSW - speaker Neil Chippendale De Sisto Building 79-81 Pacific Hwy, Roseville Eliza - Why? Eliza Pymble History and Exactitude - Jo Harris KHS gives Computer System to Maitland Historical Society Kokoda Track and the "Unsung Hero" - Major General Tubby Allen speaker Stuart Braga Pymble to Ryde, via Marsfield and North Ryde 1906 Sulman, Florence - Sir John's Daughter The Girls of the Palambam arriving 1831 - speaker Ray Thorburn History of KHS Events/Activities General Meeting Built Heritage Biographies Biographies History of KHS General Meeting 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 Local History Biographies FH General Meeting 2010 2010 2010 28 28 28 5 5 5 What a girl should learn Burgess, Barbara Local History Valedictory Notices 2010 2010 28 28 5 6 Harris, Jo - Rotary Community Service Award Johnson/Mountfort, Dorothy Awards Valedictory Notices 2010 2010 28 28 6 6 Patrols into the Stone Age - speaker David Wilkins People - just some of them - Archbold, Babbage, Bradfield, Brown, Cadby, Campbell, du Faur, GE Edwards, JG Edwards, Fowler, Henry, Hickey, Johnson, Mackerras Family, Moore, O'Reilly, Richardson, Selkirk, Thistlethwayte, EG Waterhouse, John Waterhouse, Wenkart, Windsor, Wyatt. Redleaf Chambers, Wahroonga Some Key Events A Tree with a House - Eulong, 22 Northcote Avenue, Killara Dressed in their Best - speaker Pam Liell Learning and teaching Scotland - speaker Mark Oxbrow General Meeting Biographies 2010 2010 28 28 6 6 Built Heritage Local History Built Heritage General Meeting FH General Meeting 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 28 28 28 28 28 6 6 7 7 7 Pymble Hill Strathmore, 51 Lindfield Avenue, Lindfield Built Heritage Built Heritage 2010 2010 28 28 7 7 1-Feb-15 Page 28 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Whitaker, Richard (Dick) Goldsworthy, Neil Heading Biographies Valedictory Notices Year 2010 2010 Vol 28 28 No 7 8 Gordon Station Garden North Shore Aviatrix - speaker Judy Rainsford Some Australian Weather Disasters - speaker Dick Whitaker Local History General Meeting FH General Meeting 2010 2010 2010 28 28 28 8 8 8 Walter Burley Griffin home World Heritage Convict Sites Listing "Finding my Father" - speaker Charles Stewart Built Heritage Local History FH General Meeting 2010 2010 2010 28 28 28 8 8 9 Braeside, 9 Arnold Street, Killara Caernleith, 8 Springdale Road, Killara Excursion to Parramatta Farley, Max - Historian of the Year Fleshing out our history - Edwin Hickey Hassall Or Hassell Park, St Ives Lebanese Migration to NSW 1880-1920s - speaker Nola Bramble Report on West Pymble School Fair 3 Local Members, O'Farrell, O'Dea, Paul Fletcher Built Heritage Built Heritage Tours/Walks Awards Local History Parks General Meeting Events/Activities FH General Meeting 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 Mercury flys again - Fisk Monument Monuments & Memorials Tours/Walks Built Heritage General Meeting General Meeting Built Heritage Awards 2010 28 10 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 28 28 28 29 29 29 10 10 10 1 1 1 Local History General Meeting Events/Activities Built Heritage Local History Built Heritage General Meeting Tours/Walks Local History Built Heritage FH General Meeting 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 Local History Local History Awards Tours/Walks 2011 2011 2011 2011 29 29 29 29 3 3 3 3 General Meeting History of KHS 2011 2011 29 29 3 4 Painting the Rocks - The Exhibition Response to the column on Service stations in Ku-ring-gai - Joy Walker The search for Lasseter's Reef - speaker Bob Lasseter Controversial Major Mitchell - speaker John Read More on Service Stations in Ku-ring-gai - Stuart Doyle North Shore Times 50 year Community Award - Jo Harris, Jan Langley, Janine Kitson, Don Brew, Zeny Edwards, Ian Ramage One hundred years ago 1911 - from The Kuringian Percy Lindsay Artist & Bohemian - speaker Silas Clifford Smith Series of 6 talks for Seniors Week Sirocco - 33 Abingdon Road, Roseville Curran's Gordon Bakery - Bob Gowing Lynwood, 63 Shirley Road, Roseville No time for the Smiths - speaker Ben Smith The First Emperor - China's Entombed Warriors What about a Fire Station -The Kuringian 1911 1 Alison Street Roseville Biographical Story of Eliza Arbuckle - speaker Nola Bramble Gordon Gains - The Kuringian April 1911 Lady Game Story - Marie Rumsey Milne, Doug - NSW Seniors Week Award. Visit to the Hills District Historical Society and Powerhouse Discovery Centre Wild Ride: The Rise and fall of Cobb & Co - speaker Sam Everingham Book Catalogue added to Website 1-Feb-15 Page 29 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Metzler, Paul George 1914-2010 Heading Valedictory Notices Year 2011 Vol 29 No 4 St Ives Station - A line too far - Richard Whitaker Taiping, 1 Longford Street, Roseville The rise of Sydney's Department Stores - speaker Michael Lech 2 Warrangi Street, Turramurra Experiment Farm Cottage. Australia's Oldest House? speaker - Sue Rosen KHS Volunteers Luncheon Name tag Cabinet made by Graham Crawford North Shore Storms - Richard Whitaker Report on talks program Volunteer list Convict Women's Trail From the Celtic Cross to Southern Cross - The Ladies on the 'Elizabeth' 1828 - speaker Suzanne Voytas On the Battle for Milne Bay - speaker Dr Brian Boettcher Severe North Shore thunderstorm 1914 - Richard Whitaker St Aubyn's 9 Westbourne Road, Roseville 7 Berrillee Lane, Turramurra A violent storm is Sydney - Richard Whitaker Aliens and New Australians - speaker Gary Luke Local History Built Heritage General Meeting Built Heritage General Meeting 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 29 29 29 29 29 4 4 4 5 5 Events/Activities History of KHS Local History Events/Activities History of KHS Tours/Walks FH General Meeting 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 General Meeting Local History Built Heritage Built Heritage Local History FH General Meeting 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 29 29 29 29 29 29 6 6 6 7 7 7 Early astronomy in Sydney - speaker Doug Milne How attitudes have changed! - Max Farley Families Special Interest Groups Talks program supported by Council Grant Company Confusion - Alan Rost Earth, wind and fire - Ku-ring-gai in December 1944 - Richard Whitaker East Roseville Methodist Church Gordon in 1854 - much more of our history is waiting to be discovered Max Farley Picturesque Picton - Shirley Luttrell The photographic industry - speaker Keith McGrath General Meeting Local History Events/Activities Events/Activities Built Heritage Local History Built Heritage Local History 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 Tours/Walks FH General Meeting 2011 2011 29 29 8 8 Walter and Marion Griffin; life and work - speaker Alasdair McGregor 31 Greengate Road, Killara Frappell, Ruth General Meeting Built Heritage Valedictory Notices 2011 2011 2011 29 29 29 8 9 9 The Parramatta River - speaker Gregory Blaxell Wireless Monument at Wahroonga Workhouses of England - speaker Pauline Kettle General Meeting Events/Activities FH General Meeting 2011 2011 2011 29 29 29 9 9 9 Freemasonry in Ku-ring-gai - speaker Don Davis FH General Meeting 2010 29 10 History in the 21st century - speaker Dr Lisa Murray Ian Brothers Collection gifted to the Society Irish Day with Terry Eakin Moorcroft, 675 Pacific Highway, Gordon Elaine Turnidge appointed Welfare Officer General Meeting Donations Events/Activities Built Heritage Volunteers 2010 2010 2010 2010 2012 29 29 29 29 30 10 10 10 10 1 1-Feb-15 Page 30 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Fox Valley Road, Warrawee Jennifer Harvey - Ku-ring-gai Heritage Award Left-handers through history - speaker Bob Davis Note on foundation stone-laying St Johns Church 1888 81 Shirley Road, Roseville Jocelyn Brennan-Horley and Helen Davies - NSW Govt Heritage Volunteer Award Lindfield Laundry by Bob Gowing Waltzing Matilda - speaker Bill Magoffin A little more on G N Kenworthy architect Almost like Home - Living in Bradfield Park. Book Launch Carolyn Darby & Allan Rost - Seniors Week Mayoral Award Jenny Joyce & Beverly Robinson - GEMS of Ku-ring-gai Joseph Fowles' Sydney - speaker Mark Dunn My First Fleet Family - Speakers from local chapter of First Fleeters Adventures on the New Guinea Goldfield - speaker Michael Waterhouse Inbreeding - really not as bad as you think! by Jenny Joyce Medical heroism: Major GH Hunt, MC - by John RE Brown Memorials, formal and otherwise by Kathie Rieth 77 Telegraph Road, Pymble Almost like Home - Living in Bradfield Park - book launch Federation and the Local Hawkesbury Link - speaker Tom Richmond Life in Australia during the First World War - speaker Craig Wilcox Lindfield Australia - Lindfield UK List of volunteers 2012 Sophia and J G Laing - paper found The Kafka House, 11 Eton Road, Lindfield - Kathie Rieth 12 injured when three electric trains crash - Roseville 1950 Discovery at Killara - Ralph Hawkins Golf Caddy sues orchardists - Robin Logan, Harold & William Britton 1937 Gordon Dalyell Richardson, OBE Harry Seidler 1923-2006, Architect - speaker Colin Griffiths Huguenots - speaker Robert Nash Kevin Callinan, OAM award Ku-ring-gai Council Mace Masonic Military Museum, Willoughby Rowardennan, 5 Warrawee Avenue, Warrawee - Kathie Rieth The Sugarbag Gang Ku-ring-gai Council Mace Mystery Man - speaker Gordon Station Pymble Post Office 1902 Robin S Dods (1868-1920) - Kathie Rieth Roseville Train Collision State Records Workshop "Managing your collection" at Gordon The Road Hill Murder of 1860 - speaker Noeline Kyle Bert Oldfield in Killara - Bob Gowing Lithgow's Small Arms factory turns 100 - speaker Tony Griffiths North Shore Family Butchery to ?? - speaker Geoff Hammond 1-Feb-15 Heading Built Heritage Awards General Meeting Local History Built Heritage Awards Year 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 Vol 30 30 30 30 30 30 No 1 1 1 1 2 2 Local History FH Meeting Built Heritage Publications Awards Awards General Meeting FH Meeting General Meeting Family History Biographies Monuments & Memorials Built Heritage Events/Activities FH Meeting General Meeting Local History Volunteers Biographies Built Heritage Local History Local History Local History 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 Valedictory Notices General Meeting FH Meeting Awards Local History Local History Built Heritage Local History Local History FH Meeting Local History Built Heritage Local History Local History General Meeting Biographies General Meeting FH Meeting 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 Page 31 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject Ravenswood's New Library Captain Thunderbolt and his lady - speaker Carol Baxter Darlinghurst Gaol - speaker Dick Whitaker George Arthur Roberts, architect for Dalcross, Stanhope Road, Killara Kathie Rieth Joyce Ryerson More on the Sugarbag Gang.... A Woman's War - speaker Dr Barbara Angell Arthur Wesley Wheen - speaker Tanya Crothers First-class railway carriages 1939 Gooyong, No 10 Clanville Road, Roseville - Kathie Rieth Last of the Pines: widening of Lane Cove Road 1929 Family Historian Historian of year 2013 - Beverly Robinson Freemasonry - Hall display Historian of the year - Allan Rost Killara Avenue 3, Killara - later Audley School for Girls Stories from Randwick - Pauline Curby Belmont' Pacific Highway 132, Roseville Bradfield Park was home - for 20 months - Michael Hogan Brooklyn to Marramarra Creek KHS Anniversary Competition Ku-ring-gai Heritage Award - Kathie Rieth Narrelle Avenue - spelling Nurses who served in WW1 People of Ku-ring-gai in WW1 Rainbow on the River - Ann Howard Tragic tenants of St Ives Wendy Ermert Gems of Ku-ring-gai - Jill Nicholson, Marie Rumsey Golden Girls reunion Gordon School/KHS 9Mar2013 Ku-ring-gai Court and the mysterious Mr Miller Seniors week awards - Lois McEvoy, Peter Bidencope Weekend excursion in the Shoalhaven Dudley Reynolds Judy Andrews KHS volunteers Private Cecil Thomas Barrack - one of our Ku-ring-gai ANZACS The life and times of Lord Sydney - Andrew Tink Tintern, 205 Pacific Highway, Lindfield Visit to Suakin Army Depot, Pymble WW1 Centenary Project Can you help solve our mystery? Fiddens Wharf Road, Killara Hassall Park - the mystery deepens The Japanese attack on Broome - David Rosenwax Wotton, Rev RA OAM 63 Duntroon Avenue, Roseville - An ANZAC house Australia's first successful strike - Ralph Hawkins Brick Walls at KHS and Family History The Reichenbach family 1-Feb-15 Heading Built Heritage General Meeting FH Meeting Built Heritage Year 2012 2012 2012 2012 Vol 30 30 30 30 No 8 9 9 9 Valedictory Notices Local History General Meeting General Meeting Local History Built Heritage Local History Awards Hall display Awards Built Heritage General Meeting Built Heritage General Meeting Tours/Walks History of KHS Awards Street Names War War General Meeting Local History Valedictory Notices Awards local History Built Heritage Awards Tours/Walks Valedictory Notices Valedictory Notices Volunteers War General Meeting Built Heritage Tours/Walks War War Built Heritage Parks General Meeting Valedictory Notices Built Heritage General Meeting Family History War 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 Page 32 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject World War 1 Veterans John Alexander Digby KHS Anniversary Competition - Winners Ku-ring-gai Spellings Shooting through on the Northside - Peter Kahn The Lane Cove Road - Richard Whitaker Turramurra Masonic Hall War Memorials to get makeover - Pymble Soldiers Memorial Park 50th Anniversary Dinner invitation Committee report 2013-14 Lindfield Soldiers' Memorial Park and Gates Major Blair Anderson Wark VC Preservation Group The Ones who got away - Murray Radcliffe Arnold Brown - Ku-ring-gai Heroes of WW1 Brick Walls - not the only feature of family history adventures Hazel Perdriau - 100th birthday Jill Ball - Rockstar Genealogist Killara Uniting Church - a War Memorial Building Lance Stanton-Cook - WW1 Michael MacCabe Professor Ian Waterhouse Three Men and the Wireless - Jo Harris 50th Anniversary display Annet Latham - Member Profile Major Archibald John Collins Roseville Golf Club Sidney Reichenbach Violence on the Northside - Richard Whitaker What's the History of this Gate? Who downed the Red Baron? Extract from Hansard 2013 - re KHS 50 years KHS carry bags KHS Display Board - KHS 50 years KHS History- the 1st 50 years KHS Seniors Week Program 2014 Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - Cecil Arthur Callaghan Our 50th birthday party, plus photos The Aussie-Greek Milk Bar Thoughts on the first 50 years - John Brown Wahroonga War Memorial Dr Greg de Moore - "Tom Wills: an Australian Story" Bradfield Portrait plaque Family History Course - May German Family History Research - Some fortunate coincidences Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - Sister Katherine Minnie Donaldson Old characters of the Hawkesbury One small step our of the village 1-Feb-15 Heading War War Events/Activities Local History General Meeting Street Names Built Heritage Monuments & Memorials History of KHS Committee report Parks War KHS group General Meeting War Family History Members Awards Built Heritage War Valedictory Notices Valedictory Notices General Meeting Hall display Biographies War Built Heritage Biographies General Meeting local History War History of KHS Publications History of KHS Publications Events/Activities War History of KHS General Meeting History of KHS Monuments & Memorials FH Meeting local History Events/Activities Family History War General Meeting General Meeting Year 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 Vol 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 No 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 8 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 Page 33 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject The Sphinx, North Turramurra Visit by dux of Gordon School Michael Flynn "Researching the people of the First and Second Fleets" Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - Sister Lydia Abell RRC Naming and shaming in Ku-ring-gai Recovery and Repatriation of Australian Prisoners of War from Japan: Operation Blacklist by JRE Brown Seniors Mayoral Awards - Elaine Turnidge Seniors Mayoral Awards - Evelyn Wyatt Soldiers' Memorial Hall at St Paul's Anglican Church, Wahroonga The Lord Bishop and the Count Allan and Joy Murrin - "Transcribing Births, Deaths and Marriages and research skills required". Air crash that changed a government KHS Volunteers Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - Raymond Newton Kershaw Ku-ring-gai Theatre Guild Story behind Sir Robert Menzies Bust Wahroonga Murders 30 years ago Building in Ku-ring-gai during WWI Patrick Dodd "Governor's Travels - touring the Colony with Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie" Australia and the Boer War Volunteer News Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - Maude Helene Garrett (1884-1960) Hillcrest Estate A once grand home "The Highlands" 7 Mona Vale Road Gordon Sheila Allan "A girl in Changi Prison" Rallying the Troops - A World War 1 Commemoration Volume 1 Touring Australia's History German Research SIG Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - Major General Sir Charles Rosenthal Borrisbrook/Minnamora: A demolished house 10-12 Fiddens Wharf Road Killara Exploration South of the Nepean River Paul Brunton "Joseph Banks" Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - The Carter Family of Wahroonga Derelict Mansion! - Rothiemay, 35 Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga New gallery marks 60 years of worship - Holy Name Parish, Wahroonga James Barnet - Sydney's Christopher Wren? Aubrey (Mac) Knowles "One hundred and eighty-eight years in the Colony of NSW New KHS Committee Rallying the Troops - A World War 1 Commemoration Volume 1 - launch report Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - Major Bertie Lowing MC and Bar KHS Committee Report 2013-2014 Vale Estelle Howell Memories of Gordon Public School Editors of KHS Newsletter 2009-2014 1-Feb-15 Heading Built Heritage Schools FH Meeting War Local History War Year 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 Vol 32 32 32 32 32 32 No 2 2 2 3 3 3 Awards Awards Built Heritage General Meeting FH Meeting 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 32 32 32 32 32 3 3 3 3 3 General Meeting Volunteers War Local History Local History Local History Built Heritage FH Meeting 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 General Meeting Volunteers War Built Heritage Built Heritage FH Meeting Publications General Meeting War Built Heritage 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 General Meeting FH Meeting War Built Heritage Churches General Meeting FH Meeting 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 History of KHS Publications 2014 2014 32 32 8 8 War History of KHS Valedictory Notices Schools History of KHS 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 32 32 32 32 32 8 8 8 8 8 Page 34 of 35 Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Newsletter Index to December 2014 Subject The English Lacemakers of Calais - you could be a descendant Fisk Monument Anniversary "Bungoona" 31 Warrangi Street, Turramurra "My First Fleet Ancestor was…." Three members from Arthur Phillip Chapter Social Media at KHS Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - Corporal William Ure Johnston (1877-1916) Dr Michael McKernan "Victoria at War" The Death of Mary Ann Deas - A Bushland Murder Beverly Dunstan: Ku-ring-gai Lions Club Community Award Peter Bidencope "Joseph Bidencope and his Descendants Dr Geoff Ford "Darinung Recognition" The Lindfield Tornado, 25th November 1914 Vale Hazel Perdriau Vale Harry Churchland Vale June Greenhalgh Vale Neroli Lock Profile - Graham Lewis, President Profile - Jenny Joyce. Vice President Profile - Jennifer Harvey, Immediate Past President Profile - Neil Falconer, Treasurer Profile - Morrison Hammond, Committee Profile - Margaret Holland - Committee Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - Captain Brian Colden Antill Pockley 100 Years On - Rabaul Commemorations in 2014 Roseville Cinema Richard Whitaker "Riches to Rags - Rags to Riches: A brief history of Surry Hills Dr Ian Hoskins "Our Coastal History" Ku-ring-gai Heroes of World War I - Richard Victor Morse 1-Feb-15 Heading Family History Monuments & Memorials Built Heritage FH Meeting Year 2014 2014 Vol 32 32 No 8 8 2014 2014 32 32 8 9 History of KHS War 2014 2014 32 32 9 9 General Meeting Local History Awards FH Meeting General Meeting Local History Valedictory Notices Valedictory Notices Valedictory Notices Valedictory Notices Biographies Biographies Biographies Biographies Biographies Biographies War War Built Heritage FH Meeting 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 General Meeting War 2014 2014 32 32 11 11 Page 35 of 35