NEWS FROM HISTORY COTTAGE
This is the time of the year to drive through “Our Gorge”. The clearer than normal air of a Winter morning and the mist filled gullies, make it a uplifting start to the day. The water fall and the MacDonald bridge are familiar to all but what of the other items we miss because the […]
NEWS FROM HISTORY COTTAGE
During his survey of the district in 1817, James Meehan made the comment that the forests of Dural were so thick that one could hear the men working long before they were seen and the trees would never be cleared. Unfortunately, for the areas on the good soil along the ridges and in the alluvial […]
DURAL & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC. – NEWS FROM HISTORY COTTAGE
In the light of the current directions for gatherings, the Historical Society must cancel its programme for the first half of 2020. Our proposed meetings for the 9th May and the 13th June and the two day tour for the 18/19th May will not take place, while the meeting for the 11th and the tour […]
RAMBLINGS FROM ROUGHLEY HOUSE
What a difference the February rains have made to Roughley House. The gardens have returned to their green lushness, it seems, almost overnight. At the beginning of the year, there wasn’t much green to be seen, but it returned for the first of our 2020 afternoons house tours at “Jazz at The Pines”. So far, […]
DURAL & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC. – NEWS FROM HISTORY COTTAGE
In past years many readers who have had a family member may have gone to great pains to deny what was then considered a “skeleton in the cupboard”, the stain of a convict ancestor, how times have changed. Better research facilities, and acceptance of the truth and a knowledge of society in late Georgian times, […]
WISEMANS FERRY MENS (& WOMENS) SHED ‘THE DON’T WORRY TOUR’ TO WINDSOR
On a steamy Wednesday morning in late February the intrepid travellers from the Wisemans Ferry Men (& Womens) Shed set off in the Community bus to explore the past in Windsor the third-oldest place of British settlement on the Australian continent. Settlement was first established circa 1791; this area was known as the ‘Green Hills’. […]
DURAL AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC – NEWS FROM HISTORY COTTAGE
The Society held its AGM at its October meeting. Committee vacancies were filled but there is space for others able to commit to a little more. The president’s report thanked members and the Community at large, for the support the Society had received over the year. Of special reference was the Society’s concern for the […]
NEWS FROM HISTORY COTTAGE
On the 8th September, during History Week, the Best Family descendants and friends, celebrated the 200th anniversary of Thomas Best arriving in what is now Middle Dural. The function was held in one of the beautifully restored family homes. It was an opportunity to think back on what survives of both the oral and built […]
Invite You To “Aboriginal Astronomy”
AN AFTERNOON WITH SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER ROBERT FULLER Please join us at the Chapel on Saturday September 28th where we are pleased to welcome Robert Fuller who is an anthropologist/archaeologist. He did a research Masters degree at Macquarie University in indigenous astronomy, and published an article on the cultural astronomy of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi […]
WAL BUCKINGHAM PARK
The park next to Glenorie Memorial Hall is called Wal Buckingham Park. With the passing of Ray Whiteman the Hall Committee thought, given the tireless work he did for the community, it would be fitting to name something in honour of his services. So we first looked at the park. Few of us knew who […]
