tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24136825565097138222024-03-13T17:40:19.984-07:00Camden History NotesSome stories of placecamden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-46714214271154566822023-11-03T02:16:00.002-07:002023-11-03T02:16:58.212-07:00<h1 style="text-align: center;">Mural and Wishing Well</h1><h2 style="text-align: center;">Corner Broughton Street and Menangle Road</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">Camden</h2><h3 style="text-align: center;">Lot 2, DP 530480</h3><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQYjVDTSh7yzf-WuTPnaCrrBMCOpR1IZxsgidNNxBGkRcyxuorCbRbLO4EB8AYfxeXbtU8lFp3AwgeiHSZEfEeG-_DDdfLYzbK9Zt_qu7FCCKiQyfndyJfBVt1HPEO_NgVqitpp_az0Z6rNAokv0c1uq9WQAaPfjei3_QsmxLqX3x9WdimLCXIhkEyvEc/s1008/Camden%20Pioneer%20Mural%202020%20IW%20lowres.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="1008" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQYjVDTSh7yzf-WuTPnaCrrBMCOpR1IZxsgidNNxBGkRcyxuorCbRbLO4EB8AYfxeXbtU8lFp3AwgeiHSZEfEeG-_DDdfLYzbK9Zt_qu7FCCKiQyfndyJfBVt1HPEO_NgVqitpp_az0Z6rNAokv0c1uq9WQAaPfjei3_QsmxLqX3x9WdimLCXIhkEyvEc/w640-h480/Camden%20Pioneer%20Mural%202020%20IW%20lowres.jpg" title="Camden Rotary Pioneer Mural and Wishing Well" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Camden Rotary Pioneer Mural and Wishing Well (I Willis 2020)</div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><br /></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">History and Description</h3><p class="MsoNormal">The mural and wishing well are located at the intersection
of Menangle Road and Broughton Streets adjacent to Camden District Hospital on
the Old Hume Highway. It was opened in 1962 and is also known as the Camden
Rotary Pioneer Mural. At the opening, the mural was called ‘The Story of Camden’.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The mural has three panels and is described as a ‘triptych’
constructed from glazed ceramic tiles (150mm square). The tiles were attached
to the wall of sandstone blocks supported by two side columns. The monument is
9.6 metres wide and 3 metres high, and around 500mm deep. There is a paved area
in front of the mural 3x12 metres, associated landscaping works and a wishing
well. (AMOL, 2001; Clowes, 1970)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Camden Rotary commissioned ceramic mural artist WA Byram
Mansell to undertake the mural. (Clowes, 2012)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://monumentaustralia.org.au/search/display/20662-camden-pioneer-mural-" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Monuments Australia</span></a> describes the
mural this way</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>There is a decorative border of blue and yellow tiles
creating a grape vine pattern. The border helps define the triptych. The three
panels depict the early history of Camden. The large central panel shows a
rural setting with sheep and a gum tree in the top section. Below is a sailing
ship with the southern cross marked on the sky above. Beside is a cart wheel
and a wheat farm. There are three crests included on this panel, the centre is
the Camden coat of arms bearing the date 1795, on the proper right is a crest
with a ram’s head and the date 1797, and on the proper left is a crest with a
bunch of grapes and the date 1805. The proper right panel of the triptych, in
the top section depicts an Aboriginal hunting scene. Below this is an image
miner’s and sheafs of wheat. The proper left panel depicts an ornate crest in
the in the top section with various rural industries shown below. </i>(AMOL,
2001)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The memorial wall is made of sandstone
blocks salvaged from the demolition of St Paulinas’s Catholic Church at Central
Burragorang in the Burragorang Valley. The total weight is 150 tons. The
demolition of the church was part of the clearing of the Burragorang Valley due
to the construction of Warragamba Dam. (The District Reporter, 5 March 2004)<o:p></o:p></p><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">Condition and Use</h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The memorial wall, wishing well
and mural are in good condition.<o:p></o:p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"> Heritage Significance</h3><p class="MsoNormal">The mural and wishing well are a memorial to lost cultural
heritage and memory of the Burragorang Valley. The mural is a representation of
modernism and a 1960s interpretation of the settler story of the Camden district.<o:p></o:p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Heritage Listing</h3><p class="MsoNormal">Local Environment Plan
Item 145<o:p></o:p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Read more</h3><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.com/2020/12/01/camden-pioneer-mural-and-memorial-wall/"><span style="color: #fcff01;"> Camden Rotary Pioneer Mural: public art, a
mural and memorial wall</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.comBroughton St & Menangle Rd, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0644592 150.6931669-62.374693036178847 115.5369169 -5.7542253638211562 -174.1505831tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-73078522990195412122023-03-13T17:48:00.005-07:002023-03-14T18:16:22.785-07:00Agricultural Hall, Camden, NSW<h1 style="text-align: center;">Camden Agricultural Hall </h1><h3 style="text-align: center;">(former Drill Hall)</h3><div style="text-align: center;">191 Argyle Street</div><div style="text-align: center;">Camden</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Lot 2, DP 922667</div><div style="text-align: center;">-34.054018305845325, 150.69303418365882</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEsTc1AYpQXGnU8IqUPOyd2XvwSatA2q19Iwmr5xdHwI9vMsK6kmSB8-qqXowyKlcpjQLD35rFFbuViHFRCr9-1sSU-p5YWN6GX4z2iMuqWMwZj2wXSfeqnV3FE0BQRMHp_qCMNt0_0SoE34g2E6IoEdywvMowhBbbfY_8rhFSMpuQgvMK_jGI_fyu/s600/Camden%20Show%20Hall%20front%202023%20CC.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEsTc1AYpQXGnU8IqUPOyd2XvwSatA2q19Iwmr5xdHwI9vMsK6kmSB8-qqXowyKlcpjQLD35rFFbuViHFRCr9-1sSU-p5YWN6GX4z2iMuqWMwZj2wXSfeqnV3FE0BQRMHp_qCMNt0_0SoE34g2E6IoEdywvMowhBbbfY_8rhFSMpuQgvMK_jGI_fyu/w640-h426/Camden%20Show%20Hall%20front%202023%20CC.tif" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Camden Agricultural Hall frontage on Argyle Street (Camden Council, 2023)<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="text-align: center;">History and Description </h2><br />The hall was built in 1894 by George Furner, 125 ft by 50 ft built under the direction of Major AJ Onslow Thompson for Captain Onslow and cost £1000, as a drill hall for the Camden Mounted Rifles (HNSW; Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 2 March 1895) <br /><br />The hall was used for a variety of community events over from its inception, including the annual show. The Mounted Rifles held their annual AH&I banquet (Daily Telegraph, 28 November 1896), Camden Town Band social (Camden News, 2 January 1896), community farewell to the manager of the Camden Refrigeration Works (Freemans Journal, 1 October 1898), fundraising social for St Paul’s Roman Catholic Church (Camden News, 3 August 1899), farewell for Camden Mounted Rifles headed to the Queen's Jubilee in England (SMH, 13 February 1897) and the annual show (Evening News, 22 March 1900). <br /><br />The drill hall changed its name to the agricultural hall in 1910 when it was sold to the AH&I committee for £500 (CN, 7 July 1910) and was let for roller skating (CN, 14 July 1910). <br /><br /><a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.com/2019/10/02/aaron-bolot-and-camden/">Sydney architect Adrian Bolot</a> designed new brick extensions to the front of the 1890s drill hall for £400 (CN, 19 March 1936). This was part of general improvements to Onslow Park in preparation for the 1936 jubilee show, including the construction of a new grandstand (CN, 15 August 1935) <br /><br />The agricultural hall is still the focus of the district's rural activities, with the annual show held in autumn each year and a range of community events. <br /><br />Heritage NSW describes the hall’s construction this way: <br /><br /><blockquote>The nucleus of this hall was built with timber cantilevered trusses in the roof. The exceptionally long spans of the roof joists are of particular interest. The more recent front is of brick and tile construction. The building has a corrugated iron gabled hip roof and has sixteen pane double hung windows the bottom sash of which is textured glass. The early part of the building is constructed of timber on a brick base. (HNSW) </blockquote><h2 style="text-align: center;">Condition and Use </h2><div><br /></div>The hall retains good integrity and intactness. (HNSW)<div> <br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Significance </h2><br /> An important part of town life since 1894 and continues to be the focus of the district's agricultural activities. (HNSW) <br /><br />The agricultural hall is part of rural place-making in Camden and contributes to the community’s sense of self and identity. <br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Listing </h2><br />Local Environment Plan 2010 LEP Item 116 <br /><br />NSW State Heritage Inventory 1280010 <br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Read more </h2><br /> <a href="https://www.camden.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/visit-camden/place/camden-heritage-walking-tour"><span style="color: #01ffff;">Camden Heritage Walk Tour</span></a><br /><br /><br /></div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com191 Argyle St, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0551814 150.6933645-62.365415236178848 115.5371145 -5.7449475638211567 -174.15038549999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-56290051399699194262023-03-06T17:08:00.000-08:002023-03-06T17:08:01.475-08:00Harrington Park Homestead<h1 style="text-align: center;">Harrington Park</h1><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1 Hickson Circuit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Harrington Park</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lot 2001, DP 1035209</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-34.024166, 150.742464</span></div><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDS0Y_7h9zkotuCrYawYmNW95mk2bMJsZQ1O2GIoqkQwegsrIBLVFiT_I2-fBmulG2LHO1xQC3JBd2oHI3uY8dv8KKNoknKpSllv0Vx0AatLCxEM5vOdEAYqpaB4ydPRoaEntTmeVx46OX1C5mkkgPaA1uJMZaSYcuFfysrL2oAYRgEp2EAF6fkemr/s797/Harrington%20Park%20Homestead2%202023%20HG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="797" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDS0Y_7h9zkotuCrYawYmNW95mk2bMJsZQ1O2GIoqkQwegsrIBLVFiT_I2-fBmulG2LHO1xQC3JBd2oHI3uY8dv8KKNoknKpSllv0Vx0AatLCxEM5vOdEAYqpaB4ydPRoaEntTmeVx46OX1C5mkkgPaA1uJMZaSYcuFfysrL2oAYRgEp2EAF6fkemr/w640-h325/Harrington%20Park%20Homestead2%202023%20HG.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harrington Park Homestead (HG, 2023)<br /><br /><div><h2><span style="font-size: medium;">History and Description</span></h2>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1815 Governor Macquarie granted 2,000 acres in the Macarthur region to Scottish Sea Captain William Douglas Campbell. He named his land parcel Harrington Park after his brig, the Snow Harrington, was stolen by convicts in 1809. (Gover 2019)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">William Campbell built the original two-room cottage at Harrington Park in 1817, which had a stone floor and was made of clay brick. (Gover 2019)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1823 Campbell enlarged the homestead into a two-storey single-pile brick home in Georgian architectural style facing north. (Gover 2019)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During the early 1820s, Campbell built the central, two-storey part of the existing home. It was connected to the original building by a verandah. Still facing north (Everett, 2013).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">W.D. Campbell never saw the homestead fully completed, dying in 1827 aged 57. He left the estate to his nephews Murdoch and John Campbell. It included a basement and servants' quarters, later used as a cellar. (Gover 2019)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There were several ownership changes, and by 1875 William Rudd, a grazier from the Murrumbidgee area, bought the property. (Gover 2019)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By the mid-1930s, owners Arthur and Elaine made some extensions. A sunroom was constructed to the rear of the house by infilling part of the verandah, and the rear verandah to the homestead was likely removed during this time. (Everett 2013)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1944 Harrington Park was sold to John Fairfax & Sons Pty Ltd and then transferred to Warwick Oswald Fairfax in 1956. Many improvements and construction works were carried out throughout the estate, including the study in the garden built in 1957. (Everett 2013)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There was extensive restoration work between 2010 and 2013. (Gover 2019)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><h2><span style="font-size: medium;">Condition and Use</span></h2><h2><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The privately owned house is in good condition (HNSW).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<h2><span style="font-size: medium;">Heritage Significance</span></h2>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Harrington Park is of State significance as one of the earliest 'Cow Pasture' homesteads on the Cumberland Plain. (HNSW)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Harrington Park demonstrates the layout of a gentleman's estate with views and vistas afforded to and from the homestead over the landscape and important access routes. (HNSW)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Historically the quintessential landscape character - based on the traditional juxtaposition of homestead area, with its dominant garden and cleared pastureland beyond - represented one of the best examples of this intentional contrast and the siting of a homestead group on a landform summit in the Cumberland Plain and Camden area. (HNSW)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><h2><span style="font-size: medium;">Heritage Listing</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Local Environment Plan 2010 LEP Item I119</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">NSW State Heritage Inventory State Significant 5052629</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Read more</h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Heritage NSW 2022, <i>Harrington
Park</i>, <i>State Heritage Inventory</i>. Heritage NSW, NSW Government,
Sydney. Online at <a href="https://www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au/App/Item/ViewItem?itemId=5052629">https://www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au/App/Item/ViewItem?itemId=5052629</a>.
Viewed 6 March 2023.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">David Everett 2013, ‘Harrington Park House 1817-2012’. <i>In
Macarthur Magazine Your Home Annual</i>, pp.10-19. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Sheree Gover 2019, <i>Harrington Park Homestead</i>.
Harrington Estates, Harrington Park.<o:p></o:p></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com01 Hickson Cct, Harrington Park NSW 2567, Australia-34.0278472 150.7410908-62.338081036178842 115.5848408 -5.717613363821151 -174.1026592tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-12147740458716117752023-02-15T20:05:00.003-08:002023-02-16T18:28:10.516-08:00The Plough and Harrow Hotel<p> </p><h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">Plough and Harrow Hotel<o:p></o:p></h1>
<div style="text-align: center;">75-79 Argyle Street</div><div style="text-align: center;">Camden</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lot 18, DP 228845</div><div style="text-align: center;">-34.053887621960875, 150.69690788103918</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZFOEQtNEsBvJqgbk6iCsx2yQ_V-60FJeX1vul3YmgUIcl7dJ3A_Ag7YEtSXl10umBmk9rG7Dm3GEkzki-EzTXYHS1r9AVO7g4IgQqMII6Xz7_XoK33ilq5EIUlr6BxuNiIZk8KdIFToCvwyAfapI1krxbwRqyiILXWT0Cb2GCuuGRnL-v_vm6Vpd/s760/Plough%20&%20Harrow%20Hotel%20c1915%20CIPP.tif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="760" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZFOEQtNEsBvJqgbk6iCsx2yQ_V-60FJeX1vul3YmgUIcl7dJ3A_Ag7YEtSXl10umBmk9rG7Dm3GEkzki-EzTXYHS1r9AVO7g4IgQqMII6Xz7_XoK33ilq5EIUlr6BxuNiIZk8KdIFToCvwyAfapI1krxbwRqyiILXWT0Cb2GCuuGRnL-v_vm6Vpd/w640-h478/Plough%20&%20Harrow%20Hotel%20c1915%20CIPP.tif" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This image of the Plough and Harrow Hotel dates from the 1910s. The sign outside the hotel reads 'Camden Jockey Club - Tattersalls'. (Camden Images)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;">History and Description </h2>The Plough and Harrow Hotel was built in the early 1850s as a single-storey inn and is still located at its original site. (Mylrea 2011)<div><br />The original building was a single-storey inn built for Samuel Arnold. Arnold was a member of an immigrant group from the Isle of Wight with fourteen others in 1836 and was nominated by the Macarthurs to work at Camden Park. He established a wheelwright’s business in 1841 on the corner of Argyle and Hill Streets and later built the Plough & Harrow opposite. Arnold leased the inn to Thomas Brennan. (HNSW) <br /><br />The second storey of the building was built in 1885. (HNSW) <br /><br />The weekly cattle and horse sales were held at the rear of the inn for many years. Access for the sale yard was from Mitchell Street. (HNSW) <br /><br />The hotel is substantially altered from the early ashlar building. It now has a tiled gable roof with timber gable screens, brick chimneys, new windows, and doors though the old columns are in place along the ground floor verandah. (HNSW) <br /><br />The windows to the hotel's ground floor are two-pane double-hung, and there are timber shutters to the French doors on the first floor. The entrance door is timber and glass panelled, and the ground floor verandah and steps are tiled. (HNSW) <br /><br />The hotel was briefly known as The Argyle Inn (1996-2012), and since then, the pub has been restored to its original name as a homage to our historical significance. (PHH) <br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Condition and Use </h2>The Plough & Harrow Hotel (the former Argyle Inn) retains good integrity and is intact. (HNSW) <br /><br />The privately owned hotel is in good condition. (HNSW) <br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Significance </h2>The hotel is a relic of early Camden in a main street dominated by modern shop fronts. (HNSW) <br /><br />The hotel is an early building in the Camden townscape within the Camden Town Centre Conservation Area. (NSWSHI) <br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Listing </h2>Local Environment Plan 2010 LEP Item 18 <br /><br />NSW State Heritage Inventory 1280003 <br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Read more </h2><br /> <a href="https://www.camden.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/visit-camden/place/camden-heritage-walking-tour"><span style="color: #01ffff;">Camden Heritage Walk Tour</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Peter Mylrea 2011, 'Macarthurs' Village of Camden'. Camden History, Vol 3, No 1, March, pp.23-35</div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com75-79 Argyle St, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0537213 150.6967878-62.363955136178845 115.54053780000001 -5.7434874638211539 -174.14696219999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-5214627266670625862023-02-13T18:48:00.001-08:002023-02-13T19:27:57.765-08:00Hilsyde (formerly Pammenter)<h1 style="text-align: center;">Hilsyde (formerly Pammenter)</h1><div style="text-align: center;">56 Hilder Street</div><div style="text-align: center;">Elderslie</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lot 1, DP 1142209</div><div style="text-align: center;">-34.0544292582955, 150.71610061342875</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmYcak2CGhH1U2HyMMBS6TSC7k4CfCKzElbI9ttpd3m-c2k8kFsVj4_USYn2ek1jay-qWmX4lSF5m4_-8CpLGM0RWj0ev84zPAB31TC-8lSqFD57UnUVPhsmistGC9YjTF48YUE3L3qxvZmLeFxqiU0MqU5G1w0XAXwxi_vUA7uEYulByaR84oCsW/s562/WC%20Furner%20&%20Wife%20Pammenter%20Elderslie%20c1890s%20CIPP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="562" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmYcak2CGhH1U2HyMMBS6TSC7k4CfCKzElbI9ttpd3m-c2k8kFsVj4_USYn2ek1jay-qWmX4lSF5m4_-8CpLGM0RWj0ev84zPAB31TC-8lSqFD57UnUVPhsmistGC9YjTF48YUE3L3qxvZmLeFxqiU0MqU5G1w0XAXwxi_vUA7uEYulByaR84oCsW/w640-h456/WC%20Furner%20&%20Wife%20Pammenter%20Elderslie%20c1890s%20CIPP.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WC Furner and his wife Eliza in their sulky in the front driveway of their home Pammenter (later Hylside) c.1890s. Pammenter was a substantial family home at 56 Hilder Street, Elderslie, built-in 1888. (Camden Images)</td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="text-align: center;"><br />History and Description </h2><div>The house known as Hilsyde (formerly Pammenter) was built in 1888 by Camden builder WC Furner for his family. The property was known as Pammenter at least until the early 1920s. (Wrigley 1983; Camden News, 21 December 1922 ) <br /><br />The main dwelling is a Victorian single-storey brick residence. It has a galvanised iron roof, a bull-nosed verandah, and cast iron columns and brackets. The cottage has rendered brick bay windows on the north façade, brick chimneys and a glass and timber entrance door with side and highlight windows. (BCS 2006) <br /><br />There is a formal entrance to the property from Hilder Street with ‘an impressive view looking up the driveway to the house’. (BCS 2006) <br /><br />The house is at the top of a slight rise and set back some distance from Hilder Street. The property is entered from a driveway which circles at the front centre of the house, is lined with vegetation, and continues around the north side of the house. (BCS 2006) <br /><br />Between 1978 and 2003, the property was conducted as Hilsyde Lodge, a retreat for Christian women workers of The Anglican Deaconess Institution Sydney Ltd. (Mac Chronicle, 19 October 2010)<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Condition and Use </h2>Hilsyde is a privately owned house and retains good integrity and intactness. (HNSW) <br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Significance </h2>The house is a representative example of a Victorian-style cottage. (HNSW) <br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Listing </h2>Local Environment Plan 2010 LEP Item 1108 <br />NSW State Heritage Inventory 1280087 <br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Read more </h2>John Wrigley, 1983, Historic Buildings of Camden. Camden Historical Society, Camden. <br />BCS 2006, Hilsyde, 56 Hilder Street, Elderslie, Heritage Curtilage Study. DBL Property, Sydney.</div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com56 Hilder St, Elderslie NSW 2570, Australia-34.0544915 150.7160577-62.364725336178843 115.5598077 -5.744257663821152 -174.12769230000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-45866030781819923612023-02-07T18:50:00.001-08:002023-02-07T18:50:48.151-08:00Forresters’ Hall (Former)<h2 style="text-align: center;">Forresters’ Hall (Former)</h2><div style="text-align: center;">147 Argyle Street</div><div style="text-align: center;">Camden</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lot 1, DP 716784</div><div style="text-align: center;">-34.05467592844007, 150.69469581297724</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIusg8RNKN99AJekp2i9ibSFtN5TopYyX2gpxhK3SHmwbxVOQW_FfzDGRmUkdruYLKgkdsa7MQCOEob_uWBr30y1PZqxQ9e0NjgemkY9aeYyUszwAPyHI9y0IP-sr3MMIPttQA1FR4V01s5p5K3LOLdvBMyz9vy79tDgjdx5UYG-UxKKFEsRIo6ff/s760/Forresters%20Hall%20Argyle%20Street%20Camden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="760" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIusg8RNKN99AJekp2i9ibSFtN5TopYyX2gpxhK3SHmwbxVOQW_FfzDGRmUkdruYLKgkdsa7MQCOEob_uWBr30y1PZqxQ9e0NjgemkY9aeYyUszwAPyHI9y0IP-sr3MMIPttQA1FR4V01s5p5K3LOLdvBMyz9vy79tDgjdx5UYG-UxKKFEsRIo6ff/w640-h478/Forresters%20Hall%20Argyle%20Street%20Camden.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Former Forresters' Hall at 147 Argyle Street Camden c1920 (Camden Images)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">History and Description</h3>Two-storey adapted Federation brick building (of Federation style origins) with parapet roof. Suspended awning. Double-hung windows with timber shutters. The ground floor shop front has large fixed windows with tiled surround and glass doors. <br /><br />Modifications to the street-facing facade may have occurred during the building's conversion to a theatre after WW1. In 1936 Camden Municipal Council ordered the removal of the verandah posts.<br /><br />Initially built by the Lodge of Ancient Order of Royal Forresters as a hall for lodge meetings, with retail premises on Argyle Street. The building was occupied by the Empire Picture Theatre (1914-1933) and Empire Sports Club billiard saloon on the upper level (1930s-1940s). <br /><br />During WW2, soldier support services ran the ACF-YMCA Hospitality Centre in the building (1944-1946). During the post-war years, the Fostars Shoe factory occupied the auditorium as part of post-war reconstruction (1947-1958). In the following years, commercial premises occupied the building, the Downes general story (1960-1985), Southern Radio and Piano Agency known as Southern Radio (then Retravision in 2002) electrical store and radio repair shop (1985-2007) and most recently as 'Treasures on Argyle' charity shop (2008-present)<div><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Condition and Use</h3>The building is in good condition. (HNSW) <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Significance</h3>The building maintains a unique historical and high aesthetic contribution to Camden township <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Listing</h3>Local Environment Plan 2010 LEP I14 <br />NSW State Heritage Inventory 1280145 <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Read more</h3><a href="https://www.camden.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/visit-camden/place/camden-heritage-walking-tour"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Camden Heritage Walk Tour</span></a> </div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com147 Argyle St, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0546226 150.694728-62.364856436178847 115.538478 -5.7443887638211564 -174.149022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-85646697240343565312023-02-03T18:45:00.001-08:002023-02-04T17:02:12.518-08:00Bank of New South Wales (Westpac)<h1 style="text-align: center;">Bank of New South Wales (Westpac)</h1><div style="text-align: center;">121 Argyle Street</div><div style="text-align: center;">Camden</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lot 1, DP 215368</div><div style="text-align: center;">-34.05426277728778, 150.69582848633004</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyljTDcDDHHsuFMo4u6FxROy7sSsJpqW-G53komtE-xDmwWStsfQeVyiustVIqlilPIjxKbBxltMngn3Jl7-TmD99ytKkPahl3rbK2yZXrI33BZaUqGjF2OCIWJUcHPssHmsjtjKkcfDTWIkszk7GqgDbZXkx8jjcZ-yhpJwONOIXbplq0oR4tzvld/s615/Camden%20Westpac%20Building%202019%20Collage%20IWillis%20lowres.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="615" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyljTDcDDHHsuFMo4u6FxROy7sSsJpqW-G53komtE-xDmwWStsfQeVyiustVIqlilPIjxKbBxltMngn3Jl7-TmD99ytKkPahl3rbK2yZXrI33BZaUqGjF2OCIWJUcHPssHmsjtjKkcfDTWIkszk7GqgDbZXkx8jjcZ-yhpJwONOIXbplq0oR4tzvld/w640-h640/Camden%20Westpac%20Building%202019%20Collage%20IWillis%20lowres.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">History and Description </h3><br />The current two-storey building was built in 1936 and replaced the former Crofts hotel (Woolpack Inn) that was used as a banking chamber from 1873. (Willis, 2015) <br /><br />This interwar two-story banking chamber was built in 1936 by Camden builder Harry Willis & Sons. The building has a residence upstairs and a banking chamber downstairs. (Willis 2015) <br /><br />Designed by Sydney architects Peddle, Thorp & Walker, influenced by American design in the 1920s. This renowned firm was established in Sydney in 1889 and designed Science House, cnr Gloucester and Essex Sts, Sydney, which won the inaugural Sir John Sulman Medal in 1932. (PTW) <br /><br />In 1936 the Sydney Morning Herald stated the building had a ‘commodious banking chamber and offices for the staff’. ‘Textured brick’ was used for ‘facing’ throughout the building ‘relieved by lighter coloured treatment of the external woodwork. The bank entrance at the splayed angle at the intersection of the two streets will be treated with specially brick architraves and pediment surmounted by a synthetic sandstone ornamental shield.’ The interior was treated with polished maple woodwork throughout. ‘The Georgian character design will be a colourful and artistic addition to the architecture of this historic town’. (SMH, 14 Jult 1936) <br /><br />The NSW Heritage Inventory states: ‘The 1936 two-storey glazed and rough brick building with double hung windows and tiled roof. Its detailing includes quoining and multipaned windows, typical characteristics of the Georgian Revival style.’ (HNSW) <br /><br />Westpac closed the Camden branch in 2020, and the building remains vacant. <br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Condition and Use </h3><br />The building is in good condition, although currently vacant. <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Significance </h3><br />This elegant 1930s two-storey Georgian Revival brick building is located and designed to address its prominence on the corner of John and Argyle Streets. It contributes to Camden township's substantial eclectic fabric and overall cultural significance. (HNSW) <br /><br />A building from the interwar period in the Camden townscape within the Camden Town Centre Conservation Area. The building retains its historic integrity and is intact. <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Listing </h3><br />Local Environment Plan 2010 LEP Item I-11 <br /><br />NSW State Heritage Inventory 1280149<div> <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Read more </h3><br /> <a href="https://www.camden.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/visit-camden/place/camden-heritage-walking-tour"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Camden Heritage Walking Tour</span></a> <br /><br />Ian Willis, 2015, <i><a href="http://www.kingsclearbooks.com.au/camden.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Pictorial History Camden & District</span>.</a></i> Kingsclear Books, Sydney. <br /><br />Ian Willis, 2009, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/6791480/Camden_The_Interwar_Heritage_of_a_Country_Town" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fcff01;">The Interwar Heritage of a Country Town</span></a><i>,</i> <i>Spirit of Progress</i>, Vol 10, No 3.</div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com121 Argyle St, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0541677 150.6957937-62.364401536178846 115.5395437 -5.7439338638211552 -174.14795630000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-10086631337793964952023-02-01T23:17:00.001-08:002023-02-01T23:17:48.933-08:00Belgenny Farm Complex Camden<h2 style="text-align: center;">Belgenny Farm Complex</h2><div style="text-align: center;">100 Elizabeth Macarthur Avenue</div><div style="text-align: center;">Camden</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lot 11, DP 658458</div><div style="text-align: center;">-34.08322199382272, 150.7040696146956</div><div><br /></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOLidjJZDpCErNd1qxS6wdfPYu7w6pXfECvLMMFakYQ9e33IsGLCj39eiZEylW8uFrHS_OWQWJygf8knQ28GAnZhJOBHMO3LWfaub6u9W7fJ6mE5PSFt1XMT0zE_Jvkki-KPTAhlBqVJ5yP25S1DM2TWSwMYPIIQ8Bw9hEL8x1aJTnBD8lhRSJSpDJ/s1600/Belgenny%20Cottage%20c1821%20HKitchen%20BF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="1600" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOLidjJZDpCErNd1qxS6wdfPYu7w6pXfECvLMMFakYQ9e33IsGLCj39eiZEylW8uFrHS_OWQWJygf8knQ28GAnZhJOBHMO3LWfaub6u9W7fJ6mE5PSFt1XMT0zE_Jvkki-KPTAhlBqVJ5yP25S1DM2TWSwMYPIIQ8Bw9hEL8x1aJTnBD8lhRSJSpDJ/w640-h494/Belgenny%20Cottage%20c1821%20HKitchen%20BF.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The main courtyard with bell tower and Belgenny cottage in the rear of the image attributed to Henry Kitchen c1821 (BF)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJLxe3zq4R8Ln9e9VToyUkdOVKnumBxnWGpG8u1u_GlqBcKf0z83gVTZ_LN3h9IST0em2XhGHGcMPtbY7xXr9Dun0uAGMSpOtIPWvgbVoCcTDjK3RxdVCMFlm1VD75ZWRQuOsSBwEUf5SowsVJUWSlEvHrxi6Ed5EN1ixPZqkDsvPzF_wHcTT2EPq/s964/Camden%20Belgenny%20Farm%202017%20Map%20lowres.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="964" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJLxe3zq4R8Ln9e9VToyUkdOVKnumBxnWGpG8u1u_GlqBcKf0z83gVTZ_LN3h9IST0em2XhGHGcMPtbY7xXr9Dun0uAGMSpOtIPWvgbVoCcTDjK3RxdVCMFlm1VD75ZWRQuOsSBwEUf5SowsVJUWSlEvHrxi6Ed5EN1ixPZqkDsvPzF_wHcTT2EPq/w640-h453/Camden%20Belgenny%20Farm%202017%20Map%20lowres.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sketch map used for Father's Day Open Day 2017 (BF)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;">History and Description </h3><br />Belgenny Farm is thought to be the oldest surviving group of farm buildings in Australia, dating back to the 1820s. <br /><br />The main Belgenny cottage was built in several stages, with the earliest part attributed to architect Henry Kitchen in 1821. <br /><br />The stables complex was built in 1820, originally two separate buildings and combined in 1826 to form one long continuous structure. They are timber framed and clad with iron bark weatherboards. Fasteners are wooden pegs and handmade nails. <br /><br />The coach house was built in the 1820s and in the 1890s, converted to a creamery and had that use from 1900 to 1928. <br /><br />The smokehouse was built between the 1830s and 1840s. <br /><br />The granary was built after 1890, with the upper level used for dry storage of grain, the lower level for storage of machinery. <br /><br />The carpenter's shop was built around the 1890s by Herb English. <br /><br />The engine room was constructed around 1900 and used steam, diesel and petrol to drive chaff cutters and other farm equipment. <br /><br />The community hall was built in 1937 for the estate workers. <br /><br />The blacksmith’s shop was built in 1937. (Belgenny Farm website) <br /><h3 style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;">Condition and Use</h3><br />Some modifications and conservation of buildings have been undertaken. The integrity the Belgenny Farm complex has remained intact. The site is currently used for educational purposes by schools and for events and functions. <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Significance </h3><br /> Belgenny Farm has historical, aesthetic, social, technical and research significance at local, state and national levels as the oldest group of farm buildings in Australia, with close associations with the Macarthurs, a family instrumental and influential in the development of this country's agricultural, pastoral, horticultural and viticultural industries. It is both representative of the evolution of many rural industrial technologies and a rare example of a place which has few intact survivors. (HNSW) <br /><br />Aesthetically, Belgenny Farm demonstrates the beauty of vernacular timber buildings in a setting of bucolic charm and with the added significance of the Macarthur family cemetery with its monuments, symbolic plantings and important vistas. (HNSW) <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Listing </h3><br />Local Environment Plan 2010 LEP Item I-79 <br /><br />NSW State Heritage Inventory ID 3040029 <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Read more </h3><br />Belgenny Farm, Camden. <a href="https://www.belgennyfarm.com.au/"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Click here</span></a><br /><br /><br />camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com100 Elizabeth St, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0531238 150.6977151-62.363357636178847 115.54146510000001 -5.7428899638211561 -174.14603490000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-83269024195884440602023-01-30T23:28:00.027-08:002023-01-31T01:28:13.665-08:00Nant Gwylan Edwardian Cottage and Garden<h2 style="text-align: center;">Nant Gwylan<br />Cottage and Garden</h2><div style="text-align: center;">33A Exeter Street</div><div style="text-align: center;">Camden</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lots 15 and 16, DP193308</div><div style="text-align: center;">-34.06821268457085, 150.7157508170685</div><div style="text-align: left;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvJgHRrdZ7u4opJpXbD0IWhXGtaKfEOELqI03n41sj3kJdNAU3neG97peUnghiu_c2WEl4pg8vmG422bGb7rfXE0EGlD78W66MjX9yv8ra5gg8hb72bOVQXsWx2_k48rnznkobl2YuDW6eOKL3iCtiApM0XAi7JuLf654NQGoxTaWgnwQR8M5rBWK/s583/Nant%20Gwylan%20Cottage%20Exeter%20Street%201920s%20CIIP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="583" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvJgHRrdZ7u4opJpXbD0IWhXGtaKfEOELqI03n41sj3kJdNAU3neG97peUnghiu_c2WEl4pg8vmG422bGb7rfXE0EGlD78W66MjX9yv8ra5gg8hb72bOVQXsWx2_k48rnznkobl2YuDW6eOKL3iCtiApM0XAi7JuLf654NQGoxTaWgnwQR8M5rBWK/s16000/Nant%20Gwylan%20Cottage%20Exeter%20Street%201920s%20CIIP.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nant Gwylan Edwardian farmhouse and garden c1920s (Camden Images)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><br /></h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmEAyVRdyBrC90jFeBpNAyJ_xCoasIEkrsACfmufQ2mZFBJNRQMW5_KYe92X47WrklNMAiSBxhChrsGgFJtjBQbcCMjJ_1YTGzzhU9gEY7tioPY21WJBkFRXzZcPlz81_4Oawm7pYGPI08JGPCovnlWzQQwOQlPJQvb7gkJ2QILxwoRajnyPPxnr7/s3024/Nant%20Gwylan%2033%20Exeter%20St%20Camden%202023%20IW%20lowres.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmEAyVRdyBrC90jFeBpNAyJ_xCoasIEkrsACfmufQ2mZFBJNRQMW5_KYe92X47WrklNMAiSBxhChrsGgFJtjBQbcCMjJ_1YTGzzhU9gEY7tioPY21WJBkFRXzZcPlz81_4Oawm7pYGPI08JGPCovnlWzQQwOQlPJQvb7gkJ2QILxwoRajnyPPxnr7/w520-h520/Nant%20Gwylan%2033%20Exeter%20St%20Camden%202023%20IW%20lowres.JPG" title="Nant Gwylan 33 Exeter Street Camden front fence (2023 IWillis)" width="520" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nant Gwylan 33 Exeter Street Camden front fence in 2023 (I Willis)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">History and Description</h3><div><br /></div>Nant Gwylan, built in 1903 by John Peat, a Camden bricklayer of note, is an entire four-room Edwardian house and outbuilding set in a cottage garden of the same period. The house was extended in 1950 and included a bedroom and an enclosed veranda. (McSwan, Vincent & Vlack, 1985) <br /><br />Occupied for more than 90 years by the Davies family, the garden has been mostly the same from its inception until recent times. The house has organically evolved with pavilion additions and enclosed verandas. (HNSW; ) <br /><br />A brick federation-style house with extensive gardens of the period. Both the house and the garden are in their original form. The property has remained in the ownership of one family for most of this century (LEP, 2010). <br /><br />The garden was laid out in 1911 by Mr Davies, father of Llewella Davies, while some trees pre-date this period. The paving between the planting beds is sand stock bricks from a nearby demolished cottage. By 1985 the garden was described as having an ‘informal character’ with ‘tropical’ elements with its dense canopy, ferns and exotics. (McSwan, Vincent & Vlack, 1985) <br /><br />The garden has been little altered from its inception until recent times, while the house has organically evolved with pavilion additions and enclosed verandas. (Clive Lucas, Stapleton & Partners, 2004) <br /><br />Nant Gwylan maintains a visual relationship with the farmland lying opposite, which was associated with the Davies family from 1908 to 2000, and was donated to the town through the will of Miss Davies (Clive Lucas, Stapleton & Partners, 2004) <br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Condition and Use </h3><div><br /></div>The privately owned house is in good condition. <br />The garden is in moderate condition. (HNSW) <br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Significance </h3><div><br /></div>Nant Gwylan is a significant early twentieth-century Edwardian-style cottage and garden. The garden has retained much of its integrity. <br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Listing </h3><div><br /></div>Local Environment Plan 2010 LEP Item I-25 <br />Heritage Act - State Heritage Register 00243 <br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Read more </h3><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.camden.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/visit-camden/place/camden-heritage-walking-tour"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Camden Heritage Walk Tour</span></a> <br />Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners, 2004, Conservation Management Plan, Nant Gwylan 33a Exeter Street, Camden <br />Karen McSwan, Lynda Vincent & Roxanna Vlack, 1985, Report on Nant Gwylan, Camden.camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com33 Exeter St, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0508037 150.6952028-62.361037536178848 115.5389528 -5.7405698638211575 -174.1485472tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-45707610609367369292022-02-11T19:39:00.000-08:002022-02-11T19:39:02.167-08:00Brookfield House, Camden. NSW<h1 style="text-align: center;">Brookfield House</h1><h4 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">30-32 Hill Street</div><div style="text-align: center;">Camden </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Lot 90, DP 1077100; Lot 10, DP 731597</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">-34.055520080386096; 150.6981116045414</div></h4><div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOXOw4Y2Y8dZtUBGOs0-8okgqm9cbtWORmG6Dmy9c6gvs2NZnsfVxq6-2Tv1yzuaImRe1Y4gxLeFvoeVTYKU5sEQWMlrGBAJWd_V7bN-iS7fYoSZHBe-q6ihGNTgUoJnmI1hauGZaoeq9ujLJZypVGS1pIEfeWUu1DTcuaksdjLWc3zO_abYJ8CqE2=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOXOw4Y2Y8dZtUBGOs0-8okgqm9cbtWORmG6Dmy9c6gvs2NZnsfVxq6-2Tv1yzuaImRe1Y4gxLeFvoeVTYKU5sEQWMlrGBAJWd_V7bN-iS7fYoSZHBe-q6ihGNTgUoJnmI1hauGZaoeq9ujLJZypVGS1pIEfeWUu1DTcuaksdjLWc3zO_abYJ8CqE2=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brookfield House, 30-32 Hill Street, Camden. NSW. (I Willis, 2022)</td></tr></tbody></table></p><h2 style="text-align: center;">History and Description</h2>Brookfield House is part of a group of substantial Victorian buildings at the end of Hill Street. A good house of its time.<br /><br />Brookfield House was built between 1897-1898 for J. W. Macarthur-Onslow for officers of NSW Mounted Rifles. In name of Captain Antill.<br /><br />The building is a large two-storey semi-detached brick house with Victorian detailing. This house has ornate cast-iron gates and palisade fences on a brick base and has brick entry columns. It also has cast-iron verandah posts and filigree balcony rails to the first floor and valances to the ground and first floors. The verandah wall to the ground floor is brick. The windows are arched with lead lights to the front facade. The upper verandah roof is metal skillion.<br /><br />At some stage, the balcony has been enclosed; the rear has been extended beyond the line of the original two-storey house (the line of the original skillions roof is still visible), and a garage has been built with timber and metal gates at the line of the house along the driveway.<br /><br />Part of a group of substantial Victorian Buildings at this end of Hill Street and form a symmetrical pair – 30-32 Hill Street. (NSWSHI)<br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Condition and Use</h2>The house retains good integrity and intactness. (NSWSHI)<br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Significance</h2>Brookfield House is part of a group of substantial Victorian buildings at the end of Hill Street. The house is a good house of its time forming a symmetrical pair – 30-32 Hill Street.<br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Listing</h2>Local Environment Plan Items 138-139<br />New South Wales State Heritage Listing<br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Read more</h2><a href="https://www.camden.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/visit-camden/place/camden-heritage-walking-tour"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Camden Heritage Walking Tour Brochure</span></a></div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com30 Hill St, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0553925 150.6981309-62.365626336178849 115.5418809 -5.745158663821158 -174.14561909999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-6136192381187216372021-11-05T17:28:00.005-07:002021-11-05T18:55:50.678-07:00Mitchell House, Camden NSW<h1 style="text-align: center;">Mitchell House</h1><div style="text-align: center;"><b>29–31 Mitchell Street</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Camden</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Lots 1 and 2, DP 782058</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>-34.052223, 150.695232</b></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL2pE0eTvwIyCj0ihupEd4A2mqdaoswgyYnhZWRC6bN04Bc5ZeGFqCOFTEs5UqLfUg375QhzRsB31HfuUdV0eQK7DVMS8eMOgFB9CgxufjnPIEhNnEGLhGxFOUnslhix-xtgKhFM56T-8/s2048/Camden+Mitchell+House+c1860+29-31+Mitchell+Street+IW+2021+lowres.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL2pE0eTvwIyCj0ihupEd4A2mqdaoswgyYnhZWRC6bN04Bc5ZeGFqCOFTEs5UqLfUg375QhzRsB31HfuUdV0eQK7DVMS8eMOgFB9CgxufjnPIEhNnEGLhGxFOUnslhix-xtgKhFM56T-8/w640-h418/Camden+Mitchell+House+c1860+29-31+Mitchell+Street+IW+2021+lowres.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mitchell House. 29-31 Mitchell Street, Camden. (I Willis, 2021)<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>History and Description</div></h2>Mitchell House is a substantial double Victorian terrace building in the brown brick style that is characteristic of the Camden town centre. It has a stone verandah on the ground floor but the cast-iron balustrading on the upstairs verandah. <br /><br />The house has a shingled hip roof and brick chimneys. The ground floor verandah has sandstone arches between the two entrance doors. The entrance doors are timber with a stained glass panel and stained glass highlight windows. <br /><br />The windows are four-pane double-hung timber-framed windows with the top two panes being arched. There are timber shutters to the first-floor windows, and the windows and doors on both floors have sandstone flat arches. The first-floor verandah has a corrugated metal bullnose roof. (NSWSHI) <br /><br />The house was built by the Furner family of builders in the 1860's possibly for their two sons. (Wrigley 1983)<div> <br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Condition and Use </h2>The privately-owned house is in good condition. (NSWSHI)</div><div> <br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Significance </h2>Mitchell House is an example of an early building in the Camden townscape, close to John Street, within the Camden Town Centre Conservation Area. The house retains its historic integrity and intactness. (NSWSHI)</div><div> <br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Listing </h2>Local Environment Plan 2010 LEP Item 174 <br />NSW State Heritage Inventory 1280069</div><div> <br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Read more </h2><a href="https://www.camden.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/visit-camden/place/camden-heritage-walking-tour"><span style="color: #04ff00;">Camden Heritage Walk Tour</span></a> <br />Wrigley, J. (1983). Historic Buildings of Camden. Camden NSW, Camden Historical Society <br /><br /> <br /></div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com29 Mitchell St, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0520202 150.6950875-62.362254036178847 115.5388375 -5.7417863638211557 -174.1486625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-7308271007113149802021-10-24T23:21:00.007-07:002021-10-25T01:23:29.042-07:00Nepean House, Camden.<h1 style="text-align: center;">Nepean House</h1><div style="text-align: center;">1–3 Mitchell Street</div><div style="text-align: center;">Camden</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lot 1, DP 782848<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span> </div><p class="MsoCaption" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDgxsJyKYe12UsETevJr10ur1P15cB8yRDd3ca1TRj2tWcESddeuo5k_bfVDTeFfG_N9h7Chfz9mjAOpM_gRpdUImSdTnCYTXys2vb5353A0MsfU6avcDiUYOlG8Hfrl6tWHVnX5nQZ3I/s1440/Camden+Nepean+House+2021+IW+lowres.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDgxsJyKYe12UsETevJr10ur1P15cB8yRDd3ca1TRj2tWcESddeuo5k_bfVDTeFfG_N9h7Chfz9mjAOpM_gRpdUImSdTnCYTXys2vb5353A0MsfU6avcDiUYOlG8Hfrl6tWHVnX5nQZ3I/w640-h480/Camden+Nepean+House+2021+IW+lowres.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Figure 1 Nepean House Mitchell Street Camden. The house is item 22 on Camden Heritage Walking Tour. (I Willis, 2021)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p><h2 style="text-align: center;">History and Description</h2><br />The site of Nepean House was originally part of Camden Park Estate, then an allotment in the sub-division of the town area in 1840. The allotment (83 feet x 83 feet) was purchased in 1855 by storekeeper James Bensley and sold in 1859 to carpenter Thomas Jones. <br /><br />Construction of the house commenced around 1855 for Camden surgeon John Bleeck, who purchased the property in 1862. Bleeck practised as a medical practitioner in Camden from 1855 to 1865 and sold the house to The Oaks builder William Packenham in 1884. <br /><br />Packenham built the verandah, installed the iron lacework at the front of the house and replaced the wooden shingled roof with corrugated iron. The Packenham family lived in Nepean House until the death of William Packenham's daughter, Emma Cranfield, in 1944 when the house was sold to Camden engineer Howard Southwell. <br /><br />In 1971, Camden solicitor Paul Bowring purchased the house, who added a single-storey pavilion in 1973 designed by Sydney architects Fisher Lucas. <br /><br />At the rear of the house are the 19th-century timber-slab stables with loft. <br /><br />The house is described as a two-storey brick and stucco early Victorian Gothic style house with picturesque and colonial characteristics. These features are the gabled windows, carved barge boards and high pitched roof, four-panel doors and shuttered French casement windows. (NSWSHI)<div><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Condition and Use</h2><br />The split timber shingled roof was replaced with corrugated iron in the late 19th century. <br /><br />The house is in good condition and privately owned. (NSWHI)</div><div><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Significance</h2>The house is an excellent example of a Victorian gentleman’s townhouse and residence.</div><div> <br /><div><h2 style="text-align: center;">Heritage Listing</h2>Camden Local Environmental Plan 2010 Item 169<br /><br />Macarthur Region Heritage Study Heritage Item ID 1280064</div><div><br /><div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Read more</div></h2><a href="https://www.camdenhistory.org.au/chhistoricplaces.html#hpnepeanhouse"><span style="color: #01ffff;">Camden Historic Places</span></a> (Camden Historical Society)<br /><br /><a href="https://www.camden.nsw.gov.au/assets/Tourism/Camden-Heritage-Walking-Tour.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #01ffff;"><span>Camden Heritage Walking Tou</span>r</span> </a><span style="color: #01ffff;"> </span> - Stop No 22 (Camden Visitor Information Centre)</div></div></div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-34813156070767259532021-01-16T19:07:00.034-08:002021-01-16T19:14:20.944-08:00Camden dreamtime<h1 style="text-align: center;">Camden Dreamtime</h1><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;">The Camden Progress Association and a search for a utopia</h2><div>Camden is like many country towns across Australia. The civic fathers from the town's foundation in 1840 sought progress and development for the community. There was a desire for constant improvement.</div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>Camden News</i> had numerous references to<span style="color: #ffa400;"> </span><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136645709?searchTerm=progress" target="_blank">the town's progress</a>,</span><span style="color: #ffa400;"> </span>and the civic fathers founded the <span><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/133288513?searchTerm=progress" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Camden Progress Association</span><span style="color: #ffa400;">.</span></a><span style="color: #ffa400;"> </span></span><span style="color: #ffa400;"> </span>The association held the <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/133280215?searchTerm=camden%20progress%20association" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400;">first meeting in November </span><span style="color: #ffa400;">1896</span></a><span style="color: #ffa400;"> </span>with the aim of town improvements. The association was still active in the early 20th century.</div><div><br /></div><div>The notion of progress assumes that you are going somewhere or working towards some type of endpoint, a goal. What were the Camden's civic fathers working towards in the 1890s? </div><div><br /></div><div>One view of the Camden Progress Association was that they searched for a desired or perfect state of their world. It could be argued that they were in search of mythical utopia where everything was in a perfect or desired state.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9NUzFYcn0z3IrmJFPUlYmQYuA04p9b07NeysNTV_d-UbTsZaB8UkJwboKl8LF69lEHhc5jpSFTsR4-UMgRFI6FKzsRwxZfG7iKYa7yyMwKV0xjOq29m5s5iMzaF5AfZxg2O8nesD3Tm8/s760/Little+Sandy+Footbridge+1950CHS1405.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="760" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9NUzFYcn0z3IrmJFPUlYmQYuA04p9b07NeysNTV_d-UbTsZaB8UkJwboKl8LF69lEHhc5jpSFTsR4-UMgRFI6FKzsRwxZfG7iKYa7yyMwKV0xjOq29m5s5iMzaF5AfZxg2O8nesD3Tm8/w640-h398/Little+Sandy+Footbridge+1950CHS1405.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nepean River at Camden at a spot called Little Sandy. (CIPP)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This view of the world dates from the time of the Enlightenment and assumes that time is linear and irreversible. Ancients thought differently about the world. The Ancient Greeks and others thought the time was cyclical based around decay and rebirth.</div><div><br /></div>The Camden civic fathers were from a British cultural tradition that viewed time as a linear progression. In what became known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_interpretation_of_history"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Whig interpretation of history</span></a>, especially in the Victorian and Edwardian times, human history was seen as the progress from savagery and ignorance toward peace, prosperity, and science.<div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #ffa400;">Wikipedia state</span>s:<br /><blockquote>Whig history (or Whig historiography) is an approach to historiography that presents the past as an inevitable progression towards ever greater liberty and enlightenment, culminating in modern forms of liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy. In general, Whig historians emphasize the rise of constitutional government, personal freedoms and scientific progress. </blockquote><br /><div>Underpinning these notions was an accompanying cultural tradition that that world was constructed in terms of binary oppositions, for example, good/evil, black/white, big/small, dark/light, on/off, hot/cold, ugly/beautiful, right/wrong, chaos/order, life/death, love/hate, male/female, hero/coward, young/old, confinement/freedom, and others. </div><div><br /></div><div>One of the first to argue over life in this fashion was ancient Greek philosopher Plato and much later in the 19th-century German philosopher GWF Hegel. Here is the concept was called <span style="color: #ff00fe;"><a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/" target="_blank">dialectic</a>s.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>All cultures have some version of binary opposition and in Chinese philosophy and religion yin is represented by negative, dark, feminine and yang by positive, bright, masculine. </div><div><br /></div><div>American historian <span style="color: #ffa400;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lasch" target="_blank">Christopher Lasch</a> </span>that the ideological twin of progress was nostalgia. Nostalgia involves 'the pastoral' is an idea dating from the Ancient Greeks and in literature is relates to the idyll of rural life and usually involves shepherds herding flocks of sheep in open paddocks.</div><div><br /></div><div><span><span>In<a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/hunters-and-collectors-tom-griffiths/book/9780521483490.html" style="color: #ffa400;" target="_blank"> his book Hunters and Collectors</a><span style="color: #ffa400;">, Australian historian Tom Griffiths</span></span> </span>argues there have been nostalgia wave in Australia in the 1850s, 1890s, 1930s, 1970s prompted by 'loss, depression or disruption'. In each of these waves of nostalgia, people were searching for a past.</div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote>characterised by popular yearnings for the intimate world of early colonial beginnings for lost rural places. (Griffiths: p.197</blockquote><p>In the <a href="https://www.academia.edu/41958298/Townies_Exurbanites_and_Aesthics_Issues_of_identity_on_Sydneys_rural_urban_fringe" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">1930s the Camden community</span></a> searched for the <span style="color: #ff00fe;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/34163349/Just_like_England_a_colonial_settler_landscape" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Englishness of their past</span></a>,</span> as they were in the 1840s and 1890s. Nostalgia re-appeared in Camden in the 1980s when increased urbanisation sent the Camden community in search of their own lost rural Arcadia. </p></div><h2 align="center"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div> 'A Country Town Idyll' at Camden</h2>
Sydney’s urban expansion into the local area has challenged the community’s identity and threatened to suffocate<span style="color: #ff00fe;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Camden’s</span></a> </span>sense of place. In the face of this onslaught, many in Camden yearn for a lost past when Sydney was further away, times were simpler, and life was slower. A type of rural Arcadia, which I have called ‘a country town idyll’. <br /><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1fP5VLTBtLSzuKZMjAFRb1MmsznQj3r4cCimr3pxat4fph6lgQez5VGTjguImxxlX6_GwPfDpErw44jsz1pEh6RXFZ67bZQACXzhmzuYn9VyuVEhgvcHssq6CVPBVE5tKBW9PrCuZUho/s960/Camden+John+St+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="960" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1fP5VLTBtLSzuKZMjAFRb1MmsznQj3r4cCimr3pxat4fph6lgQez5VGTjguImxxlX6_GwPfDpErw44jsz1pEh6RXFZ67bZQACXzhmzuYn9VyuVEhgvcHssq6CVPBVE5tKBW9PrCuZUho/w640-h484/Camden+John+St+%25281%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Camden John Street with a view of St John Church in the 1890s. This view was taken by Charles Kerry (CIPP)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br />
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The <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #ffa400;">‘country town idyll’</span></a> is an idealised version of a country town from an imagined past that uses history to construct imagery based on <span style="color: #ff00fe;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Camden’</a>s</span> heritage buildings and other material fabric. <br /><br /><br />At the heart of the idyll is the view that Camden should retain its iconic imagery of a picturesque country town with the church on the hill, surrounded by a rustic rural landscape made up of the landed estates of the colonial gentry. <br /><br /><br />Its supporters created the idyll to isolate Camden, like an island, in the sea of urbanisation and development that has enveloped the town. </div>
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<div> These are the values that the supporters of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Camden’s</span></a> ‘country town idyll’ have encouraged and then expressed in the language they used to describe it. <br /><br /><br />They talk about retaining Camden’s ‘country town atmosphere’, or retaining ‘Camden’s country charm’, or ‘country town character’. They describe the town as being ‘picturesque’, or having ‘charming cottages’. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Camden</span></a> is a working country town’, or is simply ‘my country town’. These elements evoke an emotional attachment to a place that existed in the past when <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Camden</span></a> was a small quiet country town that relied on farming for its existence.</div>
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The origins of the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">‘<span style="color: #ff00fe;">country town idyll’</span></a> are to be found in the rural ethos that is drawn from within the nineteenth-century rural traditions brought from Great Britain, where there was a romantic view of the country, that had an ordered, stable, comfortable organic small community in harmony with the natural surroundings. <br /><br /><br />Elements of this rural culture have been variously described as 'countrymindedness', 'rural ideology', 'rural ethos', 'ruralism', and a 'rural idyll'. They have been a preoccupation of many scholars, including contemporary writers, like the Australian poet Les Murray. <br /><br /><br />Within this tradition, there is an Arcadian notion of a romantic view of rural life. There is a distinction drawn between the metropolis and the village, commonly known as the town/country divide. <br /><br /><br />This was the essence of pre-war Camden (a town of around 2000) where rural culture provided the stability of a closed community that was suspicious of outsiders, especially those from the city, with life ordered by social rank, personal contacts familial links. It was confined by conservatism, patriarchy and an Anglo-centric view of the world.</div><div><br /></div><div>Updated 17 January 2021. Originally posted 18 November 2013.</div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.comCamden NSW 2570, Australia-34.054444 150.695833-62.364677836178842 115.539583 -5.7442101638211511 -174.147917tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-76145475263346946642020-08-30T17:36:00.001-07:002020-08-30T17:57:41.862-07:00Nepean River<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Nepean River</h2>
The Nepean River is one of the most essential waterways in the Sydney basin and has particular significance for Sydney's southwestern rural-urban fringe. Its catchment extends south and east of the Sydney Basin to take in areas near Robertson and Goulburn. West of Wollongong the tributaries including Cataract Creek, Avon River, Cordeaux River that flow north-west and then into the deep gorges of Pheasants Nest and Douglas Park. <br />
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The river opens up into a floodplain and flows past Menangle and crosses the Cowpastures and southern Cumberland Plain past Camden and Cobbitty. The river then flows north through the gorge adjacent to Wallacia and enters Bents Basin before it is joined by the Warragamba River and changes its name to the Hawkesbury River.<br />
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<b>Cultural importance</b></h2>
The river has a significant meaning in terms of its intangible cultural heritage to the local landscape. It defines the landscape and the construction of place in the localities along the river, including Menangle, Camden, and Cobbitty.<br />
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There is the<span style="color: yellow;"> </span> <a href="http://camdenhistorynotes.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/little-sandy-more-than-footbridge-and.html"><span style="color: yellow;">Little Sandy at Camden</span></a>, which was a favourite swimming spot for the local community.<br />
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The river floodplain is partly covered in <span style="color: yellow;"><a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.blogspot.com/2013/09/cumberland-plain-woodland-Sydneys-natural-heritage.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Cumberland Woodland</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span>an endangered species in the Sydney Basin. Another endangered species in the local area is the <span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://camdenhistorynotes.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/elderslie-banksia-scrub-critically.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Elderslie Banksia Scrub</span></a> </span>and the <span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://camdenhistorynotes.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/eucalyptus-benthamii.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Camden White Gum</span></a>.</span><br />
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The river catchment is the most important i<span style="color: yellow;">n the Sydney basin and <a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/nepean-river-nsw/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">has significant cultural significance in the area</span></a>. One example is the </span><a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.blogspot.com/2019/12/1925-camden-flood.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">1925 Nepean River flood at Camden</span>.</a><br />
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<a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2020/01/06/macarthur-bridge-camden-nsw/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">The Macarthur Bridge across the Nepean River</span></a> is one of the most critical pieces of economic and social infrastructure in the Macarthur area.<br />
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In times of high rainfall, the river has particular characteristics which make <a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2019/11/29/flooding-on-nepean-river-at-camden/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">flooding a problematic event</span> </a>for the local population. </div>
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<span style="color: #777777; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I</span></span>n 2006 Camden Council designated the <a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2020/05/06/camden-heritage-conservation-area/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">historic Camden town centre</span></a> in the Nepean River floodplain as a <span style="color: yellow;"><a href="https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/view/EPI/1989/01/part3/cl16"><span style="color: yellow;"> Heritage Conservation Area</span></a>,</span> and later incorporated it in the <a href="https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/view/EPI/2010/514/historical2012-04-05/full"><span style="color: yellow;">2010 Local Environment Plan</span></a>. </div>
There is <a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/miss-llewella-davies-pioneer-walkway/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">a local walkway</span></a> located on the river floodplain called the <span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.camdentownfarm.com.au/community-access/walkway"><span style="color: yellow;">Miss Lewella Davies Memorial Walkway</span></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">Luke Foley Announces Heritage Policy</span></h2>
At State Parliament on Tuesday, 18 April 2017, Opposition Leader Luke Foley made several announcements on heritage matters that the Labor Party will take to the next state election in 2019.<br />
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1. Development of a 10-year heritage strategy for New South Wales that will be a roadmap for heritage management;<br />
2. Restrict the s32 provisions so that the state government cannot plead economic hardship on heritage matters like they have on the Sirius project;<br />
3. Restrict the ability of the Minister for Heritage to ignore recommendations from the Heritage Council;<br />
4. Strengthen the provision of the Heritage Council;<br />
5. Move the Office of Premier and the Cabinet Office into the <span style="color: yellow;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Secretary%27s_building" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">old Chief Secretary's building</span></a> </span>on the corner of Macquarie and Bridge Streets.<br />
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The forum was introduced by Shadow Minister for Heritage Penny Sharpe MLC and invited a number of speakers to reflect on the 40th anniversary of the Heritage Act passed into law by the Wran Government in 1977.<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">1. <b>Meredith Burgmann</b></span> </h3>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Burgmann" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Meredith Burgmann</span></a> is the former President of the NSW Legislative Council and co-author of the book <i><a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/green-bans-red-union-meredith-burgmann/book/9781742235400.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Green Bans Red Union - the Saving of a City</span></a></i><span style="color: yellow;">.</span> She spoke about the history of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_ban" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Green Bans</span></a> in the 1970s in a legal environment where there were no legal protections for heritage matters.<br />
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She went on to outline: the development of resident action groups and the conditions conducive to developing heritage legislation in the 1970s.<br />
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<a href="https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Reeces-Acception-Speech-National-Trust-Awards-Event.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Reece McDougall</span></a> is the former CEO of GML Heritage Consultants and Executive Director of the NSW Heritage Office from 2006 to 2008. He spoke on the history of the <span style="color: orange;"><a href="https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/view/act/1977/136" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">1977 Heritage Act</span></a> </span>introduced by the Wran Government.<br />
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He maintains that the conditions that allowed the introduction of the Heritage Act included<br />
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<a href="https://architectureau.com/contributors/Carter-Shaun/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Shaun Carter</span></a> is the immediate past president of the <a href="https://www.architecture.com.au/nsw-chapter/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects</span></a>. He has organised a crowdfunding effort and taken the state government to court over the decision to demolish the Sirius building in The Rocks.<br />
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Carter spoke about the benefits to the community of retaining its built heritage. These included<br />
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Carter bemoaned the loss of the best of 20th-century buildings, and many are not listed on local heritage registers.<br />
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Paul Connell is the organiser for the Public Sector for the <a href="https://me.cfmeu.org.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">CFMEU</span></a>, who led the campaign to save the NSW Heritage group within Public Works from privatisation, that is, keeping the <a href="https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/policy-and-legislation/environment-and-heritage/heritage-stoneworks"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Stoneyard</span></a> at St Peters (Alexandria).<br />
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The <a href="https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/policy-and-legislation/environment-and-heritage/heritage-stoneworks" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Stoneyard</span> </a>is the home of the stonemasons who oversee the maintenance of the state government's stock of sandstone buildings. The <a href="https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/policy-and-legislation/environment-and-heritage/heritage-stoneworks" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Stoneyard</span></a> also has heritage roofing plumbers and carpenters who, until the Baird Government, used to work with the Government Architect.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/policy-and-legislation/environment-and-heritage/heritage-stoneworks" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Stoneyard</span> </a>is the site of<br />
(a) apprentice training in traditional trades,<br />
(b) stockpiles of Sydney yellow sandstone, and<br />
(c) the centre of WHS.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Former 1940s Stuckey Bakery building in Argyle Street Camden is an example of Camden Modernism (I Willis)</td></tr>
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<br />Originally posted 18 April 2017. Updated 7 August 2023.<br /><br />
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<br />camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com6 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia-33.8674319 151.2127188-33.8938019 151.1723783 -33.8410619 151.25305930000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-35732911409594281592020-08-16T00:50:00.001-07:002020-08-16T00:50:32.610-07:00Anarchism and libertarianism is alive and kicking in Newtown with lots of great posters<b><span style="color: yellow;">Anarchism and libertarianism are alive and kicking in Newtown with lots of great posters in an around the King Street precinct.</span></b><br />
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A host of anarchist posters were spotted at various locations in the King Street precinct of Newtown on a visit by this author.<br />
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It is good to see that rebellion and revolution has not died out under the weight of neo-liberalism or neo-conservatism.<br />
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For the uninitiated anarchism is, according to Wikipedia, a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.<br />
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Anarchists believe that the state is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful. There are a few capitalist entrepreneurs who would agree with this position.<br />
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Another term to describe an anarchist is libertarian, and there are some self-styled libertarians. </div>
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The birth of anarchism appears around the French Revolution and the first 19th-century philosopher to label themselves anarchist was Frenchman Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.<br />
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The Newtown anarchists want to smash capitalism and re-invent the world.<br />
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The birth of anarchism can be traced to the 6th century BC and the influence of Taoism. Modern anarchism emerges from the time of the Enlightenment.<br />
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The want-a-be nationalists, neo-liberalism and neo-cons would have you believe that they rule the world.<br />
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It is refreshing to see that pluralism is alive and well in Australian democracy. The other side still gets a go.<br />
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It is a wonder the neo-cons haven't spat-their-collective-dummies and chucked a wobbly and declared war on Newtown.<br />
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Maybe all the Newtown anarchists are just blow-ins in sheep's clothing.<br />
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What-ever the situation Australia, it is good to see that there still free speech and it is being practised loud and clear.<br />
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camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.comNewtown NSW 2042, Australia-33.897 151.1793-33.923359 151.1389595 -33.870641 151.21964050000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-44611714389291055352020-08-14T18:15:00.066-07:002021-01-09T21:58:31.834-08:00Pansy Old Right-of-Way at Elderslie<h2>
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Vellas Fresh Produce Market Gardens</h1>
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25-85 Camden Valley Way, </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Old Right-of-Way for Camden-Campbelltown Railway viewed from Kirkham Lane looking towards Camden at the proposed Vella Market Gardens site. 2017 (I Willis)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pansy Locomotive on the Camden-Campbelltown Railway Branch Line in 1950s seen here at Camden Railway Station (Camden Images)</td></tr>
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There is a re-development of a rural property adjacent to the Cowpastures Bridge at Elderslie on the Camden Valley Way (formerly the Hume Highway) with the old right-of-way for the Camden-Campbelltown Light Railway.<br />
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The Camden-Campbelltown Railway was an essential part of local transport infrastructure from 1881 to 1963 when the New South Wales Government closed the branch line.<br />
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The Vella Markets Garden development site not only has the old right-of-way. Some culverts still exist from the 1950s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old Right-Of-Way for Camden-Campbelltown Railway view from Camden Valley Way looking towards Kirkham Lane. The horse's location indicates the line of trees that marks the ROW on site for proposed Vella Market Gardens. 2017 (I Willis)</td></tr>
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The old right-of-way is clearly identifiable by the line trees that follow it to Kirkham Lane.<br />
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Unfortunately, the developer does not mention this old right-of-way in any of the development documents.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">View of Old Right-of-Way for Camden-Campbelltown Railway view from Kirkham Lane looking towards Camden. Camden Valley Way is visible on left of the image. The presence of the embankment for tracks are clearly seen in this image in the proposed site for Vella Market Gardens .2017 (I Willis)<br /><br />
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<h2>Read more</h2><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Read more about Camden-Campbelltown Railway <span style="color: #ff00fe;"><a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/the-camden-branch-railway-line/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">here</span></a> </span>and <a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/pansy-the-camden-locomotive/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">here</span></a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read more in <a href="http://www.camdenhistory.org.au/chsjournal.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Camden History the Journal of the Camden Historical Society</span></a> and visit the<br /><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C<a href="http://www.camdenhistory.org.au/cmindex.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">amden Museum</span></a> </span>to view several artefacts from the railway days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Camden-Campbelltown Railway has been the subject of the recently published <a href="http://www.kingsclearbooks.com.au/camden.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Pictorial History of Camden & District</span> </a>seen here on the book's back cover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The back cover of </span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://www.kingsclearbooks.com.au/camden.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Pictorial History of Camden & District</span></a> which tells some of the stories of Pansy the Campbelltown-Camden train.</div>
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<br /></div>camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com22 Camden Valley Way, Elderslie NSW 2570, Australia-34.0528905 150.7088817-62.460526916348584 115.5526317 -5.6452540836514089 -174.1348683tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-68932194149756668722020-07-11T23:14:00.004-07:002023-02-13T15:07:02.183-08:00Studley Park Narellan. NSW<h1 style="text-align: center;">Studley Park</h1><div style="text-align: center;">
Payne's Folly, St. Helen's School, Campbelltown-Camden Grammar School</div>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">History and Description </h2>On 2 October 1888, businessman William Charles Payne bought the combined property of 200 acres from Thompson for 1400 pounds. He authorised AL & G. McCredie of Sydney to construct the house, stables and a granary/engine house. The engine house reportedly contained a steam traction engine and a dynamo, providing electricity to the house.<br /> <br /> A lengthy article in the "Australasian Building and Contractors News" on 20/7/1889 described the project. It called the house a 'picturesque looking villa-residence, in a light Italian style'. A rendered drawing view of the house from the west incorporated the two-floor plans produced by the McCredies at the time of construction (SHI)<br /> <br /> Payne named the property 'Studley Park'. Ray Herbert writes that Payne named it after a property near where his father-in-law lived at Ripon in England. There is no evidence Payne intended Studley Park to be a self-supporting farm. What is more likely is that it was established as a country retreat. Many such estates were built around the outskirts of Sydney during the latter half of the 19th century. The opulent mansion bankrupted Payne: he sold it in 1902, and it became Camden Grammar School. (SHI)<br /> <br /> A few decades later, it was transformed into an art deco playground for the sales manager of 20th Century Fox. The period of ownership of Studley Park House by AA (Arthur) Gregory in the 1930s is represented by its remaining 'Hollywood' style internal finishes and is supported by high-quality, contemporary photographs. Gregory was the US film company Twentieth Century Fox representative in Australia. (SHI)<br /> <br /> During World War 2, it was resumed as the Eastern Command Training School for the army (Richardson, 2010).<br />
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In 2009 the house was sold to a private owner, and the golf course land was transferred to the care, control and management of Camden Council (Lisa Howard, Camden Council pers.comm., 14 December 2010).<br />
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Studley Park House is an excellent example of Victorian Italianate architecture, enhanced by its prominent location and open landscape setting. It is one of the last 'country estate' dwellings to be built in the Camden/Campbelltown area and represents the work of the Sydney firm of architects AL & G McCredie. <br />
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Studley Park is a place of State significance for its aesthetic and visual qualities associated with a beautiful nineteenth-century country house and its setting and for its historical associations with important uses and historical themes of twentieth-century development around Sydney. (SHI)<br />
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The site has natural heritage value in retaining two areas of regenerating remnant (endangered ecological community) Cumberland Plain Woodland, including a population of the nationally endangered shrub species, Pimelea spicata. (Read, S., 2005)</div>
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Heritage Act - State Heritage Register 00389<br />
Register of the National Estate 3240<br />
National Trust of Australia register 10045
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A new art exhibition, 'Portraits of Camden', was opened in Camden at the Alan Baker Art Gallery in John Street on Thursday 12 March 2020 by Camden Mayor Theresa Fedeli.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cover of the exhibition catalogue 'Portraits of Camden' that is open between March and August 2020.. </td></tr>
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The exhibition 'Portraits of Camden' celebrates the second anniversary of the opening of the gallery.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Camden Mayor Theresa Fedeli opens the 'Portraits of Camden' exhibition on Thursday 12 March 2020. (I Willis) </td></tr>
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The exhibition celebrates the contribution of Alan Baker to the Camden art scene in the early 1970s through the Camden Art Group.<br />
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The Camden Art Group met in the classroom of Ken Rorke at Camden Public School in John Street Camden.<br />
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The assembled audience at the exhibition opening was addressed by an original member of the Camden Art Group Nola Tegel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original member of the Camden Art Group Nola Tegel tells the audience stories about how Alan Baker guided the budding artists in the art works. (I Willis)</td></tr>
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The artworks hung at the exhibition are a variety of subjects in charcoal drawn by Alan Baker at the Camden Art Group sessions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A keen art enthusiast admires the artwork of Alan Baker at the 'Portraits of Camden' exhibition opening. (I Willis)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A guest at the exhibition opening writing their thoughts on Mr Rorke's classroom blackboard in the gallery. Ken Rorke initiated the Camden Art Group in the 1970s. Workshops and lessons were held in his classroom at Camden Public School. (I Willis)</td></tr>
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The 'Portraits of Camden' exhibition runs from March to August 2020 at the Alan Baker Art Gallery. The gallery in located in the 19th century gentleman's town house Macaria in John Street Camden.<br />
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Learn more about the life of<span style="color: yellow;"> <span style="color: yellow;"><a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/macaria-opening-and-the-alan-baker-art-collection/" target="_blank">Alan Baker the artist, the Camden Art Group and the house history of Macaria. </a></span></span></div>
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Read more about Alan Baker and the <span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.camdenhistory.org.au/2018%20September_CamdenHistoryJournal.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Camden Art Group in Camden History</span></a> </span>from those budding young artists who participated in the lessons and workshops in the 1970s. </div>
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camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com37 John St, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0538991 150.6950676-34.0543101 150.6944371 -34.0534881 150.6956981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-15590967457412800152019-12-19T18:19:00.000-08:002019-12-19T18:19:18.823-08:002013 Balmoral-Yanderra Bushfire<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Regeneration and New Life after the fires</h2>
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Areas that have been burnt by bushfires eventually regenerate and their is new life. Such has happened on the Picton Road area where the trees are now sprouting green shoots. There are dormant buds under bark of eucalypts called epicormic buds. These burst into new growth in the weeks following the fire and trees are covered with new leaves. Fire is a very cleansing process and a fire does not mean all is lost. After the disaster passes there is new life and new hope. New growth on the trees is symbolic of a fresh start and a new beginning.<br />
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Day 12 Balmoral (Hall Road) Bushfire 28 October </h2>
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The bushfire emergency has passed and most crews have been stood down. This fire has been downgraded to 'alert' status and is contained 3 km south of Bargo. </div>
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The Blue Mountains fire effected areas are now in the recovery stage and are appealing for visitors not to abandon the area. Fire fighters are still working on the area where over 200 homes were destroyed by blazes last week. Crown Prince Frederik and Princes Mary lifted the spirits of residents as they visited the area yesterday according to reports.</div>
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Day 6 Balmoral (Hall Road) Bushfire 22 October (6.00pm)</h2>
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The fire, according to the RFS website, has been consolidated within containment lines. The current status of the fire is controlled and has burnt over 15,300 hectares to date. Two houses have been lost. <br />
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Meanwhile elsewhere in this fire emergency: in the Springwood fire 193 houses have been lost to date, 7 in the Mt Victoria fire and 3 in the Lithgow fire. (<a href="http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/">http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au</a> )</div>
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Day 5 Balmoral Bushfire 21 October (6.00pm)</h2>
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On Day 5 the bushfire continues to pose problems for fire authorities. This afternoon Wilton came under ember attack and the fire was status was upgraded to Emergency. </div>
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According the RFS website at 6.00pm the fire has burnt over 14,100 hectares and is currently on a Watch and Act status and still out of control. Illawarra residents are advised to 'remain viligent and monitor the situation'. The Picton Road has re-opened. </div>
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The weather conditions at Camden airport are currently: winds ENE at 16 kph; 28% humidity; temperature 30.9 degrees. (Weatherzone)</div>
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Relief organisations have swung into action and include appeals launched by the Australian Red Cross, St Vincent de Paul Society, Salvation Army and Anglicare. Similar to wartime relief appeals during the First and Second World Wars and others during natural disasters. </div>
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Day 4 Balmoral Bushfire 20 October (6.00pm) </h2>
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The fire continues to pose challenges for fire authorities this afternoon. According to the RFS website there are 270 fire-fighters tending this fire, which continues to be uncontained. It has burnt over 12,700 hectares and has a Watch and Act status. </div>
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While not posing any direct threat to Illawarra residents they have been advised to 'remain viligent and monitor the situation'.</div>
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The fire has crossed the Picton Road which remains closed. The eastern edge of the fire is burning adjacent to Cataract and Cordeaux Dams.<br />
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Balmoral-Yanderra Bushfire 18 October 2013 (6.00pm)</h2>
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The photo of this fire from the Appin area shows the increased intensity of the fire since this morning. The RFS website states that the fire is uncontained and has burnt over 8,000 hectares. The fire has crossed the Picton Road and is burning along the Macarthur Road area near Wilton. Fire crews have put in containment lines and are untaking considerable back-burning. The village of Wilton has a meeting at the community hall at 7.00pm.</div>
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Balmoral-Yanderra Bushfire 18 October 2013 (9.00am)</h2>
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The view of this bushfire from Appin this morning gives some idea of the conditions facing bushfire fighters in the area. The fire was downgraded from Emergency to Watch and Act with the head of the fire now 1.5km east of the Picton Road within the Sydney Catchment Authority. The Picton Road has been closed to traffic since yesterday afternoon and the Rural Fire Service website states that it is likely to remain closed for up to 3 days.</div>
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The weather conditions have abated and at 11.00am this morning the wind is currently from the ENE at 9 knots, the humidity has risen to 32% and the temperature is 19 degrees. This is different from the conditions yesterday (17 October) Thursday with a low humidity at 1.30pm of 8% and a maximum temperature of 32.6 degrees. Peak wind gusts at Camden airport recorded at 78kph at 11.30am. (Weatherzone)</div>
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The reporting around the bushfire on the radio and on other media is very similar to wartime (as I outlined below). The fire event is now moving into the relief stage after the emergency in some areas with the Salvation Army swinging into action at the emergency centres, adopting a role it excelled at during wartime. There are reports typical of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appearing in radio interviews amongst victims and fire-fighters. This is a normal experience after a traumatic event and people feel frightened, sad, anxious and disconnected (<a href="http://www.helpguide.org/">www.helpguide.org</a>). These type of reactions were typical of soldiers who have experienced the battle-front during wartime. (Lifeline 13 11 14)</div>
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The homefront experience of wartime has been replicated this morning with fundraising appeals being launched by the Salvation Army, one of Australia's oldest and most respected relief organisations. </div>
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The communications of the fire have included all sorts of modern media with ABC Radio Sydney 702 turning into a community notice board. There were a number of eye-witness accounts being broadcast live on Thursday afternoon. Reports indicated that the fire-front response in specific localities was confused and out of control. A fire storm situation that was changing quickly by the minute. Very similar to reports of the military front line in the heat of a battle where confusion reigns and there is a lack of control. </div>
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The 4 stages of a disaster - preparation, warning, impact, aftermath - are typical of these bushfires and other destructive events. </div>
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Balmoral-Yanderra Bushfires Give Eerie Driving Conditions 17 October 2013</h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smoke causing eerie driving on Mt Ousley Road Wollongong from Balmoral-Yanderra Bushfire (K Willis, 17 Oct, 5.00pm)</td></tr>
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Eerie and surreal driving conditions were created by the emergency bushfires in the Balmoral-Yanderra area. Radio reports constantly give updates of dangerous conditions in the Blue Mountains at Springwood, while conditions deteriorate in the Hunter Valley. There have been losses of houses in the Blue Mountains,while conditions continue to be dangerous for residents of effected areas. </div>
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Reports make these fires the worst in the Sydney area since 2001 when Warragamba township was severely impacted. There were many houses lost in the village and elsewhere. The resilience of community spirit is sorely tested under these type of disaster conditions. </div>
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The dry westerly winds, with strong gusts, of both these fire events create difficult weather conditions for fire fighters on the Sydney rural-urban fringe. Very low humidity (between 8% to 15% today) and high temperature, when combined with the gusty winds, provide a lethal combination for local residents. The rural-urban interface is zone where fire events can have a severe impact on people's lives. </div>
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Bushfires are a part of the Australian environment and cause dangerous conditions when they impact on urban areas. Aboriginal people managed the Australian environment with fire for thousands of years. </div>
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The battleground</h3>
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The organisation, language and actions of fire-fighting have many similarities to the battlefront during wartime. There is the fire ground, the emergency, command structures, command centres, lethal consequences, civilian evacuation centres, dangerous conditions, the fire front and a host of other similarities. The battle on the firefront and wartime frontline are both unpredictable with authorities trying to maintain containment measures. Both are highly stressful for victims and fighters and put communities under incredible pressures. Both try the resilience of communities and the social networks across those village, towns and suburbs involved on the Sydney's rural-urban edge.</div>
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Read more @ <a href="http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/worst-bush-fires-in-Australias-history.htm" target="_blank">Worst bushfires in Australia (Aust Geographic)</a></div>
camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.comCamden NSW 2570, Australia-34.054218100000007 150.69560190000004-34.106837600000006 150.61492090000004 -34.001598600000008 150.77628290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-81295867165895038892019-12-19T18:16:00.000-08:002019-12-19T18:16:45.652-08:001925 Camden Flood<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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Nepean River</h3>
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Floods have always been part of the landscape of the Camden area and this view in 1925 of the Great South Road (Cawdor Road) is no different. Here the Perkins family have travelled from their dairy farm at Cawdor to town. Everyone is dressed up in their finest, women with hats and gloves, while the men are in their Sunday best. The Nepean River is on the far horizon, while the flooded area in the foreground is the Matahil Creek valley on the southern entry to Camden on the old Great South Road. Flooding was a just part of daily life and people just got on with it. The spire of St John's Church is visible on top of the hill, with storm clouds still threatening to bring more rain.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To see more of the Perkins photograph collection of Cawdor and surrounds click </span><a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/the-perkins-family-album-of-cawdor/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"> here</span></a></div>
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camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.comCamden NSW 2570, Australia-34.054444 150.695833-34.107063499999995 150.615152 -34.0018245 150.776514tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-14253381079526592422019-11-08T01:07:00.000-08:002019-11-08T01:19:21.808-08:00White House (or Reeves House), Camden NSW.<br />
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White House<br />Reeves House</h2>
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Lot 11 DP 771220</div>
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This Camden icon is located at 44 Argyle Street and was built in 1889 for teacher HP (Henry) Reeves. HP Reeves was mayor of Camden 1894 and was the first band master of the Camden Town Brass Band in the 1870s. It has been occupied by the Boardman family and Dr Warren. In the mid-20th century is was the head office for the Clinton Mining and Transport Group. It currently has a number of businesses including a restaurant. (Instagram)<br />
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Country towns across Australia had lovely Victorian gentleman's town houses. They had a simple and robust construction that reflected the wealth and prosperity of rural Australia in the late 1800s. They were a statement around the confidence of the future of colonial New South Wales. (Linkedin)<br />
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A two storey brick house stuccoed to imitate ashlar. It has a hipped iron roof and<br />
projecting bay front. The two storey front verandah has cast iron columns, balastrade and<br />
a bullnosed iron roof. It has a timber and glass panelled entrance door with side and<br />
highlight windows, and two pane double hung windows to the front elevation, and four<br />
pane double hung windows to the side elevation. (NSWHI)<br />
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The front verandah and steps are tiled. Interiors are substantially intact with cedar joinery and marble fireplaces and some original ceilings and cornices. The rear rooms have been substantially altered but with little disruption to the external appearance. It is prominently situated on a corner site at the<br />
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<br />camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.com44 Argyle St, Camden NSW 2570, Australia-34.0540331 150.6979493-34.0544441 150.6973188 -34.0536221 150.6985798tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-49898149659321887132019-11-03T21:47:00.001-08:002019-11-03T21:47:54.705-08:00Kelvin Park, Bringelly, NSW<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Kelvin Park Farm Group</h2>
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The Retreat, Kelvin Park Drive, Bringelly, NSW.</div>
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<b>History and Description</b><br />
The Kelvin Park Group is part of a 600 acres "Bringelly" land grant originally granted to Thomas Laycock Jnr. He came to Australia with his father, Sergeant Thomas Laycock of the NSW Corps in 1789. Thomas Jnr became a Lieutenant in 1802, left the colony in 1810 and fought for England in the American War of 1812, becoming a Captain. On his return to Australia with his family in 1817 he received the Bringelly grant in 1818. He had the main homestead and surrounding outbuildings of Kelvin Park constructed c.1820. He died here in 1823 and by 1824 the property was bought by J T Campbell former secretary to Governor Macquarie. In 1825 the property was leased by the Australian Agricultural Company. <br />
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Kelvin Park was purchased by Alfred Kennerley in 1833, later premier of Tasmania. He lived there until 1856, during this time the double gabled brick coach-house was constructed, c.1851. <br />
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Since the mid-19th century the property has had various owners. The group is presently privately owned and occupied. <br />
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See also SHI 1970119 (Homestead), 1970139 (Kitchen, former), 1970157 (Staff/Shearer's quarters), 1970164 (Coach House, former), 1970167 (Farm Shed), 1970177 (Farm Shed), 1970445 (Relics) and 1970446 (Site Landscaping). (State Heritage Inventory)<br />
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The buildings are intact, and have a high degree of integrity<br />
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The current use is a private residence. Its former use was a Homestead complex, part of working farm (State Heritage Inventory)<br />
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The Kelvin Park Group is an intact complex of early Colonial farm buildings within an attractive, mature garden in a rural hilltop setting. The earlier buildings include an excellent example of an 1820s homestead and associated outbuildings in the form of timber slab sheds. The complex also retains additional relics and structures illustrative of the original functioning of the property. There is the potential to gain more information on the site from further architectural, archaeological and documentary research. (State Heritage Inventory)<br />
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<b>Heritage Listing</b>Liverpool LEP 0252<br />
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<b>Read more</b> about the Kelvin Park Farm Group <a href="http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=1970073" target="_blank">Click here</a></div>
camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.comBringelly NSW 2556, Australia-33.940298000000013 150.73192589999996-34.045676000000014 150.57056439999997 -33.834920000000011 150.89328739999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-77939581201726502592019-10-28T00:36:00.003-07:002023-04-10T00:29:33.308-07:00Camden Modernism<div style="text-align: left;">
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Camden Modernism<br />Different aspects of a country town</h2>
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Camden Cafes and Milk Bars</h2>
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The design, equipment and fit-out of local cafes and milk bars were at the cutting edge of Interwar fashion. The cafes were a touch of the exotic with their Art Deco style interiors, where fantasy met food without the social barriers of the daily life of the Interwar period.<br />
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Camden milk bars rarely just sold milkshakes, unlike their counterparts in the city. To make a living and ensure their businesses paid their way, the cafes and milk bars also sold fruit and vegetables, meals, sandwiches, lollies, sweets and chocolates.<br />
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Cafes and Milk Bars</h4>
These include Camden Cafe, owned by Sophios Bros, then the Cassimatis Bros in the 1930s. It became the Capital Cafe in 1935. The iconic Camden Valley Inn Milk Bar opened with a great fuss in 1939 on the Camden Park estate by the Macarthur Onslow family.<span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 13px;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/camden-cafes-and-milk-bars/">Read more about these and other cafes as well as a short history of milk bars in Australia</a>.<br />
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Loss of Camden Modernism </h2>
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Loss of another part of Camden modernism.<br />
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Yet another ranch-style home in the local area has gone the way of some others. This one was recently damaged in a storm.<br />
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These houses were built in Camden when the Burragorang Valley coalfields generated considerable wealth for the local area.<br />
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The demolition of these houses is a loss of the modern Camden and the postwar cultural heritage of the local area.<br />
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This adds to the loss of other postwar houses along this part of Macarthur Road in Elderslie, including the Hennings House at 64 Macarthur Road in 2011 (see more on this blog post below)<br />
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Stuckey Bros Building</h2>
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Camden has an art-deco-style inspired building at 102-104
Argyle Street. The 1940 Stuckey Bros Pastrycooks and Bakers building was built by Harry Willis and Sons. The bakery was operated by HH & LC Stuckey, and a bakery had been on the site before 1912, when the Stuckeys purchased
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The building's front is yellow-cream brick called polychrome,
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The shop front above street level is finely detailed, with curved bricks
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The building is an exciting and unusual example of a
two-storey Interwar retail building. The use of decorative polychrome brickwork
is unusual for Camden Township. It is an attractive example of a commercial
building, and while the street-level shopfronts have been altered, it has kept the integrity of the remainder of the building intact. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Originally the shopfront was tiled with curved glass (bow
windows) defining the shop entrance. There was a laneway on the western side (facing
the shopfront on the right-hand side) with access to the rear of the premises, which now has a retail business on it. Many Camden Argyle Street
laneways have been filled in and are now occupied by retail premises. How many
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The shop front is the public interface for retail premises
and streetscapes. Stuckey Bros' original shopfront
window glass had metal surrounds and a tiled entry (ingos/outgo or setback), making it three-dimensional and exciting. A style of shopfront that was common
during the Edwardian period. The shopfront awning is still primarily as it was in
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Every modern device</h4>
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According to the <i>Camden News</i>, Stuckey Bros was fitted out
with every ‘modern device’. The shop opened at 6.30am, and the first assistant arrived at 8.00am. The shop closed at 7.00pm and operated 6 days a
week. The dough makers came in at 11.00pm, and the bakers used wood-fired ovens,
which were fired up over the weekends as it took too long to heat them up when
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Horse and cart</h4>
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Stuckey Bros did home deliveries with a horse and cart to Camden, Elderslie,
Cobbitty and Brownlow Hill. The mailmen would take bread to The Oaks,
Burragorang Valley, Yerranderie, Werombi, and Orangeville. The Stuckeys kept
their horses in the Rectory paddock next to St John’s Church. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Methodists</h4>
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The Stuckeys were a staunch Methodist family and Beryl
Stuckey played the organ at the Methodist Church, while Frank Stuckey was the
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Bakers galore</h4>
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The Stuckey Bros shop and bakery site, had been used as a bakery from 1852 when
William McEwan built the premises, and in the 1890s, Mrs McEwan helped her sons
Geordy and Alf run the business. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Who has been there?</h4>
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Do you know what shops are now located in the Stuckey Bros
building? Do you know all the retail outlets that have occupied the building
since Stuckey Bros sold out in 1960?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Read more @ Frank Stuckey, Our Daily Bread, The Story of
Stuckey Bros, Bakers and Pastrycooks of Camden NSW, 1912-1960. Camden, F
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<a href="http://catalogue.library.camden.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/ALLENQ?ENTRY=Frank+stuckey&ENTRY_NAME=BS&ENTRY_TYPE=K&ISGLB=0&GQ=Frank+stuckey" target="_blank">Read more here</a> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dunk House </h2>
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There is a building at 56-62 Argyle Street, Camden, an understated Art Deco-style example of the Interwar period. It is Dunk House. Its
integrity is still largely intact, and it clearly shows the impact of the newfound wealth in the town from the Burragorang coalfields.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Dunk House has intact art deco-style motifs adjacent to the entry above the display window front. The shop front has black tiling and a brass surround of the large display window on the former car showroom. The showroom has intact timber flooring, and the interior and shopfronts have little changed from the 1930s when the building was erected by its owners. The brass names plates are still attached to the shopfront where the tenant business would put their nameplate.</div>
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The Dunk House was built by renowned Camden builder Harry
Willis & Sons in 1937. The premises was a car showroom, shopping complex
and professional suites owned by EC Dunk. Downstairs were 3 shops, the
largest being a car showroom for General Motors cars. Upstairs there were 8
‘compartments’ or rooms, or what we would not call professional suites, each
fitted out with modern amenities, which included water, a wash basin and electric
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The tenants in 1937 included the downstairs shopfront leased
by L Lakin, grocer and Mr Boulous, mercer. Later they included JL Hogg, a dentist
and, in the 1950s, dentist Newton Tobrett. At the rear of the property is a
series of sheds operated at auction rooms run by the Dunks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1938 EC Dunk was the Camden agent for General Motors
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For more information on Interwar Camden, <a href="http://www.academia.edu/6791480/The_Interwar_Heritage_of_a_Country_Town" target="_blank">click her</a>e.<br />
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Gayline Drive-In Movie Theatre<br />Narellan</h2>
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One of the notable attractions in the local area in the 1950s-1990s was the drive-in movie theatre, which was located on Morshead Road, Narellan (now Narellan Vale). Along with rock ‘n roll, transistor radios, the bikini, and the mini-skirt, it defined the lifestyle of the baby boomers. </div>
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It was as popular with teenagers as it was with young families. It was a defining moment for a 20th-century culture based around the period's icons: cars and movies.<br />
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The drive-in at Narellan was owned and operated from 1967-1992 by EJ Frazer and operated as the Gayline Drive-in Movie Theatre.<br />
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<a href="http://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/narellan-drive-in-theatre/">Read more about the Gayline Drive-in here</a></div>
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Shock horror - women show their legs and wear pants</h2>
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Modernism and changes in fashion</h3>
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Changes in fashion through modernity, including in Camden, were representative of societal changes and continuities. The changes were brought by the Industrial Revolution and the technology that it spawned; the greatest of these was the railway and, in the 20th century, the motor car.</div>
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The railways were the greatest revolution of the early modern period and created a mass movement of people and regular timetables and triggered the appearance of mass tourism. Steamships hastened this, and Camden folk regularly travelled to the metropolitan centre of the Empire in London.</div>
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The growth of industrial society and capitalism increased wealth, leisure time, entertainment, and personal freedom. Mass culture clashed with high culture, and the First World War brought the horrors of mechanised warfare.<br />
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<div>New inventions that included the bicycle, the movies, the motor car, the wireless, the telegraph, the aeroplane and the milk bar brought many new pastimes. The popularity of the bicycle gave women increased freedom of movement, represented by the fashions they wore while cycling. There was a need for increased freedom of movement, and a new social force arrived.</div>
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Young folk in Camden went to the movies at the Star Empire Theatre and later the Paramount Cinema. They were exposed to the latest fashions in clothing, motor cars and all things American. Icons of early 20th-century American culture include the movie stars like Charlie Chaplin and Shirley Temple. </div>
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The inter-war period fashions saw women freed from the corset and the appearance of cosmetics and rayon, which replaced expensive silk. New industrial processes produced ready-to-wear. There were shorter hemlines and shock horror - women showed their legs and wore pants. </div>
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Consumerism was hastened by the Victorians and gained momentum during the inter-war period. Social norms were challenged, and new ideas created by new technologies drove many changes in the daily life of those living in the Camden district.</div>
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Camden general stores, like Whitemans and Cliftons, carried goods from all parts of the British Empire for the consumption of the local community. </div>
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Modernism was a transnational force that embraced the Camden community.<br />
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Modernism in 1960s Elderslie NSW</h2>
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The land releases in the Camden suburb of Elderslie in the 1960s have produced several houses that have expressed mid-20th-century modernism. The house designs were taken from the book of project homes of the day and were quite progressive.<br />
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Australian architects, including Robin Boyd, were expressing Australian modernism. These architects were commissioned by housing developers like Lend Lease to design their housing estates. One such development was the Lend-Lease Appletree Estate at Glen Waverley in Melbourne. Another Lend Lease land release and a group of show homes were at their 1962 Kingsdene Estate in Carlingford,<br />
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The Elderslie homes were built by the miners who worked in the Burragorang Valley and they wanted new modern houses. They generated the wealth that funded the urban growth of the Camden suburbs of Elderslie and South Camden. <br />
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Elderslie was one of the original land grants to John Oxley in 1816. The area has been dominated by farming, particularly orchards and vineyards.<br />
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Elderslie examples of 1960s modernism include houses in Luker Street characterised by low-pitched rooves, open planned but restrained design, with lots of natural light streaming in full-length glass panels adjacent to natural timbers and stone. There are also ranch-style houses on River Road with open planning and wide frontages to the street, which some architects designed.<br />
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These houses are all located in and amongst Federations-style farming houses of the Edwardian period. The Federation-style houses were on large blocks of sub-divided land during the 1960s.<br />
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The now demolished Henning's house in Macarthur Road (image) is an example of open planned ranch style. Other modernist designs are the blocks of flats in Purcell Street, with use of decorative wrought iron railings. <br />
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Sunset Avenue in Elderslie was a new land release with a mix of 1960s modern low-pitched roof open-planned houses interspersed with New South Wales Housing Commission fibro construction homes. <br />
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Other land releases of the 1960s were the New South Wales Housing Commission 1960s fibro houses, some located in Burrawong Road and Somerset Street.<br />
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Modernism and ranch-style housing in Elderslie</h2>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ranch style housing</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ranch-style housing is a significant post-Second World War housing style. The housing style has been noted by architect Robert Irving as an Australian domestic architecture style. Parramatta City Council has recognised the housing style of heritage significance.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">American History of Ranch-Style Homes</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The original house style came from California and the South-west of the USA, where architects in these areas designed the first suburban ranch-style houses in the 1920s and 1930s. They were simple one-storey houses built by ranchers who lived on the prairies and in the Rocky Mountains. The American architects liked the simple form that reflected the casual lifestyle of these farming families. After the Second World War, several home builders in California offered a streamlined, slimmed-down version. They were built on a concrete slab without a basement with pre-cut sections. The design allowed multi-function spaces, for example, living-dining rooms and eat-in-kitchen, which reduced the number of walls inside the house. The design was one of the first to orient the kitchen/family area towards the backyard rather than facing the street. The design also placed the bedrooms at the front of the house. The marketing of the ranch-style house tapped popular American fascination with the Old West. (<em>Washington Post</em>, 30 December 2006)</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 18.18px;">The residence at 64 Macarthur Road was built in 1960 by Peter and Barbara Hennings in their early 20s. Mr Hennings recalls that the builder had a catalogue, and the house design was chosen among those. Mr Hennings has always been interested in design and was careful in selecting the plans for the house.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.18px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The house was a 3 bedroom double brick ranch-style residence with a separate bathroom and toilet. It has 10-foot ceilings, a stone fireplace and timber sash windows. There was a detached garage. The design was considered relatively ‘modern’ for its time, according to Mr Hennings. There are two pairs of ¼ inch-bevel glass doors in the lounge room and 2 single glass bevel doors. </span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.18px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the Hennings bought the 2 blocks, the site was covered in bracken ferns. On the garage end of the house, they filled the site and had a stone batter, which was completed after the house was built.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.18px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The residence was in a prominent position on Macarthur Road and one of the first houses to be constructed on the subdivision of the Bruchhauser farm in 1960. The wide frontage ranch-style house was set back on the double block in a high position, which is uncommon in Elderslie, although typical of this style elsewhere in Sydney (Parramatta Development Control Plan 2005).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.18px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong>Owners</strong></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.18px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The residence was built by a thriving local business family whose prosperity was built on the wealth generation of the coal mining industry in the local area. The coal industry was an important part of the Camden story, and Henning’s residence is part of it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.18px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Hennings sold the house in 1980 to Dr Charles McCalden, who had a medical practice in Hill Street, Camden. He moved away from Camden in the mid-1980s. In recent years (1999-2009), the house was owned by school principals Joan and Frank Krzysik.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.18px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong>Significance</strong></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.18px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ranch-style house has been identified elsewhere in the Sydney area as a building style of special character (Parramatta Development Control Plan 2005). </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Integrity</span></strong><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The residence's integrity was intact until it was demolished in 2011, including the front fence built in 1960 by the Hennings of ‘Chromatex’ bricks. Several mature trees on the site added<span lang="EN-US"> to the aesthetic quality of the site.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.36px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>References</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Katherine Salant, 'The Ranch, An Architectural Archetype Forged on the Frontier', <em>Washington Post</em>, 30 December 2006</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">P & B Hennings, Camden, Interview, February 2010.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Demolition of 64 Macarthur Road, Elderslie</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 2011 a ranch-style house in Macarthur Road Elderslie was unfortunately demolished to make way for a preschool. Camden's ranch-style houses are part of the town's post-Second World War development and growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Macarthur Road house was one of a number in the Elderslie area, and 2 have been demolished. One of the demolished ranch-style houses, <em>Kalinda</em>, was located off Lodges Road Elderslie and owned by the Whiteman family. The Whitemans owned a general store in Camden that operated for nearly a century. The house was a weatherboard cottage demolished in the late 1990s to make way for Sydney's urban development in the Elderslie area. The house was high on the ridge with a pleasant outlook facing west over the Narellan Creek floodplain. Visitors approached the house from Lodges Road by driving up to the top of the ridge along a narrow driveway. </span><br />
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camden history noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13573651315788082892noreply@blogger.comCamden NSW 2570, Australia-34.054218100000007 150.69560190000004-34.106837600000006 150.61492090000004 -34.001598600000008 150.77628290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413682556509713822.post-90030701137468118182019-09-05T17:05:00.000-07:002019-09-05T17:05:53.997-07:00Spring into artworks at Macaria<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Spring Exhibition at Local Art Gallery</h2>
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The Alan Baker Art Gallery in <a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.blogspot.com/2016/11/macaria-threatened-by-demolition.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Macaria</span></a> has launched a new exhibition for Spring 2019.<br />
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The exhibition has three themes:<br />
1. Local Landscapes<br />
2. Flora<br />
3. A Model Wife: A Model Life.<br />
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1. Local Landscapes</h3>
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Alan Baker's local landscape painting captured The Oaks and the surrounding area. Baker loved painting en plein-air with the breeze blowing in his face so he could feel the air around him and take in the environment.<br />
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The exhibition displays some of Alan D Baker's prolific flower artworks in his representational style.<br />
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Alan Baker's wife Marjorie, an artist in her own right, was his model, muse and wife. This exhibition investigates the role of the artist's model.<br />
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The exhibition also highlights the role of Rita Lee, one of Sydney's top artist models, who regularly worked with renowned artist Norman Lindsay. There is work by Lindsay on display.<br />
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The exhibition is part of the <a href="http://camdenhistorynotes.blogspot.com/2019/09/unlock-camden.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Unlock Camden</span> </a>open day at the Alan Baker Art Gallery at<span style="color: yellow;"> <a href="https://camdenhistorynotes.blogspot.com/2016/11/macaria-threatened-by-demolition.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Macaria</span></a></span> in John Street Camden.<br />
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