Picton and District Historical and Family History Society Inc in Picton, New South Wales | Community organisation

Picton and District Historical and Family History Society Inc

Locality: Picton, New South Wales

Address: Wollondilly Library, 42 Menangle Street, Picton NSW. Postal Address: PO Box 64, 2571 Picton, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.pictonheritage.org.au

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25.01.2022 Interested in convict research? Have we got something for you! A free, downloadable guide all about Convicts. Now out of print, the "Convicts and Convict Administration Guide" remains a vital resource for researching your convict history: http://ow.ly/5v4P50CoIRO

25.01.2022 Please take a moment today to pause, reflect and remember all those who have served and are serving our Nation. 102 years ago the guns fell silent on the WW1 Ba...ttlefields, 416,000 Australian young men enlisted and more than 60,000 never returned home to their families, mates and communities. Since that day Australian men and woman have served with the great spirit of the ANZAC’s. Please take a moment today to pause at the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11 Month to remember their Service and Sacrifice. Lest We Forget See more

24.01.2022 A view of the new roundabout on Remembrance Driveway Tahmoor. The ‘Golden-M’ restaurant is under construction. The new retail/industrial development is opposite... The Tahmoor Inn-formerly named the El Greco. When built in 1968 by Steve & John Vrettos they thought the name El Greco would be attractive to passing tourists travelling on the Hume Highway. El Greco Spanish for The Greek named after the famous Greek/Spanish painter El Greco. Information courtesy Jim Vrettos. Photograph by James Whitfield. (17.10.2020)

22.01.2022 More pictures from our opening of the Hope Out of the Ashes exhibition.

22.01.2022 If you missed the Australian War Memorial’s Last Post Ceremony commemorating our local Thirlmere veteran Ian Thomson who was killed in Vietnam, you can watch it on the Memorial’s utube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6FgNy_8lF4

22.01.2022 The construction of Warragamba Dam required the establishment of a township of considerable size for the housing of the staff and workmen engaged on the project... and their families in proximity of the works area. Both the town and the main portion of the works were established on the east bank of the #Warragamba River, but were separated by a deep gorge known as Folly Creek which is a tributary (usually dry) of the river. In order to provide a direct and quick pedestrian access between the township and works area, two footbridges were constructed, one across Folly Creek from a point near the main works area and the other across the Warragamba River joining the two works areas just downstream of the dam site. Both bridges were constructed as stiffened suspension type but the design also meant they were susceptible to water damage and rot. The Folly Creek bridge was deemed unsafe shortly after the dam construction was completed and was demolished in 1963. #WarragambaDam #DamHistory Photo: NSW State Archives

20.01.2022 On this day in 1932, a crowd converged in Lorne to celebrate the opening of the newly completed Great Ocean Road. Over a 13-year construction period, 3000 ret...urned servicemen built the road, largely by pick, shovel and barrow. Now a popular road trip for Victorian locals and visitors alike, the 'greatness' of the Great Ocean Road has never diminished. Learn more about the challenges and champions of this incredible build via our latest blog: blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/road-of-a-thousand-charms/ The Great Ocean Road, Cape Patton, Lorne. H90.160/74

20.01.2022 Our touring exhibition The Queen's Album will be on at Parliament of NSW next month from 5 to 27 May. The exhibition explores the unique story of an album of p...hotographs gifted to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1882 on behalf of the people of NSW. http://ow.ly/3kzP50EijqU #thequeensalbum

18.01.2022 The Wollondilly Library will be lit up in pink and blue tonight from 7pm as part of the International Wave of Light for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Da...y. Observed on 15 October, the day promotes greater awareness, remembrance and support of the estimated 1 in 4 individuals and families whose lives are irrevocably altered by the death of their children during pregnancy, at birth and in infancy.

18.01.2022 This year Remembrance Day falls during NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) Week: 11.11.2020. Remember well this year by listenin...g to From A Whisper To A Bang!, Episode 05: "Defending Country", an exploration of the service and sacrifice of our First Nations service people in the Australian military. It's an amazing story of Restoration, Recovery and Reconciliation. Listen on the Australian War Memorial website --> https://bit.ly/36mdn61, or on indigiTUBE, the online media platform by and for First Nations people --> https://bit.ly/3kdY2Jm #

18.01.2022 FREE ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA: Swimming holes of Wollondilly - Post 2. This is Bargo River on the southern end. (not Mermaids Pools area) To get here turn into Ba...rgo River Rd a little south of Tahmoor township, at bottom of the hill turn left where the sign to Kiah Ridge Conference Ct is, then turn hard left again into the public reserve. This is very shallow paddle spot ideal for little kids. Visitors have commented that the water quality isn't very good so I researched it with NPWS . Our rivers & creeks all have a sandstone base which gives the water a yellowish tinge, the water quality is perfect & runs into the Nepean catchment so is regularly monitored. If you like to walk take a hike to the south along the creek on the service track. This will bring you to the Picton Weir ( sometimes called Bargo Weir) The track continues from the Weir up a steep hill & eventually brings you out at Balmoral. The full loop is a walk not for the faint hearted but its relatively flat to the Weir. No 4 WD sorry as there are gates, but walking is permitted. There are no facilities here but only a short drive to Tahmoor shops for picnic supplies. LEAVE NOTHING BUT YOUR FOOTPRINTS. Image 1: Swimming spot at bridges Image 2: Picton Weir. See more

18.01.2022 Goods train on fire at Tahmoor. Article courtesy the Picton Post. (21.10.1971)

17.01.2022 The Society received an inquiry a couple of months ago looking to identify the location of this house - can you help? It was on Razorback and owned and lived in by the Brookes family. On the back of the colour photo is written "Mum (Caroline Brookes) born, lived there 1922 - 1933). Griffin Brookes purchased portion 102 Parish of Picton from James Moore in 1881. It was subsequently transferred to Charles Brookes in 1912 and then to his widow Caroline in 1917. We don't know if this is the land on which the house is/was located.

15.01.2022 Goods train on fire at Tahmoor. LV12043 (Louvre Van) on fire. Photographs by James Whitfield. (15.10.1971)

14.01.2022 Did you know at one time New Zealand was part of the Colony of New South Wales? And #OnThisDay 3 May 1841 NZ was proclaimed a separate Crown colony from NSW. Here's a look at the relationship between NSW and NZ from the early 1800s to Federation: http://ow.ly/DbBk50ECUwt

14.01.2022 On this day - 9th November 1938, L.A. Kindergarten teacher Helen Hulick went to jail for wearing pants in a courtroom. Hulick, 28, wore slacks during a court a...ppearance to testify against two men, and her testimony was rescheduled and Hulick was ordered by Judge Arthur S. Guerin to return to the court in a dress. Hulick was quoted in the, Los Angeles Times saying, You tell the judge I will stand on my rights. If he orders me to change into a dress I won’t do it. I like slacks. They’re comfortable. Thank you Helen for fighting to make pants an acceptable form of dress for women. We thank you and many of our colleagues who attend court on a daily basis thank you. 82 years later we have a pant loving Female Vice President in the United States. Let's celebrate how far we've come! photo credit - @misfithistory Caldwell Martin Cox - your trusted advisor since 1950.

13.01.2022 The Society recently received a donation of the following photographs taken at the Picton Festival in September 1984.

12.01.2022 Happy 100th birthday to Qantas! In August 1919, two young aviators embarked on a journey from Longreach to Darwin mapping out possible landing sites for airc...raft. While journeying through the rough and roadless outback, Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness formulated their ideas for a local air service. The company they founded was Qantas, and 100 years after their epic journey, it remains a globally recognised airline. This rare album contains the photographs taken by Fysh and McGuinness on their historic trip! Discover the origins of an Australian icon: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au//aviatio/origins-australian-icon

11.01.2022 We had the opening of our exhibition and launch of the Book, Hope Out of the Ashes, with the man who gives us HOPE, Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons. Always an inspiration.

10.01.2022 #OTD in 1838 Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum opened. The first patients were transferred from the overcrowded Liverpool Lunatic Asylum & the Female Factory, Parramatta on 19 Nov 1838. By 1869 Tarban Creek had become the Gladesville Hospital for the Insane. http://ow.ly/BKdN50Cmpuj

10.01.2022 Picton from the air - 2000

09.01.2022 The following morning clean up operations began following the goods train fire at Tahmoor. Photo one: Clearing the track. Photo two: Locomotive 48139 with the ...damaged vehicles at Tahmoor goods siding (The Catholic Church in York Street is just visible in the background). Photo three: The train at Bargo ready to return to Sydney. Photographs by James Whitfield. (16.10.1971) See more

08.01.2022 Picton views c 1958 - what can you identify? Photos by the late Norma Ross, Whitfield Collection

07.01.2022 A reminder that this Friday - 14 MAY - is our FREE Webinar on the Parramatta Female Factory. In the early 1800’s the Parramatta Female Factory was seen by autho...rities as a solution to the management of female convicts, their protection and the harnessing of their economic power. Join social history curator and writer Gay Hendriksen and Emily Hanna for a conversation about the history of the Female Factory and the records in the NSW State Archives that tell their stories. REGISTER: http://ow.ly/Dwm350CSI1e

06.01.2022 HELP NEEDED! We have had an inquiry on behalf of an 85 year old lady who has fond memories of her childhood in Picton. She is trying to locate the property where she stayed with her parents Daniel and Kate Dawson, between 1944 and 1952. Her memory is that they "..rented two different places from the O'Brien's who had the dairy and slaughterhouse. The first place was near the slaughterhouse and it was rumored that Ben Hall had lived there. ...remembers it being a log cabi...n, where tree trunks were cut in half and that was the outside, and inside the walls were covered in newspaper which was painted green. The second place they rented was in Oaks Road past the bridge and the first house when turning left. The dairy was further up. " The WSC electoral roll for 1953 shows an Alphonsus Thomas O'Brien and Bridget O'Brien as residents at Abbotsford. The Picton Post of 22 April 1953 recorded the death of Mrs O'Brien noting that her husband John had predeceased her but she is survived by sons Alphonso and Paul. Can anyone help?

04.01.2022 #ThrowbackThursday A parade in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953 in Argyle St, Camden.

02.01.2022 Today another panel was unveiled on the Remembrance Walkway at the Sub branch. The WWII panel was unveiled by Thirlmere legend Fred Denny who also features on the panel. Thank you to all who have served our Nation in times of conflict and peace. Lest We forget.

02.01.2022 Who are you remembering today? We encourage you to share your stories and tell us who you are remembering this Remembrance Day. Please post a comment below or ...share with us on social media using the hashtag #WeRememberThem #RemembranceDay Image: Second World War veteran Les Cook at the Last Post Ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. AWM2020.4.80.49 Photograph taken by Marcus Fillinger

02.01.2022 #OnThisDay 26 November 1879 the mugshot of AG Scott aka Captain Moonlight was taken at Darlinghurst Gaol. Captain Moonlight was a notorious #bushranger who "who... committed various crimes bank-robbery, passing false cheques, stealing gold and led a gang of outlaws until he was eventually caught by police, tried in Sydney in 1879 and subsequently executed in Darlinghurst Gaol in 1880." http://ow.ly/5iTK50wWXcS