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Title:
Blue Mountains history journal
Call Number:
LSQ 994.45 BLU
Physical Description:
volume : illustrations (some color), maps, ports ; 30 cm
Volume/Date Range:
Issue 1 (Aug. 2010)-
General Note:
Title from cover
Contents:
Issue 11 - 2023 -- “A logical, fairly even route” Who or what guided Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth? / Andy Macqueen -- Footsteps on Narrow Neck / Brian K. Fox -- Sir Henry Parkes’ Dentist, David Fletcher: An Emancipist’s Odyssey from Dublin to the Hunter, the City of Sydney, Tamarama and the Blue Mountains / Jeff Warnock -- Electrifying the Blue Mountains, 1891 to 1947 / George Wilkenfeld -- Rowan Brae School, Blackheath / Peter C. Rickwood

Issue 10 - 2021 -- The Blackheath Stockade; the buildings and the occupants / Peter C. Rickwood -- Cable Ladders in the Blue Mountains / Brian K. Fox -- By Motor and Train to the Caves: A brief history of motorised road and rail travel to the Jenolan Caves, NSW. / Chris Betteridge -- Yesterday’s Heroes: Mount York, The Pioneer Legend and Australian Identity / Harry Dillon -- Mary Boswell Reynolds OAM (1929-2021) / Des Barrett

Issue 9 - 2019 -- Coach Services from the Blue Mountains to Jenolan Caves in the Pre-Motor Era / John Low -- Caves House, Jenolan Caves: the Evolution of the Cultural Landscape from First European Settlement to the Present Day / Chris Betteridge -- Henry Rienits, Amateur Geologist and Principal of The School at Mt Victoria / Peter C. Rickwood & Joan E. Steele -- George Kitch (1843-1914): Katoomba Photographer and Businessman (1889-1914) - Part 2 / Ted Szafraniec -- Associate-Professor R. Ian Jack (1935-2019) / Peter C. Rickwood -- Professor Barrie G.R. Reynolds (1932-2019) / Peter C. Rickwood

Issue 8 - 2018 -- A Blue Mountains House and its Owners: Green Gables at Wentworth Falls / Jeff Warnock -- George Kitch (1843-1914): Katoomba Photographer and Businessman (1889-1914) – Part 1 / Ted Szafraniec -- Tuck’s Jenolan Caves Oilette Postcards / Erik Halbert & Ross Ellis -- Playground ‘Rockets’ reflect the Space Race Era / Susan Jackson-Stepowski

Issue 7 - 2017 -- John Jingery, Gundungura man, and Robert J. O’Reilly, grazier, in the Burragorang Valley / Diana Levy -- The Boulton Family of Verna, Wentworth Falls / Louise Wilson -- Whispering Pines – an H.P. Oser house with a Paul Sorensen garden at Blackheath / Chris Betteridge -- Soldiers Pinch, Blackheath: The history of its naming and development / Peter C. Rickwood -- Watering the Gee-gees: A Survey of Blue Mountains’ Horse Troughs, Part 2. / John Low -- Sandstone Caves in the Blue Mountains: their European Cultural Heritage / John R. Dunkley

Issue 6 - 2015 -- Assistant Surveyor Robert Hoddle’s 1823 Excursion in the Gardens of Stone – and a Dark Secret? / Andy Macqueen -- Woodford Academy, a Rare Treasure / Ken Goodlet -- T.R. Rodriguez (1860-1929) – “Blackheath’s Father” / Peter C. Rickwood & Joan E. Steele -- Tuck’s Blue Mountains Oilette Postcards / Erik Halbert & Ross Ellis -- Watering the Gee-Gees: A Survey of Blue Mountains’ Horse Troughs, Part 1. / John Low

Issue 5 - 2014 -- The Paragon Café, Katoomba / R. Ian Jack -- Blackheath’s Victory Theatre / John Lanser -- A Meticulous Draftsman and Enigmatic Character: Victor E. Coleman (1911-1976) / Peter C. Rickwood & Brian K. Fox -- An Appreciation of John Kenneth Leary OAM (1 September 1934 – 10 July 2014) / Jan Koperberg

Issue 4 - 2013 -- The Imaginary Passage: George Caley’s Unrequited Blue Mountains Obsession / Andy Macqueen -- Hills, Pots and Gills: George Caley’s Blue Mountains and Yorkshire Place Connections / Andy Macqueen -- Osborne Ladies College, Blackheath and the Life and Times of its Principal and Owner Miss Violet Gibbins / Ron Brasier -- A Long-Time Resident of Medlow Bath: Cornwallis Wade-Browne (1837-1922) / Peter Rickwood & Howard Browne -- Benjamin Roberts: One of Lawson’s Pioneers / Brian Fox -- Crossing the Nepean River at Penrith / Patsy Moppett -- Postscript: Professor Childe’s Death / Christine Cramer

Issue 3 - 2012 -- The Blue Mountains: where are they? / Andy Macqueen -- The Mystery of Linden’s Lonely Gravestone: who was John Donohoe? / John Low -- Forensic history: Professor Childe’s Death near Govetts Leap - revisited / Peter Rickwood

Issue 2 - 2011 -- The Martindale Family and the Sketchbook of Mary Elizabeth Martindale John Low -- Over a Century of Worship at Medlow Bath / Clair Isbister, Robert King & Peter Rickwood -- A History of the Postal and Telephone Services of Mount Wilson / Mary Reynolds -- A Secret Army in the Blue Mountains? / Pamela Smith

Issue 1 - 2010 -- North Springwood in the Nineteenth Century: the site of St Columba’s Seminary and High School / Ian Jack -- Joseph Hay: One of Lawson’s Pioneers / Brian Fox -- Dr William Bell (1815-1871): Experiences of a 19th Century Doctor on either side of the Blue Mountains / Lois Sabine -- Aboriginal Prehistory of the Blue Mountains / Eugene Stockton
Format:
Magazines
Language:
English
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