About the museum and archives

About the museum and archives............

			THE MOVABLE HERITAGE [ARTEFACT] COLLECTION Household items in original cottage Orcharding equipment & tools including local apple labels and boxes, a working grader and ‘Lucky Star’ apple peeler Indigenous items Clothing and other textiles Framed artworks Flags and banners Furniture such as a Welsh Folding bed Poultry farming equipment Mining equipment Educational and school equipment in original one teacher bush school Nattai Union Banner Drawings and photos
To avoid disappointment, access to the archives is by appointment only. The Museum staff are willing to assist researchers and residents to make the most of the collection. Please ring (02) 4657 1796 to talk to a staff member and explain your requirements. Alternatively, visit the museum and enjoy the displays and talk to the staff who will suggest an area you may wish to explore. Opening hours 10am-4pm weekends and public holidays New volunteers are trained in the use of the archives, please phone for appointment - (02) 4681 0472
RESOURCES HELD AT THE WOLLONDILLY HERITAGE CENTRE LOCAL HISTORY FILES Family History Correspondence – 1989 to date Individual Family Histories: (e.g. Bollard, Cranfield, Chiddy, Chalker, Dunn etc) Local History Files Aborigines – general, local, politics Transfer of graves from Burragorang Valley to Camden/The Oaks Marriages, St. Matthew’s, The Oaks 1857-1869 Marriages, The Oaks, 1948-1962 Restoration of St. Matthew’s, The Oaks Baptisms, St. John’s, Cox’s River Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, District of Camden, The Oaks, Picton, Burragorang Valley Cemetery Transcripts , St. Paulinus’, Cox’s River Roman Catholic Church Properties- Burragorang Valley Roman Catholic Priests, Burragorang Valley, 1834-1954 Schedule- Properties Acquired by Water Board, 1954 Files on Individual Towns and Villages e.g. Camden, Burragorang Valley, and within Wollondilly Shire (e.g. The Oaks, Oakdale, Yerranderie, Appin, Bargo, Buxton, Cawdor, Douglas Park, Glenmore, Menangle, Mount Hunter, Orangeville, Picton, Theresa Park, Wallacia, Wilton, etc. File may include all or some of the following: history, buildings, businesses, churches, schools, Post Office, Hall, School of Arts, sport, organisations, etc. Convicts – on Craigend, Gledswood, Vandeville Greville’s Post Office Directory 1872- The Oaks – extract History of RAAF Landing Ground, The Oaks. Research Papers- Robert Gaudry George Armour- Poetry District Properties: The Hermitage, Mowbray Park, Orthez, Vandeville, Montpelier, Victoria Park. Barnardo Boys’ Training Farm Films made in Burragorang Valley Local Industries: Coal mining, fruit growing, dairying, timber, poultry, bee-keeping, fish farming, farmgate trail, etc. Warragamba Dam Military History: Boer War (files on individual soldiers), World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam etc. NEWSPAPERS – 254 to date. No complete runs, only a collection of individual local papers, some complete, some a few pages only. MAPS: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Appin, Bargo, Burragorang, Camden, Campbelltown, Colong, Jooriland, Kowmung, Lakesland, Menangle, Mount Hunter, Nattai, Oakdale, Picton, The Oaks, Theresa Park, Warragamba, Wollondilly Shire, Yerranderie. ORAL HISTORIES: Audio Tapes, some typed transcripts. PHOTOGRAPHS; Collection of 4000 plus: local people, places, buildings, events VIDEOS, DVDS, CDS, CAMRECORDINGS: material relates to the Society’s area of collecting. e.g. Movies filmed locally, The Oaks Sesquicentenary Celebrations, “Pansy”, Camden’s tain, flooding of Burragorang Valley etc. SCROLLS: The Yerranderie-Burragorang Scrolls – 169 scrolls. A unique collection of local history handwritten in Indian ink on architect’s archival paper. The wealth of material they contain on the history of Yerranderie and Burragorang Valley is made accessible through a separate 18 000 card index. 10 LIBRARY: (Reference only) - 2000 plus books. Main subject areas in the collection includes: Aborigines (general, local, culture, politics) Heritage:(Assessments, studies, reports), conservation (handbooks), museums (guides, manuals, textbooks) Genealogy: (Pioneer registers, guides, directories, members’ interest registers family histories), vital records ( census/musters, immigration, cemetery transcripts, Picton & District Burials, Burragorang Valley Burials) , guides to State Archives, Land Titles Office, National Archives of Australia. History: Australia: (discovery and exploration, colonial, convicts, goldfields, immigration, federation, bushrangers, biographies. New South Wales: Explorers, Government (state), Local Government, Local Histories: (Appin, Burragorang Valley, Camden, Campbelltown, Picton, Oakdale, The Oaks, Yerranderie, etc.) Local Histories: out of the area (e.g. Penrith, Canberra, etc) Education: General, Local schools, out of area schools. Fine Arts: Art- Aboriginal, Music (Australian folk/bush) etc Social History: the Home (history, equipment, furnishing, cooking, etc), Costume, Craft, Hobbies, Gardening, Childhood, Community etc Agriculture: Dairying, Timber, Fruit growing etc. Natural Resources: Water, Minerals, Forestry, Natural Gas, Environment Science: Flora/Fauna, Inventions, Machinery, Manufacturing, Health etc. Sport (Bushwalkers, Football, Cricket ) etc. Literature Religion Transport Generalities (dictionaries, encyclopaedias, atlas, gazetteers, Almanacs, etc.

LOCAL HISTORY FILES