8:00 pm at The Museum

Speakers: Four of The Sorrento Museum’s Volunteers

Topic: Some of the interesting current projects they are working on.

From Joy Kitch, NHS President

The wide range of interesting and important projects and tasks undertaken by NHS volunteers in the Archives Room often goes unnoticed and unacknowledged. This month we heard 4 accounts each very different from the other –

Bergliot Dallas described her research into the real designer of our electric ball (see resulting story from The Nepean of June 2016 HERE),

Doreen Parker how NHS records are now available for public access (See below),

Maggie Broadhead her management of the enormous maritime photo collection recently bequeathed (See below),

Janet South gave us an insight into the process involved in investigating the history of a local house (See below).

The audience learnt a lot and really appreciated the speakers and their work.

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