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Author Archives: Nepean Historical Society
Monthly Meeting May 2nd 2014
8:00 pm at The Sorrento Museum
Speaker: Associate Professor Ursula De Jong,
School of Architecture and Built Environment. Deakin University
& Director of Australian Research Council ‘Seachange’ project.
Topic: ‘Sorrento heritage: – streetscape transformation and
transgressions: a study of main street changes in the historic
town of Sorrento’
Monthly Meeting April 4th 2014
8:00 pm at The Sorrento Museum
Speaker: Jan Humphrey, President, Southern Peninsula Family History Society
Topic: ‘Researching Southern Peninsula families’
Australia Day Address 2014
Australia Day luncheon of the Nepean and Rye Historical Societies
The address by Stuart Macintyre AO to the luncheon:
Stuart Macintyre AO
Thank you for that generous introduction. I want first to acknowledge and pay my respect to the people and elders of the Boonerwrung people of the Kulin nation, and also to express appreciation to the Nepean and Rye historical societies as we meet on this southerly spit of Australia. Continue reading
Monthly Meeting March 7th 2014
8:00 pm at The Sorrento Museum
Speaker: Judy Walsh, President, National Trust, Mornington Peninsula Branch
Topic: ‘The National Trust on the Mornington Peninsula’
Monthly Meeting February 7th 2014
Speaker: Wayne Bastow
Topic: ‘Private Ernie Myers of Rye: killed in France in WW I.’
Ernie Myers
Source: Australian War Memorial Collection
2490 Private (Pte) Ernest Samuel Gordon Myers, 5th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion, of Rye via Dromana, Vic, aged 24. Pte Myers enlisted on 13 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Osterley on 29 September 1915. He died of wounds on 16 November 1916 at Pozieres, France.
‘Sea’ Figurehead – Update
FIGUREHEAD CONSERVATION WORK BEGINS
Thanks to a $5,000 grant from the Australian National Maritime Museum in November we are able to make a start on stabilising and consolidating the figurehead. Noel Turner from Artfix has agreed to complete the necessary work in stages while we await the next grant or donation.
This preliminary work will cost $6,500 so we are looking for donations to add to the $5,000 grant.
We are relieved that the important preliminary work at least can begin in the next few weeks as the wood is becoming very fragile now.
The figurehead will be transported to Noel’s studio in Melbourne this week – December 19th. A photographic record of the work being done will be taken.
All donations are tax deductible.
Contact Joy Kitch for more information via the ‘Contact Us‘ page on the website.
1913 In Review
It was in 1913 that the name of Australia’s capital city was launched. Our first postage stamp with a kangaroo inside a map of Australia appeared, as did the first Commonwealth banknote the ten shilling note which, in that year, was considered a good week’s wage.
In Melbourne, with its population of 651,000, it was ‘the year of the dome’, with the opening of the domed reading room at The State Library of Victoria. For the first time, lost dogs had a home in North Melbourne, The Eye and Ear Hospital was completed, and the demolition company of ‘Whelan the Wrecker’ was starting to make its mark upon Melbourne’s skyline. Daniel Mannix, who was to become Melbourne’s Roman Catholic Archbishop for 46 years, arrived in Australia, and half a million people came to visit Luna Park in its first year of operation……..”just for fun”.
Sorrento in 1913 seemed to offer more subdued pieces of news than in the previous year, which contained a drowning, a shipwreck, a hotel fire, misplaced vice-regal property and a conflict of local judicial interests.
Sorrento Museum Schools’ Competition
Another Time Another Life
Competition coordinator Bergliot Dallas and the volunteers at Nepean Historical Society are thrilled that over 300 students entered the Museum’s history competition. All local students and schools were invited 12 months ago to be involved. The theme ‘Another Time Another Life’ enabled students to select any person, place or period of local history. They could choose their format – digital, multi- media, photographic or written. The only disappointment was that no secondary students entered this year.
Presentation Day
Members’ Christmas Function
Friday December 5th 5.30 PM
At: The Sorrento Museum
Music: Music from the 1940s to 1970s with Keith White
$20 charge payable NOW to Nepean Historical Society, P.O. Box 139, Sorrento, 3943 Attention: Doreen Parker.
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