Gunning & District Historical Society

Participants at the Gunning Library Workshop, Friday 30 September 2016. Photo courtesy of Maree Roche The Gunning and District Historical Society , in conjunction with the Gunning Library , held its second community workshop on Friday 30 September 2016. The topic was "Researching Australian Military Service Records" facilitated by Gunning resident Dr Michael de Percy from the University of Canberra . Information and paraphernalia provided by the National Library of Australia's Trove team and also the Research Centre at the Australian War Memorial were welcomed by the participants, many traveling from as far as Ulladulla, Canberra, Mt Pleasant and Breadalbane to visit the village. Two sessions were held from 10:30am to 12:30pm and from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. Participants enjoyed morning and afternoon tea during the sessions, allowing time for new connections to be made and to share stories and ideas about researching family histories. The workshop covered th...

NSW Railways Staff c1900  ( K iama Library, Flickr cc-by-2.0) The following article appeared on page 2 of the Goulburn Herald and Chronicle on 5 January 1880. The original article is available on Trove . A Canard.- About one o'clock on last Friday afternoon a small boy came rushing through the street, telling everybody he met that Mr. Morphy, the well-known and universally-liked porter at the railway-station, had been thrown from a cart and instantly killed.   The boy had been told to go for the police, and Constable Clifford started with all possible speed for the scene of the reported dire disaster, which was something over a mile from town, The constable called on his way for Mr. Collins to accompany him in case there might be still some hopes of saving the life of the unfortunate man.  The intelligence, like all bad news; spread like wild-fire and in a few minutes nearly the whole male population of the town was pouring across the flat in the rear ...

Do you teach Trove to others? @madepercy is running a Trove workshop at Gunning Library, 30 Sept. https://t.co/atNCV2Effp — Trove (@TroveAustralia) September 21, 2016

Yass Street, Gunning in 2005 (Photo by Peter Ellis CC-BY-SA-3.0) The following description of the town of Gunning appeared on page 2 of the Goulburn Herald and Chronicle  on 3 November 1875. This is one of the best primary sources indicating the locations and uses of the buildings in the main street and surrounds, many of which remain in existence today. The full article can be viewed on Trove . Town and District of Gunning The houses of Gunning were described not long since by a writer in the  Town and Country Journal  as the "pig-sty style of architecture;" but were he to visit the neighbourhood now such a charge would no longer be a fair one, such extensive alteration and improvements having been made by most of the leading townsmen that Gunning has become almost a new place. Nestling in a pretty valley surrounded by low hills, on a tributary creek of the river Lachlan, the traveller comes upon the town almost before he is aware of it -- a turn of the road...

Pictured left to right: Lance Cooke, Rosemary and Bob Spiller, and Greg Walmsley (Photo by Ann Darbyshire) A lovely mix of locals and visitors took the opportunity to have a look around Pye Cottage on Saturday 25 August 2016, including one person who is considering purchase of a residence in the village. Members of the Gunning and District Historical Society were on hand to further enhance the visitor's experience. Pye Cottage (Photo by Mattingbgn CC BY 3.0) There was also an opportunity to have a browse through the other material that is held by the Society but not on display. One young visitor was enthralled with all the "olden" day's way of carrying out activities ranging through the hand operated washing machine, to the fridges of yesteryear (the Coolgardie safe and ice box) to the typewriter. "Is this a keyboard for a computer?" she asked. The Pye Cottage Museum is open every fourth Sunday and at other times by appointment only. ...

Waratah St (now Warataw St) Gunning, NSW, circa early 1900s (Trove - Public Domain) This photograph dating from the early 1900s depicts Waratah Street (now Warataw Street) in historic Gunning. The former Frankfield Hotel and some of the buildings in the photograph are still standing. The photograph is from Trove , the National Library of Australia 's historical database. Photo by Mattinbgn CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons To the left is a more recent photograph of the Frankfield Hotel, now a private residence.