"A Touch of Old World Charm" by Rosemary Spiller Take a step back through time with a display of items from bygone days, that connects us to our history. From fashion, fripperies and fancies to paintings, portraits and photographs of who they were and how they lived. Come visit us at Pye Cottage Museum, where stories unfold and history comes alive. Pye Cottage Museum and the new exhibition The cottage was built close to the road from Gunning, just before Dalton village, by 1867, for the Savage family. Named for the family which donated it, the cottage was moved to 121 Yass Street Gunning, where it opened in September 1974 as Pye Cottage “Folk” Museum. Local people made donations of items to illustrate local personalities and features of agricultural life c 1860-1945. Some donations were made anonymously, sometimes under cover of darkness! Much of the clothing in the exhibition , including the wedding dress, was donated by Nancy Foord, daughter of the featured wedding couple,...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales