Gunning & District Historical Society

Gunning Court House 1885: Photo via Flikr, State Library of NSW, Public Domain CONCERT A concert was held according to advertisement at the court house last Friday evening in aid of the local cricket club. The audience was not as large as had been anticipated, but all the best class of people in the town were present, and the general deportment of the audience was by far better than at any other entertainment I have ever attended in Gunning. Either the larrikin element was absent or else our larrikins have reformed and learned to comport themselves as gentlemen. The entertainment passed off smoothly without a hitch, and those present were very enthusiastic in expressions of enjoyment. J. F. Kenyon Esq. J.P., president of the cricket club, presided. The entertainment was opened with a pianoforte solo by Miss James, which was very ably rendered. This young lady, who has been far from well for some time, was unable to sing, but notwithstanding severe indisposition, rod...

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...