Coo-ees in Macquarie Rd, Springwood. Source: Blue Mountains Local Studies.
A NSW Local Studies Librarian meeting at Lithgow this week heard from WWI centenary projects at Mudgee, Lithgow and Orange (Mosman got a guernsey too). The Coo-ee March from Gilgandra, first of the recruiting marches organised in New South Wales in 1915, passed through Lithgow, so it was an appropriate venue to hear what NSW libraries are doing with their communities for the Anzac centenary.
Early one wet, Saturday morning in January 1917 an explosion rocked “Bangoola”, the Schreiterer family home in Parriwi Road better known then as New Spit Road. It was heard as far away as Cremorne Point.
Frank Pursell, Mayor of Mosman, 1939. Detail from a photograph titled ‘Mayor’s Room’ in the Mosman Library Local Studies collection.
It’s timely that a few weeks before a talk on the Great War in the air, historian and local resident David Carment has researched a Mayor of Mosman who, with his brother, served with the RAF in WWI.
It’s funny how once you have a specific focus on a particular subject you somehow develop antennae that pick up other relevant bits and pieces that like a jigsaw fit into place and tell a story. In the course of working on this project I have rediscovered some great characters.
Just a quick post to let you know that we’ve mapped on Historypin some images shared at Scan-a-thon, including the postcards of Vignacourt belonging to Allan Allsop.
Historypin allows you to see ‘than and now’ views using Google Maps and Google Street View — or with your phone if you’re lucky enough to be in situ in France!
Doing our bit photos on Historypin →
We’ll try to add more soon. Any suggestions?
Also, take a look at the work Historypin are doing with the Imperial War Museum around crowdsourcing and ‘The Participatory Museum’ concept.