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SUMMARY:Architecture of the 1920's
DESCRIPTION:The Mungo Scott Mill at Summer Hill was built in the 1920’s.\n\n\n\n\n\nScott MacArthur.\n\n\n\nPresenter Scott MacArthur is President of the Marrickville Heritage Society. Scott has over 25 years’ professional experience in heritage conservation and adaptive reuse of historic places. He is a previous winner of a NSW Government Heritage Volunteer Award and an RAHS Special Achievement Certificate in recognition of his work with the Society to champion the built heritage of the former Marrickville LGA.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/architecture-of-the-1920s/
LOCATION:Mervyn Fletcher Hall\, 81 Dalhousie Street Haberfield\, Entry from Dickson Street
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Lois Gray":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20221023T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20221023T160000
DTSTAMP:20221023T234237Z
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SUMMARY:Art Deco Talk by Dr Peter Sheridan
DESCRIPTION:Sydney Art Deco explores the impact of the Art Deco style on the landscape and life of Sydney during the 1930s and 1940s. \n\n\n\n\n\nDr Peter Sheridan\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Peter Sheridan | AM BDS MDS FICDClinical Senior Lecturer\, Sydney University \n\n\n\nDr Peter Sheridan is an internationally recognised photographer\, author\, collector\, historian and speaker on Art Deco design. \n\n\n\nHis photographic images and articles appear in specialist fine art journals\, books\, travel publications\, museum catalogues and print media. Peter’s 432 page book Sydney Art Deco (2019) was longlisted for the 2020 Indie Book Awards. It is already in its 2nd edition and lays the foundation for a series of walking booklets\, the first being Sydney Art Deco & Modernist Walks – Potts Point & Elizabeth Bay\, which was released in August 2021. \n\n\n\nHis collection of radios of the 1930s and 40s is considered one of the best in the world. He is also an accredited professional photographer and his highly acclaimed reference books Radio Days – Australian Bakelite Radios (2008) and Deco Radio – The most beautiful radios ever made (2014) have confirmed radio as early examples of streamlining and modern industrial design.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/art-deco-talk-by-dr-peter-sheridan/
LOCATION:Pratten Park Community\, Sports and Bowling Club\, 42 Arthur Street\, Ashfield\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Lois Gray":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20221120T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20221120T160000
DTSTAMP:20221116T212658Z
CREATED:20220908T012007Z
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SUMMARY:South Flows the Pearl: Australian Chinese Voices
DESCRIPTION:明珠南流：澳大利亚华人之声 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the late 1980s Mavis Gock Yen began interviewing elderly Chinese Australians from all around Australia\, recording hours of conversations.These fascinating and absorbing stories of the struggles and successes of Chinese in Australia\, told in their own words\, have been edited by Siaoman Yen and Richard Horsburgh. They form the basis of South Flows the Pearl: Chinese Australian Voices\, published by Sydney University Press in February 2022.The unique book with stories from across the country from Perth\, Broome\, Darwin\, Sydney and outback Queensland and New South Wales provides a new perspective on what it means to be an Australian with Chinese heritage. A rich exploration of the Chinese Australian contribution to the development of Australia from the goldrush of the 1850s to the current day.Perth-born Mavis Gock Yen (1916-2008)\, moved with her family to Shanghai in 1925 and spent time in China and Australia over the next twenty years. In 1946 she settled in China where she worked as a journalist and English teacher until after the Cultural Revolution\, eventually returning to Australia in 1981 with her daughter Siaoman Yen.Mavis then began recording and writing this landmark pioneering oral history book which will change how you think about Australian history.Learn more about South Flows the Pearl from the book’s editor Richard Horsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Horsburgh\n\n\n\nChang Family Tamworth c. 1912
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/save-the-date/
LOCATION:Pratten Park Community\, Sports and Bowling Club\, 42 Arthur Street\, Ashfield\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Lois Gray":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230820T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230820T160000
DTSTAMP:20230809T021617Z
CREATED:20230226T063015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230809T021617Z
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SUMMARY:Land Titles Talk
DESCRIPTION:Talk by Carol Liston \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCarol Liston will educate us on the value of Land Title records\, what can be learned from them\, and how to effectively search them. Venue has been secured in the Ashfield Civic CentreActivity Room #4. \n\n\n\nOnce you see how you can search these records you will be inspired! We will show you how to search and access documents from Land Titles and uncover information about title holders\, sometimes back to the original land grants. \n\n\n\n$5 for Members. $10 for Non-members.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/overview-of-resources-available-at-nsw-state-archives/
LOCATION:Room 4 Ashfield Civic Centre\, 260 Liverpool Road\, Ashfield\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20231015T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20231015T160000
DTSTAMP:20230909T042638Z
CREATED:20230226T065847Z
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SUMMARY:State Archives/ Museums of History 
DESCRIPTION:Christine Yeats\, from the NSW State Archives at Kingswood\, will walk us through some of the invaluable sources of information held by the State Archives. You can see a lot of information on-line but you can access the full and original documents through the State Archives. Knowing what is there and how to locate it makes th trip to Kingswood worthwhile. \n\n\n\nChristine Yeats invites members to nominate areas of interest in advance. Members are asked to email their suggestions to: events@ashfieldhistory.org.au. \n\n\n\nThis event will be held at the Summer Hill Community Centre.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/what-you-can-learn-from-land-titles-and-how-to-search-them/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240225T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240225T160000
DTSTAMP:20240205T230743Z
CREATED:20240113T020737Z
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SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting of A&DHS
DESCRIPTION:The Annual General Meeting of the Society \n\n\n\nPlease join us for presentation of the reports\,the election of the Committee for 2024 and afabulous afternoon tea. \n\n\n\nGuest Speaker: Niall Macken\n\n\n\n ‘Hibernian heritage – Some conservation projects in Ireland’.\n\n\n\nNiall Mackeb\n\n\n\nNiall Macken\, Team Leader – Heritage & UrbanDesign\, Inner West Council \n\n\n\nNiall Macken is an architect and heritage specialist with a Masters Degree in Conservation Studies from the University of York\, UK. He has worked on significant historic sites\, buildings and precincts in Australia\, England and Ireland\, within both the public and private sectors. He has a strong interest in best-practice conservation management\, including the provision of creative and sympathetic interventions to historic places. \n\n\n\nNiall is a registered architect with the NSW Board of Architects\, and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA)\, and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI). He is the Heritage and Urban Design team leader within Inner West Council\, a member of the NSW Heritage Council’s Heritage Advisory Committee and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects heritage committee.   \n\n\n\nEvent Organisers:
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/annual-general-meeting-of-adhs/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:AGM,Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240324T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240324T160000
DTSTAMP:20240304T054524Z
CREATED:20240205T221450Z
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SUMMARY:Who Do You Think You Might Be:  The Nuts and Bolts of Genealogical Method
DESCRIPTION:Ashfield Civic Centre\, 258 Liverpool Road Ashfield \n\n\n\nA presentation by Kerry Barlow.\n\n\n\nKerry Barlow has an extensive background in education\, having taught economics\, economic history and education for many years\, at high school\, TAFE and university levels. She has strong skills in research\, having conducted numerous funded projects and published many reports\, articles and learning guides on a wide range of social and economic issues. \n\n\n\nKerry’s passion also lies in family history and local history research\, and she brings her teaching and research expertise to the genealogy field\, where she has been teaching family history courses for the WEA for the past 7 years. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will cover: \n\n\n\nPrimary Sources \n\n\n\nBirth Death Marriage records \n\n\n\ncivil registrationuse of Indexespurchases for verification of correct peopleeach jurisdiction collected different informationdependent on honesty and knowledge of informant\n\n\n\nBaptism & Marriage records \n\n\n\nrecord dates vary for all jurisdictionsoften provide more information than Birth\, Marriage civil records (eg sponsors\, witnesses\, religion)\n\n\n\nState Archives \n\n\n\nsome primary records – eg convicts\, land grants\, immigration\n\n\n\nSecondary Sources \n\n\n\nNewspapers \n\n\n\nuseful for birth\, marriage\, death sources (eg death notices\, obituaries)useful for land purchases\, court proceedings\n\n\n\n” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nActivity Rooms 3 & 4 in Ashfield Library in Ashfield Civic Centre
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/who-do-you-think-you-might-be/
LOCATION:Ashfield Town Hall\, 258 Liverpool Road\, Ashfield\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240623T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240623T163000
DTSTAMP:20240619T002830Z
CREATED:20240206T010856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T002830Z
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SUMMARY:Conformity and Individuality in the Californian Bungalow
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will look at the ubiquitous ‘Californian Bungalow’ prevalent in the Inner West with a particular focus on Ashfield and Ashbury. Colin Webb will look at some of the features of Californian Bungalows that make them unique and how they conform. \n\n\n\nWere the Calfornian bungalows ‘unimpressive and uniformly dull?‘ \n\n\n\nColin has taken numerous photographs of Californian bungalows in our local area to illustrate the points he will make in his presentation.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/conformity-and-individuality-in-the-californian-bungalow-2/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240721T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240721T160000
DTSTAMP:20261014T211733Z
CREATED:20240517T033558Z
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SUMMARY:Effective Use of Trove
DESCRIPTION:Christine Yeats will share her knowledge of “Trove”\, the free onlineresearch portal of the National Library of Australia. Christine is Senior Vice President of the RAHS\, and has extensive experience in Historical research.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/effective-use-of-trove/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240818T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240818T160000
DTSTAMP:20240810T222346Z
CREATED:20240517T034018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240810T222346Z
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SUMMARY:A Walk Through London Streets in Search of the Origin of our Victorian Italianate Legacy; a presentation by Mark Sabolch
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this event is closed.\n\n\n\nIn this pictorial presentation Mark will explore the varied examples of the Italianate architectural style as seen in London. \n\n\n\nThe Italianate style was very popular and versatile. Taking in the housing forms seen around Regents Park\, Belgravia\, Pimlico and Bloomsbury just after the turn of the nineteenth century and evolving as new estates extended into the Victorian growth areas in London’s south-east and north-west suburbs. \n\n\n\nTo what extent are the Victorian Italianate house styles we see in the Inner West derived from London housing? Mark will explore how the Victorian Italianate style evolved and consider possible translations from London to Sydney. This is a combined event of Ashfield and District Historical Society and Marrickville Heritage Society.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/theitalianates-origins-in-london-a-presentation-by-mark-sabolch/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250518T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250518T160000
DTSTAMP:20261014T211539Z
CREATED:20250115T023309Z
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SUMMARY:The Squatters’ Grab;  tracing the failure of colonial administrators and various governments to discharge their obligations to Indigenous Australians 
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Wal Walker on his book “The Squatters’ Grab” which traces the failure of various governments and colonial administrators to discharge their obligations to Indigenous Australians; failure that gave rise to the ascendancy of the squatters and dispossession of the Aboriginal people\, and attempts to unravel how and why it all went so wrong! \n\n\n\nWal Walker is the great-great grandson of W.C. Wentworth\, father of the Australian Constitution.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/the-squatters-grab/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250615T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250615T160000
DTSTAMP:20261014T211526Z
CREATED:20250124T210856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T211526Z
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SUMMARY:Inviolable but Invisible – Women at Ashfield\, Summer Hill and Croydon Stations
DESCRIPTION:The talk will examine the context of the station buildings with the rising influence of women’s needs. Stuart Sharp has a life-long interest in railways. He started looking at platform buildings closely from 1982 when he commenced a M. Ec. (Hons) degree at Sydney Uni. He graduated with  a PhD in 1999 from the same university with a management study of the NSW Railways. Between 1992 and 2007\, he was the (and later a) Heritage Officer with the State Rail Authority specialising in buildings. Since retirement in 2007\, he has continued writing and speaking about station buildings.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/he-history-of-the-railway-stations-at-summer-hill-ashfield-and-croydon/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250727T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250727T160000
DTSTAMP:20261014T211515Z
CREATED:20250602T054248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T211515Z
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SUMMARY:Under the Big Top - Circus in Australia: 1847-2025\, a talk by Dr Mark St Leon
DESCRIPTION:Dr Mark St Leon is descended from one of Australia’s earliest circus families\, and is the author of the definitive history of circus in Australia\, Circus: The Australian Story [Melbourne Books\, 2011].Having obtained a Bachelor of Economics\, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant\, serving as Senior Finance Officer (1983-1994) of the Australia Council\, the Federal Government’s arts funding and policy advisory body\, overseeing funding and financial management of Australia’s major funded arts organisations.Mark’s research for the Australia Council into the overall state of the nation’s circus industry led to the Circus Summit\, convened in Melbourne in 1991\, the first national conference of circus people\, which resulted in the establishment of a national circus school\, the National Institute of Circus Arts.He devised and launched the ‘AMAG’ concept\, the Arts Management Advisory Groups. The Sydney branch [‘SAMAG’] is now in its 34th year of continuous\, non-profit operation.Mark’s illustrated talk will be\, as usual\, followed by some light refreshment.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/history-of-the-circus-in-australia-a-talk-by-dr-mark-st-leon/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250824T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250824T160000
DTSTAMP:20261014T211502Z
CREATED:20250701T022514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T211502Z
UID:5902-1756044000-1756051200@ashfieldhistory.org.au
SUMMARY:Coming to Our Rescue: Seventy Years of the SES
DESCRIPTION:The NSW SES was founded in 1955 and serves the community of NSW as the lead agency for flood\, storm and tsunami\, as specified by the State Emergency Service Act 1989 (NSW).Peter Kaye\, a retired Commander of the State Emergency Service Ashfield branch has undertaken to address us on the History of the Service in our area. He has a wealth of experience in dealing with the results of disasters in our community\, and we can expect many anecdotes garnered from his time in the service.This links well with the State Government History Week in early September – theme Water Stories – recalling the Service’s beginnings in the catastrophic Hunter River floods of the 1950s.Peter’s talk will be\, as usual\, followed by some light refreshment.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/coming-to-our-rescue-seventy-years-of-the-ses/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260628T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260628T160000
DTSTAMP:20261014T211236Z
CREATED:20260328T003041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T211236Z
UID:6173-1782655200-1782662400@ashfieldhistory.org.au
SUMMARY:The mysterious world of Land Surveying\, the meaning of the survey marks\, presented by Heritage Land Surveyor Kevin Song
DESCRIPTION:Heritage Land Surveyor Kevin Song will lead us in to the mysterious world of Land Surveying\, the meaning of the survey marks we see in odd places\, and the arcane process of land identification.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/the-mysterious-world-of-land-surveying-the-meaning-of-the-survey-marks-presented-by-heritage-land-surveyor-kevin-song/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260712T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260712T160000
DTSTAMP:20261014T211224Z
CREATED:20260626T221223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T211224Z
UID:6238-1783864800-1783872000@ashfieldhistory.org.au
SUMMARY:The connection between Ashfield\, Summer Hill\, the rabbit plagues\, and the Australian Steel Industry
DESCRIPTION:Ashfield\, Summer Hill\, and the Rabbit Plague \n\n\n\nFor over 100 years\, the Lysaght Wire Mill at Chiswick produced most of Australia’s fencing materials\, significantly the wire netting of which thousands of Kilometres was used in rabbit-control fencing\, in a never-quite-successful attempt to eradicate these cute\, fluffy introduced creatures which were determined to destroy our farming industry.Ashfield and Summer Hill\, perhaps surprisingly\, played a part in the battle to control the burgeoning population of these pests\, being heavily involved in the distribution of Lysaght’s products throughout Australia during much of last century.Much of engineer Brian Gray’s working life was spent in this industry\, and his travels and experiences facilitating effective use of these products in the unending pursuit of the pesky rabbits provide him with much to tell us about this phase of our local history.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/the-connection-between-ashfield-summer-hill-the-rabbit-plagues-and-theaustralian-steel-industry/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260913T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260913T160000
DTSTAMP:20261014T211208Z
CREATED:20260319T233039Z
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SUMMARY:History Week: The Federation House – Where it really Came From\, by Mark Sabolch
DESCRIPTION:The Ashfield and District Historical Society invites you to join us for this informative talk at the Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill. \n\n\n\nIts sometimes said that the Federation period house is Australia’s own style. But is it really? \n\n\n\nThis illustrated talk will explore the origins of the Federation period house\, so prevalent in the Ashfield district. \n\n\n\nThe house style that had been previously popular was the Victorian Italianate. However\, by 1895 there were significant cultural changes that that promoted new ways of looking at the world\, and the idea of Federation was only one of them. Mark’s talk will explore the cultural and social influences that drove an evolution in house style away from the Italianate style. \n\n\n\nWho were some of the key people that shaped public opinion at this time? \n\n\n\nMark Sabolch is a long-standing member of the Ashfield and District Historical Society and author of the ‘Hawthorne Canal – the History of Long Cove Creek’ published in 2004. Recently Mark has been researching the origins of the architectural house styles prevalent in Sydney’s inner west.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/history-week-the-evolution-of-the-federaton-style/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261108T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261108T160000
DTSTAMP:20261014T211121Z
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SUMMARY:How did the small mid-19th century mining town of Burra in the Clare Valley district of South Australia\, largely abandoned well over 100 years ago\, come to represent some of the most significant advances in heritage preservation in Australia\, and indeed World-wide ?
DESCRIPTION:Dr Bronwyn Hanna will share some of her extensive knowledge of this subject in describing the background\, and explaining why the Charter has been so influential\, along with insights into the broader history of heritage practices in Australia. \n\n\n\nThe Burra Charter evolved from a meeting of the Australian chapter of the United Nations-sponsored International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in 1979 and is internationally influential in providing standard guidelines for heritage conservation practice \n\n\n\nDr Bronwyn Hanna is a heritage consultant who trained as an Australianarchitectural historian at the University of Sydney\, completed a PhD on the history of women architects in NSW in 1999 at UNSW\, and co-authored two books on the topic. She has worked for government\, industry and community groups on many heritage places including the Sydney Opera House\, the Parramatta Female Factory and the Brewarrina Fish Traps.
URL:https://ashfieldhistory.org.au/event/the-significant-influence-of-female-architects-in-shaping-the-development-of-australian-urban-landscapes-bronwun-hannah/
LOCATION:Summer Hill Community Centre\, 131 Smith Street\, Summer Hill\, NSW
CATEGORIES:Presentation
ORGANIZER;CN="Jan and Paul Williams":MAILTO:events@ashfieldhistory.org.au
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