General News
9 March, 2024
Historical Society News
The society’s first meeting for the year was well attended with many matters discussed.
The society’s first meeting for the year was well attended with many matters discussed. It was agreed that the skylights installed by Geremy Ryan in the roof of the museum, following painting of the mural by Jack Randell, had made a tremendous difference, with lights now seldom required. A letter to be forwarded to council to thank them for obtaining a grant to have both these projects completed.
Signs have now been attached to the mural, with information about the story of the mural, together with a QR code to source further details.
All were pleased to hear that the head of our rare Iron Turbine windmill was to be returned very soon. This work has been held up because our windmill expert, Thomas Glastonbury’s workshop in Molong was inundated by flood water last year and he had also been undertaking some considerable works on the pipe organ at the Opera House, a man of many talents!
A further project to be completed soon is the re-positioning of the ‘Lemon Squeezer’ (Gilgandra’s first Information Centre).
Only levelling and turning the structure to face inwards is required.
We continue to receive donations from the community, however some information and/or a story to accompany any items make them much more interesting. Marion McKechnie of Mendooran has recently donated a number of dolls, some of which she made at classes with the late Thelma Craig. Max Zell has offered a number of items of machinery, however re-arrangement of other items will be needed to accommodate these. Max also donated a ‘donation box’ which he purchased from the Men’s Shed. Other donations include an advertising flyer for the stallion ‘Violoncello’ standing at stud at ‘Wallumburrawang’ (HE and NM Rouse) from Bernadette Estens (the late Harold Rouse was a benefactor for the establishment of the Legacy Units within Coo-ee Village); Knitting for Soldiers (WW2) pattern book, supplement to The Australian Home Journal; and a Gilgandra concertina postcard produced by Murray Views for ‘Convary Bros Gilgandra NSW’ from St Vincent de Paul.
