Up Coming Events
Cost to enter RNP is $12.00 per car . Meeting at the main Audley carpark Ironbark Flat by 10:00 for morning tea (byo) prior to Greg and Pam giving a brief outline of the day's activities. Please wear comfortable walking shoes and bring sunscreen, water and a hat. This tour will take approx. 1 1/2 - 2 hours . Please note only current members of SSHS can participate in this excursion , due to insurance requirements. Some points of interest : Located where the road crosses the Hacking and at the junction of the Hacking River and Kangaroo Creek Audley is an area of significant European historic interest. Located at Audley: The remains of a large hotel first built in 1891 and deliberately burnt down in 1975. A large boatshed, the third built at Audley, from 1938 and refurbished in 2021. The Audley Dance Hall, built in 1949 and the large 1891 picnic pavilion Archaeology related to the docks and slipway at Audley This excursion involves only a small amount of walking and is suitable for all levels of fitness. Please bring lunch to have after the excursion or we can have lunch at the Cafe. For further information and to confirm contact Greg Jackson 0450615104
Located at the narrowest crossing of the lower Georges River Delardes Reserve is an area of significant historic interest. Located in the Reserve is: A large indigenous midden which has been partially robbed c1840 The remains of the convict-built road and ferry landing surveyed by Sir Thomas Mitchell, 1843 The stone wharf used by the paddle steamer Telephone c1900 Archaeology related to the Lugarno Pleasure ground, the previous name for this reserve c1900 This excursion involves only a small amount of walking and is suitable for all levels of fitness. The optional bush walk to the midden is about 200m each way. Please bring morning tea and wear comfortable walking shoes, hat and bring sunscreen . Please note only current members of SSHS can participate in this excursion , due to insurance requirements. For further information and to confirm attendance contact Greg Jackson 0450615104 Parkesvale Excursion 4 May 2022 Greg Jackson and Pam Forbes will be leading an excursion to the remains of the Parkesvale Pleasure Ground (1899 –c1912) on 4 May 2022, meeting at Sandy Point Community Centre, 9:30 . It is the first building as you turn into Sandy Point and there is plenty of parking. Please bring morning tea , hat, water , sunscreen and comfortable walking shoes. Parkesvale is the extreme northwest of the shire and is accessed off Heathcote Road. The walk is about 1.2km each way, starting at the Sandy Point Community Centre car park and is mostly on a fire trail along the southern bank of the Georges River. A short section is on a bush track which is sometimes muddy and there is an optional side trip, of about 50m on a rough track, to an indigenous rock art site. Parkesvale was established by the Sandbrook brothers of Camperdown 1899 as a pleasure ground and night-time dance venue on the Georges River with up to 800 patrons reported dancing there to a band on a Saturday night. It operated until about 1912 and is now part of the Georges River National Park. Patrons were conveyed to Parkesvale, from Como Station, by the paddlewheel steam ferry Telephone, the largest ferry to ever ply the Georges River. Located in the Reserve is: ● Archaeological remains of the infrastructure associated with Parkesvale ● Scant remains of the paddle steamer Telephone, now sadly degraded by 4x4 vehicles ● An indigenous shelter containing multiple handprints is a short detour from the path. Please note only current members of SSHS can participate in this excursion , due to insurance requirements. For further information and to confirm attendance contact Greg Jackson 0450615104 |
Coming General Meetings
Saturday 19 February 2022 Stephen Gapps author of The Sydney Wars will be speaking on the Sydney and Bathurst wars . Saturday 19 March 2022 John MacRitchie will be our speaker this month and his topic will be St George to the Rescue, the story of St George & Sutherland District Ambulance. Saturday 16 April 2022 - no meeting Heritage Festival Saturday 21 May 2022 Greg Jackson and Pam Forbes our resident archeologists will be speaking on the Pleasure Grounds of the Georges River. Saturday 18 June 2022 Jim Haynes is our speaker this month Saturday 16 July 2022 Clive Baker will be presenting the Military history of the Shire 1770- now, an overview of events. Saturday 20 August 2022 This month our speaker will be Matt Murphy author of "Rum : A Distilled History of Colonial Australia" . |