Eskbank House

Eskbank House

Dear friends of Eskbank,

What an exciting month we have ahead of us.

Our next exhibition is Primary By Design – Cullen Bullen Public School where Eskbank and the school have partnered up to bring you an exhibition of the student’s photographs and their reinterpretation in a variety of mediums. The opening is 11am Friday 4 September 2015 and you are all invited to come and meet the artists and celebrate this exhibition with them. The exhibition will run from 3 – 20 September 2015.

Following this we will have our first “We All Stand on Sacred Ground” NAIDOC Art Exhibition organised by Mingaan Wiradjuri Aboriginal Corporation.  Mingaan is currently inviting the community to enter a work of art on the theme of “We All Stand On Sacred Ground”. This exhibition aims to promote learning and sharing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture within the community. Your art work may be 2D or 3D, traditional or contemporary so long as it relates to the theme. Please include a story for your art work to help share culture. Entry forms are on the website at http://eskbank.lithgow.com/events/we-all-stand-on-sacred-ground-naidoc-art-exhbition/  The exhibition will run from 24 September - 11 October 2015. With an official opening on Sunday 27 September2015 to which you are all invited.

And our 2015 LITHGOW HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL PROGRAM kicks of this month.

Vampire Scarecrow Workshop: 10am Thursday, 24 September, 2015. Primary school children are invited to join Ludwina Roebuck in the gardens at Eskbank House to create sizzling vampire scarecrows for the 2015 Lithgow Halloween Festival.  With fangs, decorations and flowing capes, the scarecrows will feature in the decorations on Main Street on 31 October 2015.  This is a free workshop, but places are limited. Booking forms on the website at http://eskbank.lithgow.com/events/vampire-scarecrow-workshops/

Create a Vampire Workshop: 9am – 4pm Thursday, 1 October, 2015. For ages 12 – 25, at this workshop you will create a cape and learn vampire make up, cat walk and drama skills. You will then model in our Halloween Fashion Show on Friday 23 October and perform at the Lithgow Halloween Festival on Saturday 31 October 2015. This is a free project but we only have ten places so get in quickly.  Booking forms are on the website at http://eskbank.lithgow.com/events/create-a-vampire-workshop

Never dull here at Eskbank House! If you need any more information please visit our website at http://eskbank.lithgow.com/ 

Cheers

from the Eskbank Team and Wendy
 
Wendy Hawkes | Cultural Development Officer
Community & Culture | LITHGOW CITY COUNCIL
PH (02) 6354 9999 | FAX (02) 6351 4259

Lithgow Anzac Cemetery Walk Sunday 26 April 2015

Commemorate the Centenary of Anzac in Lithgow

Media release

 

An urgent call is issued to local people to knit and crochet red poppies for Anzac Day on 25 April for display in the Lithgow Library and Lithgow Gallery Lane.
“Anzac 100”, the new Gallery Lane exhibition, was inspired by the Commemoration of the Centenary of Anzac and the Lithgow & District Family History Society’s new book ‘A Long March from Lithgow’.

The Lithgow Tidy Towns is combining with the Family History Society to honour the 1307 local men and women who enlisted and who served ‘God, King and country’ in World War I, and whose names and stories are recorded in the book.

But there were many more unnamed local people who enlisted but whose names and stories were not known when the book was published and go well beyond 1307.

“Many poppies will mean a bigger and better display”, said Mrs Helen Taylor author of ‘A Long March from Lithgow’.
The exhibition will be mounted in the gardens in Gallery Lane which runs between Main Street and Woolworth’s, between 18th April and 27 April although there will room left for more poppies.

The Flanders Poppy has become the traditional emblem of remembrance for World War I. Lithgow Tidy Towns and the Lithgow & District Family History Society, Beehive Recreation Centre and their friends are knitting or crocheting red poppies which will be the focus of the display. The plan is to have at least 1307 poppies on display.

We are seeking assistance from people who can knit or crochet poppies and donate them for the display. The patterns are available from the LDFHS Resource Centre on corner of Tank & Donald Streets, on the Society’s Facebook page, the City Library, the Beehive Recreative Centre or from Alena at 80 Main Street which also has stocks of red wool at $2.75 skein and a free pattern.

Finished poppies can be left at the Society, Alena, Lithgow Library & Learning Centre or at the Beehive Recreative Centre before 18th April.

Further details can be obtained by contacting Lithgow & District Family History Society Inc in person at the Resource Centre on Fridays between 10am and 4 pm or on Tuesday nights between 6 and 9 pm or by phone on 02 6353 1089 during these hours, by email ldfhs@lisp.com.au or through their facebook page. Lithgow Tidy Towns contact is Kathleen Compton, phone 0418416017

Visit Cooerwull House & Grounds

Lithgow's Roaring 20’s weekend

Lithgow is having a Roaring 20’s weekend in February with a Gowns and Glamour Ball on Saturday 14 Feb and a Garden Party at Eskbank House on Sunday 15 Feb 2015

I would really appreciate it if you could pop up the poster on your notice boards and perhaps send on to your contacts who might be interested in either event.

Cheers

Wendy Hawkes | Cultural Development Officer
Community & Culture | LITHGOW CITY COUNCIL

2015 Yvonne Jenkins Memorial Award

 

Two years after the launch of the War Heroes Project on 11 November 2011,  the book is at the printers!

The book contains short biographies of over 1200 servicemen and women from Lithgow & District who served in World War I.  Photographs, sketches and newspaper articles are included where possible.

The book launch will be on 9th November 2014 at Club Lithgow at 1:30 p.m.

Further details are on the above invitation.

There will be copies of the book for sale at the launch, and these can be ordered in advance by completing an order form available from the Society's website or Facebook page.
 
Jan Saundercock

Lithgow & District Family History Society Inc
PO Box 516
LITHGOW NSW 2790

Resource Centre: Cnr Tank & Donald Streets, Lithgow
Open Hours: Tuesday nights 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Fridays 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
First Saturday of each month (except January) 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Website: www.lisp.com.au/~ldfhs

Sydmouth Valley House visit

SYDMOUTH VALLEY HOMESTEAD

The Homestead was built in 1826 by Robert Lowe in the Sydmouth Valley through which William Cox constructed his road to Bathurst. Robert Lowe received the grant of 2,000 acres of land and the service of 20 convicts by Governor Macquarie in recognition of his services as a magistrate for the Bathurst district.

Ann Webb purchased the property in 1871 for her youngest son, Thomas Bernard Webb, and the Webb family descendants have continued to occupy the property ever since.

The Lithgow & District Family History Society Inc has arranged for the current owners Kevin Webb and Lynne Woods to conduct a tour of inspection of the handmade brick homestead and the old world cottage garden on Saturday 11 October 2014, be followed by Devonshire Morning tea.

The tour group will meet at the Tarana Hotel at 9 a.m. and following the tour there is an option to return to the Tarana Hotel for lunch, at your own expense.

The cost of the tour and morning tea is $15 which must be paid before 5 October 2014 at Lithgow & District Family History Society Inc, Ewen Smith Memorial Hall, Cnr Tank & Donald Streets, Lithgow during the Resource Centre opening hours or by post to The Secretary, PO Box 516, Lithgow.

THROUGH THESE LINES

Based on the letters and diaries of Australian army nurses in the First World War, Through These Lines offers an intimate and unique theatrical experience, performed by a talented ensemble cast with authentic costumes and props, and a vivid sound design, for an immersive experience of the tumult of war.
We were stunned by the performances … the cast and crew can be very proud of the show … a treasure in the 100th anniversary year of the War to End Wars
Uplifting, terrifying and sad all at the same time … The cast was absolutely brilliant and swept the entire audience up in the history, struggles, happiness of love and crippling devastation of war. Get to see this show if you can, you won’t be sorry
Poignant, thought provoking, great balance of pathos, humour and insight

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Lithgow & District Family History Society Inc - War Hero Project

“A Long March from Lithgow”

The Lithgow & District Family History Society Inc. launch of their War Hero Project was very fittingly held on Remembrance Day 2012 at Club Lithgow.

Federal Member for Calare, John Cobb, and Lithgow Mayor, Maree Statham, spoke on the importance of remembering our diggers and wished the society all the best for the publishing of the book in 2014.

The book, titled ‘A Long March from Lithgow’, will be launched at a function to be held at Club Lithgow on 9th November 2014 and includes short biographies of over 1300 men and women who served their country in what was known as The Great War.

Information for the book has been sourced from Australian War Memorial, National Archives, Mapping our Anzacs, the Lithgow Mercury and Lithgow Democrat newspapers as well as from stories shared by families and friends. Photographs of those who served have been included where available.

Bathurst Historian, Denis Chamberlain, will be the guest speaker at the Launch which is open to members of the public. Afternoon tea will follow the conclusion of official proceedings.

For catering purposes, please RSVP to the Society by email to ldfhs@lisp.com.au or phone 02 63531089 during LDFHS library hours or by mail to The Secretary, LDFHS Inc, PO Box 516, Lithgow NSW 2790.

Books may be pre-ordered by contacting the Society. Orders placed before and incl. 3rd October 2014 Pre Publication price will be $50 plus postage $13.40 (if required). For orders placed after 3rd October 2014 and onwards price will be $60 plus postage $13.40 (if required)

Museums & Galleries NSW - Imagine Awards

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IMAGinE winning ...

Nominations close 8 August.
Get inspired by the 2013 winners.

This email is being sent to all listed member Historical Societies, Museums and Individuals of the Central Tablelands Chapter of Museums Australia (NSW Branch) and other interested persons.
 If you know of other Societies, Museums or Individuals who would like to be added to the list, please email Wal Pilz with name, address, phone no. and email address.

Wiradjuri Traditional Art Exhibation

Dear Eskbank Friends,

We are very pleased to invite you to a special and unique exhibition at Eskbank House called Dhaga Ngiyanhi Ngan.Girra/Where we all Meet

Wiradjuri artists Lynette Riley and Diane Riley-McNaboe from Dubbo originally created this exhibition with the Western Plains Cultural Centre Dubbo.  Lithgow City Council and Mingaan Wiradjuri Aboriginal corporation have worked with the artists to bring this exhibition to Lithgow.

It includes headdresses and belts from grass and feathers, Kangaroo-skin cloaks and a possum-skin blanket, the only one of its kind made in the Wiradjuri area. The cloaks and blanket all contain poker and dye work telling stories of the people and the land.

For more information on the exhibition please go to the Eskbank House website
http://www.lithgow.com/eskbank/events.html

The exhibition runs from 2 April  - 4 May 2014.

The Official Opening to which you are all invited is at 2pm on Saturday 12 April with talks by the artists.

We look forward to seeing you all at Eskbank soon.

Cheers

Wendy

Wendy Hawkes | Cultural Development Officer
Community & Culture | LITHGOW CITY COUNCIL
PH (02) 6354 9999 | FAX (02) 6351 4259

WE REMEMBER ANZAC DAY - The Lithgow & District Family History Society

Yvonne Jenkins OAM - Memorial Award

Yvonne Jenkins of Rydal was a well-known historian and author of several books on family history in the Bowenfels, Rydal and surrounding areas. Yvonne was the convenor of the Lithgow & District Family History Society in 1986 and over the years encouraged members to write stories about their ancestors. The Lithgow & District Family History Society Inc has chosen to commemorate Yvonne's memory each year by conducting the Yvonne Jenkins Memorial Award. Entry is open to both members and non-members of the Society and is in the form of a short essay (1,000 words). The topic for the 2014 award is "My Ancestor was a .....". The winner of the Award, to be announced during Family History month in August 2014, will receive a certificate and one year's free membership of the Lithgow & District Family History Society Inc. The winning essay will be published in the Society's journal and on the web-site. Entries close on 30 April 2014 and must be accompanied by an entry form, which is available here or by contacting the Society, PO Box 516, Lithgow 2790 or 02 6353 1089 during library hours.

Central Tablelands Chapter - Museums Australia - President's Brief