Have you ever looked closely at the different notes in your wallet, or do you just glance superficially, interested only in the denomination?
You all know and recognise the persons depicted on each note, but have you ever looked more closely at the rest of the decorations surrounding the portrait?
I must confess that I hadn’t. Not until I was preparing last month’s newsletter and the articles on the Royal Flying Doctor Service, when I came across the following diagram.
The design also incorporates innovative security features including a patch with a rolling-colour effect and microprint of excerpts from Flynn’s book.
Mostly there’s no blockbuster exhibitions, gift shops or touch screens, and no dinosaur skeletons or Egyptian mummies either. Yes, small volunteer-run museums can seem like a world away from their better-known city counterparts. These city museums find it easy to focus on the “big history”: significant events of the past; wars, natural disasters, political events,…
In the 1840’s the most select residences in Sydney were a row of five houses in Liverpool Street called Lyons Terrace, facing the south end of Hyde Park. Elegantly attractive, they cost builder Samuel Lyons £5,000 each. Their early tenants included the Chief Justice, Sir Alfred Stephen, and the family of Major-General Edward Wynyard, commander…
Just a reminder that our October speaker, Kerry Easton, will be talking about ‘Needlework Tools Through the Ages”. You are invited to join us at our museum at 1 Bent Street, Concord on Saturday, 1st October 2022 at 1:30 for a 2:00 pm prompt start, to find out more about this subject. Following the talk,…
Sir Arthur Renwick (30 May 1837 – 23 November 1908) Arthur Renwick was a prominent citizen of Canada Bay, philanthropist, politician and businessman. In 1877 – 1878, he built his home and named it Abbotsford after Sir Walter Scott’s mansion, Abbotsford in Scotland. Sir Walter Scott was Renwick’s favourite author. The suburb of Abbotsford was…
I found this on Facebook and felt the need to share. A librarian somewhere has taken the time to arrange these books to bring us a very pertinent message. Simply brilliant!!! You need to read the titles from top left onwards
Ever since the very earliest days of European colonisation in Australia, and likely before, swimming at the beach has been a popular Sydney pastime. Yet swimming, as we know it today, is a far cry from what those who lived in the 19th century or well into the 20th would have been familiar with. In…
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