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John Carlyle Southwell Oam, Rfd, Ed, Ian Willis
John Carlyle Southwell Oam, Rfd, Ed, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
John Southwell, engineer, businessman, soldier, community worker and gardener, has been an enduring local identity in the Camden district for over 70 years. During his lifetime John has seen Camden change from a small country town to became part of Sydney's rural-urban fringe.
Camden 'War Chest' Patriotic Day 1917, Ian Willis
Camden 'War Chest' Patriotic Day 1917, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
A Camden Red Cross fundraiser for the Citizen's War Chest Fund was held in 1917 (Tuesday, October 16) in Camden's main street. The day raised over 320 pounds a huge amount of money at the time. The local press reported that this was a first for the town. Originally the day had been scheduled for the previous week but was held over because of bad weather.
Camden Women Go To War, Ian Willis
Camden Women Go To War, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
In 1943 is was not common for young Camden women to go off to war. One way was to join the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS), as did a number of young Camden women. One woman who did this was Jacqueline Crookston, daughter of Camden surgeon, Dr Robert Crookston OBE. She is pictured here at an Australia Field Hospital in New Guinea as part of AAMWS in December 1943.
Camden History, Journal Of The Camden Historical Society, Ian Willis
Camden History, Journal Of The Camden Historical Society, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
No abstract provided.
Yearning, Longing And The Remaking Of Camden's Identity: The Myths And Reality Of 'A Country Town Idyll', Ian Willis
Yearning, Longing And The Remaking Of Camden's Identity: The Myths And Reality Of 'A Country Town Idyll', Ian Willis
Ian Willis
In May 2007 the headline on the front page of the Macarthur Chronicle screamed 'Home Invasion'. The report warned that The rural landscape surrounding Camden will be engulfed by suburbia when the construction starts on the Oran Park and Turner Rd precincts early next year. More than 30,000 will occupy 11,500 homes in the two precincts, which form part of the South West Growth Centre. By 2030 Camden will be surrounded by new suburbs consisting of up to 181,000 homes as dense as some of Sydney's most populated areas.
Townies, Ex-Urbanites And Aesthetics: Issues Of Identity On Sydney's Rural-Urban Fringe, Ian Willis
Townies, Ex-Urbanites And Aesthetics: Issues Of Identity On Sydney's Rural-Urban Fringe, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
The rural-urban fringe is a dynamic frontier, an ever expanding zone of transition on the edges of Australia’s major cities and regional centres. This paper examines the proposition that Sydney’s urban growth has pushed the city’s rural-urban fringe into the countryside and unleashed the contested nature of place-making in and around the country town of Camden. It will be maintained that the dynamic forces that characterise the rural-urban frontier have resulted a collision between the desires and aspirations of ‘locals’ and ‘outsiders’ and prompted a crisis in the identity of place. Community icons and rituals have become metaphors for the …
Townies, Ex-Urbanites And Aesthetics; Issues Of Identity On Sydney's Rural-Urban Fringe, Ian Willis
Townies, Ex-Urbanites And Aesthetics; Issues Of Identity On Sydney's Rural-Urban Fringe, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
The rural-urban fringe is a dynamic frontier, an ever expanding zone of transition on the edges of Australia’s major cities and regional centres. This paper examines the proposition that Sydney’s urban growth has pushed the city’s rural-urban fringe into the countryside and unleashed the contested nature of place-making in and around the country town of Camden. It will be maintained that the dynamic forces that characterise the rural-urban frontier have resulted a collision between the desires and aspirations of ‘locals’ and ‘outsiders’ and prompted a crisis in the identity of place. Community icons and rituals have become metaphors for the …
Women's Land Army Filled Farming Labour Shortage, Ian Willis
Women's Land Army Filled Farming Labour Shortage, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
The Women's Land Army was active in the Camden area between 1942 and 1945. They were located at camps in the local area and the largest was at Orangeville.
The Foundation Of The Camden Red Cross, Ian Willis
The Foundation Of The Camden Red Cross, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
A group of Camden women formed a local branch of the Red Cross within days of the British Empire declaring war on Germany on August 4, 1914. It was one of the first branches of the Red Cross formed in Australia.
Francis Warner, Ian Willis
Francis Warner, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
Camden Park housekeeper Frances Warner spoke at the September meeting or the Camden Historical Society about domestic arrangements in the Georgian mansion house. Frances told the attentive audience that in the colonial days a lot of items for the house came out from England including furniture, books, newspapers, china and porcelain and kitchenware of all sorts. 'The blue and white Coal brookdale dinner service with the Macarthur crest was purchased by James Macarthur in 1838. This is now in a cabinet outside the main dining room. Many pieces are carefully stored and wrapped in paper. A treasure trove to be …
St John's Mothers' Union, Ian Willis
St John's Mothers' Union, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
Elizabeth Macarthur Onslow and her daughter Sibella were some of the foundation members of the St John's Mothers' Union in 1900.
Blacksmithing Was A Camden Heritage Trade, Ian Willis
Blacksmithing Was A Camden Heritage Trade, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
In the pre-industrial era all towns and villages had a blacksmith. It is one of the oldest trades in human civilisation dating back to ancient times. Blacksmiths were essential to the daily life of a country town like Camden and relied on a mixture of work from local farmers and passing traffic on the main road.
Camden's Carpenters, A Traditional Trade, Ian Willis
Camden's Carpenters, A Traditional Trade, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
Carpentry was an essential craft in all communities and has been practiced for centuries. In the Camden area the traditional trade of carpentry as it was practicsed had a variety of forms: the discussion with be restricted to the formally trained artisan and the bush carpenter.
Imagings On Sydney's Edge, Myth, Mourning And Memory In A Fringe Community, Ian Willis
Imagings On Sydney's Edge, Myth, Mourning And Memory In A Fringe Community, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
Sydney’s metropolitan fringe is a theatre for the creation and loss of collective memories, cultural myths and community grieving around cultural icons, traditions and rituals. European settlement took the dreaming of the Aborigines and then had its own dreaming removed by an invasion from the east in the form of Sydney’s urban growth. The re-making of place in and around the fringe community of Camden illustrates the destruction and re-construction of cultural landscapes. Locals dream of retaining the aesthetics of an inter-war country town and in doing so have created an illusion of a historical myth of a ‘country town …