Ongoing Projects (1)

The Cottage Fence
The committee has resolved to remove the decaying picket fence, between
the Cottage and museum. The yellow rose bush may be re-located to one
corner of the Bullock Wagon cover – so it can ramble freely along the lattice
or other structure.

Newspaper clippings
Member, Brian McCafferty is currently sorting and assembling the newspaper clippings that have been gathered over the years. The clippings date back to 1946. They are being placed on A4 sheets and assigned a category then a sub-heading. Nearly 100 sheets have been assembled so far. The project has a number of steps including scanning all the documents, treating the documents or laminating them to protect them from aging.
The sheets will be scanned and entered onto an archive database.

Bell and Portholes of the SS Maitland
Brian McCafferty initiated the idea of improving the presentation and
repositioning the Maitland display. The idea was approved and he undertook
to have a vertical stand made so the Bell can be presented hanging, as a bell
should. Brian prepared a design and engaged professional engineers
/fabricators to do the final design and the fabrication of a purpose built metal
stand. The terrific stand has been completed.
Our thanks go out to the management and team at Clark Equipment Pty. Ltd.
of Hornsby who graciously donated the material and the time required by the
skilled craftsmen to complete the work.

Our very old books
As you may know, we have a collection of very old, fascinating and possibly
rare books.
These precious old books are being catalogued and re-shelved.
Tyrell, one of our newer members, is helping Jay with this project.

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Guest Speakers

The Guest Speaker at the August General Meeting was Derelie Cherry from
the lovely Paradise Gardens, Kulnurra, who gave us an interesting talk about
the McLeay family and Elizabeth House at Potts Point, as well as how lovely
Paradise Gardens are now that spring is here. The Guest Speaker at the General Meeting on September 21st was Lindsay Allen from State Records, NSW. Many thanks for this informative talk.

October’s Guest Speaker will be John Haxton from the First Fleeters (19/10/2010 @ 1.00pm). And our Guest Speaker for November will be Robert Wilson, the lovely gentleman who has rejuvenated our 100 years old Estey Parlour Organ in the Museum and has also done some work on the Cabinet Organ in the Cottage. Robert has some
interesting facts to relate and stories to tell, and also will be playing our organ
so we’ll look forward to his presentation.

All members of the Brisbane Water Historical Society, and any potential members, are most welcome.

Adcock Scrapbook

We hold a very interesting scrapbook that was compiled by Garnet Adcock,
the second owner of Henry Kendall Cottage, and the founder of Jusfrute.
A descendant of Garnet Adcock, Arthur Adcock, visited our complex to do
some research in May this year and was ‘blown away’ by this scrapbook.
Because of its fragile state now, arrangements were made for us to copy it.
Jay Sider did the jpeg images on a CD, a copy for our library and also a copy
for Arthur. Thanks Jay for all your hard work in this.