Camden Park House
Took my family to Sydney for the weekend, ostensibly for a quick sightseeing stopover but actually so that we could attend the annual open day at Camden Park House. We were lucky with the rain, and managed to explore the house and extensive gardens before it poured. * * * * * During the first…
Saying Goodbye to your Children
This week I waved my son off to camp – he’ll be away for nine days. Elizabeth Macarthur waved her young sons off too, to be educated in England, for years at a time. I don’t think I can imagine how she felt. Or can I? Inga Clendinnen explored the problem at length in The…
Camden Park House & Garden Open Days
Open 20 – 21 September 2014. Saturday 12noon – 4pm; Sunday 10am – 4pm Historic Camden Park House built in 1835 for John and Elizabeth Macarthur and their family is open for one weekend a year. Tour through this historic Georgian mansion designed by John Verge. Explore the colonial garden filled with spring blossoms and…
Stories in the Archives – the tragedy of triplets
A very kind person (although no one I know) has transcribed the Births, Burials and Marriages registers of the church of St Bridget’s in Bridgerule (a tiny English farming village in North Devon). They’re all available online. Marvellous. So I was browsing through them the other day, as you do, and a story leaped out…