Kogarah Historical Society

21/12/2024

Carss Cottage Museum is open today from 1pm to 5pm. We will be closed then until 12 January.
Wishing all our members and friends a very happy Christmas and I am sure we are all hoping for a peaceful and happy 2025.

21/11/2024

Come and join us on Monday 25 November for 'Monday at the Museum'. Starts at 10 am at Carss Cottage Museum (80 Carwar Ave) with a home cooked morning tea in the courtyard (weather permitting) and then we have an excellent speaker to talk about "Crimes and Misdemeanours in the St George area". I wonder what we will find out! The speaker is Christine Yeats, a researcher and archivist, on the Board of the Royal Australian Historical Society. You can book with Adele on 9529 6730 - leave a message if it is not answered. $5.00 entry, enjoy morning tea, speaker, beautiful view and friendly people and you can also have a look in the Museum afterwards.

10/11/2024

The Carss Cottage Museum will open at 1pm today. Lots of interesting items to look at and remember early days. Special exhibition on School ways, School Days. All welcome.
Children free - adults $5

25/10/2024

The next general meeting of the Society is on Thursday 14 November starting at 2pm in the School of Arts, Kogarah. Our speaker will be Kez Hasanic, from the Australian National Maritime Museum and he will talk about "The Lusitania Disaster".
Kez is no stranger to the Society and is one of our most popular speakers. We try and arrange a topic relating to one of the great wars in November to mark Remembrance Day. The Lusitania was a commercial vessel but was sunk by a German torpedo in 1915. Come and hear the full story with the implications of that event.
Visitors and new members welcome. Entry is $5.00 which covers our home-cooked afternoon tea and a ticket for the lucky door prize.
We will also have another 'bring and buy' stall on the day - who knows, you may find a 'treasure'. Inquiries to Gill on 0439 667 843.
Photo is of Kez.

13/10/2024

The Museum will be open at 1pm today, Sunday. 80 Carwar Ave. Our volunteers enjoy visitors. If you haven't seen the display on School Ways, School Days yet, don't miss it.

04/10/2024

Yes, we have speakers for Thursday 10 October at the School of Arts, Kogarah, at 2pm.
Laurel and Bob Horton, local historians, will give a talk on the History of Rockdale and Kogarah. They have a very popular site on You Tube on local suburbs, well researched, and I am sure we are going to enjoy their presentation.
All welcome - your entry fee of $5.00 covers your home cooked afternoon tea and you may even win the lucky door prize.
We don't expect Laurel and Bob to be in costume this time but the photo may remind you of when you saw them before at Carss Cottage Museum. Inquiries to Gill on 0439 667 843

02/10/2024

Unfortunately Jim Haynes has had to cancel his engagement with the Society for Thursday 10 October - 2GB had him on air at 2pm that day (a new arrangement apparently) So I do apologise to everyone and will be posting information about a new speaker as soon as possible.

28/09/2024

We are delighted to announce that our next speaker on Thursday 10 October, is Jim Haynes OAM. Jim, of radio 2GB fame, is a historian, author and entertainer. He will give us "Australia's Most Unbelievable true stories" and will bring books for sale as well. The meeting as always is in the School of Arts, Cnr Bowns Rd and Queens Ave, Kogarah, starting at 2pm with the speaker. Entry is $5.00 and includes our home-cooked afternoon tea.
Visitors very welcome, we are a friendly group. Inquiries to Gill on 0439 667 843.

07/09/2024

Our Open Day at Carss Cottage Museum is on tomorrow, Sunday 8th from 12 midday to 4pm. Hoping for lots of visitors. Free entry to the Museum to mark History Week, afternoon teas available in the courtyard (all home cooked goodies) ($5) and a Bring and Buy stall which has an amazing array of items for sale, from jewellery, books, plants, paintings, to kitchen items, good old Tupperware and more!... Come along and have a look. 80 Carwar Ave. The Council has another car park available on weekends next to the Community and Childcare centre on Carlton Cres.

07/09/2024

Two of our Committee attended the History Awards which was a most interesting evening. A variety of topics - the Australian History Award was won by a book on Courting: An intimate history of love and the law! Fascinating.

A huge congratulations to the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Award winners!

Tonight we celebrated History Week by awarding $85,000 in prize money to some of Australia’s best contemporary historians and storytellers.

And the winners are…

📗 Australian History Prize
‘Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law’ by Alecia Simmonds

📕 General History Prize
‘Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia’ by Katharine E. McGregor

📘 NSW Community and Regional History Prize
‘Reaching Through Time: Finding my family’s stories’ by Shauna Bostock

📙 Young People’s History Prize
‘Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky’ by Rebecca Lim

📗 The Anzac Memorial Trustees' Military History Prize
‘Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III’ by Kristen Alexander

📽️ Digital History Prize
‘The Dark Emu Story’ by Allan Clarke, Jacob Hickey, Darren Dale and Belinda Mravicic

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the awards ceremony tonight!

Read the judges’ comments: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-premiers-history-awards

See titles in the Library Shop: https://shop.sl.nsw.gov.au/product-category/award-nominated-books/nsw-premiers-history-award/

25/08/2024

Our next meeting at the School of Arts, Kogarah features speaker Claire Baddeley on a fascinating topic "The Curious Care of Captain James Ostrich Farm". Claire is a curator at Hurstville Museum and Gallery and won our 2022 History Prize with her entry on this topic. Who knew we had an Ostrich farming industry in the early days!
Only $5 entry for speaker, afternoon tea, a chance to win the lucky door prize and to meet people interested in our local history. The meeting starts at 2pm and visitors are very welcome.

24/08/2024

We are celebrating History Week at Carss Cottage. Free entry.

24/08/2024

Have just heard about this, staff from St George Local Studies will be leading the tour. It should be interesting.

Join us for a walking tour to discover 100 years of Carss Bush Park’s history.

02/08/2024

If you haven’t been yet it’s well worth a visit (or if you have, go again for the scones, jam and cream!)

30/07/2024

I think we all value our local libraries but do hope they will always focus on actual books that can be held and read. I hear too many stories of books being replaced by AI or other tech sections.

30/07/2024

Let’s hope someone buys it who will maintain its heritage value

28/07/2024

We have another meeting coming up at the School of Arts on Thursday 8 August starting at 2pm. I am delighted to announce that our speaker is Sydney author and former Military Public Affairs Officer, Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL) Chirstopher J. Holcroft OAM RFD JP on the 'History of Australian War Correspondents & Military Public Affairs'.
LTCOL Holcroft (Ret'd) (photo below) is the author of six books. He has a background in communications, media, complex public information planning and implementation and journalism. He was an active member of the Army Reserve for more than 43 years and his deployments included Bougainville, East Timor and Iraq. He has been involved in scouting for almost 40 years receiving many awards for service. He received an OAM in 2023 for his work with Youth and the Community.
Historical Society meetings are open to all and we welcome visitors. Entry of $5.00 includes a delicious afternoon tea and you might even win the lucky door prize. Enquiries to Gill on 0439 667 843