The November Newsletter, wth updates about the excursion, the AGM, the journal, the Museum of Education, and the UNE Archives & Heritage Centre can be now downloaded:

November Excursion

Covid19 regulations will allow the traditional November bus excursion to go ahead
on Saturday, 21st November. The bus will leave the Visitors Centre at 8.30am. It can
accommodate 30 people socially isolated and more when family/friends/partners are
happy to sit together. Masks optional.

Cost $40 includes bus, morning tea, lunch.

The plan is to go to Black Mountain via the old settlements at Saumarez Ponds and
Dumaresq and basically follow the rail route to Guyra. A tour and morning tea has
been booked at the Springwater Trout and Yabbie Farm at Black Mountain.

David Barclay will then show us the Baptist Church (1902) and we can visit the Railway
Station and Cemetery and see the school (1882) which currently has 14 pupils.

From Black Mountain to the Mother of Ducks Lagoon in Guyra for a BBQ lunch and
there is a Peony Festival on the day in the main street. Then a visit to the newly
refurbished Guyra Historical Society premises followed by a drive around Guyra to
view the tomato and peony farms before heading south to the Black Mountain Plant
Nursery on the way back to Armidale. Graham Wilson will be our tour guide.

Hope you can come!

Bookings can be made at Dumaresq Chambers, per phone 67751205 or email at
contact@adhs.org.au