New England Regional Art Museum Exhibition, ‘The College on the Hill’: A display of Armidale Teachers’ College photographs and memorabilia from the UNE Archives will complement the permanent NERAM exhibition on display in the Howard Hinton Gallery. Howard Hinton OBE donated almost 1000 original artworks to the Teachers’ College over the years 1929 – 1948 and these graced the walls of the College building. With forced amalgamation of College and University, the paintings (principally by Australian artists) were placed in storage until the community and Government funded Art Museum was built in Kentucky Street where they could once again be displayed. The beautiful permanent Hinton Gallery features around 130 works of art from the Hinton Collection. ‘The College on the Hill’ exhibition will remain open until 18th August.
July meeting
The next Society meeting which will be held at Dumaresq Chambers, 7.30pm on Tuesday, 16 July. The speaker will be Phillipa Charley-Briggs, Curator of the ‘Invergowrie’ Museum project who many may remember meeting on the most enjoyable 2018 ADHS excursion to ‘Invergowrie’. Phillipa’s talk is Invergowrie Memorabilia – Establishing a Museum.
As usual, the rooms will be open from about 7pm, so do feel welcome to come early and browse through the resources or catch-up with other members.Visitors are very welcome. There’s no need to book. Tea and coffee will be served after the meeting.
June meeting
The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 18 June at 7.30, at Dumaresq Chambers, 114 Faulkner Street when the speaker will be Wayne Hoppe, President of the Armidale Family History Group. In his ongoing recording of Armidale Cemetery history, his research has included the Undertakers and Stonemasons who have serviced the cemetery and his talk will present his interesting findings on the history of The Undertakers of Armidale.
The rooms will be open from about 7pm, so do feel welcome to come early and browse through the resources or catch-up with other members.Visitors are very welcome. There’s no need to book. Tea and coffee will be served after the meeting.
May meeting
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 21st May at 7.30pm in the Society’s rooms at 114 Faulkner Street. The rooms will be open from about 7pm, so do feel welcome to come early and browse through the resources or catch-up with other members.
I’ll update this post with information about our guest speaker soon!
April meeting
Our April meeting will be on Tuesday, 16th April, at 7.30pm in the Society’s rooms at 114 Faulkner Street. The rooms will be open from about 7pm, so do feel welcome to come early and browxe through the resources or catch-up with other members.
The guest speaker will be Graham Wilson OAM, whose recent research on War Memorials has revealed a wealth of information and interesting stories of designs, placement, form and decisions behind the many War Memorials in the district.
Visitors are very welcome. There’s no need to book. Tea and coffee will be served after the meeting.
March meeting
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 19th, commencing at 7.30pm in the Society’s rooms at 114 Faulkner Street. Louise Brennan will be the speaker.
Louise will present her fascinating research associated with Sion House, originally an Armidale hotel ‘on the wrong side of the creek’ and which later served the community in numerous ways. North Hill was known as Sion or Zion Hill for some time and Sion House and the Reverend Johnstone’s Presbyterian Church and Manse were the two early structures on the north side of Dumaresq Creek.
Visitors are very welcome. No need to book. Tea and coffee will be served after the meeting.
Welcome
Welcome to the new website of the Armidale and District Historical Society.We’re currently setting up the site – please come back again soon for news, updates, and other information.
Our next meeting is on Tuesday February 19th At 7.30pm at Dumaresq Chambers, 114 Faulkner Street Armidale. All welcome to attend.
