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Welcome to the Springwood Historians history blog. The aim of the blog is to disseminate (as well as gather) information to anyone interested in public history. As such we welcome your comments.

We would like to thank Blue Mountains City Library and Local Studies Collection for allowing us to access their resources and use images from their image collection.

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Politicians - Sir Henry Parkes

Henry Parkes at his home at Faulconbridge Funeral Procession at Central Railway Station Henry Parkes Grave in Faulconbridge Ceme...
Ipkendanz Family

William (Wilhelm) Louis Ipkendanz was born in Hildesheim, Hanover in 1847, and was orphaned when he was just three years old. The years in b...
Early Residents - The Wiggins Family

Wiggins Farm Bee Farm Road Springwood Elisha Wiggins forefront in greenhouse of Greenheyes Thought to be Bill Wiggins Joseph Wi...
Savoy Theatre Katoomba

The Savoy Theatre located at 18-24 Katoomba Street, Katoomba, re-opened in 1936 with a capacity to accomodate an audience of 992 people. Th...
Early Residents - Arnott Family

Homedale (in background) Homedale The Arnott family were the owners of the cottage Homedale (demolished in 1975) from 1911 u...
Ghostly encounters: historical fact or fiction?

Ghostly encounters, paranormal activity and out-and-out unexplained incidents are commonplace in the cultural history of the Blue Mountain...
World War One: Private Edward James Hope - finally at rest

Pamela Smith and I attended the launch of Glenbrook Historical Society’s Comrades in Arms which was composed of short biographies of Glenbro...
Passing of Lindsay Paish - Local Historian

Even though we posted the passing of Lindsay on our profile page, we felt that his death deserved to be noted. Lindsay was born, educated a...
Springwood Church of England Grammar School for Girls

Normanhurst which became the Springwood Church of England Girls Grammar School Miss Rhoda Griffin was the eldest child of Alexander ...
Hon. William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp

Lygon in fancy dress What do Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited; the Hon. William Lygon, 7 th Earl Beauchamp (Governor of New...

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