Kiama Convent Just Before Demolition

This is the Kiama St Joseph’s Covent just before its demolition. While very little of the original building was left, and new classes will be built on the site, it is sad to think the site was occupied as a convent fo more than a hundred years, after the nuns moved into Kiama formjamberoo before [...]

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Storm Damage at Pilot’s Cottage Museum

 
Attached are 3 photos of the four front posts supporting the veranda roof at the Pilot’s Cottage Museum in Kiama.
It can clearly be seen the roof has detached from the four supports in the recent windstorm.
 
(probably Thursday duirng the day or Wednesday night).
This is quite remarkable as no record of such damage has ever been recorded [...]

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Japanese Artillery Piece Returns to Front of Kiama Council

 Kiama’s well-known artillery piece makes an quiet and  unannounced return to outside Kiama Council. It was captured from the Japanese at Rabaul by HMAS Kiama and later presented to the town.
 
 
 
It is not well known but the workboat off the HMNZ Kiama, formerly HMAS Kiama still exists
Two flags for this ship, an early flag and [...]

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HENRY PARKES DVD NOW READY

The Kiama Speech of Henry Parkes 1868 DVD,
presented by the Kiama and District Historical Society,
has been finished and is now on sale in the Pilot’s Cottage Museum and other sites in Kiama.
Ian Thom, descendant of Henry Parkes and President of the Henry Parkes Foundation,
came down to Kiama especially to view the final product with local [...]

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WALK THROUGH KIAMA’S PAST

 
The Heritage Walk around Kiama is now in place.
The theme of the nine signs is ‘The Role of Quarrying Basalt to the Development of Kiama’.
The locations are;
1.The front of the Pilots cottage,
2. The blowhole (first sighted by George Bass),
3. The old Infants school in Minnamurra Street, ( now Kiama Blue hotel),
4. Halfway down the path in [...]

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DVD ready soon!

The DVD of the Henry Parkes Re-enactment of the Kiama Ghost Speech will be ready soon. More details soon.

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Kiama Current History; Lights but no illumination

Reading  the Kiama Independent, one wonders if the $60,000 is the best possible spend for promoting Kiama. How many TV ads in Sydeny would that buy? At least the lights will work in winter as well as summer! Mind you, where is the best vantage point for the lights and the fireworks? Cargoes at Kiama [...]

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Loss of Dairying Heritage?

Are we seeing the loss of our dairying heritage, or the start of a new one?
Is covering the whole place with housing really the answer?
Surely preserving the ‘Kiama-ness’ which makes us attractive and unique is the answer.
http://kiamaindependent.com.au/07/aug29/news/index.htm
 www.duap.nsw.gov.au/plansforaction/pdf/fs_kiama.pdf
www.kiama.nsw.gov.au/corporate-services/pdf/Business-Papers/Notice-of-Motion-Recision-040518.pdf
www.kiama.nsw.gov.au/environmental-services/pdf/community-panel-recommendation-final-report.pdf
http://blogs.smh.com.au/science/archives/2006/11/where_does_our.html

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New Cultural officer appointed!

Sarah Levitt  has been appointed to be the new full-time Cultural officer and has already been up to the Pilot’s Cottage with an eye to the future. Is a new era of heritage culture contributing to Kiama’s tourism economy about to begin?
Watch this space!
http://www.kiama.nsw.gov.au/community-services/cultural-development-program/index.html

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Kiama Bridge Club Debate

What do people think of this recent piece of Kiama History the Great Bridge Club Debate? Should they go and get jackets to look like the Rebels?

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