Blue Mountains History Journal Issue 2

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Editor Dr Peter Rickwood Editorial Board Associate Professor R. Ian Jack John Leary OAM Associate Professor Carol Liston Professor Barrie Reynolds Dr Peter Stanbury OAM Design Peter Hughes Cover Photo Driving bullock outside The Post Office in Beowang before the telephone was installed in 1916 (MW&MIHS, Shaw Collection, photo 95/125; Field 1995)
Blue Mountains History Journal 2; 2011 http://www.bluemountainsheritage.com.au/journal ISSUE No 2 SEPTEMBER 2011 ISSN 1838-5036 The Martindale Family and the Sketchbook of Mary Elizabeth Martindale CONTENTS Editorial Peter Rickwood John Low Over a Century of Worship at Medlow Bath Clair Isbister, Robert King & Peter Rickwood A History of the Postal and Telephone Mary Reynolds Services of Mount Wilson A Secret Army in the Blue Mountains? Pamela Smith The inaugural issue of The Blue Mountains History Journal was favourably received by historians and local librarians, and subsequently the National Library has issued an ISSN number which is shown in our banner above. This accords a welcome degree of scholarly recognition of our journal. From the first issue of the journal we learned a number of lessons in respect to layout and typography, so for this second issue various improvements have been made which we trust will meet with the approval of readers. The four articles in Issue 2 cover a spread of villages from Mount Wilson to Springwood and range in topic from the travels of the Martindale Family to an account of the New Guard. Between those subjects are histories of religious worship in Medlow Bath and of Postal and Telephone services in Mount Wilson. Our eminent local historian, John Low, has contributed a fascinating paper about the sketches that Mrs Martindale made in 1860 whilst accompanying her EDITORIAL husband on a tour of inspection of the road over the Blue Mountains. This paper also includes a longneeded account of the activities of the Martindale family in NSW. Some ten years ago, the late Dr. Clair Isbister prepared, with assistance from Robert King, a manuscript on St Luke’s Church, Medlow Bath and Helen Plummer Phillips, a significant benefactor to the church. As junior authors, Robert and I have brought the first of these topics to completion. But we have expanded the scope of the paper beyond Clair's main interest, St Luke's Church, to all places of religious worship in Medlow Bath, by adding sections on the little known histories of the Cave Church and Roman Catholic worship in the village. Mary Reynolds, the indefatigable Research Officer of the Mount Wilson & Mount Irvine Historical Society, has published extensively on various aspects of the histories of the families and properties of those hill Back to Contents
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