Blue Mountains History Journal Issue 2

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
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