Please note the date has been changed from May 22nd to May 29th due to prediction of rain
The raspberry canes, fig tree and plum trees need their winter prune.
Join the Eskbank Volunteers for a demonstration of pruning by Jessica Lawn, the designer of our Community Heritage Garden, an imagined 1880s kitchen garden fondly known as Mary’s Garden.
29 May 2025 – Demonstration begins at 11am and finishes with a cup of tea or coffee at about 12pm
The Community Heritage Garden was funded by a NSW Recovery and Resilience Grant after the Black Summer Fires. The garden is cared for but a small group of volunteers.
Eskbank House Museum is open Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm
This is a free event
Caring for the community, the environment and the communities heritage.
The Community Heritage Garden Team shares the produce from Mary’s Garden with the community.
In the school holidays come to the museum to pick your own vegetables and help prepare for the next season’s planting. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Session 1 Deaconess Cordelia Moberly (and father) at St Paul’s, Lithgow, a presentation by Keith Painter
Cordelia Moberly served as a Deaconess at St Paul’s, Lithgow, from September 1922 to January 1924. Her father, Rev. E. G. Moberly, had preceded her as locum tenens at St Paul’s on several occasions in the early 1900s. The Moberly family story has connections with Bishops and Archbishops, the Suttors of Bathurst, pioneering photography, discoveries at the Mitchell Library, and great tragedies.
Session 2 Discussion session on Lithgow Heritage Tourism led by Ramsay Moodie
A discussion session looking at what we have as written material supporting the sale of our history to heritage tourists and to students/prospective heritage tourists, lovers of colonial history. History is very tangible in our region. There is much to see that is related directly to the colonial period of New South Wales/Australia’s early development. In addition, there is a wealth of written material that can be used to “tell” our story. Heritage tourism as one element of our tourism economy has great potential for all the reasons outlined above. How do we prepare for this, how do we organise our resources in a way to ensure that we can really tell the story of our history?
