FUTURE EVENTS
Our next speaker evening is at 5 30pm on Tuesday 3 December 2024 at the Society Rooms at 3 Cathedral Street, Maitland.
Speaker: DIANE BLISHEN
MY MAPPING PROJECT.
12 years ago Diane began her mapping project which involved overlaying old maps and plans over Google Earth. Some maps and plans are not freely available so she has purchased these. The overlaying is just part of the project, by creating polygons and placemarks she have incorporated research with sources, it makes the project somewhat interactive. She uses Land Title Records to confirm locations. All research in the project has documents to support it. She started researching more than 30 years ago, yes that’s right before the internet, flash drives, email….. While the digital material today is a great resource, she obtained her most useful material by scrolling through unindexed, undigitized microfilm and paper documents, having collected a huge amount of material including letters written by our earliest settlers, surveyors, architects, magistrates the list goes on, containing material not widely known, if at all, from people who were there at the time! By making the overlays see-through you can see today’s landscape through the documents, bringing the past and present together. It is a work in progress covering earliest land grants, the river and it's changes, churches, schools, pubs, bridges, tram, punts the list goes on.
The first picture above shows the extent of the overlays so far.
Come along and see and hear about early Maitland from a different perspective.
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Speaker Evenings are held on the first Tuesday of the month (except January) at 5 30 pm.
(A small charge of $5 includes light refreshments provided before and after the speakers delivery.)
Future Guest Speakers:
2025
January 2025 - Christmas / New Year break
4 February 2025 - Chas Keys - Is Maitland ready for its next very big flood?
4 March 2025 -
1 April 2025 -
6 May 2025 -
3 June 2025 -
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