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October 13 Speaker on Conservation
Come along to our General Meeting at the Willoughby Room in Chatswood Library at 2 PM. Listen to a Willoughby Council Heritage Planner talk about Willoughby’s vast Conservation Areas, Heritage listed buildings and Council’s plans for the future recognition of the Heritage of Willoughby.
Visitors welcome.
11 August General Meeting on our website and Facebook
Committee members Terry Fogarty and Rob Wilson will demonstrate features of the Society’s Web site and Facebook pages.
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As you can SEE BELOW the Society holds various events throughout the year. This includes:
- General Meetings at the Willoughby Room, Willoughby City Library at The Concourse, commencing at 2.00pm on the second Saturday of even months (except December).
- Historic talks: There is a guest speaker at each of the General Meetings.
- Special exhibitions at the Museum during Heritage Week and Willoughby’s Emerge Festival
- A variety of local group walks (available on request).
Past events
Cavalcade of Fashion – 2017
The Art of Fashion: 1920s Evening Gowns
Sunday 8th October 2017 1:30pm
Wiloughby Unitng Church
10 Clanwiliam St, Wiloughby
Cost: $25
High Tea will follow the presentation
Bookings and tickets: Mary Thom : email: mdt@optusnet.com.au Phone: 9419 5851
Our collection of beaded and embellished 1920s evening dresses stunningly illustrates the influences of the post-World War I Art Deco design, the Paris avant-garde, haute couture designers and artists, and the artisan embroiderers who made such creations.
The Cavalcade Collection features a large collection of stunning 1920s beaded and embroidered evening dresses. At this presentation Cavalcade will take the audience on a journey back in time to the 1920s, a decade of elegant fashion, liberated women and inspired designers, artists and artisans. Hear about these design influences, the embroidery ateliers and the techniques of machine and hand beading.
The gowns, on hangers, will be walked through the audience during the presentation by white gloved assistants so audience members can get a closer look at the details of these gowns.
The Cavalcade of History and Fashion is a collection of original historic gowns and accessories with provenance, dating from the 1700s preserving Australia’s social and fashion history
‘Meccano Day’ at the Museum
10am-4pm
Our friends at the Meccano Club will be back in action with their creations based on the new-era Meccano sets now availanlre.
Adults $5, concession $4, children $2; family $10.
Saturday 8 October, General Meeting, the Willoughby Room, Chatswood Library
Commencing at 2.00pm on the second Saturday of even months (except December).
Legacy House
It has been reported that protests by local residents have been successful in saving Legacy House, Chatswood. The proposal was to demolish the house to create a new high-rise boarding house. Instead, the house will be preserved and adaptably re-used as a boarding house.
