Narrabundah History

Our History

EARLY HISTORY

• Oral History
• Harmonie German Club
• Woodbridge Collection
• Kingston Narrabundah RSL
• Narrabundah Music
• Narrabundah Infants School
• McKie Collection
• Vinnies at Narrabundah
• The Murrays
• Narrabundah Progress Association
• Pre School Playcentre

HISTORY OF THE PRE-FABS

• Cost of Prefabs & Start of Contracts
• Prefab History
• Prefab Regeneration
• Planning Committee Minutes

HISTORY POST 2000

• History after 2000

Acknowledgement

This page was developed by a long-time local of the Narrabundah community: Austin Lynch. Austin played a vital role in setting up the Old Narrabundah Community Council and was an active member for many years, until his passing on the 2^nd July 2019
This page is dedicated in memory of Austin.

•  In the development of content Canberra Treasures Ann Guglar & Alan Foskett  were  most helpful. Ann Guglar has three websites: http://hiddencanberra.webs.com/
• Archives ACT, especially Mark Dawson, were the essence of public service provision. Their website is here: http://www.archives.act.gov.au/
• Archives ACT have a minutes index of the National Capital Planning & Development Committee 1939-1957. Included on this website are pages that Mark scanned that relate to the Narrabundah Prefabs. National Capital Planning DC index Single Date
• ACT Heritage Library is a good source : http://www.library.act.gov.au/find/history
• Images from the Mildenhall Collection are available at MADOPH  here: http://mildenhall.moadoph.gov.au/
• The National Library of Australia was a good source. The Canberra Timesfrom 1926 – 1995 is now available digitally :  http://trove.nla.gov.au/
• National Archives of Australia has been sourced: http://www.naa.gov.au/
• State Records NSW was useful : http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/