THE Friends of the Bathurst Agricultural Research Station group is working to ensure the history of the site is well documented and protected.
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The group has received a $5000 grant from Bathurst Regional Council to help with inventory of moveable heritage and start a conservation management plan for the research station site.
As part of the efforts, a Parkes-based museums consultant, Margot Jolly, has been engaged to train four of the Friends in cataloguing.
“It’s a very exciting project and I’m pleased to be a part of it,” Ms Jolly said.
The Friends will use their new skills to begin the process, before holding a working bee on January 21, 2019 that community members can attend and assist during.
Ms Jolly said the research station site was historically significant to Bathurst and, by putting together an inventory, more could be unearthed about it.
“Out of cataloguing will come the stories, because the most significant objects that we find out of this process will obviously be the ones that tell the really great stories,” she said.
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It is thought that other projects will arise from cataloguing, helping to share the stories with the community.
“There’s all sorts of exciting projects that will come out of what the Friends are doing now, just by inventorying the collection and rediscovering all those stories and bringing this place to life,” Ms Jolly said.
Anyone who would like to attend the community working bee to assist with the inventory is asked to contact Roy Menzies on 6337 7388.
Mr Menzies worked as a horticulturalist at the research station for 37 years.
He said there was so much history at the site and he was pleased to see a process starting to “recognise, commemorate and honour” the people who were involved there over many years.
