THE Friends of the Bathurst Agricultural Research Station group have invited community members with an interest in local history to join them at a series of workshops in February.
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The group has received a $5000 grant from Bathurst Regional Council last year 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.
There will also be training sessions for other members of the community who are interested in volunteering to be involved with the documentation of the historic items.
The workshops will be held on Friday, February 8 and Monday, February 18, who two three-hour sessions to be held each day.
“It’s a very exciting project and I’m pleased to be a part of it,” Ms Jolly said.
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 join the workshops is asked to call Chris Perrers on 6332 9658.
