There is one day left to see the Blue Mountains Historical Society’s latest exhibition, Delicate: An Exhibition of Laces and Trims, in the back room exhibition space in the Society’s historical cottage, Tarella.
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It will be open for inspection from 10am until 4pm on Sunday, June 25 at 99 Blaxland Road, Wentworth Falls.
In 1969, Miss Beryl McLaughlin donated a collection of lace to the Society believed to be the lace her brother, Geoffrey McLaughlin, acquired for his mother and sisters while he was in Malta in 1915 serving in WW1. In his letters to the family Geoffrey tells of getting the lace at a very good price and advises that his mother can sort out who gets what.
Major Geoffrey McLaughlin did not survive the trenches of Passchendaele. He died there in 1917 and is buried in Belgium, far from home. For this reason, most of the lace received from him was kept aside and deeply treasured by the McLaughlin family.
