Valda Lyle and Roger Lyle papers, ca. 1937-1982

MLMSS 8110/Box 1
MLMSS 8110/Box 2X

fonds

ca. 1937-1982

Textual Records, Moving Images, Architectural and Technical Drawings

411649

0.18 metres of textual and photographic material (1 box, 1 outsize box)

Valda Lyle was a member of the Australian Society of Archivists and the Executive Secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales. She also worked for the University of Sydney in an honorary capacity for many years as the Guided Tours Co-ordinator, was made an Honorary Fellow of the University at a conferring of degrees ceremony held in the Great Hall on 27 May 1989

Roger Lyle was a founding member of the South West Tasmania Committee (N.S.W.) which began in the 1970's and eventually became the Wilderness Society of NSW.
This Committee was the force behind stopping the Franklin River Dam project in 1983.
The Wilderness Protection Committee was formed in 1972. The Committee was formed by a group who expressed concern about the proposed route of the gas pipelines from South Australia to Sydney. The crew log books were discovered by Roger when he went aboard the Dee Why when it was being dismantled before the hulk was sun off the Southern Beaches to make a breakwater in the 1960's.


Reference:
Library correspondence file
University of Sydney. http://sydney.edu.au/senate/HonLyleV.shtml (accessed 29 October 2011)

BOX 1
Folder 1
Crew Time books (3) for the S.S. Dee Why, 1937-1943

Folder 2
Crew Time books (3) for the S.S. Dee Why, 1943-1952; Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Co. requisition for stores forms, 1965-1966

Several of these books were exhibited in an exhibition in 1979 and in the `Manly Rejoices' at the Manly Museum in 1983

Folder 3
Personal papers concerning the South West Tasmania Committee (NSW)
Includes newsletters, flyers, posters, news clippings, leaflets promoting film nights for the film Tasmania's South West: a Wilderness in Question, photographic exhibitions and letters concerning the Franklin River, 1975-1982

Folder 4
Personal papers concerning the Wilderness Protection Committee re: Natural Gas Pipeline South Australia to Sydney. Includes newsletters, flyers, voting forms, leaflets and a copy of a letter to Dr Russell Cope, 1972-1980

Folder 5
Personal letters to Valda Lyle concerning the deposit of the Wilderness Protection Committee records to the National Library of Australia and donation of Hawkesbury by-election information to the Parliamentary Library, 1979-1980

BOX 2X
Architectural plans and photographs relating to the design and construction of the Sydney Opera House. This was published in a commemorative issue of The Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Vol. 106, 1973.

The article was written by Michael Lewis the designer of the roof cladding of the Sydney Opera House. It was prepared by Valda Lyle as Executive Secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales on completion of the project and organised through the Chairman of the Opera House Trust, Sir Phillip Baxter.

MOTION PICTURE
The 16 mm film `Tasmania's South West : a Wilderness in Question' produced by Damon Smith. Sydney : AFTS, 1979 is housed separately from the records at MLMSS 8110.
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