BMC has used a number of banners over the years.
A recent contribution from Alex & Annette Hood - a picnic from the earliest days of the Club (emails & phone calls, February 2022)
Waratah Spring Festivals were held between 1956 & 1973 (Jamie Carlin collection)
clipping from Women's Day, Oct 6, 1969 - (Eileen Thornhill collection)
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Dale Dengate made our first banner in 1968 for use at the Tuena Festival (BMC archives)
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1968 banner with 1969 sash & 1971 Crabben Cullen Sapphire Safari pennant (BMC archives)
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Unmounted felt pennant that never made it on to our first banner. (Given to BMC archives by Dale Dengate 2014)
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Alex Bowker at a Singabout night at BWIU Building, between 1971 & 1980 when BMC stopped using BMIU hall (BMC Archives)
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Banner at a performance of Rousebouts -
source - The Rouseabouts the rattling good bush band - interview with Ray Grieve
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Bush Music Festival banner 1986 (BMC archives)
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Chris Kempster on stage at the Hut, 1980s (BMC archives)
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Parramatta Heritage Week Parade, 29th October 1988 - other photos here
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Heritage Ball, c.1980s (BMC archives)
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Unsuccessful appeal in Mulga Wire no. 102, June 1994 for a new banner.
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Dale Dengate's design for banner, 2012 (BMC Archives)
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Banner created by Dale Dengate in 2012, & backed & quilted by Sandra Nixon
(Wayne Richmond photo)
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Bob Bolton, 60th Anniversary concert (Sandra Nixon photo)
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Pull-up banner
BMC's latest banner, 2017 (Sandra Nixon photo)
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