The 1969 Queanbeyan phone directory - all 24 pages of it - is like a roll-call of the city's royal families: from Bollards and Donohoes to Lindbecks and McInneses.
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It's a special piece of history lovingly kept by the Donohoe family and just one item in a new exhibition entitled 180 Mementos | 180 Years, a special two-week event celebrating Queanbeyan's 180th birthday.
A team of four women, led by author and social historian Nichole Overall, have curated a collection of 180 objects for the exhibition, representing the achievements and the evolution of their beloved city.
180 Mementos | 180 Years includes obvious sporting objects like a young Mark Webber's go-kart and Australian champion Heather Mackay's squash racquet (she was undefeated for the 19 years she used it), but mostly mementos the people of Queanbeyan (and Canberra) have never seen before.
Like the city's oldest grave stone, belonging to Anna Maria Faunce, which dates back to 1839. And the mysterious inside of the Queanbeyan Masonic Temple on Crawford Street, built by Freemasons in 1925 and rarely opened to the public.
A call-out on social media five months ago for items of significance to include in the exhibition resulted in "some absolute crackers" Overall said.
"We've got a trunk that somebody from Canberra brought in, it has the initials 'G Lazenby'," she said.
"It has international travel tags to America and all over the world on it and George's sister has confirmed it was definitely his.
"For those who don't know, George Lazenby grew up in Queanbeyan and played James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service."
Exploring the full extent of the collection takes people right across Queanbeyan - from The Q theatre to the city library and the old print museum near the police station.
"There are so many mementos, what we've done is made it a city wide thing," Overall said.
And it's not just about staring at objects through protective glass - people are actively encouraged to "interact" with objects, like a collection of albums containing photographs of every single debutante ball in Queanbeyan from the 1960s to the 1990s.
"We're actually going to give people the opportunity - in a supervised situation - to go through some of these items," Overall said.
"To touch them, to hold them, so they can go through and find themselves and the people they know.
"We want it to be hands-on and we want the community it's celebrating to be really involved it."
180 Mementos | 180 Years, September 28 to October 14, various venues across Queanbeyan. For full details visit the Queanbeyan - City of Champion Facebook page or www.180mementos.wixsite.com/qtown
