Sometime in 1934 or after, a librarian at Maitland Girlsâ High School picked up a rubber stamp with the institutionâs name on it, dabbed it on an inkpad, and stamped the first inside page of this booklet. It had recently been printed by West Maitland printer T. Dimmock for St Peterâs Anglican Church, of East […]
On 9 November 1988 the Tamworth PowerStation Museum was opened on the site where, one hundred years earlier, the steam engines that ran the townâs first electric street lights were located and housed. The museumâs opening marked and commemorated the centenary of the introduction of the townâs electric light system â which was the first […]
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