The Tamworth Powerstation Museum is located in the regional city of Tamworth, on Kamilaroi / Gomeroi Country, in the New England region of New South Wales. It is Australia’s only dedicated electricity museum and occupies a refurbished 1907 Municipal showroom, on the site where wood-fire generators powered the first electric streetlights in the Southern Hemisphere […]
The Rocks, Gems and Minerals Collection (Gil Bennett Collection) is on permanent display at the Nundle Visitor Information Outlet in Nundle, on Anaiwan Country, in the New England region of New South Wales. The collection derives from the tireless work of Tamworth geologist Gilmore Thomas Bennett (born died), a nationally acclaimed lapidarist, who painstakingly shaped […]
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