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Channel Museum, Margate, Tasmania

Locality: Margate, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6267 2333

Address: 1755 Channel Highway 7054 Margate, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.channelmuseum.org.au

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25.01.2022 Something of interest to all of us, especially those who live in or come from the lower Channel.

24.01.2022 We're open tomorrow from 11. Come and see what's new in the museum, then enjoy a coffee and a slice of cheesecake in the Channel Cafe! And pick up a jar of home-made jam at our stall to take home.

23.01.2022 This looks like it will be a useful resource, as is the Names Index itself.

21.01.2022 Open garden! To support the museum Betty Hansson will be opening her garden to the public on Sunday November 8th from 10am to 5pm. Entry is by donation. Betty has packed an amazing variety of natives and exotics into a relatively small area. Meandering paths through light woodland reveal some quite unusual plants as well as some old favourites. If you have half an hour or more to spare please come to 134 Van Morey Road, Margate. All proceeds go to help the Channel Museum make up for those months of closure. #opengarden

18.01.2022 Like the rest of us, Harald is missing our Mainland visitors. In 2019 over 1300 of you came through our door, about 20% of all visitors. This year, well... But now, you're allowed to come back! Some of you, anyway, and the rest soon, hopefully. So, welcome back! If you only have time to visit one small museum, we are repeatedly told that we have the best displays of life for ordinary people in Tasmania's past. So please come and visit, and make Harald smile again!

18.01.2022 Want to try something different? Butter Chicken pies! Like the Channel Cafe Facebook page to be the first to know about more new menu items.

17.01.2022 Correction - the exhibition will still be open on Thursday from 11 to 3. So you've got one extra day, but don't put it off or you'll miss out!

17.01.2022 Art has returned to the Channel Museum at last! Margate artist Bianca Kleine presents "Dreamscapes - Abstracts on Canvas", a collection in acrylics, some of which are more than they first seem! "Bianca's approach to painting is intuitive, letting her unconscious guide her without having any result in mind which then reflects scenes in nature and movement in her artwork" Open 11 to 3, Sunday to Thursday. Channel Cafe open every day.

16.01.2022 The museum is presenting a Christmas-themed temporary display in December, with contributions from members and local schools. We would like to display some historic Christmas photos too, but... we don't have any! So, we're appealing to you - have you got any Channel-related Christmas photos, 1980s or older (the older, the better!) that you are willing to share with us? Here are some suggestions from my own collection - ineligible as too new or out-of-area, but you get the idea! Send them here, or email to [email protected]. Or bring them in and we'll scan them. Thanks in anticipation.

16.01.2022 Born 23 May 1887 Died 06 July 1962 DEATH OF FORMER ACE AXMAN With the sudden death at his Gordon home on Friday of Mr Joseph Charles Turnbull ...(75), Tasmania lost one of her most colourful axemen of earlier days. A member of the Huon Valley family famous as choppers, Joe Turnbull with his brothers, Bill and Ernie, and the late Stan Turnbull of Cygnet, turned in many spectacular successes at chopping carnivals all over Tasmania. Mr Bill Turnbull, of Hobart, said that his brother Joe, who was 5ft 10in and weighed 12 stone in his prime, always chopped as a backmarker. He ranked Joe as the greatest softwood chopper in Australia for 18in underhand events. Joe Turnbull, among numerous victories between 1906 and 1926, when he was at his zenith, three times defeated Arthur Townsend, of Southport (now of New Zealand) in challenge matches of 100 pounds for 18in logs. More than 1000 pounds was bet in side wagers at the matches, and at Dover Joe Turnbull severed his logs in 1m 4s, a record which has not been lowered. He was also a great sawyer and with his brother Ernie won five doubled-handed sawing matches in a row. He is survived by his wife Sylvia, his son Clem, and his daughter Audrey. Mr Turnbull, who enlisted in the 40th Battalion in 1915, fought in France during the First World War and was wounded twice during his military service he was present at the breaking of the Hindenburg Line. There will be military honours at his cremation at Cornelian Bay. Eulogy by Mercury newspaper Posted by his grandson Bilky Clifford See more

13.01.2022 Fresh stock of "Now and Then" just arrived. "Football in the Channel" (reduced to $30 for Christmas!) and "Carbide Works - 100 years" also available at the reception desk.

10.01.2022 The SAFCOL fish processing and cannery plant in Gemalla Road, Margate, was an important employer in the area. It was totally destroyed in the Black Tuesday February 1967 bushfire, but incredibly was rebuilt and re-opened only 4 months later! Here are a few photos of the fish factory - recognise anyone?

10.01.2022 Thanks to a recent donation we now have an almost complete set of Kingston High School magazines/yearbooks. The only years missing are 2005-2009 inclusive. If you have one or more of these that you no longer need we'd be very happy to have it to preserve for posterity. Meanwhile, enjoy a selection from our oldest issue, 1976, when it was called "Myrtle"!

09.01.2022 It's on again this Sunday! Oliebollen at the Channel Museum from 11 until sold out - be early! 3 for $4, proceeds to the museum. Wash them down with a coffee from the Channel Cafe then have a look around the museum.

06.01.2022 The museum is closed tomorrow, but the cafe is open! How can you resist this BLT? Call in for breakfast before the weather heats up.

04.01.2022 Better be quick! Bianca Kleine's exhibition "Dreamscapes - Abstracts on Canvas" is coming down on Thursday December 3rd, so you only have 4 days to see it, from Sunday until Wednesday. We are still closed on Friday and Saturday. This exhibition is well worth seeing, so please come in and support a local artist. Have a look round the museum and a meal in the Channel Cafe too!

04.01.2022 Does anyone recognise any of these photos? Three school groups, date and location unknown, presumably Channel schools in the early 20th century. The first one has a rather sinister-looking Father Christmas in the centre at the back! Any ideas appreciated...

01.01.2022 Christmas is very close and everyone is excited for that. Will you be up for our little game and receive our value Santas gift for this joyful season coming? ...We are excited has put on the table 3 gift prizes for the lucky person who join our game. This is how you can participate in this lucky draw. 1. Post one of the photo of your favourite meal/food/coffee or any food items that you had at #channelcafe on your personal Facebook, and give a comment about this food; 2. Check-in at Channel Cafe; 3. Tag 2 of your Facebook friends who you think they might interest in a coffee at Channel Cafe one day. And that is it The game begins from now 13th December until 11:59 on 23th December 2020. We will do a lucky draw on 24th December. Whoever participate in this draw will receive a FREE COFFEE at Channel Cafe in next visit. Detail of the gift will be announced in later post. HAPPY DRAW EVERYONE! Thank you for your ongoing support!