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Eugowra Historical Museum & Bushranger Centre

Locality: Eugowra, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6859 2820

Address: 13 Pye Street 2806 Eugowra, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.eugowra.aus.net/eugowra-historical-museum-bushranger-centre

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24.01.2022 Not our own 'Braveheart' which is housed in our local Historical Museum and Bushranger Centre, but this old photograph from Adavale Queensland shows a wagon which must have been close the the proportions of ours. I wonder how far this one travelled with its load of wool.

24.01.2022 Something like our 'new' thresher would have been like in its working days

22.01.2022 The local group from "The Shed" visited the old shearing shed on what had been Vychan station recently. What stories would have come to life during and after the visit.

22.01.2022 Soon to be on display at our museum!!

22.01.2022 An interesting original pencil sketch dated 1875 by Mrs Edith Clements, of what appears to be Eugoura Station bridge. With buildings on the Orange Road side of the creek and the woolshed on the northern side, near the cemetery, there must have been another bridge as well as the early one built in the township area in the 1860s.

17.01.2022 From about a century ago. Council's road gang in lower Broad Street. The poor old horse at the end of the line is pulling the water cart. Everything else follows the steam tractor.

16.01.2022 Last Thursday we took the opportunity to get out and about in our wonderful town. First stop was the Eugowra Historical Museum & Bushranger Centre to view the n...ew exhibition. Students were very interested in the new addition of the Fortescue windmill and the wool press. Following the museum, we stopped in for a bite to eat at The Fat Parcel Food Van (which was delicious!), then to Eugowra Community Children's Centre for a bit of a play before finishing off at Eugowra War Memorial Swimming Pool for our intensive swimming session. What an afternoon! See more

14.01.2022 Now that spring is here and the hay making season is upon us. Was this available for hay carting in the area? Bernie Banham's truck.

13.01.2022 Not the Eugowra beast, but this old thresher has been recovered to see daylight again in the USA. The Herbert family's gift to the local Museum is somewhat like this machine.

12.01.2022 AT THE COONBONG ROCK Have you ever waited near the rock on a winter’s afternoon? Have you seen the colours changing in the trees? Have you felt the chill of winter as the sun set o’er the brow?... Have you heard the gum leaves whisper in the breeze? Have you cast your mind back to the times when some discovered gold after labouring night and day so far from home? Have you ever read of miners who perished in the scrub when from the campsites their old horses used to roam? Did you know of the gold fever, which encouraged men to leave their families and small ‘starvation’ blocks behind? Those lonely women waited, in bark covered, humpy homes while with picks and shovels men laboured for a find. Have you read those old newspapers, which were full of mining news and the weight of gold escorts from Lachlan field, where only lucky miners ever ‘struck the mother lode’ and published stories of the weight some nugget’s yield? Today the word ‘bushranger’ brings romantic thoughts to mind with escapades on thoroughbreds which they would steal. They helped themselves to money, livestock and the like, and planned robberies ‘round the campfire at a meal. With squatters and landowners hell bent to stamp them out and pursuing troopers picking up their trail, they still showed their defiance of the laws of our fair land as they robbed and plundered coaches ‘ Royal Mail’. Now, near the rocky, rutted roadway on a Sunday afternoon as the setting sun brings on the winter’s chill, would you ever think a life of crime could create a wealthy man, or would you join Gardiner’s gang just for the thrill? A hangman’s noose awaits the one who may have told the truth and shots fired by some troopers find their mark. Do you shudder as you think of a brutal prison cell? Can you find those missing nuggets in the dark? Elaine Cheney 2012

09.01.2022 The opening ceremony for the Museum extension was held today. A great turnout of visitors attended to witness our local member of Parliament Andrew Gee MP and deputy Mayor Jamie Jones declare the extensions open. Also unveiled was the Fortescue Windmill from the Arcadia farm which has been beautifully restored by Ivan Pine and Tom Glastonbury. Thankyou to everyone who attended.

09.01.2022 On a lovely winter's afternoon 158 years ago the biggest escort robbery in Australia's history was carried out at Eugowra Rocks. This photograph is from one of the re-enactment days in the past.It shows one of the loaded wagons which was stopped by the bushrangers to block the road so the coach could not pass the rock.

07.01.2022 c1920 Photograph from the Noble family. Post Office corner with the Police Station in the distance and John W Lees store on right. It may be a trooper in light trousers and Noble family members in sulky.

06.01.2022 c1920. Post Office corner. Photograph from Noble family. Could be a trooper in light trousers and, maybe, Noble family members in sulky. Police Station and lockup in distance and John W Lees store on right.

06.01.2022 From the late nineteenth century.Yet another threshing film!

06.01.2022 Taken some years ago in the Nangar National Park. Such a sorry sight. Wonder what stories it could tell.

04.01.2022 When chaff cutting by contractors was common. Part of the Carr Perry family 'circus' at work. Looks like a Chaff Cutter, steam driven Tractor and Furphy water tank. Nothing more known about the photograph.

03.01.2022 Another shot of the Vychan shearing shed, this time of the interior, with old wool bins. Photo by Peter Slaven.

03.01.2022 The local Historical Museum and Bushranger Centre is rearranging the Military display to the 'first extension' in the building. The kitbag and a jacket worn by Mrs Kay Strom, who married during WW2 are included in the display. Eugowra residents know something of the history of her husband, Ted Strom, who was awarded the DFC and Bar, and who conducted the Eugowra Motors for many years.