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Hervey Bay Historical Village & Museum

Locality: Hervey Bay, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4128 4804

Address: 13 Zephyr St. Scarness 4655 Hervey Bay, QLD, Australia

Website: https://herveybaymuseum.com.au

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24.01.2022 Launch November 26th at Station Square, Maryborough 0930.

24.01.2022 An addition to our wood turned souvenirs will be these bud vases. They are red cedar and huon pine laminated. They have a plastic test tube inserted so that the water cannot get to the timber. They will be $5.00 each. You may pre order them at our Office on 4128 4804 . Leave a message if we are not there.

22.01.2022 If you are looking for unique Christmas presents, look no further than our hand crafted local souvenirs. We have Great Hall biros and fountain pens, Urangan Pier pens and numerous blacksmith crafted items, not to mention our 3 major books. The 4th book, "Moments in Time" Volume 2 will be launched on 26th November in Maryborough. The latest addition to our unique souvenirs are hand crafted Australian animals. Prices are very reasonable with the large Wombat at $25.00. The kang...aroo at $20 and the Koalas at $7. They will not last long so "first in best dressed" Call Margie on 4128 4804 today before 2pm to pre order or call in to the Museum on Saturday. Keep an eye out for "Great Hall" Coaster sets currently in production. They will be ready for Christmas.

22.01.2022 10 More HISTORICAL FACTSHERVEY BAY. 11. The beach at Scarness/Torquay was used as a landing strip for aeroplanes and also for motorbike races! 12. Many of our early roads were made from gravel barged over from Woody Island. 13. Submarine mesh from Sydney Harbour was used to build the Scarness Swimming enclosure in the early 1950’s.... 14. The first European settler, Boyle Martin, arrived in 1863. Monument erected by our Museum near Beach Rd, Pialba. 15. Timber from Fraser Island was used to build the Suez Canal and also the London Docks! 16. The Australian Navy often held exercises in the waters of Hervey Bay. 17. The COMMANDOS trained secretly on Fraser Island during World War 2. 18. Fraser Island is the largest SAND ISLAND in the World, formed over millennium from the sandstone from the Sydney. Blue Mountains area of NSW! 19. Hervey Bay has often topped the list for population % increase in Australia. 20. Hervey Bay is home of a unique gemstone, URANGANITE, formed from the coloured sands of this area. See more

22.01.2022 Saltwater Creek Hotel How times change! Maryborough.the birthplace of the Fraser Coast’s Colonial beginnings. For our pioneers to imagine that in 2020, it would be possible to travel to Brisbane and return back to Maryborough on sealed highways within 6 hours would have been unimaginable. For them, a trip to the developing Pialba area was a day’s journey over rough bush tracks. First stop would have been the Saltwater Creek Hotel, situated on the town side of Saltwater Cree...k. At least another two unofficial hotels were encountered before arriving at Pialba. The historic photograph of the Hotel gives a glimpse of life as it was, with a motor car gradually replacing the horses of earlier times. Like so many of Maryborough’s old hotels, the Saltwater Creek Hotel is but a memory but thanks to the magic of the camera, its history lives on. See more

21.01.2022 1. The familiar outline of Bauple Mountain in the background with a modern car on the then Bruce Highway, c. 1930’s. Not too much room for semi trailers to pass in those days!

20.01.2022 Walk down memory lane....

20.01.2022 For those of you interested in local history, and that would be most I guess, this link to YouTube has heaps of videos on local history talks etc. https://www.youtube.com/playlist

19.01.2022 Post Office Story What stories this building could tell! The original Post Office, Pialba, corner of Main and Hillyard Streets was always a very busy place. As well as a general Post Office where you bought your stamps, posted letters sent telegrams, paid accounts for many Agencies and registered for pensions and unemployment benefits, it was the very hearthbeat of communications for the entire Bay. Within the relatively small building was housed the telephone exchange, mann...ed by a dedicated group of call girlstelephonists, who received all incoming and outgoing telephone calls on the manual exchange. Very few people had telephones connected to their homes up until the 1960’s. (Mobiles phone were for the long distant future!). The night shift was always manned by a male person. I personally had two sisters and a cousin who worked on the Pialba Exchange. My cousin, on nightshift from 10pm until 6am, would often not have ONE telephone for the whole of Hervey Bay during that period! Every telephone call that was made was answered by the telephonist and manually connected from your phone to your caller’s phone. She would then listen in occasionally to see when the call was ended so that the connection could be stopped. The call was then registered into the callers Account! Local calls were just thatlocal Hervey Bay only. If you called Maryborough or beyond, that was a trunk call and was timed into 3 minute segments! This really limited the time people spent talking on trunk calls! Almost unheard of today, telegrams were in some ways similar to today’s SMS’s. To send a telegram, you went to the Post Office, filled in the appropriate form with a short message and paid according to the number of words. The Post Master would then make a telephone call to the area where the telegram was to be delivered and dictate the message. The message was then usually hand written on a TELEGRAM form and delivered personally to the addressee by the telegram boy..usually by push bike! How times have changed! The Hervey Bay Historical Village & Museum, Zephyr St, Scarness, is the repository of these and many thousands of other interesting things. Check out the Museum’s website for opening times and further information. John Andersen, Historian, Hervey Bay Historical Village & Museum. See more

18.01.2022 You have to smile.

18.01.2022 It was our pleasure to have Caitlin and family and friends come into the Historical Village to do some Formal photos yesterday. She looked absolutely gorgeous. Model material. Thanks for your donation guys.

18.01.2022 The Esplanade at Scarness. C. 1930. No bitumen road and the telephone poles carry the lines of the 6 people who had telephones along the Esplanade! Rare mileage marker on the Maryborough/Hervey Bay Road, showing 12 miles to Maryborough. The stump, removed with approval from Main Roads Department, can be seen on display at The Hervey Bay Historical Village & Museum. Tooan Tooan Creek looking from the Pialba Oval towards Scarness. The new skate park and playground now occupy the site!

17.01.2022 Just had message from Trip Advisor. We have been awarded the 2020 Travelers Choice Certificate of Excellence. Congratulations to our fantastic team of volunteers. Well done everyone.

15.01.2022 Smile with us......

15.01.2022 Just completed 6 of the self winding tops which will be on sale at the Historical Village next week. The main top is made from spotted gum timber joists from the Great Hall flooring. The hall was demolished last year after serving the Community and school for 40 years. Price will be $15.00 each. If you want to pre order, contact Margie on 0407 695 822. or 41284804 on Tuesday or Thursday They will come with a set of instructions on how to spin them. When they spin, the string rewinds itself ready for the next spin.

14.01.2022 1. Why not use the Scarness Beach? Planes for joy flights and inspection were a common sight in the days before established airports.

13.01.2022 If you would like to know more about the"Maheno" (Wreck on Fraser Island) check out this video done by John Andersen, our Historian at the Historical Village & Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FDf-msPvuA Visit our "Maheno" display to see all the artefacts we have on show.... Unfortunately due to lack of available members we are not open during the school holidays this year. We are open Saturday and Sunday and for Group visits. See more

13.01.2022 10 HISTORICAL FACTSHERVEY BAY. 1. Railway Line from Maryborough to Pialba arrived in 1896. 2. For many years through the 1960/70, Hervey Bay was promoted as then CARAVAN CAPITAL of AUSTRALIA with aprox 23 Caravan Parks! 3. The Urangan Pier was the largest exporter of coal on the east coast of Australia in 1929! 4. For many years, Hervey Bay had only 3 SchoolsPialba, Torquay and Urangan Point.... 5. In the early 1900’s, Pialba had its own Council.. the Pialba Shire Council. 6. The Hervey Bay Historical Museum was established in 1974 as a completely volunteer run Museum, 7. Sugar cane was a major primary industry for many years. 8. Other Primary Industries included dairying, pineapples, passionfruit and small crops. 9. At one stage the Hervey Bay to Maryborough Railway line was the most profitable in Queensland. 10. Hervey Bay was the first REGIONAL area in Australia to be serviced by 240 volt AC electricity! See more

12.01.2022 Reasons for Rationing. War conditions necessitated civilian rationing of clothing and certain foodstuffs in Australia. The main reasons for clothing rationing were the serious falling off in imports, increased Service demands, and reduced labour for local production of textiles and making up of garments. The supply to the United Kingdom and the Australian and Allied Services of maximum quantities of foodstuffs necessitated the rationing of sugar. butter and meat, while reduction in imports, consequent upon enemy occupation of Java, necessitated the rationing of tea. In addition to the controls exercised by the Rationing Commission, rationing of certain other commodities is directed by other departments, e.g., petrol, tobacco, liquor, etc.

10.01.2022 Important Notice. Unfortunately the Historical Village will only be opening Saturday and Sundays during the School Holidays. This is due to the Covid restrictions and the lack of available volunteers. This is the first time in history that we have not opened during School Holidays. Hopefully it will have changed by the next holidays.... We are still taking bookings for Group and School visits. Contact us via our website http://www.herveybaymuseum.com.au or call us on 41284804. Stay Safe. See more

10.01.2022 Volume two of "Moments in Time" is well on the way to being published. The cost will be $40 for the book or $50 for a special signed souvenir Limited Edition. Pre orders are possible by ringing our Museum on Tuesday or Thursday between 9am and 2pm. Ask for Margie 4128 4804 Launch is expected late November/early December. We expect to have the initial launch in Maryborough and a second one at Stocklands in Hervey Bay

06.01.2022 Only a week to go before the Station Square launch of our "Moments in Time Vol 2" book launch (Thursday 26th November.) There will be an outside broadcast from ABC on the day. Red Hot specials on the day!!! Buy both editions of Moments in Time, Vol1 and Vol2 for $60, Save $10... Buy the 4 Hervey Bay Museum produced books for $110 (Value $125) Limited number of Signed Souvenir Editions of MIT2 Collectors Edition $50 See more

06.01.2022 More Covid humour

05.01.2022 Starting to think about Christmas? We have many hand crafted souvenirs at very reasonable prices. Our latest is a set of 4 Coasters made from the Great Hall timber flooring. If any of your family attended the Hervey Bay High School, I am sure they would love one of these sets as a keepsake. Hand crafted by our own wood turner they come boxed with an Authentication Certificate. Limited number available in either Gray Ironbark or Blue Gum.... Only $20.00 per set. See more

05.01.2022 1. The road trip to Brisbane was often a two day trip with an overnight camp on the roadside. Time for the early morning shave!

04.01.2022 We expect to be having our second book launch of "Moments in Time Vol 2" at the Historical Village on Friday December 18th. Free entry. Your chance to get the book without a trip to Maryborough which is where the initial launch will be on November 26th at Station Square. Please note that our Carols in the Village will not take place this year due to Covid restrictions etc. We do expect to be having our usual Australia Day Celebrations on January 26th. It will only be a $2.00 ...entry . There will be lots of family fun and things to see and do. You will be able to help make a 10metre long rope which will be auctioned off during the day.. More details later. See more

04.01.2022 This article is from the National Geographic magazine. Our turtles are world famous !!!!. Don't forget the launch of our new book, "Moments in Time Vol 2" at Station Square in Maryborough on the 26th November.

01.01.2022 From the latest Beacon magazine, out now.

01.01.2022 1. Beating Mr. Whippi by decades! Haddows Café at Scarness was famous for its home made ice cream, with horse and cart traversing the Bay selling 1penny (I cent) and 3 penny (3 cent) ice cream cones!