Quirindi Rural Heritage Village & Miniature Railway in Quirindi, New South Wales | History Museum

Quirindi Rural Heritage Village & Miniature Railway

Locality: Quirindi, New South Wales

Phone: 02 6746 2992 & 02 67461479 & 67461785

Address: Kamilaroi Highway 2343 Quirindi, NSW, Australia

Website: http://QRHV.com

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25.01.2022 Big Jacks creek, west of Willow Tree, Liverpool Plains NSW. Thanks to Geoff Barwick for sharing

23.01.2022 Willow Tree's catholic Church was opened 9th May 1954, by Reverend E J Doody, Bishop of Armidale. The old wooden Catholic church was down near Ham's bridge on B...orambil Creek, and the original Willow Tree Inn, and it was washed off it's foundations in the 1949 floods. Photos of the church taken by me. Thanks to the Quirindi Historical Society for the newspaper articles. See more

22.01.2022 Braefield, near Quirindi on the Liverpool Plains NSW. Thanks to Geoff Barwick for sharing

22.01.2022 The Australian Silo Art Trail community has been working hard behind the scenes finalising great projects with many due to being early in the New Year. If you k...now of any more that should be added to this list, click to enter the website to see the list, then please comment below. Cheers Annette See more

21.01.2022 November 2020 Wheat harvest time at Little Jacks Creek, west of Willow Tree on the Liverpool Plains in NSW. Thanks to Geoffrey Neil Barwick for sharing this image and info.

21.01.2022 Cracking sunset last night watching over the headers. It’s been hot and windy! There has been much stopping and starting for fear of fire impact. Farming li...fe! How is everyone going with their harvest? #australianagriculture #agriculture_global #agriculturelife #farminginaustralia #australianfarming #countryroads #liverpoolplains #visitnsw #windystation #windywoolshed #countrydrive #viewfromtheland #regionality #woolshed #australianheritage #itstartswithag #generationag #visitruralandregionalaustralia #thankful4farmers #weareausfarmers #seeaustralia @australia

20.01.2022 Our Heritage Museum and Coffee Shop will be open this weekend Sat 30th & Sun 31st January from 10am till 3pm. So come on out and relax with a delicious morning tea, then wander through the the Museum. There will be a meeting at 7.30pm on Tuesday 2nd Feb to discuss our annual Rally in May. Members, friends and interested people and warmly invite to attend.

18.01.2022 Travelling along the New England Highway? Call into the Liverpool Plains Shire's Visitor Information Centre at Willow Tree to find out more about the sunnies and other great things to do and see in this beautiful part of Rural Australia - From the Great Dividing Range to the rolling plains to the west that support some of the Nation's finest agricultural country. Sharing Visitquirindi Liverpool-Plains post. There are little sunflower crops growing all over the place in the Liverpool Plains! #liverpoolplainssunnysideup #visitnsw #sunflowersmakemehappy

17.01.2022 Living in the country, kids learn to try...try...again

17.01.2022 Willow Tree Railway Station on the Great Northern Rail Line in NSW

16.01.2022 Summer harvest time on the Liverpool Plains in north west NSW.

16.01.2022 Life on the land

15.01.2022 The Mouse Plague Mr Duncan Cameron was Manager of Kickerbell Station from 1908, leaving at the end of 1913 to manage Bundella Park Station. The following is hi...s account of the mouse plague, included in Quirindi & District Historical Notes Volume 1 No 4: Owing to a tremendous growth of thistles at Bundella we could not get through the to cut the Bathurst burrs. When the thistles died and fell down I put frames on three old rabbit poison carts and made them like a big box about six feet square and three feet six inches deep. A man drove the horse and stood on the frame with a burr hoe and pitchfork. As he cut each burr he forked it onto the frame. The frames were lined with bagging to stop the burr seed being lost. Each man emptied his loads in various heaps and bashed them with his hoe to prevent their blowing away as there was no timber on the plain to cover them. When the danger of bushfires passed I intended to burn the heaps, but when I examined them I found that the countless millions of mice that we had had during the mouse plague during the summer had finished eating all the thistle seeds and had started on the Bathurst burr seeds. They nibbled the end off each burr seed and took out the two kernels in each seed. When I had the stables built at Bundella I had the manger, the full length of five horse stalls, lined with zinc. When we had the mouse plague the men used to get a daily average of 1,500 mice in the manger every morning. The mice could not climb out. The men had counted how many mice it took to fill a benzine tin and that was their yard stick for counting them. After all the mice had disappeared and we had almost forgotten them, it came to sheep dipping time The sheep dip had been thoroughly cleaned out last year when dipping was finished and filled with water. When I sent two men to clean it out ready for dipping there was only about a foot of water on top of over three feet of a solid mass of dead mice, pressed down solid like a brawn o pressed meat. When the two men took the water off the top they at once became violently sick and could not go on with the job because of the smell of it. So that meant yours truly had to do the job myself. I took up a bottle of Black and White whisky to sustain me and dug it out with a shovel. Strange to relate, I had the same experience at Bullagreen following the grasshopper plague about 1927. The mouse plague was widespread throughout country NSW and broader Australia in the early 1900s.

14.01.2022 Bob Sainsbury one of our original foundation members who now lives "way out West" at Nyngan has kindly sent the following report on the Quirindi Rally Quirindi ...Rural Heritage Village & Miniature Railway which was held on 30th April/1st May. Our club was represented with a good contingent of 5 members. Dave Hartwig has his early International 1 H.P. , John Tyrrell had 2 small Air Cooled engines, a Tom Thumb & a Brownwill.Bob McColl took his Lister D & pump, Doug Williams had a Lister Junior & Bob Sainsbury took a rare Model D Fairbanks Morse which he sold over the course of the weekend. There were somewhere between 50 & 60 engines on display & there was a tractor pull & swap meet. Our chaps went to the RSL one night & had Chinese at the Bowling Club the following night for dinner. Bob said it was a great weekend & they were made most welcome by the organisers & other exhibitors. Two pics below, 1 of Dave LH side & John far RHS with a couple of folk from another club & one of Dave's engines.

14.01.2022 Currabubula - Liverpool Plains NSW

14.01.2022 Sunflowers putting the Liverpool Plains on the map

13.01.2022 The miniature train track meanders around this lake and it is a haven for wildlife. Thanks to Gary Mathews for sharing this stunning photograph.

12.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who posts there great pics. You helped me plan my day trip itinerary. Hope you like my pics.

11.01.2022 I am quite excited. We had about 25 disability clients, carers and members, visiting the QUIRINDI Rural Heritage Village, to enjoy morning tea and miniature train rides. It is so important to support the local facilities in the Shire and make good use of them....Thanks to Colleen Wills and the Quirindi CWA for organizing the day.

11.01.2022 In Dorothy Durrants 1939 to 1950 Quirindi book it mentions that Jack "Leather" Byrnes, in his 50's, was the last blacksmith in town. This was in Station Street on the southern side of the Commonwealth Bank. It was still the original blacksmith shop that was run by Jacks father James Byrnes. It was taken over by the bank when extensions were made in 1957. Photo of Jack "Leather" Byrnes. Quirindi. Liverpool Plains NSW Photo from the Quirindi Historical Society. Thanks to Geoff Barwick for sharing

11.01.2022 "A good cook should be able to make anything out of nothing." This couple know how the secret behind a good feed. This story from 2016 featured on Summer Landline this past Sunday.

10.01.2022 BELLTREES SCONE In 1907 at the peak of the wool production era, H.L. White built the 52 room Homestead. The house was designed for the White family, one of Ne...w England’s pastoral dynasties, by J W Pender, one of three generations of the family firm of Maitland architects who left such an impression on the New England built landscape. It is heritage listed. It is now the family home of Dr Judy White, author, historian, archivist and grandmother of 19 grandchildren. The house features an imposing internal staircase and a cast-iron balcony verandah on both floors. Copied from federationhome.com Photos taken whilst on a group outing February 2016. See more

09.01.2022 Blackville on the Liverpool Plains in north west NSW. Thanks to photographer Gary Mathews for sharing this image.

08.01.2022 Update on the Model Railway....We are a loose knit group of individuals with various skills and experiences sharing the one thing we have in common TRAINS.

07.01.2022 Can you believe these decades-old tractors and headers still work? The Croppa Creek Classic Harvest Festival lets punters climb aboard restored farm machinery... and harvest an actual crop. Most of the equipment is saved from becoming scrap metal, and then gets restored by the community to get in working order. : ABC New England North West - Don Sheil & Amelia Bernasconi

07.01.2022 G'day not only I can sharpen band saw blades I can also set the teeth

07.01.2022 1978. Bob and Thyra Sullings about to head off to Canberra in their Model A ford. More info in the comments. Photo from the Quirindi Historical Society. Thanks to Geoff Barwick for sharing.

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04.01.2022 Wheat harvest 2020. "Yarrabah" Willow Tree. My 80 year old dad driving our header. What a legend.

02.01.2022 The trains are running this Sunday (23rdMay), 10am till 2pm. The sunny autumn days are perfect for a family picnic, so bring the family for a great day out. Rem...ember the covered shoes for the train ride. Please note due to massive increases in our insurance, we are regretfully forced to increase the cost of a train ride to $3.00. All day rides remain at $10.00. See more

01.01.2022 Big Jack's Creek, Willow Tree tonight.