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Zara Clark Museum
Phone: +61 7 4787 3672
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25.01.2022 Do you remember Townsville's floating hotel? The Barrier Reef Resort, 70km off the Townsville coast launched in 1988 and rain into trouble soon after opening: ...https://ab.co/2JJZ5Q5 Robert De Jong from the Townsville Maritime Museum is working on an exhibition about the floating hotel and is asking for those with memorabilia or memories to contribute. "To memorialise what Doug Tarca and his family did for Townsville... and record these stories before these stories dissappear from human memory."
25.01.2022 The students from Julia Creek State School have collaborated with Small Town Culture to create this song and music video about who they are and where they live..., and these kids LOVE their home. A place with big skies, open space and dusty cattle stations, in the heart of Outback Queensland, this is the friendly little town of Julia Creek. See more
25.01.2022 A very big THANKS to the Zara Clark Museum and it's Volunteers who invited ASSG to be part of their Ceremony today.. The Museum received a grant for new cabine...ts to showcase their amazing collection which commemorates the Kennedy Regiment and it's history in the Region. Well done to our extremely talented students and their teacher Miss Croker who performed at the event. #lestweforget #armisticeday #assg100 #warmemorialschool See more
25.01.2022 Juliette our Belgian exchange student visited Zara Clark on Sunday. She was very interested in the sad story of the unfinished knitted socks from WW1. Also the list of punishments displayed in the school room. And amazed at the telephone exchange and how it worked.
24.01.2022 ITS amazing to know that underneath this HISTORIC Town lays so MANY "Gold Mining Tunnels" ***GOLD was discovered in Charters Towers in 1872... and what follow...ed was the creation of a VERY self sufficient CITY.. **** Literally 100s of shafts were dug during the lifetime of the gold rush and the ore raised was processed through Treatment Batteries (Like the Venus Battery) It is estimated that 6,000,000 ounces of gold was won in the first 40 to 50 years of the life of the Towers. DISCOVER MORE.. and "Get Outback to Charters Towers" BOOK YOUR VENUS BATTERY Tour today.. The Poppet Head Gift Shop - Gill Street (07) 4787 2886 #getoutbacktocharterstowers #venusgoldbattery #goldprocessing #visitcharterstowers #charterstowers #goldrush #goldmining #outbackexperience #outbackqueensland #poppethead #poppetheadcharterstowers PHOTO CREDIT - John Oxley Museum & TripAdvisor
23.01.2022 Zara Clark Museum will be open free to the public on 9th November from 11am until 3pm. Call in a see the new Kennedy Regiment display.
22.01.2022 RAIL INCIDENT SELLHEIM: Police are asking anyone with information regarding a man who likely fell from a train near Sellheim, east of Charters Towers to conta...ct police. The injured man was found in a rail corridor approximately one kilometre west of the level crossing at School Street. Preliminary investigations suggest the 18-year-old Queenton man who was not a crew member or a passenger, was not supposed to be on the freight train which was travelling from Townsville to Charters Towers. The man was airlifted to Townsville Hospital for treatment of severe leg injuries. If you have information for police, contact Policelink on 131 444.
22.01.2022 Have you been to the Zara Clark Museum yet? If not make 11th May the day you do. They are hosting a free open day and hope you will visit and check out all the amazing things they have on display. #zaraclarkmuseum #zaraclarkhaseverything #openday #visitcharterstowers #getoutbacktocharterstowers
22.01.2022 Congratulations to Ann Gibbon for her very well deserved NTAQ Heritage Volunteer of the Year Award. Ann is President of the Charters Towers National Trust volunteer group. Support your town and pay a visit to the Zara Clark Museum, Mosman Street, Charters Towers.
21.01.2022 Step on board and explore the science behind this historic ship without ever leaving the classroom.
20.01.2022 A very big THANKS to the Zara Clark Museum and its Volunteers who invited ASSG to be part of their Ceremony today.. The Museum received a grant for new cabine...ts to showcase their amazing collection which commemorates the Kennedy Regiment and its history in the Region. Well done to our extremely talented students and their teacher Miss Croker who performed at the event. #lestweforget #armisticeday #assg100 #warmemorialschool See more
20.01.2022 Our wonderful volunteers shared a pre Christmas dinner tonight in the Stock Exchange. What an amazing group of people these ladies and gentlemen are! Merry Christmas. Zara Clark Museum is now closed until 20th January so these dedicated volunteers can have a holiday.
20.01.2022 Don't miss the Motor Show & Swap Meet! A must for all motoring enthusiasts. 11am - Saturday Super Cruise | 12pm - Bill Henderson Observation Rally | 2pm - Go-To-Whoa Qualifying | 5.30pm Live Music by Bad Influence | 8.30pm Fireworks Nicola Power Photography
20.01.2022 The Zara Clark Museum will be having a free open day on Saturday 27th July - the day before Great Houses of Charters Towers. Sounds like a great reason to spend... the weekend in Charters Towers. #greathousesofcharterstowers #charterstowershistory #zaraclarkmuseum #loveourherritage #visitcharterstowers #getoutbacktocharterstowers See more
19.01.2022 Congratulations ANN GIBBON!!!!! 2018 NTAQ Heritage Volunteer of the Year!!!
19.01.2022 Make a Great Day and Perfect Weekend and come to Charters Towers on Saturday 27th as well as Sunday 28th of July. Zara Clark which is the greatest museum in the... world is having a FREE open day on Saturday 27th. Too good to miss. #greathousesofcharterstowers #charterstowershistory #loveourheritage #zaraclarkmuseum #visitcharterstowers #getoutbacktocharterstowers See more
18.01.2022 Normie Rowe began his popular singing career while a young teenager and gathered a youthful following. After producing his first record in 1965, he quickly rose... to national fame, becoming Australias King of Pop in 1968. He had a number of big hits, including It aint necessarily so, and Que sera sera. Rowes career was suddenly interrupted when he was called up to do National Service. The press followed his military service, but it was no substitute for the attention he had received as a touring and recording celebrity. He was duly sent to serve in Vietnam with A Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment. In Vietnam he commanded an armoured personnel carrier, describing the work as, out on the highway, protection for vehicle convoys and land-clearing teams taking in infantry, and things like that. Following his years active service he was released from the army. Rowe has said of his National Service days: "You can look at your life and say that wasn't fair and that killed your career . . . or you can look back and take out of that segment of your life whatever was good. The best friends that I've got are Vietnam veterans". Read more about Normie Rowe: https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/exhibitions/fiftyaustralians/41 Photograph: 'Trooper Norman John 'Normie' Rowe', 1969, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/EKT/69/0009/VN
18.01.2022 The student's from Julia Creek State School have collaborated with Small Town Culture to create this song and music video about who they are and where they live..., and these kids LOVE their home. A place with big skies, open space and dusty cattle stations, in the heart of Outback Queensland, this is the friendly little town of Julia Creek. See more
17.01.2022 The Northern Miner is proud to announce we have won the Best Newspaper award at the Queensland Country Press Association's 2018 Newspaper Excellence Awards. The... Miner won the award for Best Newspaper Employing Two or Less Journalists. Northern Miner managing editor Trudy Brown said it was a great result for our country town newspaper. More in Tuesday's Miner.
17.01.2022 Zara Clark Museum is full of the most amazing objects. It is having an open day on Saturday, September 1st. Free entry all day. Make a great day a perfect weekend and come to Charters Towers for the whole weekend. The Great Houses of Charters Towers are open on Sunday 2nd!
15.01.2022 Do you remember Townsvilles floating hotel? The Barrier Reef Resort, 70km off the Townsville coast launched in 1988 and rain into trouble soon after opening: ...https://ab.co/2JJZ5Q5 Robert De Jong from the Townsville Maritime Museum is working on an exhibition about the floating hotel and is asking for those with memorabilia or memories to contribute. "To memorialise what Doug Tarca and his family did for Townsville... and record these stories before these stories dissappear from human memory."
14.01.2022 Another great reason to come to Charters Towers on the Fathers Day weekend. Zara Clark Museum is having a free open day on Saturday 1st September. You will be amazed at the history contained in this wonderful building!
14.01.2022 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, QUEENSLAND!!
12.01.2022 Submit your best photos of Outback Queensland and get your image on the front cover of the Outback Travellers' Guide. The winning photo will appear as the cover... image of the 2019 Outback Queensland Travellers Guide. This competition will run throughout the year until the 31/10/2018. #outbackqueensland
12.01.2022 Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1978. He joined the Australian Regular Army in 1996 and was posted to the 3rd Battalion..., Royal Australian Regiment, with whom he conducted two operational tours of East Timor. In 2003 he was posted to the Special Air Service, and was on his first operational tour of Afghanistan in 2006 when he was awarded the Medal for Gallantry for his actions as a patrol scout and sniper during Operation Slipper. During his fifth tour of Afghanistan, on 11 June 2010 Roberts-Smith was involved in an operation to hunt for a senior Taliban commander in the Kandahar province. Here he took part in an assault against an enemy fortification, exposing his own position in order to draw fire away from members of his patrol who were pinned down. Fighting at close range, he stormed two enemy machine-gun posts and silenced them. For this action Roberts-Smith was awarded a Victoria Cross. His citation in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette noted that 'his selfless actions in circumstances of great peril served to enable his patrol to break into the enemy's defences and to regain the initiative ... resulting in a tactical victory'. Following his sixth tour of Afghanistan in 2012 Roberts-Smith was further recognised with a Commendation for Distinguished Service for exceptional leadership, courage, mentoring, and reconnaissance in the 'most difficult and dangerous of circumstances'.
12.01.2022 Home Game this weekend! Action starts at 9:15am with the Wallas and continues until the A grade kick off at 6:30pm against Teachers. Though surely the highlight will be the delicious (and seriously moreish) burgers and agreeable bar prices!
11.01.2022 Thanks to Alan Silverwood for this great trip into the Venus Battery!! Don't forget, the Zara Clark Museum is open 7 days a week, from 10am to 2pm.
11.01.2022 HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEENSLAND We hope you dont lose puff blowing out 159 candles and we certainly hope you dont lose puff when the Queensland Maroons take ...on the NSW Blues tonight in Game 1 of the State of Origin. Queensland Day is a celebration of Queenslands birthday and its official separation from New South Wales as an independent colony on 6 June 1859. Celebrated annually, Queensland Day is an opportunity to commemorate the states culture, heritage, people, places and industry. We absolutely LOVED our Queensland Day celebrations on Saturday and we sincerely thank the Queensland Government for their support of this event. QUEENSLANDER #qldday #mckinlayshire #outbackqueensland
11.01.2022 Congratulations to our Marlin Representative players Ky Kerr u14's, Isaiah Vailalo and Brock Johnson u16's goodluck in Mackay over school holidays.
10.01.2022 FREEBIE ALERT! Its Free for Locals Day at the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Just flash your licence, council rates or power bill for entry. The museum's ne...w exhibition explores the link between dinosaurs and birds and features a T-Rex with feathers! Museum of Tropical Queensland
10.01.2022 Do you have any memories of the iconic Queens Hotel in Townsville? If you have any old photographs or memorabilia of its hotel days from the 1920s through to th...e 1970s, we'd love to hear from you! They could be included in a nostalgic nod to the past in the upcoming redevelopment of the historic building on The Strand. Gleeson Group managing director Therese Smith told Andy Toulson this morning that they intend to make the Queens the "grand entry point for a prestigious hotel." Future plans include a 1000 sq ft multi-purpose concert/conference centre and an edu-tourism precinct. Hear the full interview here: https://bit.ly/2spoFDh In the meantime, here's some old footage of the Queens Hotel from her heyday in 1926, courtesy of NFSA.
09.01.2022 Congratulations to our Marlin Representative players Ky Kerr u14s, Isaiah Vailalo and Brock Johnson u16s goodluck in Mackay over school holidays.
08.01.2022 Wonderful news! Ann Gibbon our president extraordinaire won Cultural Person of the Year at our Australia Day Awards. Well deserved.
07.01.2022 And yet another drumroll....... our flyer for 2019 is out! Thanks to the great graphic design from Simone Miles and printing from Hamilton Printers. Our locals ...never let us down. We are massively grateful to our advertisers who support this great event. Please support them whenever you can. Make a Great Day into a perfect Weekend! #greathousesofcharterstowers #charterstowershistory #visitcharterstowers #getoutbacktocharterstowers See more
06.01.2022 Those were the days...
06.01.2022 SOME grocery shoppers will be slugged hefty charges of up to $3.50 from next week when the dumping of single-use plastic bags begins. Woolworths is the first bi...g supermarket to remove grey plastic bags from all their stores next Wednesday and shoppers who are not armed with their own bags will be charged extra at the checkout if they require them. But a much higher charge applies to online shoppers who opt to have their groceries delivered in a crate this new service by Woolworths will cost $3.50 per delivery to a customers benchtop.
06.01.2022 We love it up here!!!
05.01.2022 Thanks to Alan Silverwood for this great trip into the Venus Battery!! Dont forget, the Zara Clark Museum is open 7 days a week, from 10am to 2pm.
05.01.2022 IT'S amazing to know that underneath this HISTORIC Town lays so MANY "Gold Mining Tunnels" ***GOLD was discovered in Charters Towers in 1872... and what follow...ed was the creation of a VERY self sufficient CITY.. **** Literally 100s of shafts were dug during the lifetime of the gold rush and the ore raised was processed through Treatment Batteries (Like the Venus Battery) It is estimated that 6,000,000 ounces of gold was won in the first 40 to 50 years of the life of the Towers. DISCOVER MORE.. and "Get Outback to Charters Towers" BOOK YOUR VENUS BATTERY Tour today.. The Poppet Head Gift Shop - Gill Street (07) 4787 2886 #getoutbacktocharterstowers #venusgoldbattery #goldprocessing #visitcharterstowers #charterstowers #goldrush #goldmining #outbackexperience #outbackqueensland #poppethead #poppetheadcharterstowers PHOTO CREDIT - John Oxley Museum & TripAdvisor
04.01.2022 Blast from the past! When we all had hair.........
03.01.2022 It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Br Vic Leo Larkin CFC. Br Vic (89 years) passed peacefully last night surrounded... by the love and care of his fellow Christian Brothers at Hendrina Nursing Centre. Our thoughts and prayers are extended to the Christian Brothers and Br Vics family, friends, and carers at this time. Br Vic was well known to many in our community. He was one of the Christian Brothers who came to Columba in a Pastoral in the Foundation year - 1998. The Christian Brothers will farewell Br Vic at a private service in the coming week. Eternal rest, grant unto him O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.
02.01.2022 Melodicas and sheet music at https://www.melodicamen.com/shop.html
02.01.2022 And 38 years ago....remember this? When lots of other people still had hair, too....
01.01.2022 We had a lovely morning out singing at the Zara Clark Museum.
01.01.2022 Dont miss the Motor Show & Swap Meet! A must for all motoring enthusiasts. 11am - Saturday Super Cruise | 12pm - Bill Henderson Observation Rally | 2pm - Go-To-Whoa Qualifying | 5.30pm Live Music by Bad Influence | 8.30pm Fireworks Nicola Power Photography
