the National Trust presents THE TASMANIAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL COMMUNITY MILESTONES 1 MAY - 31 MAY 2013 National Trust Heritage Festival 2013 Community Milestones

Message from the Minister message from Tourism Tasmania The month-long Tasmanian Heritage Festival is here again. A full program provides Tasmanians and visitors with an opportunity to The Tasmanian Heritage Festival, throughout May 2013, is sure to be another successful event for theT asmanian Branch of the National participate and to learn more about our fantastic heritage. Trust, showcasing a rich tapestry of heritage experiences all around the island. The Tasmanian Heritage Festival has been running for Thanks must go to the National Trust for sustaining the momentum, rising It is important to ‘shine the spotlight’ on heritage and cultural experiences, For visitors, the many different aspects of Tasmania’s heritage provide the over 25 years. Our festival was the first heritage festival to the challenge, and providing us with another full program. Organising a not only for our local communities but also for visitors to Tasmania. stories, settings and memories they will take back, building an appreciation in Australia, with other states and territories following festival of this size is no small task. of Tasmania’s special qualities and place in history. Tasmania’s lead. The month of May is an opportunity to experience and celebrate many Thanks must also go to the wonderful volunteers and all those in the aspects of Tasmania’s heritage. Contemporary life and visitor experiences As a newcomer to the State I’ve quickly gained an appreciation of Tasmania’s The Heritage Festival is coordinated by the National heritage sector who share their piece of Tasmania’s historic heritage with of Tasmania are very much shaped by the island’s many-layered history. special blend of history and nature, and I look forward to this year’s Trust. It began as a week-long event, but over the years pride and enthusiasm. Tasmanian Heritage Festival. has grown to be the month-long, statewide festival The Heritage Festival is a celebration of all aspects of Tasmanian heritage, held every autumn. This year there are around 300 participating organisations I would also like to thank the Tasmanian community for embracing this from community endeavour to maritime and industrial history. Museums Congratulations to the National Trust and its partners on presenting such an and over 1800 events. Heritage Festival year-after-year, thereby helping it to be what it has and open houses will be presenting a range of special exhibits and activities interesting program of exhibits and activities. become today — a celebration of our historic heritage. as part of the Heritage Festival, so take the opportunity to see artisans at The strength of the Heritage Festival is its grass roots focus. Groups from work or try your hand at one of the traditional skills on display. John Fitzgerald, around Tasmania participate and organise their local event, showcasing an I encourage all Tasmanians to get out and enjoy our historic heritage during Chief Executive Officer aspect of Tasmania’s historic heritage. this autumn festival. With all the wonderful events in the program, you are Tasmania’s historic heritage provides a backdrop to every-day life. Tourism Tasmania certain to find activities that will be both enjoyable and interesting. Conserved buildings, precincts and towns provide a workplace or home This year’s festival theme is ‘Community Milestones’ which provides to many, and picture-postcard towns such as Evandale, Ross and Oatlands communities with an opportunity to showcase their successes over the years. Brian Wightman MP provide a sense of what life once was like. Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage

Celebrating the Contribution of Tasmania’s Tasmania’s historic heritage — a community endeavour Heritage Volunteers As Tasmanians we interact with our historic heritage every day. We walk along paths and roads our forebears created; walk past and visit buildings they laboured over; and often work, sleep, and eat in places they built. From the tinyG eorgian workers’ cottages and the The Tasmanian Heritage Festival has grown and developed over the past twenty five years into what is todayT asmania’s premier Federation townhouses to the adaptation of industrial places likeC oats Patons in Launceston and the IXL Jam Factory in Hobart, which heritage event of the year. now house an eclectic mix of galleries, shops, offices, religious organisations and cafes, we interact daily, and often unconsciously, with The ongoing success of the festival is due to the extraordinary is hosting two morning teas, one in the north of the state and one in the toil of people who are now long gone. contribution of the countless number of volunteers throughout every the south.

Photo: Anne Kernke region of our island home. Each and every one of these volunteers is advice. Tasmania has wonderful trades people such as carpenters and passionately dedicated to ensuring our unique heritage is preserved for All volunteers associated with the Heritage Festival are invited. stonemasons with traditional skills, architects, historians, archaeologists future generations. and so many more. The Centre for Heritage in Oatlands, an initiative of the Franklin Penitentiary Chapel Old Southern Midlands Council, provides education and training in all aspects We often hear the term ‘unsung heroes’ – this is a term that certainly House Supreme Courtroom 2 of traditional heritage buildings skills. Local councils often have lists of applies to our heritage volunteers! The contribution this group of people 10am - 11am 10am - 11am places they’ve identified as having important heritage values, and they work makes to the fabric of our communities as well as a wide range of sectors Thursday 16 May Tuesday 21 May to protect them. including tourism, education and health all too often falls under the radar. RSVP 6 May | 6344 6233 RSVP 10 May | 6344 6233 At the same time the National Trust, Tasmanian Heritage Council and To celebrate and acknowledge the valued contribution of Tasmania’s Heritage Tasmania support these owners, managers, community groups, heritage volunteers, Dario Tomat, Chair of the National Trust Tasmania individuals, professionals and the broader community in collectively protecting our historic heritage. The National Trust manages heritage properties and collections, and through the Community Heritage Program works alongside communities to raise the profile and importance of historic heritage on behalf ofall E ve n t Key Tasmanians. The Tasmanian Heritage Council makes decisions about which Shene (Image Rokoco Designs) places to add to the Tasmanian Heritage Register (currently there are around 5,500 places), and assesses development applications from owners North Within this rich tapestry of historic heritage, a million stories are waiting who want to undertake works on their heritage-listed place. Heritage to be told. Around Tasmania there are historical societies, local groups Tasmania co-ordinates historic heritage activity for the State Government, and genealogists helping to put the stories together. They are made up supports the work of the Tasmania Heritage Council, helps to facilitate North East of professionals and volunteers, and all have a passion for uncovering the development of the sector and also runs a community education and our past. They publish many books, thereby increasing our understanding development program. of Tasmania’s history. These books are often collective efforts of writers North West sharing their knowledge of something they have discovered. Collectively, we all look after Tasmania’s historic heritage. Owners of heritage places are amazing. They invest time, energy and money This year’s Heritage Festival theme of ‘Community Milestones’ is an in their homes, businesses and farm buildings. Many are home owners, excellent opportunity to showcase community endeavour in protecting South others are finding new uses for historic buildings, but all are contributing to Tasmania’s historic heritage. It shows that we are all responsible for, and preserving Tasmania’s historic heritage. benefit from, our historic heritage places. West In Tasmania there are a lot of professionals who work to support owners, Pete Smith the community, the National Trust, the Tasmanian Heritage Council and Director the State Government through Heritage Tasmania by providing expert Heritage Tasmania

The Tasmanian Government provides financial support to the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania) to co-ordinate the Tasmanian Heritage Festival.

The Australian Government supports the National Trust Heritage Festival Download our free app from your favoured app store or www.nationaltrust.org.au Tasmanian Government through funding and through Australian Heritage Week Website for registration of events during Australian Heritage Week.

ii 1 North North National TrustNational Tasmania Ashgrove Australian Fly fishing the End of The Old Umbrella Shop Clarendon Cheese Factory Museum Touring the convict era Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Date Sunday 19 exhibition a talk by Jon Addison One of the last surviving, largly Clarendon holds a unique place in Tasmanian Convict history as Australia’s premier producer of Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Monday 20 intact, early twentieth century shops in Tasmania. Visitors are sure James Cox was instrumental in the handcrafted cheddar style cheeses In celebration of the opening of Launceston’s Reverend John invites everyone to come to the to be fascinated and tantalised by anti-transportation movement. the Australian Fly Fishing Museum, West and the anti-transportation Ashgrove Cheese Factory to taste, the collection of rare umbrellas The grand scale of Clarendon is the National Trust Tasmania has movement, the Australasian League, an extraordinary statement of enjoy and learn about cheese. and early souvenir items on display developed a touring exhibition left an indelible mark on Australia’s achievement by James Cox, who in the original Blackwood display Venue Ashgrove Cheese Factory showcasing a few of the museum’s history. The movement was largely established an agricultural enterprise cases. The shop is also well known 6173 Bass Highway highlights. This is the first time this responsible for the cessation of exporting produce not only to engaging exhibition has been on for the large range of umbrellas Elizabeth Town transportation of convicts to the New South Wales but also to India, public display. stocked for sale, as well as a variety Australian colonies. However, the Mauritius and the Cape Colony. Time 11.00 am and 2.00 pm of National Trust and Tasmanian Venue Launceston Airport campaign also left its mark on the Venue Clarendon Entry Free products. 201 Evandale Rd attitudes and beliefs of Tasmanians 234 Clarendon Station Rd Contact 6368 1105 Evandale about their convict past. This talk Venue The Old Umbrella Shop Nile ( via Evandale) Time Open times of will document the history of the 60 George Street Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Launceston Airport anti-transportation movement and Launceston Peter Tonkin - Entry Adults $15 Con $10 Entry Free John West, and pose questions Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Contact 6398 6220 Architecture Contact 6344 6233 about the impacts, both good and Monday to Friday & Heritage bad, of the campaign. 9.00 am - 12.00 noon Venue GeorgeTown & Distrct Date Thursday 23 Saturday Tasmania’s National Trust Historical Society Hosted by the Institute of Entry Free Rural Landscapes of Australia The Grove - Architects (Tasmania). A Cimitiere St Contact 6331 9248 Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 range of projects is presented Date Thursday 16 George Town showing differing approaches to A National Trust Tasmania Celebrating the contribution of exhibition highlighting the rich and sustainability - both environmental Time 7.30 pm Norfolk Plains and cultural - in the public realm. Tasmania’s Heritage Volunteers - varied landscapes of Tasmania, Morning Tea. Entry Free Heritage Centre & Lake including hawthorn hedges, stone Venue UTAS - School of Festival HIGHLIghT/ Cataract Gorge Reserve Venue Franklin House Contact 6382 1336 Masonic Hall walls, exotic trees, roads and road Architecture and Design Hobart Rd structures and rural buildings. 2 Invermay Rd Youngtown Date Tues, Thurs & Sun Venue Forest Eco-Centre Invermay, Launceston Time 10.00 am - 11.00 am Entally Estate Objects on display include an 88 King Street Community of Storys Creek Painted Poles Time 12.30 pm - 2.00 pm Historic Site extraordinary photographic Scottsdale Entry Bookings 6344 6233 Mathinna Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 of Lilydale Entry $21.00 per person collection representing a wide Time 10.00 am - 4.30 pm Contact 6344 6233 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Bookings 6214 1504 range of life and periods in Entry Free Date Wed 1 - Wed 29 Nestled at the foot of the crags of Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Founded in 1819 by Thomas Reibey Longford and Norfolk Plains Ben Lomond is Storys Creek ( now a Contact 6214 1504 Contact 6352 6466 Mathinna takes its name from that The power poles along the main II, the property originally covered district. of an aboriginal girl befriended by ghost town ), a region rich in mining street of Lilydale have been An Excursion to some 3000 acres but today consists Venue 11 William Street Governor and Lady Franklin. On the history and magnificent natural painted by local artists, depicting of thirty seven acres of heritage Glover Country Longford Evandale History outskirts of Mathinna is Evercreech beauty. Mining at Storys Creek scenes from the rich and diverse Evandale parkland and English style gardens. began in the 1870s from the efforts DATE Sunday 19 Time 11.00 am - 4.00 pm Society Inc Forest Reserve, home to the tallest agriculturally based heritage of the Pioneer Cemetry Venue Entally Estate Historic Tues & Thurs White Gums in the world. of Chinese prospectors. district. An excursion to John Glover Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Site 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Venue Story’s Creek country which takes in the natural Venue Mathinna and Evercreech Venue Lilydale Rd 782 Meander Valley Rd Sun Time All times Wander through this amazing attributes represented in Glover’s Evandale History Society is a small Forest Reserve Lilydale Hadspen record of Tasmanian forebears artwork and his personal farming Entry Free group of volunteers that was Mathinna Entry Free Time All times and gain an insight into the social founded in 1991 and aims to preserve life. Picnic lunch with Billy tea. Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Contact 6391 1860 Time Always open Contact 6385 2147 items of local historical importance. Entry Free and cultural fabric of our unique Afternoon tea provided to Entry Adults $10 Con $8 pioneering heritage. James Cox, These are stored and displayed in the Entry Free complete the day. Warm clothing Family $25 who established nearby ‘Clarendon’ facilities shared with the Evandale and comfortable walking shoes are Franklin House Contact 6385 2147 Cataract Gorge is buried here alongside his wife required for this excursion. Contact 6393 6201 Community and Tourism Centre. Low Head Pilot and other family members. Launceston VENUE Meeting in Evandale – Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Venue 18 High Street, Evandale Station Venue Pioneer Park Cemetry location advised when Convict built in 1838 for Britton Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Harold Gatty Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Pioneer Park Evandale booking Franklin Village Entry Free Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Jones (himself an ex-convict), Memorial Cataract Gorge has a long history Low Head Pilot Station is the oldest Time All times TIME 11.00 am – 3.30 pm Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Franklin House is the only house Contact 6391 8128 and has been described by several Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 group of pilot buildings in Australia. Entry Free ENTRY $40 - Booking essential museum in Launceston. This rare generations as the heartbeat of In days gone by, Franklin Village The Harold Gatty Memorial park While it was the first station to colonial building includes a school Launceston and central to its Contact 6391 8128 CONTACT Tasmania Hidden was on the main highway between commemorates the extraordinary operate, it is the third oldest pilot and is surrounded by beautiful MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM lifestyle and sense of community. Experiences 0419 584 667 Launceston and Hobart and was achievements of this Campbell service after the private operations grounds, including a Victorian The Gorge features walking trails, originally known as Long Meadows. DATE Wed 1 – Fri 31 Town born adventurer. Gatty’s of Sydney and Hobart. The pilot kitchen garden. lookouts, the world’s longest single Clarendon Up close The township consisted of Franklin Large motorcycle museum. assistance was sought by the service dates from 1805, with the Venue Franklin House Walk your way through with our span chairlift, suspension bridge From Albert to Victoria House, St James Church, four inns, one- eyed stuntman, oil rigger and appointment of William House as Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 413 Hobart Rd History Boards of 9 decades. Read and open air swimming pool. Franklin Hall, Greycliffe (home of air adventurer, Wiley Post, to fly Harbour Master at Port Dalrymple. Date Sunday 19 Youngtown, Launceston old newspapers & see our old Clarendon, a National Trust Britton Jones), Kerry Lodge farm around the world. They set off Venue Cataract Gorge The first building on the site was Tasmania property, has an workshop set out for easy viewing. Exploring the history of Cameron and the convict - built Kerry Lodge Time Mon - Sat from Roosevelt airfield on 23 June Launceston probably built in 1806. The pilot important collection of early Street between the Albert Hall VENUE Richardson’s Harley- bridge. 9.00 am - 5.00 pm 1931 and relanded there on 1 July. Time Open at all times service still operates from this site colonial furniture and objects. This and the Queen Victoria Museum Sun Davidson Venue Franklin House Venue Harold Gatty Memorial today. photographic exhibition by Louise and Art Gallery. 12.00 noon - 4.00 pm 468 Westbury Road Entry Free Thrush reveals in an intimate way 413 Hobart Rd Midlands Highway & Venue Low Head Rd Low Head Venue Walking tour Launceston Contact 6323 3000 details of objects often overlooked. Launceston Entry Adults $10 Con $8 beginning from Albert TIME Mon - Fri Pedder Street Time 10.00 am - 5.30 pm Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Contact 6344 7824 Campbell Town Venue Lilydale Larder Hall, Launceston 9.00 am - 5.30 pm Entry Free 1981 Main Rd Lilydale Time 2pm sharp Entry Free Saturday Time All times 9.00 am - 3.00 pm Contact 1300 135 513 Time 9.00 pm - 5.00 pm Entry Free Contact 6344 7824 Entry Free ENTRY Gold coin donation to Entry Free 6381 1353 CONTACT Launceston Historical Tasmanian Devil Fund Contact Contact 6395 1230 Society 6331 4890 CONTACT 6344 4524

2 3 North North Photo: Louise Thrush The Vintage Supply River mill Val d’osne fountain Tractor Shed historic site Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Home to over ninety machines in Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 The Val d’Osne fountain was working order, owned by father and The site was first inhabited by erected to commemorate the son team Hedley and Glenn Shaw. Tasmanian Aboriginal Panninher opening of Launceston’s reticulated people for gathering shell fish and water supply. It is a bronze copy Venue The Vintage Tractor Shed swan eggs and camping. The first of the original and was officially Veterans’ Row, Westbury Europeans to the site were probably turned on in 1859. An Historical Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Bass and Flinders in 1798. The river Engineering Marker which was Entry Gold coin donation was named in 1804 by William placed on the fountain in 2007 also Contact 6393 1167 Collins, master of the ‘Lady Nelson’. commemorates this event. The colony’s mineralogist, Adolarius Venue Prince’s Square Henry William Humphrey, carved Elizabeth & Charles Sts Launceston his initials and date in rock in the Launceston Tramways museum centre of the river ‘AH 1804”. A flour Time Open at all times mill was constructed on the site in Date Saturday 18 - Sunday 19 Entry Free 1825 and comprised three dwellings, Museum & Tram Ride/Tram Ride only a blacksmith’s shop, three boats Contact 6323 3000 Venue Launceston Tramways and a 200 head piggery. By 1828 the 2 Invermay Rd mill operated with the assistance of convicts and ticket of leave men. Festival HIGHLIghT/ Val d’Osne fountain Elizabeth Town Invermay Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Aboriginal and bushranger attacks Collectables Museum Entry Adult Museum & Tram occurred between 1827 and 1829. A down-turn in Tasmania’s economy in Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Ride $10 / Tram only $6 1850, and competition from steam In 1978 Ken Cooper’s parents, Con Museum & Tram Ride $8 / Tram only $ 4 mills, saw the mill run down, though Tucker Tennis Museum Low Head Light House Heritage Highway who were avid collectors, still operating, until between 1865 established a private museum. Children Museum & Tram This amazing collection includes Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Museum and Visitor Ride $5 /Tram only $3 and 1882. There was probably no Their son continues to collect activity on the site until around the photographs and autographs of Built in 1888, the current lighthouse Information Centre for and manage the museum. The Contact 6334 8334 turn of the century when it may have every Davis Cup winner since 1905 replaced the original built Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 collection has a wide variety of operated as a tea tree bark mill. By and every Wimbledon winner since by convict labour which was Heritage Highway Museum and objects from men’s shed tools to the early twentieth century the mill 1977. Visitors can view an impressive demolished due to falling into Visitor Information Centre is children’s toys. Dr Pugh was in ruin. It was used by picnickers library of tennis books dating back a state of disrepair. The current located in the centre of Campbell Venue Elizabeth Town and on occasions by the local to the late nineteenth century. double brick structure was Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Festival HIGHLIghT/ vintage tractor shed Town in the former courthouse. Collectables Museum community as a venue for dances. Venue Tucker Tennis Museum designed by Marine Board architect Dr William Russ Pugh ( 1806- Built in 1905, the building was Bass Highway Machinery was scrapped for the war Newstead Launceston Robert Huckson. 1897) was a medical practitioner used for its original purpose until Elizabeth Town effort during the First World War credited with administering the Time By appointment Venue Low Head Light House c.2009. After this time, the building while fire and flood during the 1920s Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm first surgical anaesthetic in the Low Head Rd Low Head served as a police station, a library, and 1930s destroyed much of what Entry Bookings: 0409 317 804 Southern Hemisphere. On 7 June Great Western Tiers Bass & Flinders Centre the council chambers, a solicitor’s Entry Gold Coin Donation was left. In 1995 the land was offered Time 10.00 am - 6.00 pm 1847 he performed two operations Cycling Trails office and an opportunity shop. Contact 6368 1117 for sale and was jointly purchased Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Entry Free at St John’s Hospital, Launceston, by the West Tamar Council, Parks & 4 tours: The replica Norfolk in all her Ben Lomond Contact 6323 3000 Venue Heritage Highway removing a tumour from a woman’s Museum and Visitor Wildlife Service and local residents. glory is available for viewing Ski Village Bolt Sculpture jaw and cataracts from a man, 1. Great Country Trail: Hadspen to Information Centre under ether anaesthesia. That Venue Supply River Mill Westbury (or vice versa) and boarding. Join a guided tour Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 103 High Street Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 day he wrote an account of the Reserve Historic Site and hear about the remarkable A blast from the past 2. Great Caves Trail: Deloraine to adventures of maritime explorers Ben Lomond takes its name from Campbell Town procedures for the Australian Deviot Rd, Deviot The ‘Bolt’ sculpture, created by Mole Creek (return) Bass & Flinders. the Scottish mountain of the same Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Medical Journal. Time 10.00 am - 3.00 pm local sculptor, David Hamilton, Entry Free 3. Great Heritage Trail: Deloraine to name and was given by Colonel Every Sunday at 11am the Fog Horn Venue Bass & Flinders Centre Mon - Fri was commissioned by the School Venue Prince’s Square Contact 6323 9205 Liffey Falls (return) Patterson who founded the first at the historic Low Head LIght of Visual and Performing Arts, St John & Elizabeth Sts 8 Elizabeth Street Entry Gold Coin donation 4. Great Gourmet Trail: Deloraine & European settlement in Northern House is blown. Bring a picnic along University of Tasmania, to mark Launceston George Town Tasmania in 1804. The Northern and enjoy the fantastic views out Contact 6381 1353 surrounds (return) the City of Launceston’s 2006 ‘It’s Time Open at all times Beaconsfield Mine & Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Tasmanian Alpine Club was formed into Bass Strait, up the Tamar and About Us’ celebrations. ‘It’s About Enjoy the rich natural and colonial Entry Adult $10 Con $8 in 1929 and constructed a chalet, across to East Beach. Be amazed Entry Free Heritage Centre heritage of the Great Western TIAGARRA - Tasmanian Us’ was a year long celebration Children $4 Family $24 ‘Carr Villa’. The Australian National by the incredible sound of the that marked 200 years of European Contact 6323 3000 Beaconsfield Mine & Heritage Tiers as you cycle along some of Contact 6382 3792 ski Championships were held at the fog horn as it eerily bellows and Aboriginal Cultural settlement of Launceston and Centre - Visitors can learn about Tasmania’s best touring rds: see site in 1955. echoes. A great activity for all the Centre and Museum recognised more than 35 000 years the social, industrial and mining http//www.greatwesterntiers.net. Venue Ben Lomond National family! of Aboriginal settlement in the Tasmanian Horse industry of Beaconsfield and the au/maps/cycling for more details A guided tour of an extraordinary Agricultural Park Venue Low Head Light House Tamar area. Tamar Valley. Great Western Tiers collection of more than 3000 - Drawn Vehicle Venue Time Always open, weather Low Head Rd Low Head Tourism Association heritage museum objects illustrating the way Venue UTAS Academy of the Foundation Venue Beaconsfield Mine & permitting 26 Lyall St, Westbury Time 11.00 am - 11.30 am Tasmanian Aborigines traditionally Arts Heritage Centre Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Contact 1300 135 513 This is Tasmania’s only display of Entry Free lived. 2 Invermay Rd, Invermay West Street Entry Free Displays of agricultural heritage Launceston historical horse-drawn vehicles. Beaconsfield Venue TIAGARRA - Tasmanian Contact 6393 5324 from the 1880s. A new display is Contact 6323 3000 Venue Bonny Brae Farm Aboriginal Cultural Time Open at all times Time 9.30 am - 4.30 pm the “Women on the March” display. 42 Clarence Point Rd Centre and Museum Entry Gold Coin Donation Entry Free Clarence Point Venue Pearns Steam World Mersey Bluff 6323 3000 Contact 6383 1473 65 Meander Valley Hwy Contact Entry Donation Devonport Westbury Time By appointment Bookings: 6383 4279 Time 9.00 am - 4.00 pm Entry $250 for a group of Entry Adults $10 Con $7 25 people Children $5 Contact 6424 8250 Bookings: 6397 3458

4 5 North North Timber and Plaster Pots by Brad Moss © Peter Whyte Photography Photo: Louise Thrush Ross Market Westbury Silhouette Memorial to Date Sunday 19 trail Aileen Bourke Home baking, market kitchen, bric a Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Venue Memorial to Aileen brac/woodwork etc The characters celebrated in the Bourke Venue Ross Town Hall Westbury Silhouette Trail are St Andrews Anglican Church Street, Ross examples of the many inspirational Church, Carrick lives that have built this community. Entry Free Entry Free Westbury Contact 6381 5444 Venue Entry Free Sculpture Contact 6393 5300 in the Garden Tasmanian Wool Centre Date Tuesday 07 - Friday 31 Yarns Artwork in Silk Weird, wonderful and maybe a Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 little shocking; an eclectic mix of Situated in the heart of Tasmania’s sculptures in the garden 4 large silk handworked panels. wool growing region, the Venue Franklin House Tasmanian Wool Centre promotes Each panel will draw viewers into the history, landscapes and lifestyles 413 Hobart Rd the advantages of wool and the Youngtown heritage features of the beautiful of the Meander Valley people. village of Ross. View on the half hour from 9.30 to Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm 4 daily. Entry $5.00 Garden only Festival HIGHLIghT/ Clarendon up close Venue Tasmanian Wool Centre 48 Church Street, Ross Venue Great Western Tiers - Normal house entry fees apply Visitor Centre Bookings: 03 63447824 (for lunch) Time 9.00 am - 4.00 pm 98-100 Emu Bay Rd Contact 6344 7824 Entry Gold Coin Donation Deloraine Bridestowe Estate Marakoopa Cave & Longford RSL Museum Bookings: 6381 5466 Time 9.30 am - 4.00 pm Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 King Solomon’s cave Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Contact 6381 5466 on the half hour Schooling- The enduring vision and legacy Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 The Longford RSL Museum Entry Adults $8 Then & now of Charles and Tim Denny is on Fully guided tours of Marakoopa contains a wide variety of Con $6 Festival HIGHLIghT/ Design Tasmania display at Bridestowe Estate. Visit memorabilia relating to service ‘Methode Tasmanoise’ Date Friday 03 - Friday 31 or King Solomon’s Cave by Contact 6362 5280 Mr Hawke’s Academy was set up at the famous Distillery and explore experienced cave guides telling people in the area. Especially The story behind the Jansz Franklin House in 1842 - a classical the technology and agricultural wonderful stories of one hundred highlighted is the story of Mary Vineyard and how it came to & commercial school. How learning practices that make Bridestowe years of cave tourism in both of Ranson who was a nurse during produce one of the best selling Deloraine & Districts has changed. Franklin House has Estate the world’s leading producer these iconic locations. World War Two. premium sparkling wines in Beyond by brad moss Design Tasmania of fine lavender oil Folk Museum taken 3 eras:-1840, 1940, & 2014 to Venue Marakoopa Cave and Venue 78 Wellington Street Australia. Date Wednesday 15 - Friday 31 Date Wednesday 15 - Friday 31 Venue Bridestowe Estate Longford Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 look at the differences in school King Solomon’s Cave Venue Janzs Wine Room For Brad Moss woodcarving is not Nothing changes quite so quickly, 296 Gillespies Rd Time During RSL hours subjects, learning aids, discipline Mayberry Rd Mayberry 1216B Pipers Brook Rd Features the Family and really about timber, it is about form quite so dramatically as technology. Nabowla and much more. Reminisce about (Marakoopa) Entry Free Pipers Brook Commercial Inn and the Pioneer your own schooling and write and finish. Although he has been Its constant, insistent progression Liena Rd, Liena Walk. Housed in an extensive Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Contact 6391 1397 Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm your thoughts on the sticky turning for 30 years, Brad is still can’t be ignored; yet whether we Entry Free (King Solomon’s Cave) garden where visitors can view notepad provided to enhance this learning, constantly evolving his embrace it or fight it, our lives Entry Free reproduction and reclaimed Contact 6352 8182 Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm interactive display. ideas and thoughts. BEYOND is the are inevitably changed. Furniture Contact 6382 7066 heritage buildings showcasing the result of his latest investigations of designers are architects, urban Entry Adults $19 Con$15.50 Ross Female Factory Venue Franklin House lives of early settlers. Deloraine texture in woodcarving, including designers or jewellers, Think. Make. Children $9.50 413 Hobart Rd Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Probation Station artefacts now remarkable results achieved Change show how these designers wooden boat Fam$47.50 Youngtown Venue Ross Female Factory Great Westen Tiers on show. through burning and plaster have responded and adapted. restoration & building Contact 6363 5182 Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Bond Street, Ross Sculpture Trail Venue Great Western Tiers techniques. ‘When you turn a piece Venue Design Tasmania Centre Visitor Centre Entry admission charges of work and you sit it on the bench, Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Cnr Brisbane & Tamar Sts 98-100 Emu Bay Rd it must sit there and sing to you, The B&F Shed is an extension of Entry Free Contact 6344 7824 Launceston Rossarden & STOry’s The sculptures of Great Western Deloraine not sit there in silence” Brad Moss. the ever - popular Bass & Flinders Contact 6381 5466 Tiers and Deloraine offer visitors Time 1.00 am - 4.00 pm Creek museum Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Venue Design Tasmania Centre Centre. The Centre is a celebration a unique encounter with the Entry Donation of wooden boats of the Tamar Museum showcases history of both Entry Adults $8 Out of the Dark Cnr Brisbane & Tamar Sts creativity of the region, its diverse Launceston Contact 6331 5506 Region through history. The Boat towns - mining, towns, schools, picnic at Ross culture and community, and rich Con $6 Date 25 & 26 May. Shed is a continuation of this health & sport. Travelling Bush Time 1.00 am - 4.00 pm Special car event for natural heritage. Contact 6362 5280 Westbury and Districts Historical theme - taking care of old wooden Nursing Exhibition is on display Entry Donation boats and building new ones. until end of June 2013. classic cars Venue Deloraine Township Society is holding an art exhibition QVMAG Meander Valley of copies of old pictures depicting Contact 6331 5506 Science Collection Venue Bass & Flinders Boat Shed Venue Rossarden Community Date Sunday 19 Deloraine Artisan Gallery Westbury. The pictures are from 21 Elizabeth Street Centre The QVMAG scientific collections Suitable classified vehicles (800 Entry Free Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 the Queen Victoria Museum, George Town 1 Schell Street classic vehicles attended in 2012) The Mitchell Library and private have national and international Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Rossarden Contact 6362 5280 Showcasing the talented artists and collections. significance. Venue Post Vintage Car Club craftspersons of the region in glass, Time by appointment Venue QVMAG Inveresk. Entry Gold Coin Donation of Tasmania wood and ceramics. Pottery studio Time Thurs 11 am - 4 pm 2 Invermay Rd Contact 6382 3792 Entry Donation Ross Sporting Venue of Rudolf Sibrava and Lisa Boyter. Sat 11 am - 1 pm Contact 6385 2147 Ross Tues 1 pm - 3 pm Launceston Venue 32 Deviot Rd Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Entry Free Robigana (near Deviot VENUE Westbury Town Hall Entry Free Contact 6244 8292 on the West Tamar) 26 Lyall Street, Westbury Contact 6323 3777 Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Entry Free Contact 6394 4595

6 7 North North Photo: Louise Thrush York Town historic Woolmer’s Foundation Settlement Site Date Monday 13 - Friday 17 Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Woolmers Foundation invites York Town occupies an important Grade 5 and 6 classes to trial place in Tasmania’s history. It was the new Woolmers Children’s established in December 1804 to Activity book that will reveal, in secure British strategic interests in an intriguing and engaging manner, Bass Strait, to accommodate settlers the story of the assigned convicts being removed from Norfolk Island and free settlers who worked to and to create a penal settlement. The develop and run Woolmers Estate. site also reflects early 19th century Woolmer’s significantly contributed British philosophies and relations with to the Norfolk Plains as a rich Aboriginal Tasmanians. The site was agricultural district. BYO lunch occupied from 1804 to 1809. It is one or purchase a lunch bag consisting of the least disturbed of the major of sandwich, muffin and drink founding settlement sites in Australia from Servants’ Kitchen for $10 per because no major development has student. occurred. The archaeological remains at York Town are amongst the oldest Venue Woolmer’s Estate and most expansive in Australia, Woolmer’s Lane and contribute to making this place Longford nationally unique. Much of the Time 10.00 am Festival HIGHLIghT/ National Automobile Museum of tasmania original settlement survives, including Festival HIGHLIghT/Australian Fly fishing museum launch the remains of the cottages of senior Entry Free for teachers $4.50 officials, convict huts, brickfields, for access to grounds; $2.50 for military barracks, settlement huts and optional tour. Bookings: 6391 2230 the government garden. Contact 6391 2230 QVMAG The Watch House National Automobile the Australian Brickendon Launceston Heritage Venue York Town Historic Fine Art, Decorative Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Museum of Tasmania Settlement Fly Fishing Museum Date Sunday 05 and Sunday 26 Awards 2013 Share your memories Arts and Design An exhibition by a local Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Greens Beach Rd Date Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 Discounted entry to Brickendon The annual Launceston Heritage York Town Collections photography collective exploring Come and experience the Date Monday 06 - Saturday 11 Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 Farm Village and Gardens which Awards are on again and we the historic fabric of George Town Entry Free includes a free guided tour by are looking to hear from QVMAG collects and displays fine history, elegance and style of Share your memories and An oportunity to experience the through its people and the built Contact 6323 9205 a member of the Archer family, those involved in projects art and decorative arts principally one of Australia’s finest autombile memorabilia of Beaconsfield’s Australian Fly Fishing Museum and natural environment. who have owned and farmed large and small to submit from Australia with particular museums. In addition to the cars Mines with us! We are always for the first time followed by a Brickendon for over 188 years. nominations. Buildings do not reference to Tasmania. Venue Watch House Gallery and motorcycles on display, the Astronomical very keen to learn more, so we’d beautiful tea in the Conservatory. have to be heritage listed and 84-86 MacQuarie St museum has a gift shop with a love to see your photographs Clarendon is serving a traditional Venue Brickendon Venue Art Gallery at Royal Park winners will receive a cash George Town huge range of merchandise that will Society Tasmania and memorabilia and hear afternoon tea of freshly baked 236 Wellington Street 2 Wellington Street prize and a framed certificate. delight people of all ages. Astronomy night your memories of the mine at scones, jam and cream exquisite Longford The Launceston City Council Launceston Entry Adults $3 Con $1 Beaconsfield. Perhaps you played pastries and finger sandwiches Heritage Advisory Committee Children Free Venue National Automobile Date Saturday 11 Time 11.00 am Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm on the ruins as a child, worked served on a three tier stand. On is looking to recognise projects Contact 6382 4466 Museum of Tasmania Entry Adults $8 Children Free Entry Free 86 Cimitiere Street A night of astronomical observation when it reopened or remember arrival, you will be escorted to the that have improved heritage with members of the Amateur Australian Fly Fishing Museum and Contact 6391 1383 buildings whilst maintaining the Contact 6323 3777 Launceston your parents’ stories. Share it Astronomy community in Northern with us so we can build a more then return to the Conservatory property’s heritage value, or have Entry Adult $11.75 Con $9 Mt Direction Tasmania. Supper included. complete picture of the mine, for afternoon tea where you will promoted heritage issues across Children $6.50 Fam$30 four categories: Residential, Historic Site Venue Clarendon working life there and life around it. be served a glass of sparkling wine, James Boag Brewery QVMAG Mixed Use, Non Residential, and Contact 6334 8888 234 Clarendon Station Rd, whilst freshly brewed tea and Mt Direction Historic Site is Venue Beaconsfield Mine and Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Promotion of Heritage. Entries History Collection Nile (via Evandale) coffee is brought to your table. important as it is one of the Heritage Centre Tour of the Brewery followed by close on Tuesday 30 April 2013 QVMAG - History Collection Time 7.00 pm Late end Venue Clarendon only remaining examples of the Warbird Flights West Street tasting Boag’s Beers matched with at 5.00pm. For entry submission represents both Tasmania’s place in communications systems used in Beaconsfield 234 Clarendon Station Rd, information please refer to Tasmania Entry Adults $5 Children Tasmanian cheeses. Australia and the World, and brings British Military Colonies during the under 16 Free Nile (via Evandale) the Council’s website: www. Entry Bookings: 6383 1473 Venue James Boag Brewery the world to Tasmania. 18th and 19th centuries. Bookings: 0408 240 576 Time 2.00 pm launceston.tas.gov.au Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 39 William Street Venue QVMAG Inveresk. Winners of the 2012 Heritage Venue Mt Direction Historic Site Adventure and aerobatic flights Contact 0408 240 576 Entry Adult $30 or Launceston 2 Invermay Rd Mt Direction $25 per person for 4 or Awards were as follows: in military aircraft. Feel the power Opening of Entry Adult $30.00 Launceston 6 people RESIDENTIAL Time Open all times and the noise of a classic radial the Australian Con $25.00 Child $10 Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm engine warbird as you undertake Deloraine & Districts Bookings: 6398 6220 Alan & Jill Birchmore Entry Free Fly Fishing Museum Contact 6332 6300 Entry Free moves from mild to wild - be Folk Museum Tamarleigh - Joint Winner it experiencing the graceful Date Saturday 04 Bruce & Pamela Crerar Contact 6323 3777 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 moves of a warbird through to The Australian Fly Fishing Museum Invercargill - Joint Winner Norfolk Plains Features the Family and Commercial APT Australasia Low Head Pilot the exhileration of aerobatic at Clarendon will be the first Fly MIXED USE National Trust manoeuvres. Inn and the Pioneer Walk. Housed Chapter Station Museum Launceston Synagogue in an extensive garden where Fishing Museum in the Southern Andrew Alexander Date Sunday 26 Venue Cranbourn Airfield visitors can view reproduction Hemisphere. Its mission is to Date Monday 6 - Friday 10 The Pilot Station Museum contains Garthowen Date Sunday 12 Mt Direction preserve, protect and celebrate Musical recital with harps. and reclaimed heritage buildings 5-day participatory workshop in artefacts and stories about the Port NON-RESIDENTIAL An opportunity to explore Tamar Valley showcasing the lives of early the art, the craft and the joy of fly advanced conservation techniques. of Launceston and its pilot service. Leon Robinson Australia’s second oldest Venue Masonic Lodge settlers. Deloraine Probation fishing. Time TBC Venue Brickendon and It also has a small boat collection. 10-14 Wellington Street synagogue, built in the Egyptian William Street Station artefacts now on show. Entry $370 for 30 minutes Venue Clarendon Woolmers Estates Venue Low Head Pilot Station Revival Style. Longford PROMOTION OF HERITAGE flying Venue Great Western Tiers National Trust Tasmania Woolmers Lane Museum Jane Deeth - Promotion and Venue Launceston Synagogue Time 2.00 pm Visitors Centre Contact 0427 432 865 Entry By invitation Longford 399 Low Head Rd education through publication 126 St John Street Entry $20 98-100 Emu Bay Rd Entry Bookings: 0411 165 011 Low Head and exhibition Launceston Bookings: 6391 1472 Deloraine Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Time 10.00 am - 12.00 noon Contact 6391 1472 Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Contact 6382 1143 Entry Gold Coin Donation Entry Adults $8 Con $6 Contact 6344 6233 Children Free Contact 6362 5280 8 9 NORTH EAST North WEST National TrustNational Tasmania Trail of the Tin Avoca Museum and Derby History walk East Coast Heritage Home Hill | Home of a Dragon Information Centre Date Everyday throughout May Museum Prime Minister Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Participants may collect a detailed Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Branxholm is a key stop along When the old Avoca State School informative package on the history The East Coast Heritage Museum Built in 1916, this fascinating site the Trail of the Tin Dragon. See opened in 1908 and by 1929 there of the existing buildings along the collects, exhibits and preserves was the home of Australian Prime the famous Bridge, central to the were seventy-three pupils enrolled. main street of Derby, and then may artefacts from the Glamorgan Minister Joseph Lyons. Wander miners’ confrontation in 1877. Atop Prime Minister Joe Lyons visited stroll casually through, learning Spring Bay Municipality for the through the house at your leisure the hill overlooking Branxholm, at the school in 1936, the year the the history of past businesses and community, visitors and for future and view the rich collection of the intersection of Ruby Flat Rd wireless set and electric power residences. generations. The collection has personal material providing a unique over 5000 items from pins to and the Tasman Highway, stands an were installed. This heritage-listed Venue Derby Schoolhouse insight into Australian political life petticoats. interpretation marker where you building has been restored by Museum and international relations during can learn about Ah Moy, Ruby Flat Greater Esk Tourism to promote 53 Main Street, Derby Venue East Coast Heritage the lead up to WW11. and the infamous incident. the Fingal Valley region. The Museum Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm 22 Franklin St, Swansea Venue Home Hill Venue Branxholm Bridge building houses a museum, a visitor 77 Middle Rd, Devonport information centre and a gallery Entry $5 Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Branxholm Time By appointment that enables the many local artists Contact 0429 179 059 Entry Free Time Open all times Entry Adults $10 Con $8 to exhibit their work. Contact 6256 5066 Entry Free Venue Avoca Museum and Contact 6424 8055 Contact 6336 3133 Information Centre Bowman History 16 Blenheim Street Room Dive into the archives Avoca Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Hellyers Rd Distillery Furneaux Museum Time 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm The History Room is a tribute to the Temporary Exhibition displaying a Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Fridays Date Sat & Sun throughout May life and work of the Bowman Family. range of archival folders/materials 11.00 am - 3.00 pm A half hour guided walk and The Furneaux Museum on Flinders Daniel Bowman arrived on Flinders available for local research. Weekends interpretation of Hellyer’s Rd Island showcases the history of Island in 1913. It displays family Venue St Helens History Room Entry Gold Coin Donation distilling process and the history the Furneaux Group of Islands in memorabilia and early photographs 61 Cecilia Street, St Helens behind the brand. The opportunity Contact 6385 2002 North-East Tasmania. The museum of the settlement of Whitemark. Time 10 am - 4 pm to taste cask strength single malt is a cluster of seven buildings that Venue Bowman History Room Entry Adults $5.00 whisky and pour, wax and seal are themselves exhibits. 2 Patrick Street East Coast Veterans Con $3.00 your own bottle, complete with a Venue Museum - Furneaux Whitemark, Flinders Is Fam $8 Certificate of Authenticity. Information and Historical Association Time 9.00 am - 12.00 pm Contact 6376 1479 Venue Hellyers Rd Distillery 8 Fowlers Rd, Emita Support Centre and Sat - Sun 153 Old Surrey Rd, Burnie Time 1.00 pm - 4.00 pm Museum 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Time Daily at 10.30am, Mon - Fri Cornwall coalminers Entry Free Date Mon - Fri throughout May 11.30am, 2pm & 3pm Entry Gold coin donation Heritage WAll Contact 6359 8434 The display contains collections Entry $14.50 per person of items from the Boer War to Contact 6359 2008 Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Contact 6433 0439 those associated with today’s Cornwall Coalminers Heritage Wall Scottsdale RSL peacekeeping operations. is in Cornwall Park in the centre of St Marys Cranks Festival HIGHLIghT/From the kitchen sink to cabinet Museum Venue East Coast Veterans town and contains some twelve The Redwater Creek Information and and Tinkerers hundred names of men who Steam & Heritage Date Tues - Sat throughout May pioneered the coal industry in the Support Centre and The Scottsdale RSL Museum has Date Mon - Fri throughout May Mt Nicholas Range. Here you can Society Museum a substantial military collection. An amazing and eclectic collection learn about how the early miners 35a Quail Street Date Saturday 04 - Sunday 05 Some of the items on display of objects including models of tunnelled into the mountain with Stanley Discovery Norman Sykes Memorial House and Home- St Helens The Redwater Creek Steam & include an M60 machine gun, aircraft and boats. nothing more than a pick, shovel, Museum and Statue, Railton Malcolm Bywaters Heritage Society is dedicated to the a self-loading rifle, as well as a Time 10.00 am - 2.00 pm pit pony and a stick of dynamite to Venue St Marys Cranks and win their prize of “black gold”. preservation and demonstration Genealogy Centre Date 1 - 19 May display of rations and cooking Entry Gold Coin Donation Norman Sykes donated 15ha of bush Tinkerers of how steam engines and vintage utensils used during the Vietnam Venue Cornwall Park Date Everyday throughout May. to ‘The Young people of Railton’ A sculpture and photographic Contact 6376 2324 Main Street, St Marys machinery work. to be used as a Sanctuary for birds, War, Light Horse saddles and Dead Cornwall Rd, Cornwall Located in the St Paul’s Church Hall, installation, HOUSE AND HOME Time 10.00 am - 3.00 pm fauna and for recreational purposes. Man’s pennies. Time All times Venue The Redwater Creek the displays outline what life was explores the relationship between Steam & Heritage Society Venue Scottsdale RSL Bark Mill Museum Entry Gold coin donation Entry Free like for the first early settlers who Venue Norman Sykes memory, childhood and home. 14 Spring Street, Sheffield Museum Contact 0417 648 845 arrived on the ‘Tranmere’ in 1826. Memorial Statue, Railton Visitors to the Gallery will Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Time Open all times encounter an almost life-sized 30 George Street Time 11.00 am - 5.00 pm Venue Main Street, Stanley wooden-frame biplane, which Scottsdale Fascinating and informative Halt Who Goes There! Entry Gold Coin Donation Time 9.30 am - 5.00 pm Entry Free appears as if it has landed inside museum. A step back in time to Glamorgan Spring Weekdays Time 3.00 pm until RSL closes Date Wed 1 – Fri 31 Contact 0429 418 739 the Gallery space. The sculpture 19th century Australia. Working 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Entry Gold Coin Donation bay historical society is supported by four colour Original Steam Driven Engine. The early History of Swansea, Weekends Contact 6352 7256 France to Freycinet Exhibit. Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 including, Military, Early Settlers, thylacine - Tasmanian photographs that juxtapose the Dexter Cattle Entry Gold coin donation biplane with the domestic setting Venue Bark Mill Museum Located on the main street of Convicts, Indigenous peoples and Tiger EXHIBITION Open Farm field Day Contact 6458 1330 of a suburban front yard. 96 Tasman Highway Swansea, the East Coast Heritage Louisa Anne Meredith’s sketches or 1300 138 229 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Bicheno Motorcycle Swansea Museum also accommodates the Venue East Coast Heritage Date Sunday 25 Venue Burnie Arts & Function Glamorgan Spring Bay Historical This exhibition tells the story of the Centre Museum Time 9.00 am - 4.00 pm Museum See rare breed, heritage Dexter Society Inc, the Visitor Information Tasmanian Tiger, and the human Wilmot Street, Burnie 22 Franklin St, Swansea Cattle and learn how to register Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Entry Admission charge Centre and War Memorial Room. interaction that led to its extinction. Entry Gold coin donation cattle and use the DCAI website Time 10am - 4pm The private museum of Andrew Contact 6257 8094 Venue East Coast Heritage Venue The Wilderness Gallery Contact Glamorgan Spring Bay and Herdbook. Entry Free Quinn featuring vintage Museum 3718 Country Mountain Rd Historical Society Venue Goldshaft Dexter Stud Contact 6430 5875 motorcycles. 22 Franklin St, Swansea Cradle Mountain 6256 5066 / 6256 5077 59 Gambles Rd, Railton Venue 35 Burgess St, Bicheno Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Time 10.00 pm - 4.00 pm Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Time 10.00 am - 3.00 pm Entry Gold coin donation Entry Adults $7 Entry Free Entry Adults $9 Con $7.50 Contact 6256 5066 Children under 15 Free Contact 6375 1485 Contact 0409 525 533 Contact 6492 1404

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Art rage 2012 BRag staff exhbition Sherwood Hall Circular head LaTrobe Court House Woolnorth European Date Saturday 25 onwards Date 1 - 19 May Date Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun Heritage Centre Museum & Aboriginal Heritage This ever - popular exhibition Work by staff at Burnie Regional throughout May Date Tues, Thurs & Fri Date Tues - Fri throughout May Date Sunday 12 May of artwork from schools around Art gallery: Michael Cannon Sherwood Hall was built by a throughout May The Court House Museum tells the Tour involves walking for about 3 remarkable pioneer couple, ex- the state is a Queen Victoria (Graphic Design), Gallery Director Circular Head Heritage Centre story of Latrobe and surrounding hours from Cape Grim, following convict Thomas Johnson and his Museum and Art Gallery travelling Geoff Dobson (Two degrees in occupies one of the few remaining areas since European settlement the coastline to Davidsons Bay to half-aboriginal wife Dolly Dalrymple exhibition. The work reveals the Creative and Performing Arts and early settler buildings which is Briggs. Thomas and Dolly’s story began in the mid nineteenth view midden remains & camp sites. skill and creativity of year 11 and 12 Cultural Theory), former Gallery more than 100 years old in the century. The centre of a rich A reasonable level of fitness and students from schools and colleges Director, Greg Leong (established is inspiring- they operated a coal mine, built a ‘native youth hotel’, township. The collection reflects agricultural and forestry district, the appropriate footwear is required. throughout the state and is selected artist with two fine arts degrees), constructed roads and bridges, a hall the life of the early pioneers and town has also been a major port from submissions from the top Birgitta Magnusson-Reid (trained Venue Windfarm Gate at for public entertainment and were the working life of the community. on the North West coast, the site strand of portfolios and tours from as a potter, Diploma of Art Craft & Woolnorth, Smithton involved with farming. The house Venue Circular Head Heritage of Tasmania’s oil shale industry and Launceston to Hobart and Burnie. Design and a degree in Art History) Time 9.30 am includes furnishings and clothing Centre birthplace of competitive wood and Bradley Rice (Diploma of Art Venue Burnie Art & Function from the era of Thomas and Dolly. 8A King Street chopping in Australia. Entry $80.00 pp Craft & Design). Curator; Randolph Centre Venue Sherwood Hall Smithton Venue Latrobe Court minimum 2 adults Wilmot Street, Burnie Wylie. Bookings: 6452 1493 Bell’s Parade, Latrobe Time 10.00 am - 2.00 pm House Museum Time 10am - 4pm Venue Burnie Arts & Function 113-115 Gilbert Street Centre Time 10.00 am - 2.00 pm Entry Gold Coin Donation Entry Free Tuesday & Thursday Latrobe Wilmot Street, Burnie Contact 0408 128 609 1.00 pm - 4.00 pm Time 1.00 pm - 4.00 pm Historical Bus tour Contact 6430 5875 Time 10am - 4pm Saturday & Sunday Entry Gold Coin Donation Date Saturday 18 Entry Free Entry $2 gold coin donation Jack Mason Contact 6426 1289 Explore the history of the Limestone Heritage Contact 6430 5875 Contact 6426 2888 Memorial Museum central North and West and Trail North West region of Tasmania. Date Thursdays throughout May King Island Museum Learn about early explorers, Date Wed 01 – Fri 31 HOOKED...from the Testing Ground The Devonport RSL Sub-Branch- settlers, bushrangers, Aboriginal Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Limestone Heritage Trail – A mountain dragon Jack Mason Memorial Museum conflict and the exploits of the Date From Saturday 4 May trail covering natural and cultural to the hand fish holds a collection of war The King Island Museum is run Van Diemen’s Land Company. heritage of the site around the ‘Testing Ground’ is a group by a group of volunteers who Discover a landscape littered with memorabilia donated by local Festival HIGHLIghT/ Woolnorth tours limestone outcrop of the Eugenana Date Saturday 25 onwards exhibition curated by Julie Gough. members or family members of war are members of the King Island place names that are now only beds. The Community arts project Venue Devonport Regional veterans from the Devonport and Historical Society. It is housed in reminders of a long forgotten Venue The Tasmanian HOOKED! culminates in this Gallery North-West district of the state. the former Lighthouse Keepers period of colonial expansion and Arboretum exhibition, showcasing the 45 - 47 Stewart Street The collection contains items from residence, Lighthouse Street, Currie exploration. Places to be visited 46 Old Tramway Rd numerous works produced in Devonport the Boer War to those associated Venue King Island Museum will include Ulverstone, East Early Burnie Abel Tasman Devonport, Parkham, Westbury, Eugenana (off C146 workshops held during 2012- 10am - 5pm with present-day conflicts. Currie Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Time Deloraine (Lunch) Mole Creek, Melrose Road) 2013 throughout the north-west Venue 16-18 MacFie Street Entry Free Time 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm Liena, Mt Claude and Sheffield. Early Burnie is an exhibition Will be looking at the life of Entry $5 of Tasmania. HOOKED! is an Devonport Entry POA Commentary will be provided by exploring Burnie’s beginnings as a Abel Tasman and his discovery of investigation of Tasmania’s inland Contact 6424 8296 Time 10.00 am - 3.00 pm Contact 6427 2690 waterways as well as coastal and Contact 0429 703 431 local expert Brian Rollins to give an privately owned enterprise and Tasmania. marine environments. It inspires Entry Gold Coin Donation understanding of life in these parts following its progress through Venue Kentish Museum participants to think about our The Steppes over 180 years ago, and copies of the 19th century. The exhibition 93 Main Street Wilmot Museum unique flora and fauna in a new Lyons Cottage maps and notes will be supplied on features many of the Burnie Sheffield The Steppes Historic Site is located light. A pilot project for Tasmania Penguin History the day. A short walk to Mt Claude Regional Museum’s fascinating and Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 on the Lake Highway in the Central Historic Site Time 10 am - 4 pm by Cradle Coast Natural Resource may be possible, subject to time significant objects dating from Highlands of Tasmania about 35km Group Inc The Wilmot Museum is located Lyons Cottage was the early home and weather. Cost $50 per person before 1900. Learn about early Entry Adult $5 Con $4 Management. north-west of Bothwell. This State in the township of Wilmot, the The Penguin History group collects of the Honourable Joseph Lyons. (includes lunch at the Empire Hotel exploration and the exploits of the Children $2 (under 16) Venue Burnie Arts & Function reserve of 48ha not only protects “Valley of Views” on the tourist and collates information from It contains antiques, historical Restaurant, Deloraine.) Van Diemen’s Land Company, life Fam $12 (2-3 children) Centre the site’s historic buildings but also historical records and also collects in the region for early settlers, and route to Cradle Mountain. The helps ensure that stories about a photographs and information on Venue Burnie Regional Contact 6491 1861 Wilmot Street, Burnie the events which led to Burnie’s museum was originally a church way of life, now largely gone, are memorabilia related to the region. the Lyons Family. Museum Time 10am - 4pm first economic boom at the turn and schoolroom built in 1897 by carried into the future. Venue Penguin History Venue Lyons Cottage Little Alexander Street of the 20th century. As a special pioneer Henry Buxton. The original Entry Free Group Inc Historic Site Burnie art Gallery - MuralS organ and pew are on display, Venue The Steppes exhibit, two of the early explorer Contact 6430 5875 4 Quinn Street, Penguin 14 Alexander Terrace Date Tues, Thurs, Sat & Sun with antique desks and learning Lake Highway, Time Advised when booking Henry Hellyer’s diaries will be on Time 10.00 am - 12.00 noon Stanley throughout May objects of the time. Tools, objects, Central Highlands. Entry $50.00 per person display until May 10, 2013, courtesy Wednesdays photographs and records of the (35km northwest Time 10 am - 4 pm daily (includes lunch) of the Tasmanian Archives and Native Art with discussions/guided Anvers Confectionery throughout May early settlers of Wilmot can be of Bothwell) Entry Donation Bookings: 6430 5746 Heritage Office and the University tours. seen. Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Time Daily Entry Free of Tasmania Archives. Venue Mural House Venue Wilmot Museum Anvers Confectionery’s chocolate Contact 6347 2582 Venue Burnie Regional Museum 100 High Street Main Rd snowballs are only made during the Woolnorth European Highfield Historic Site Little Alexander Street Sheffield Wilmot winter months, and people in the Burnie & Aboriginal Heritage Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Time 1.00 pm - 5.00 pm know can’t wait to get their hands Wonders of Wynyard Time 11.00 am - 2.00 pm Time 10 am - 4 pm Entry Adult $2.00 on the first batches. Exhibition Centre Date Saturday 11 May Open for self-guided tours and Entry Gold coin donation costume photograph portraits. Entry Adults $6.50 Con $1.00 Venue House of Anvers Visit Cape Grim via the Historic (Groups of 25+ $4.50) Children $0.50 Contact 6492 1441 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Homestead precinct, morning tea Venue Highfield Historic Site Con $5.00 9025 Bass Highway Exhibitions display the work of Contact 6491 1784 at the Director’s Lodge then to 143 Greenhills Rd Children $2.50 Latrobe local artists and include their Woolnorth Point and the site of (Scenic Drive), Stanley Fam $15.00 Time 7am - 5pm paintings, sculptures, photographs, the 1st settlement c1827 Time 10 am - 4 pm (2 adults & 3 Children) Entry Free textiles etc Venue Windfarm Gate at Entry Adults $10 Children $5 Contact 6430 5746 Venue 8 Exhibition Link Contact 6426 2958 Woolnorth, Smithton (Children under 5 free) Wynyard Fam $25 Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Time 9.30 am Contact 6458 1100 Entry Free Entry $80.00 pp minimum 2 adults Contact 6443 8330 Bookings: 6452 1493

12 13 North WEST SOUTH Photo: Louise Thrush From the Kitchen Sink Southern Midlands Southern Midlands to Cabinet Council Council Date Wednesday 29 Date Saturday 04 Date Saturday 04 - Saturday 25 Are we still breaking stereotypes Launch of Community Memories | An exhibition of memories, stories, 70 years on? Community Stories | Your Heritage. photographs & memorabilia An exhibition of memories, stories, collected at Community Heritage Panel Discussion with Tasmanian photographs & memorabilia Days held in community halls in Leaders. collected at Community Heritage the Southern Midlands throughout 70 years ago, Dame Enid Days held in community halls in 2012. Lyons was elected to Federal the Southern Midlands throughout Venue Callington Mill Parliament and became the first 2012. Mill Lane woman to sit in the House of Venue Council Chambers Oatlands Representatives. Enid played Main Street a pioneering role in women’s Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Kempton participation in Parliament. Since Entry Free Time 2.00 pm Festival HIGHLIghT/ Don River Railway 1943, another 50 Tasmanian Contact 0418 175 272 women have entered State or Entry Free Federal politics, and many more Contact 0418 175 272 have been involved at a local Peter Tonkin - government level. Architecture Is this a significant achievement Don River Railway Dutch History Cradle Historic walk around & Heritage in obtaining equality within the Pontville Date Every Sunday in May & culture Mountain Chateau community or does it highlight Date Wednesday 22 the continuing challenges to Date Sunday 19 Come along and enjoy a ride in Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Throughout May A range of projects is presented achieve such equality? (suggest comfortable Tasmanian Heritage Carriages being showing differing approaches to The museum will highlight the lives From the edge of the shore to the walking shoes) pulled by a Vintage Tasmanian of two families who emigrated to depths of the ocean...Tasmanian This is sure to be a lively sustainability - both environmental Steam loco. Entry includes the Ulverstone from the Netherlands. and interstate photographer discussion panel event moderated Venue Old Council Chambers and cultural - in the public realm. 30min return train ride plus access Chris Bell, “The Apparent and the by Peter Brett from UTAS Midlands Highway The exhibition will contain Venue Australian Institute of to the museum, signal box, yard, Abstract:” “Nature” and Darren Pontville a variety of collections from Panel participants include : Architects workshop and a complimentary photographs to textiles. Jew, “Liquid Light”, bring you a Professor Janelle Allison, Sandra Time 1.00 pm truly magnificent experience Tasmanian Chapter Festival HIGHLIghT/ CAllington Mill cup of tea/coffee. French, Annette Rockliff and Venue Ulverstone History that will leave you wanting more. Entry $15.00 per person Office Venue Don River Railway Museum Experience the waterfalls of others. (includes afternoon tea 1 / 19a Hunter Street 24 Forth Rd 50 Main Street Iceland through the eye of Joshua Venue Devonport and guided tour) Hobart Don via Devonport Ulverstone Holko,” Colours of Iceland” and the Entertainment Centre Contact Andrea Marks Time 12.30 pm - 2.00 pm Time 10 am - 4 pm big waves of Andy Chisholm,”Fluid Centenary Court Room Time 10.30 am - 4.30 pm 0402 956 692 for Entry $21.00 Tasmania”. Share Rob Blaker’s “Wild Entry Adult $17 Sen $15 Time 6.00 p.m further information Entry Adult $5 Tasmania” and Dan Giselsson’s Bookings: 6214 1504 The Old Congregation Ticklebelly Tales Pensioner $13 Children $2 intimate photos “Flora & Fauna”. Entry Gold Coin Donation Contact 6214 1504 Cemetery at tarraleah Children $9.00 With a career that has spanned Tea, Coffee will be Contact 6425 3835 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Sunday 19 Fam $38.00 over 40 years, Richard Bennett’s served. Brighton Heritage Chapman Henry Wise was the first Stories from Hydro Tasmania’s Oral Contact 6424 6335 “Retrospective” is an opportunity Contact 6344 6233 Museum open days Our Natural heritage to see the work of one Tasmania’s Chairman of Clarence Rd District History Book - TICKLEBELLY TALES Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 most recognised photographers. RSVP Wed 22 May Date Open every Sunday in May (1868). In the newly proclaimed - are being brought to life by a Waldheim Chalet Clarence Plains, its hills, plains and Rural Municipality of Clarence, play performed by Hobart Theatre Bass Strait Venue Cradle Mountain Venue Old Council Chambers coastline is an area of wonderful roads played an important role Group Live History. The 20 minute Date Throughout May Wilderness Gallery Midlands Highway Maritime Centre natural heritage, which today may in the vast agricultural area of production will show at Tarraleah 3718 Cradle Mountain Rd Pontville Waldheim Chalet provides visitors be seen through walks and drives in Clarence Plains. The cemetery is on the 19th May coinciding with Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Cradle Mountain with an insight into the Cradle Time 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm the area. The images in this display listed on the Tasmanian Heritage tours of the Tarraleah Power Recently reopened after extensive Mountain Area and the people Time TBC Entry Free will capture some of that heritage Register. A visit to the nearby St Station. refurbishment. the museum has an who played a pivotal role in the Matthews Church and Churchyard Entry Standard Entry Fees Contact Andrea Marks and encourage the viewer to search Venue Tarraleah Church & extensive maritime collection. establishment of the Cradle (1827) - 22 North Parade Rokeby - is Conference Centre may apply 0402 956 692 for farther afield for these places. Venue Bass Strait Maritime Mountain - Lake St Clair National well worth a visit. Oldina Drive further information Foyer-Clarence Council Centre Park. Gustav and Kate Weindorfer Contact 6492 1404 Venue Venue 73 South Arm Rd Tarraleah Chambers 6 Gloucester Avenue built the rustic home and guest Rokeby Time 11.30 am & 1.30 pm 38 Bligh Street Devonport chalet in 1912, naming it Waldheim Time Open all times Southern Midlands Rosny Park Entry Free Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm meaning ‘forest home.’ Wilmot Country Entry Free Council Time 8.30 pm - 5.00 pm Contact 1300 360 441 Entry Gold Coin Donation Venue Waldheim Chalet Store Contact 6238 4222 Dove Lake Rd Entry Free Contact 6424 7100 Date Throughout May Date Monday 06 - Saturday 25 Cradle Mountain Contact 6247 6925 The original Coles Store. Visitors An exhibition of memories, stories, Frascati House Time Open daily National Trust of will find the Wilmot Country Store photographs & memorabilia Open Day Axeman’s Hall of Fame Entry Free about 40 minutes from Devonport collected at Community Heritage Tasmania Tarraleah power Date Saturday 11 May Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Contact Parks and Wildlife and an hour from Cradle Mountain. Days held in community halls in Date Tuesday 21 May the Southern Midlands throughout station tours Historic Frascati House will be open Museum, Café, Gift Shop - Maker’s Service 1300 135 513 The historic building was originally Celebrating the contribution of 2012. for the public between 1-4pm. Market (every Sunday) inc horse the first retail store for Coles, and Date Sunday 19 Tasmania’s Heritage Volunteers - has retained much of its original There will be a display about and carriage rides. Venue Council Chambers Tarraleah Power Station Tours. Morning Tea. architecture and furnishings. Main Street the history of the house and Venue Axeman’s Hall of Fame Venue Tarraleah Power Station Venue Penitentiary Chapel Venue Wilmot Country Store Kempton Historic Site surrounding gardens. 1 Bells Parade, River Rd Lyell Highway 64 Main Rd Hobart Venue The Avenue, Latrobe Time 9.30 am - 4.30 pm Tarraleah Wilmot, Tasmania Time 10.00 am - 11.00 am Willow Court, Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Entry Free Time 10.30 am, 12.30 pm New Norfolk Entry Free Contact 03 6344 6233 Entry Admission charge to Contact 0418 175 272 & 2.30 pm Entry Free Contact 6492 1335 Museum Contact 1300 360 441 RSVP 14 May Contact 0401 533 023 Contact 6426 2099

14 15 SOUTH SOUTH National TrustNational Tasmania Penitentiary Chapel Runnymede The Sandy Bay Historic Site Date Tues - Fri & Sun Historical Society Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 throughout May Date Thursday 9 Tour the Court Rooms, Chapel, A rare 19th century whaling family’s Respected historian and educator, tunnels, cells and gallows. home for more than 100 years, David Boon, will be presenting an Investigate more than 180 years of the house includes a nationally engaging talk about the Old Albuera Tasmanian Penal history. significant collection of whaling Street School History Project. and maritime objects as well as art Venue Penitentiary Chapel Venue Wrest Point Historic Site works and family possessions of 410 Sandy Bay Rd Cnr Brisbane and the previous owner, Bishop Francis Sandy Bay, Hobart Campbell Streets Nixon, Tasmania’s first Anglican Hobart Bishop. Time 7.30 pm - 9.00 pm Time Sun - Fri 10.00 am, Venue Runnymede Entry Donation 11.30 am, 1.00 pm 61 Bay Rd Contact 6229 7029 & 2.30 pm. New Town, Hobart Sat 1.00 pm & 2.30 pm Time Tues - Fri Entry Adult $12 10.00 am - 4.30 pm Moorings Museum Con $10 Sunday Date By appointment Children $5 12.00 noon - 4.30 pm Festival HIGHLIghT/ art from inside Family $25 John Sargent has been collecting Contact 6231 0911 Entry Adults $10 items highlighting the rich history Con $8 of Bellerive for forty years. Contact 6278 1269 Photographs and documents include: Bridges of the Derwent, Federation Chocolate 10 objects - 10 stories Open Heritage house Australian Army Museum Tasmania the Tasman Bridge disaster, the Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 celebrating community Date Sat & Sun throughout May Oak Lodge Bellerive and Hobart Regattas, the Date Tues, Thurs & Sat ferry link and much more. As an added attraction to the collections Tasmania History House is one of Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 throughout May Venue Moorings Museum Chocolate Factory there is a Date Mon - Fri throughout May the oldest convict built properties An impressive gentleman’s Festival HIGHLIghT/ Wall in the wilderness museum of artefacts to preserve in Richmond and was constructed Australian Army Museum Tasmania Bellerive A inaugural exhibition initiative of residence constructed between local Timber Harvesting and by Simon Mc Culloch in 1825. It has is located within the Anglesea 1831 and 1842, Oak Lodge has had Time By appointment Sawmilling Heritage. Visitors will Arts Tasmania’s Roving Curators. been known as the Union Hotel, Barracks and is housed in the many uses throughout its history. see machinery from yesteryear The exhibition will feature selected Entry Bookings: 0419 572 958 Jolly Farmers Inn and Stratford former military prison built in 1847. Several rooms tell the story of Dr as well as equipment used by objects and their accompanying Contact 0419 572 958 House . The house has many The museum is run by volunteers. Grandma in the home as a reminder stories, from small museums / William Clarke who from 1909 interesting features of Georgian The barracks precinct is a unique St Michael’s The Hutchins of our pioneering lifestyle. In the collections around the state. The to 1947 lived in and operated his design now modernised as a family heritage site still occupied by the Collegiate School Archives and Heritage yard outside, a remnant of the old main aim of the exhibition is to surgery at Oak Lodge. home. Visitors can also spend Department of Defence. Some of The Sandy Bay convict powered tramway may celebrate the important role that Venue Oak Lodge An engaging collection that Collection time in the Tasmanian Library its buildings date back to 1814 and Historical Society still be clearly seen. Now heritage the community museum sector 18 Bridge Street documents, preserves and informs which houses the Reynolds three remain largerly unaltered since Date Mon - Wed listed it is one of the best remaining plays as story tellers and custodians Richmond Date Sunday 5 others about Collegiate’s rich generation collection of books, construction. throughout May examples of undisturbed line. of our state’s unique cultural heritage. See the 100 year old church just pictures , pamphlets and journals. Venue Anglesea Barracks, Time 11.30 am - 3.30 pm A selection of two fascinating Venue 71 Nelson Rd heritage. walking tours of Sandy Bay Venue St Michael’s Collegiate Sandy Bay opposite with an array of vintage Venue 15 Wellington Street Davey Street Entry Donation Venue 146 Artspace highlighting the rich heritage of one School Time 8.30 am - 4.30 pm timber harvesting machinery Richmond Opposite St Michael’s 146 Elizabeth Street Contact 6260 4153 of Hobart’s oldest precincts. 218 Macquarie Street nearby. Time 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm Collegiate School, Hobart Hobart Guided tours of the school and Hobart Time 9.00 am - 1.00 pm Venue Walking Tour gallery by appointment. Venue Federation Chocolate Entry Gold coin donation Time By appointment only Factory Museum Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Entry Gold Coin Donation Pugin’s church Sandy Bay Entry Free Contact 6260 2957 /0418 1818 143 Entry Free 2 South Street Entry Free Time 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm Contact 6221 4312 Contact 6237 7160 ‘open house’ Contact Taranna Contact 6336 3022 / 6336 3023 Entry $10 per person Date Sunday 5 [email protected]. Time 9.00 am - 5.00 The Tasmanian Contact 6229 7029 edu.au Entry Free Transport Museum Bellerive Pugin’s recently restored St The St Virgil’s College The Tasmania Fire History room Patrick’s Church at Colebrook Centenary History Contact 6250 3435 Date Sat & Sun throughout May will be an ‘open house’ so that Services Museum THE WALL Centre Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 the splendid proportions and The Sandy Bay The Tasmanian Transport Museum in the wilderness Date Mon - Fri was formed in June 1962 and was Bellerive Historical Society was beautiful furnishings of this master Historical Society Date Mon - Fri throughout May High tea with nineteenth-century architect can The Tasmania Fire Services Museum officially opened to the public formed in 1990 with the aim of Date Sunday 19 Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 The history centre features ‘meet the matron’ has a building on site in the in December 1983. It is situated be experienced. Pugin designed preserving the past for the future. A choice of two fascinating guided The wall is being handcarved in interactive and static displays & ‘tea and charity’ eight kms north of Hobart City in all the interior furnishings of the Tasmanian Transport Museum. It Members are committed to walks of Sandy Bay where you will timber panels 3 metres high and documenting the history of the displays several restored vintage Glenorchy and is open Saturday, exploring, documenting and sharing British Houses of Parliament as well college from 1911. Date Saturday 11 - Sunday 12 as the famous ‘Big Ben’ tower. learn about the fascinating heritage 100 metres long on the history fire trucks. Sunday and most public holiday details about the history of the of one of the oldest precincts in Two one act plays served with high of the area. A ten year project Venue St Virgil’s College Venue The Tasmania Fire afternoons. Train rides are available area. Venue St Patrick’s Church Hobart. planned to be completed in 2015. 195 Main Rd tea. The plays ‘Meet the Matron’ to visitors to the museum twice a Cnr Yarlington Rd & and ‘Tea and Charity’ are based Services Museum Venue Bellerive Historical Venue Walking Tours Austins Ferry month. On the first Sunday trains Arthur St Venue Derwent Bridge on excerpts from ‘The Troubled Anfield Street Society Inc. Tasmania Sandy Bay are operated by a diesel railcar Colebrook 15352 Lyell Hwy Time 9.00 am - 4.00 pm Asylum’, an historical account of Glenorchy 8 Cambridge Rd and on the third Sunday trains are Time 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm Derwent Bridge Entry Free Willow Court. Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Bellerive Time 1.00 pm - 5.00 pm operated by a steam locomotive. Entry $10 per person Time 9.00 am - 4.00 pm Contact 6249 6518 Venue Willow Court & Barracks Time Business Hours inc. Entry Free Bookings essential Entry Gold Coin Donation Venue The Tasmanian Entry Adults $10 The Avenue, Saturday mornings Contact 6230 8600 Transport Museum Contact 6224 5920 Contact 6229 7029 Children $5 (8-16) Willow Court Anfield Street Entry Gold Coin donation Children under 8 Free New Norfolk Glenorchy Contact Contact 6289 1134 Time Advised when booking Time 10 am - 4 pm [email protected] Entry $15.00 Entry Gold Coin Donation (includes two plays and high tea) Contact 0428 386 843 Contact 0419 213 232

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Royal Tasmanian Congregational Richmond Gaol The Glamorgan Josephite Mission Botanical Gardens Church (1873) Historic Site Spring Bay Historical and History Centre Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 The first Congregational Church Date Throughout May Society Date Mon - Fri throughout May was built in 1844 in Torrens Street In 1829, Governor George Arthur Tour of Australia’s oldest convict Date Open daily Open to all visitors - hear the story and was demolished in 1876 after ordered the construction of gaol, still in original condition. The aims of the Glamorgan Spring of the Josephite involvement in it was damaged in a storm. The a heated wall to protect frost Venue Richmond Gaol Bay Historical Society are to Catholic education in Tasmania. church in Bridge Street was built - tender plants and to extend Historic Site collect, record and restore archival Venue 67 Clare Street in 1873. growing periods of fruit trees on 37 Bathhurst Street material from the Glamorgan New Town the boundary of the Colonial Venue Congregational Church Richmond Spring Bay area, thus increasing Time 9.00 am - 4.30 pm Gardens. In the milder climate Bridge St, Richmond Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm awareness of its heritage. Entry Donation of Van Diemen’s Land, fruit trees Venue The Glamorgan Spring flourished without artificial heat, Entry Adult $8 Contact 6228 1628 Bay Historical Society and the convict - built wall was Eaglehawk Neck - Children $4 (5-16 yrs) Museum only heated for a few years. Family $20 Officers’ quarters 22 Franklin Street Perhaps to rival Arthur’s wall, Contact 6260 2127 Ouse History Room Throughout May Swansea Governor John Eardley-Wilmot Date Date Throughout May also ordered the construction., also Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm The Eaglehawk Neck Historic Site A local collection including by convicts, of a wall 280 metres offers visitors a unique perspective St Luke’s Anglican Entry Free long on the eastern boundaries of sporting trophies, photographs and upon the security system which Church (1834) Contact 6256 5077 / 6257 9011 other memorabilia. Festival HIGHLIghT/ Royal tasmanian Botanical Gardens the Gardens. The wall provides operated throughout the Tasman structure and unique heritage The foundation stone was laid in Venue 6947 Lyell Highway and Forestier Peninsulas during Ouse values to the Gardens. the convict period. The Officers’ 1834 by Governor Arthur. Designed RAAF Association (Tas by John Lee Archer and built Time Tues Venue Royal Tasmanian Quarters, erected in 1832, is thought Division) Inc 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Botanical Gardens to be the oldest military building in by convict labour, the church Runnymede international wall Royal Tasmanian was completed in 1835. James Wed - Fri Queens Domain Australia. Date Wed & Fri throughout May 9.30 am - 1.00 pm Thompson, the convict who was Date Sun & Tues throughout May of friendship Botanical Gardens Hobart Sat Venue Eaglehawk Neck responsible for the original timber A collection containing objects and 10.00 am - 1.00 pm Victorian High Tea in the Drawing Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Time 8.00 am - 5.00 pm Tasman Peninsula work inside the building, was memorabilia associated with the Room at Runnymede. An elegant The International Wall of The French Memorial Fountain Entry Free Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm granted his freedom as a reward for Australian Flying Corps in 1917 and Entry Donation afternoon with fine food and the RAAF in 1921. Friendship commemorates the Garden was created in 1972 by Contact 6236 3076 Entry Free his work. Contact 6287 1441 beautiful surroundings. Tea served contribution of migrants to Tasmanian artist Stephen Walker Venue St Luke’s Anglican Venue 61 Davey Street, Hobart promptly at 2.30 pm. Tasmania. It was conceived as a to mark the bicentenary of the first Church (1834), Richmond Time 10.00 am - 3.00 pm Venue Runnymede lasting memorial to the bonds of of a number of French voyages of Entry Donation Tasmanian 61 Bay Rd, New Town friendship and goodwill of many discovery that visited Tasmania. Richmond Bridge St John’s Catholic Contact 6234 3862 Parliamentary nations who have made Tasmania Its presence in the Gardens Richmond Bridge is a lasting symbol Time Tuesdays 2.00 pm Church Sorell School Museum and Special May 7, 14, 21, 28 their home, and their contribution acknowledges the contributions of Tasmania’s convict heritage. The and commitment to the progress of early French explorers and St John’s Catholic Church (1837) and sandstone arches of Australia’s Date Wednesday 08 Collections Sunday 2.00 pm Warships and Marine and well-being of the State. scientists to the understanding burial ground. This is the oldest oldest - known large stone arch A school/community celebration May 5, 12, 19, 26 Date Mon - Fri throughout May Venue Commonwealth of this island state. The great Catholic Church still in use in bridge have spanned Tasmania’s of our heritage. Bush dancing, Corps Museum Venue Parliament House, Hobart Entry $25.00 Government Centre French voyager - naturalist Jacques Australia. The church has had three Coal River since its completion in maypole dancing, bush sports, Date Throughout May Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Contact 6278 1269 188 Collins Street, Hobart Labillardière visited Van Diemen’s spires. The present one was raised 1825. Built by convict labour, the music, village fair. Land twice and laid the foundations Entry Free by appointment in 1972. Richmond Bridge reminds us of the Venue Sorell School A fascinating collection, preserving Time Open all times of his ‘Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Venue St John’s Catholic Church forced migration that contributed Forcett Street, Sorell objects from government related Contact 6212 2244 Entry Free Specimen’, the first great flora of to the development of Australia’s maritime organisations. New Norfolk Richmond Entry Free Contact 6238 4222 Australia. The garden surrounding society. Venue Warships and Marine Toll House the fountain is representative of Entry Free Contact 6265 7325 Venue Richmond Bridge Corps Museum The Tasmanian plants collected and described by Built in 1841, the Toll House was Richmond 3400 Huon Highway Archive and Heritage constructed in conjunction with Mt Nelson him during these early visits. Franklin Office (TAHO) Time Open all times The Soldiers’ the first bridge built across the Signal Station Venue Royal Tasmanian Chauncy Vale guided Venue 91 Murray St, Hobart Entry Free Time Guided tours by Derwent River and whilst the Botanical Gardens bushwalk & house Memorial Avenue Time 9.30 am - 6pm Mon -Thur Built in 1811 the signal station at arrangement bridge has been replaced, the Queen’s Domain, Hobart 9.30 am - 8 pm Fri tour Date Open all times Entry TBA on application original toll house remains. The Toll Mt Nelson was the first to be 9.30 am - 2. pm Sat Time 8.00 am - 5.00 pm Bookings: 0439 581 701 House now operates as an Arts & constructed in Tasmania. Today, Date Sunday 5 Richmond The Soldiers’ Memorial Avenue History Room and Mt Nelson Signal Station offers a Entry Free Craft Centre. Interpretive guided walk on the first forms part of the Queen’s Domain Contact 0439 581 701 microfile area closes at fascinating insight into the history Court House Contact 6236 3076 Sunday of May. Wander the bush in Hobart. It is an avenue of honour 6pm on Fridays Venue Toll House of the early colony. Informative tracks and listen to the stories of The Court House was built in 1825. comprising 520 trees planted in 1918 Entry Free New Norfolk panels describe the process of Chauncy Vale. View the sandstone In the early days, it was also used and 1919 to commemorate soldiers, New Norfolk Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm semaphore signalling, station life, Contact 6233 7488 Cape Bruny caves and cliffs which provided for church services. It was used mainly from Hobart, who died Historical and the role the station played in Entry Free Lighthouse inspiration for Nan Chauncy’s as Council Chambers from 1861, in World War 1 (The Great War) reporting shipping, initially for the 1914-1918. Information Centre children’s book “They Found a when the Richmond Municipality Bruny Island Port of Hobart and later for both Venue Cape Bruny Lighthouse was established, until 1993, when Date Saturday 25 May Cave”. Enjoy a BYO picnic lunch and Venue The Soldiers’ Memorial Historical Society Hobart and Port Arthur. Tasmania Richmond Council amalgamated Avenue Coal Mines then tour Nan’s home, Day Dawn, A local collection highlighting the Venue Mt Nelson Signal Station Time 9.30 am - 4.30 pm with Clarence City Council. Queen’s Domain, Hobart Historic Site where she wrote her award winning community’s rich heritage through Date Daily throughout May Hobart Pedestrian access books. Venue Richmond Court House Time Open all times photographs, family history records, At the History Room, visitors learn Coal Mines Historic Site outside these hours Richmond Time Open daily Venue Chauncy Vale, Entry Free documents and objects. the many facts about Bruny Island’s Venue Coal Mines Historic Site Entry Free Entry Free Chauncy Vale Rd Venue Circle Rd, New Norfolk history through various displays. Tasman Peninsula Bagdad Time 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm Venue The Old Courthouse Time Open all times Time 10.30 am Alonnah, Bruny Island Entry Donation Entry Guided tours by Entry $5 Bookings Time 10.00 am - 3.00 pm Contact 6261 3313 contacting Port Arthur Contact 6268 6365 Entry Free Historic Site Contact 6260 6366. Contact 6251 2310

18 19 SOUTH SOUTH Sea Shepherd Australia Ltd. Photo Tim Watters Cygnet Living Australian Antarctic Inverawe Hobart Town (1804) Cascade History Museum Division Native Gardens First Settlers’ Visitors Centre Association Inc. Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Date Mon - Fri throughout May Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Date Mon - Fri throughout May The museum records the rich The Australian Antarctic Division Stroll at will through this 22 acre Date Tuesday 7 A 1 hour tour that encompasses the history of the area. Cygnet was a maintains a small display area garden, guided by a coloured Short general meeting on stories and history of the Cascade centre for timber, fruit growing and featuring imagery, historical items brochure with map. Interpretation its activities. Family History Brewery, Woodstock Gardens, boat building. and information about Australia’s signs highlight the experiences of Information. Morning tea Museum gallery & tastings. Suitable science programme and operations the French explorers and pioneer Venue St George’s Church Hall for all the family. Venue 37 Mary St, Cygnet in Antarctica. botanists. Labillardière was here 30 Cromwell Street Time 10.00 am - 3.00 pm and so too was Robert Brown. See Venue Cascade Visitors Centre Mon - Thur Venue Australian Antarctic Battery Point 140 cascade Rd Division some of the plant species they 12.30 pm - 3.00 pm named over 200 years ago. Time 10.00 am - 12.00 noon South Hobart Fri - Sun 203 Channel Highway Kingston Venue Inverawe Native Gardens Entry Free Time 2.30 pm Entry By donation Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm 1565 Channel Highway Contact 6225 1711 Entry Adults $15 Contact 6295 1394 (behind the Margate Con $10 Entry Free Train), Margate Fam $35 (2 a + 2 c) Contact 6232 3512 Time 9.00 am - 6.00 pm Guided tour of Bookings: 6224 41117 Down memory lane Entry $12 the Theatre Royal Contact 6224 1117 Date Every Sunday throughout Historical Society Contact 6267 2020 Date Mon 6, 13, 20, 29 May of Municipality of Wed 15, 22, 31 The wishing well tour Festival HIGHLIghT/ Launch of whaling exhibition A collection of old photographs of Fri 17, 24 the District. Sorell SHOT TOWER Date Sunday 5, Monday 20 Guided tour of Australia’s oldest & Wednesday 29 Venue Levendale & Woodsdale Date Thursday 16 DATE Wednesday 01 – Friday 31 working theatre. Entertaining stories History Room Inc THE WISHING WELL TOUR - FROM Display and discussions on History Located in Taroona, a suburb just about the Theatre’s history, and 2278 Woodsdale Rd SOURCE TO SUPPLY. Tasmanian Scout Sound Preservation Houses of Bellerive & of District. 11 kilometres from the centre some of the performers who trod Heritage Centre Woodsdale Hobart’s water supply is one of Association of Lindisfarne: An Owen Venue Sorell Memorial Hall of Hobart, the Shot Tower is a its boards over its 176 year history. Australia’s oldest. At first Hobart An amazing collection of Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Cole Street, Sorell unique historic site. It is the only Learn about the contribution made Tasmania Lade Retrospective Rivulet was used for drinking water, objects with local, national and remaining circular sandstone shot to the development of theatre in Entry $5.00 Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm agriculture, for driving water wheels international significance. Rare items Date Wed - Fri throughout May Date Throughout May tower in the world. Australia. and also as a drain! By the 1850s it include the world’s first woggle, During the month of May, the The late Owen Lade (1922-2003) Contact 6254 6165 Entry Free The distinctive circular tower Venue Theatre Royal Hobart was badly polluted so the Council made for Lord Baden-Powell. Sound Preservation Association painted a number of iconic heritage Contact 6265 2491 stands 48 metres tall and was 29 Campbell Street began to capture water from the Venue The Lea Scout Centre of Tasmania will be open extra houses in Bellerive and Lindisfarne. built in 1870 for the purpose of Hobart Southern slopes of Mt Wellington. 330 Proctors Rd days to help share with the public This exhibition will showcase a Historical Images producing lead shot. Time 11.00 am Many of the structures associated Kingston their amazing collection of radios, selection of those paintings. A city divided - VENUE Shot Tower of Glenorchy Entry Adults $12 with this scheme remain and are Time During business hours gramophones and all things sound. Channel Highway Venue Rosny LINC the tasman bridge Con/Children $10 part of the Wishing Well Tour. or by appointment Date Wed 1 - Wed 22 Taroona Venue The Old Bellerive Bligh Street, Rosny disaster Bookings: 6234 2453 Come and discover this intriguing A display which will showcase a Entry Donations Post Office Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm TIME 9.00 am – 5.00 pm story of Hobart’s past on a two selection of photographs taken Date Wednesday 1 - Sunday 5 Contact 6234 2453 Contact 6229 9385 19 Cambridge Rd hour stroll on the lower slopes of Entry Free within the city of Glenorchy. ENTRY Admission fee Bellerive On a drizzly, misty night in January Mt Wellington. Contact 0419 383 552 Viewers are invited to share their 1975, the Lake Illawara collided CONTACT 6227 8885 Time 11.00 am - 3.00 pm Venue Fern Tree Tavern Car Park The John Elliott stories or comment on the images. with the Tasman Bridge, changing TAsmanian views Classics Museum Entry Free Fern Tree Venue Glenorchy City forever the course of history on the Date Sat & Sun throughout May Contact 6247 8695 The Huon Valley Apple Eastern Shore. Twelve people died Waterway Trail Time 1.00 pm Date Mon - Thur throughout May Council Foyer At Historic Lady Franklin Gallery and Heritage Museum 374 Main Rd, Glenorchy that night, and the city was cut Entry Adult $20.00 Spanning some 3000 years of the Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 each weekend in May. Meet the in two, but the people of Hobart Con $15.00 ancient world, items include objects Date Open daily throughout May Time 10 am - 4 pm The Waterway Trail begins at artists, enjoy refreshments. All Bligh Museum of showed a remarkable resilience Stu $15.00 (12-17yrs) from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, artwork for sale. One of Australia’s most extensive Entry Free which is remembered with pride Pioneers Park and follows the Sorell Greece, Etruria and Rome. Pacific Exploration Fam $45.00 (2 parents privately owned museums, Contact 6216 6771 to this day. This exhibition tells Rivulet. There are storyboards Venue Lady Franklin Gallery along the trail outlining the rich and up to 4 children) Venue University Centre, Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 highlighting the rich history of the the story of disaster, resilience and (1843) history of the Sorell area. Bookings: 1800 990 440 University of Tasmania The museum displays a region from the 1800s though to recovery through evocative objects, 268 Lenah Valley Rd Contact 1800 990 440 Churchill Avenue comprehensive collection of the 1980s. Kangaroo Bluff Battery images and memories. Venue Adjacent to Pioners Park Lenah Valley, Hobart Sandy Bay Pelham Street, Sorell documents, manuscripts, historical Venue 2064 Huon Highway Venue The Barn, Rosny Farm Time 11.00 am - 4.00 pm Time 9.00 am - 4.00 pm maps, paintings and other artefacts Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Grove Rosny Hill Rd Time Open all times Entry Free Closed From the time of the first official Hobart Hebrew relating to numerous famous Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Rosny Park Entry Free 12.00 noon - 1.00 pm explorers. white settlement of the Derwent Contact 6278 2702 Congregation/ Entry Free Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Contact 6269 0000 Entry Free Venue 876 Adventure Bay Rd at Risdon Cove in 1803, there Hobart Synagogue Contact 6266 4345 was concern over the possibility Entry Free (Sorell Council) Contact 6226 2235 Adventure Bay, Callington Mill Date Sunday 19 Bruny Island of attack by sea. By 1836, it was Contact 6245 8740 Open Day with guided tour of the Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm thought that mutually supporting Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 The Copping Museum Batteries on both sides of the St Joseph’s Church Hobart Synagogue. The Hobart Runnymede Entry Adults $4.00 Showcases wind-driven technology. Date Thur - Mon throughout May Derwent could turn Hobart Town Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Synagogue is the oldest Jewish Date Thursday 30 Con $3.00 into a fortress. Kangaroo Point, Venue Callington Mill place of worship in Australia and A display of Pugin Church-ware in Children Free An extraordinary display of with it steep bluff, was an ideal site Old Mill Lane has been in continuous use since it Launch of Whaling Exhibition, stained glass, brass, wood, precious Contact 6293 1117 memorabilia and inventions! located on the eastern shore. Oatlands opened in 1845. featuring the ‘Sea Shepherd’ story metals and stone. Venue Runnymede Venue 2217 Arthur Highway Venue Kangaroo Bluff Battery Time 7 days a week Venue Hobart Synagogue Copping Venue St Joseph’s Church 61 Bay Rd, New Town Gunning Street Entry Windmill Tours 59 Argyle St, Hobart 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Cnr Macquarie and Time Bellerieve Adult $12 Con $8 Time 12.00 noon - 3.00 pm Time 11.00 am Group bookings on Harrington Streets Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Fam $25 Entry Free other days Hobart Entry $5.00 Entry Free RSVP 23rd May Entry Gold Coin Donation Time 10.00 am - 3.00 pm Contact 6254 1212 Contact 0431 929 398 Contact 6214 8100 Contact 6344 6233 Contact 6253 5373 Entry Free Contact 6234 4866

20 21 SOUTH SOUTH Photo: Louise Thrush Narryna Heritage Oral History Society Arts Tasmania Cascades Female Historic Austin’s Museum/Tasmanian of Australia (Tas) Inc Date Thursday 16 factory Historic Site Cottage Museum & Art Gallery Date Saturday 25 The exhibition will feature selected Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Sunday 5, 12, 19 & 26 May Date Wednesday 15 & Sunday 19 The Workshop will be conducted objects and their accompanying Her Story - A dramatic Stalls, Sheds and Shops. stories - from various small Narryna is a splendid Greek Revival by Jill Cassidy, President of OHAA interpretation of life at the It began with a ferry and the merchant’s town house which (Tas) and will cover all aspects of museum collections around the Cascades Female Factory. establishment of an inn, but state. This inaugural exhibition is an formed part of Captain Andrew oral history, including how to use Venue Cascades Female within the next hundred years initiative of Arts Tasmania’s Roving Haig’s business empire. Internally equipment, how to prepare for an Factory Historic Site provided for the needs of the Curators, and aims to celebrate the the house was well fitted out with interview, interview technique and 16 DeGraves Street small, but steadily growing, classically designed chimney pieces important role these museums play transcription. South Hobart township of Austin’s Ferry. Visit and imported fittings, wall papers as story tellers and custodians of Venue Glenorchy LINC Austin’s Cottage (c.1813) to learn and floor coverings. With heritage our state’s unique cultural heritage. Time 11.00 am 4 Terry Street of these early enterprises and the experts, examine the evidence Venue 146 Artspace Entry Adult $20.00 people who were responsible for available for Narryna’s interiors, Glenorchy 146 Elizabeth Street Con $12.50 them. Extended photographic and which are about to be re-presented Time 10 am - 4.45 pm Hobart Fam $60.00 documented display. with the support of the Tasmanian Entry Adults $50.00 Community Fund (TCF). Event Time 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Contact 6233 6553 Venue Historic Austin’s Cottage (includes lunch) includes refreshments. Entry Free 14 Austins Ferry Rd OHAA(Tas) members Austins Ferry Venue Narryna Heritage $40.00 Spring Bay Maritime Museum Time 1.00 pm - 4.00 pm Festival HIGHLIghT/ Maria Island Students $30.00 Contact 6336 3022 and Discovery Centre 103 Hampden Rd Bookings: 0418 178 098 Entry By donation Battery Point Contact 0418 178 098 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Contact 6249 4227 Time 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm Wooden Boat Centre In late 2009 a group established the Hobart Rivulet Maria Island Adamsfield Entry Adult $18.00 TAsmania Spring Bay Maritime and Discovery Con $15.00 Blooming Tasmania Centre. Members envisaged it Friends of Bruny waterways Tour Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Throughout May Date Friday 10 Children $10 would not only display items Friday 10, Saturday 18 & Date Wednesday 08 Island Quarantine Date Discover the layers of History. Adamsfield was once a thriving Bookings: 6234 2791 Demonstration of traditional boat - relating to the rich history of the Sunday 26 Walk freely among the historic osmiridium mining settlement Blooming Tasmania’s Soirée at the building techniques, including steam area, but also be a catalyst for Station open day buildings of Darlington Probation with a population of more than Contact 6234 2791 The Rivulet - Hobart’s Hidden Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, bending, riveting, shaving planks. change in the Spring Bay Maria Date Sunday 5 Station - an Australian Convict Site 1000 people in Tasmania’s remote History. The Hobart Rivulet is a offers an opportunity to gather Venue Wooden Boat Centre Coast region of the state. World Heritage Property. View south-west. Today there is little left Venue Quarantine Station watercourse which flows from together those with a passion Main Rd Venue Spring Bay Maritime cement silos and the Coffee Palace of this once-booming town apart Narryna heritage Reserve Mount Wellington to the River for gardening, to acknowledge, Franklin and Discovery Centre Museum. from a quiet valley with scattered Museum | tasmanian 315 Missionary Rd Derwent. This fully guided above promote and celebrate Tasmania’s 17 Esplanade relics, which are gradually being Entry Adults $8 Barnes Bay, Bruny Island ground tour follows the course Venue Maria Island Museum & Art Gallery significant Garden Heritage. Triabunna reclaimed by the bush. Con $7.00 Time 10.00 am - 3.00 pm of the Rivulet beneath the City’s National Park Venue Royal Tasmanian Date Friday 17 & Sunday 19 Contact 0419 595 509 Entry Gold coin donation. Guided tours central business district. The PO Box 135, Triabunna Venue Adamsfield Botanical gardens Domestic Life, 1830s and 1930s. Contact 6256 4777 11.00, 12.00, 1.00 Rivulet played a key role in the Time Open all times South West Tasmania Queen’s Domain In a curator-led tour progressing historical development of the City Time open daily Hobart Entry Gold coin donation Entry Parks Day Pass from Narryna, an 1830s merchant’s Tasmanian Family of Hobart since the early 1800s. A Contact 6260 6287 $12.00 per person Entry National Park fee house to Markree, a 1926 Arts and Time 5.15 pm - 6.30 pm Brighton Heritage unique opportunity to discover History Society Inc Crafts Movement suburban villa we Entry Free by invitation some of Hobart’s hidden history. Contact 6257 1420 Contact Mt Field National Park (Hobart Branch) Association Visitors Centre, Parks examine some of the challenges in Contact 6257 7583 Venue Tasmanian Travel and Date Sunday 05 - Sunday 26 Chauncy Vale Wildlife and Wildlife Service presenting contrasts in Tasmanian or 0418 995 319 Date Tues, Wed & Sat Information Centre 1300 135 513 domestic life across a century. Tour throughout May The Brighton Heritage Museum Sanctuary Cnr Davey and in god we trust includes refreshments. Free access for non-members to Venue Old Council Chambers Elizabeth Streets Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 Venue Narryna Heritage Friends of the Orphan the resources (including Ancestry. Midlands Highway Hobart The Chauncy Vale Wildlife A unique glimpse into the part Channel Heritage Museum com) and volunteer research Pontville Schools Sanctuary, of which Day Dawn Time 2.00 pm Fri 10 churches played as a symbol of and Markree House assistants during Library hours Centre Channel Time 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm is a part, is the oldest private 12 noon Sat 18 faith in small rural communities 103 Hampden Rd Date Sunday 26 in May. Historical & Folk Entry Free conservation area in the state and is 2 pm Sun 26 Battery Point, Hobart Group walking tour of the Orphan Venue Oatlands Historical Venue TFHS Inc Hobart open daily except for days of total Entry Adult $20.00 Museum Association Schools and St John’s Park Precinct. Contact 0402 956 692 Society Time Fri 2 pm - 5 pm Branch Library fire ban in the 62 phone area. The Con $15.00 The tour includes a visit to St John’s History Room Date Wednesday 1 - Friday 31 Sun 10 am - 1 pm Old Bellerive Post Office, friends of Chauncy Vale Inc raise Stu $15.00 (12-17yrs) Church and a short recital (subject 107 High Street 2 ½ days in Margate. It is planned Entry Adult Adult $18.00 19 Cambridge Rd funds and organise events for the Fam $45.00 (2 parents to availability of church). Learn Hamilton Heritage Oatlands to launch Peter MacFie’s book on Con $15.00 Bellerive sanctuary. These funds also assist and up to 4 children) about the site and its history from Time 10 am - 4 pm the history of Margate. There will Children $10 Time Tues 12.30 pm - 3.30 pm Centre with the upkeep of the cottage. Bookings: 1800 990 440 be a display of photographs and one of our tour guides. Entry Gold Coin Donation Bookings: 6234 2791 Wed 9.30 am - 12.30 pm Date Tuesdays throughout May Venue Chauncy Vale Wildlife Contact 1800 990 440 maps in the Exhibition Space to Venue Old Sunday School Hall Contact 6234 2791 Sat 1.30 pm - 4.30 pm This small museum in the former Sanctuary, Bagdad Contact 6254 0021 accompany the launch. This display St John’s Park Precinct Entry Free warden’s building tells the stories Time 9.00 am - 8.00 pm will remain up all of May. New Town Contact 6244 4527 of the town’s lively past. The Closes at sunset WOMEN OF CONVICTION Time 2.00 pm Colebrook Progress Venue Channel Heritage Centre Anglican Parish of collection consists of documents, Entry Gold coin donation Date Every Sunday in May 1755 Channel Highway Entry $10 donation photographs and interesting local Association Margate Brighton Contact 6268 6365 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary - Mary tells towards tea & biscuits objects. A collection on display the story of her short and poignant life, Date Every weekend in May Entry Free Date Sunday 26 afterwards at the centre features Matron as an assigned convict servant. The History Room will be open to Contact 6267 2333 Display of religious books dating Bookings: 6234 1392 Elizabeth Orr who worked in South Africa during WW1. Venue Oatland Gaol the public. back to the 17th Century. Contact 6234 1392 Mason Street Venue Colebrook History Room Venue St Marks Anglican Venue Hamilton Heritage Oatlands Richmond Rd Church Pontville Centre Hamilton Time 12.00 noon - 3.00 pm Time 11.00 am, 11.15 am Colebrook Midlands Highway & 11.30 am Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Pontville Entry Gold coin donation Entry $5.50 Entry $2.00 Time 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm Bookings: 6254 1212 Contact 6259 7161 Entry Free Contact 0418 175 272 Contact 6268 1214

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Cascades Female ART from INSIDE Port Arthur The Wacky World Mine Manager’s Office Dempster Plains Eric Thomas Spray Tunnel factory Historic Tour Date 21 May – 29 May Ghost Tours of Tea Open Days Gaze across the open buttongrass Galley Museum Date Throughout May Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 “Art from Inside” is an annual Date Nightly from dark Date Sunday 12 May Date Saturday 18 - Sunday 19 moor lands to the Norfolk Range Date Throughout May Located at the end of the main competition and exhibition in the Tarkine Wilderness. These street, the Spray Tunnel provides A comprehensive guided tour of Your professional tour guide will A fun wacky tea party! Our staff Discover Australia’s only nineteenth The Galley Museum has encouraging creative expression plains have a long history of a scenic walk through a one-way the site. vividly recount documented cases will be dressed in fancy dress century mining enterprise office displays and information about from current and former prison burning by Aborigines, and many 100m abandoned train tunnel. The Venue Cascades Female of sightings and unexplained for the special occasion and our that still survives largely intact. Queenstown and surrounding areas. inmates. The Art from Inside plant species rely on fire to unusual keyhole shape is said to Factory Historic Site occurrences from real people who teas will be served in bizarre and The Mt Lyell Mine was Tasmania’s program is pursued in many regenerate. There are numerous Venue Eric Thomas Galley be the result of the top part of the 16 DeGraves Street lived and worked at Port Arthur – unusual ways!! largest and greatest mining countries around the world threatened plants here, such as the Museum tunnel having been enlarged to South Hobart and from more recent visitors too. Venue The shot Tower enterprise. The challenges of 1-7 Drifield Street allow the passage of steam boilers and is celebrated globally as beautiful white-flowered heath 318 Channel Highway, Taroona developing the mine in such an Queenstown that were brought through the Time 9.30 am & 2.00 pm an International competition Port Arthur Ghost Tours run for Epacris curtisae. roughly 90 minutes and tours isolated and difficult environment Time Mon - Fri tunnel to the mine. A fully boarded Entry Adult $15.00 and exhibited every four years Contact Booking essential on Venue Dempster Plains depart from the Visitor Centre. saw it adopt a range of innovative 9.30 pm - 5.30 pm path goes through the tunnel and Con $10.00 at the Prison Fellowship World 6227 8885 Tarkine Your tour time will be confirmed approaches to mining, smelting and weekends a picnic area is available at the Fam $40.00 Convocation. when you book. transport that distinguished it from Time Open all times 12.30 pm - 4.30pm entrance to the tunnel. When Contact 6233 6553 Coordinated and presented any other major nineteenth century walking through, it is recommended Entry Adult $25, Child $15, Entry Free Entry Free by Prison Fellowship Australia Waddamana Power mining enterprise in Australia. The to take a torch. (must be accompanied (Tasmania), the exhibition will Station Museum Mt Lyell Mine Manager’s Office, Contact 6471 1483 Venue Spray Tunnel by an adult) Fam $65 Recherche Bay be displayed for a week in built in 1904, is still largely as it was End of Main Street Courtroom 1. Each year, Inmates Venue Arthur Highway, Date Wednesday 01 - Friday 31 left when the Mt Lyell Company Rosebery Zeehan During the late 18th Century and ex-inmates are invited to Port Arthur Waddamana is the site of Hydro closed its operations in 1995. The Heritage Centre Kenworthy’s Stamper Time Open all times Britain and France were participate in the exhibition by Contact 1800 659 202 Tasmania’s first hydro-electric offices remain fully furnished Mill Date Monday - Friday Entry Free competing to chart and explore producing artworks to a given power station. Power generation and many of the archival records, Date Throughout May new worlds. The French visits theme. The artists receive the started in 1916. photographs, memorabilia and The Rosebery Heritage Centre to the North-East peninsula of offers a glimpse of the area’s total portion of the sales’ funds. Isle of the Dead Tour Venue Waddamana Power ephemera are still where they Kenworthy’s Stamper Mill houses Recherche Bay were responsible rich history in photos, videos, Cradle Coast Venue Penitentiary Chapel Station Museum were. Central to the building is working machinery used by for a wealth of new information Date Daily information and objects. Historic Site Waddamana the General Manager’s office Dudley Kenworthy who continued Authority about Tasmania, that remains Cnr of Brisbane & Between 1833 and 1877 around furnished to the requirements of Venue Agnes Street prospecting near Mount Bischoff important today. Recherche Bay Time 10.00 am - 4.00 pm after it closed in the 1940s. The Date Throughout May Campbell Sts,Hobart 1100 people were buried at the Robert Sticht, the internationally Rosebery can only be reached by boat. It settlement’s cemetery. The Isle of Entry Gold coin donation recognised first Mine General Time 10.00 am - 1.00 pm Stamper Mill has been restored to Follow an old packhorse track Contact 6231 0911 is possible to land on the beach, the Dead is the final resting place Contact 6259 6158 Manager. With support from full working order. along Stephen Rivulet. The track but there are no walking trails for military and civil officers, their Entry Adults $2 was cut around the turn of last Tasmania Community Fund and Venue Kenworthy’s Stamper through the area and it is best wives and children, and convicts. Children Free century for prospectors and Copper Mines of Tasmania, the Mill The most common causes of death Contact 6473 2105 packhorses to reach the remote experienced from the water. Port Arthur National Trust has been fortunate Main Street among convicts were industrial mining town of Balfour. Cross the Venue Recherche Bay to be able to develop an exhibition Waratah Historic Site accidents, and respiratory disease. river at Kannunah Bridge and head South Tasmania showcasing the rich mining heritage Time 7.30 am - 4.30 pm down the Blackwater Rd (C214) for Date Daily Entry Adult $15, Child $8, Rosebery Band Hall Time Open all times of Tasmania’s West Coast. Mon- Fri 4.7km. If you have 2 cars, one can be Fam $35 Entry Free Bronze Pass Venue Mt Lyell Mine Heritage Centre 8am - 5 pm left at the other end of the track, a Your day pass entry is valid for Venue Arthur Highway, Manager’s Office weekend further 4km down Blackwater Rd. Port Arthur Features photographs of the two consecutive days and includes Penghana Rd Entry Free (short walk: 3hrs return) Shene area highlighting the rich mining access to: Contact 1800 659 202 Queenstown heritage. Venue Balfour Track Tarkine Date Sunday 26 Interactive experiences for all ages Time Sat 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Venue Rosebery Band Hall Exclusive guided tour of historic in the Visitor Centre – including the Sun 10.00 am - 2.00 pm Heritage Centre Wee Georgie Wood Time Open all times property Shene. Convict Gallery and Lottery of Life, Point Puer Boys’ Entry Donation Main Rd Steam Railway Entry Free where you can discover some of Prison Tour Rosebery Contact 6344 6233 Venue Shene, Brighton the personal stories of Port Arthur’s Contact 6344 6233 Date 25 & 26 May Date Daily Time 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Entry Tour and Sweet Treats convicts. See the fully restored Wee Georgie $28 per person. Point Puer operated from 1834 to Entry Adults $2.00 A 40 minute introductory walking Pieman River and Wood 1921 Steam Locomotive THE GAIETY THEATRE Time 10am and 2pm tour - a fascinating introduction to 1849 and was the first purpose-built Family $5.00 operating on a short Tramway. juvenile reformatory in the British Pieman Heads The railway operates on selected Date Wed 01 - Fri 31 Limited numbers | Bookings Port Arthur, its people and its past. Contact 6473 1801 Empire. weekends. essential A 30 minute harbour cruise passing Travel the Pieman River by boat The Gaiety Theatre was once the Dockyard, Point Puer Boys’ Juvenile offenders were separated to Pieman Heads (Note-bookings Venue Wee Georgie Wood known as the largest concert hall Book online www.shene.com.au Steam Railway Prison and the Isle of the Dead. from the older convicts to protect essential). Enjoy a picnic and beach Waratah Museum and theatre in Australia in the them from criminal influence. Most Main Rd, Tullah late 19th and 20th centuries. The The Museum and the Convict stroll at Pieman Heads. Or spend a Waratah’s historic courthouse and of the boys were aged between Entry Adults $7 Child $3 theatre has recently been partially Sally Wise and Study Centre – located in the full day exploring the coast walking council chambers now house a 14 and 17, with the youngest just 9 Fam $14 restored to its former splendor. Asylum complex. south. Day walk: allow a full day collection of memorabilia and Stephanie Wood years old. Point Puer was renowned Entry to the Theatre is through the Venue Pieman River and photographs of the town’s tin Contact 0417 142 724 More than 30 historic buildings, for its regime of stern discipline West Coast Pioneers’ Memorial Jam Making Day Pieman Heads, Tarkine mining heritage. ruins, restored museum houses and and harsh punishment, but all the Museum. Date Sunday 19 May grounds and gardens. Time Advised when booking Venue Waratah Museum boys received an education while Sarah Island Venue The Gaiety Theatre Sally Wise, author of ‘A Year Entry Bookings: 6446 1170 Smith Street Access to the Convict Water some were given the opportunity Main Street, in a Bottle’ and her daughter Waratah Date Throughout May Supply Trail and the Dockyard. of trade training. Queenstown Stephanie Wood ( proprietor of Entry Adult $15, Child $8, Time 10.00 am - 3.00 pm The Sarah Island Historic Site is ‘Stephs Kitchen’) will be on hand Shuttle buggy service for people Entry Gold coin donation with restricted mobility. Fam $35 East Pillinger Entry Free Tasmania’s oldest convict settlement, to show visitors how to make jam Contact 6471 6225 Venue Arthur Highway, operating from 1822 to 1833. and give handy hints in a rustic Entry Adult: $35, Child: $16, Date Open daily Contact 6439 1252 Port Arthur Venue Sarah Island kitchen. Con: $27, Fam: $80 Venue East Pillinger Contact 1800 659 202 Accessible via cruise Venue The Shot Tower Venue Arthur Highway, Macquarie Harbour boats operating from 318 Channel Highway, Port Arthur Historic Site Strahan. Taroona Contact 1800 659 202 Time Open all times Contact Limited numbers Entry Free – booking essential on 6227 8885

24 25 Australian Fly Fishing Museum clarendon - tasmania

A major 2013 Tasmanian Heritage Festival Event. The Australian Fly Fishing Museum located at Clarendon opens to the public from 5th May.

www.affm.net.au 34 Clarendon Station Road, via Evandale, Nile. Phone: 03 6398 6220

Presented by

Tasmanian more than just fine printers. Government

The Tasmanian Government provides financial support to the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania) to co-ordinate the Tasmanian Heritage Festival. The Australian Government supports the National Trust Heritage Festival through funding and through Australian Heritage Week Website for registration of events during Australian Heritage Week.

National Trust Tasmania | 03 6344 6233 | www.nationaltrust.org.au