Tales of the Towers

Queenslander Feature Photos 1929

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(a) Various exhibits at Warwick Show :
1. Wheat sacks “The number of entries in the wheat section constituted a record”
2. “The display of fleece in the wool section was particularly fine”.
3. “A corner of the farm produce section”.
4. “A non-competitive display of magnificent cut blooms, from Leslie Park, Warwick”.
5. “R.A. Howell’s Baronet, champ. Devon Bull”.
6. “J.H.S. Barnes’s Canning’s Chance, champ. Hereford cow”.
7. “Donald McIntyre’s fat bullock - first prize”.
8. W.J. McKone’s fat cow - 1st prize”.

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(b) Various images of Charters Towers with main caption
“WESTWARD HO! WITH CARAVAN AND CAMERA
Our Journalist-Photographer forwards the following pictorial records of his visit to Chatrers Towers:
1. The Post Office
2. Gill Street is the main thoroughfare.
3. The Town Hall
4. Panorama of Charters Towers (view from Bucklands Hill with Showground in foreground)

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(c) “In the heart of the Bush” (man walking into creek with palm trees on the adjoining banks)

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(d) Various images of Charters Towers “WESTWARD HO! WITH CARAVAN AND CAMERA
1. “Mr. “Bill” Johnston, who drove the first coach from Townsville to the Towers in 1872, and today at 84, still drives his cab”.
2. Men on flying fox crossing Burdekin River (near old Pump Station),
“The Mayor (in white) takes a “joy ride” across the river”.
3. (front building at the Charters Towers Hospital, Gill Street)
“The rising generation is well cared for at the Baby Clinic”.
4. “Eventide Homes - the Dunwich of the north: (View of Eventide Home taken from Bucklands Hill area).
5. Cut timber for the Burdekin River pump station steam engines, being taken across the River to the Pump Station. “Two tons of wood being carried across the Burdekin on a flying fox: for the waterworks”.
6. “Machinery from the last mine to cease work, Clark’s Gold Mine, is being removed to Mount Isa”.

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(e) Images of Charters Towers
1. The Mayor and Mayoress of Charters Towers (Mr & Mrs Herbert P. Poole).
2. Australian Bank of Commerce Mosman Street - now World Theatre), the finest piece of architecture in the Towers”.
3. Internal image of the Woollen Mills building in Enterprise Road, “There is £35,000 worth of machinery in the woollen mills - much of it has never been operated”.
4. “Another part of the (woollen) mills, which has never yet been used”.
5. View of Charters Towers from Towers Hill, showing the mullock dumps, dotted over the countryside”.
6. “Jupiter” Mosman aged 65, as a boy picked up the first piece of gold-bearing quartz at what is now Charters Towers.
7. View of Gill Street, looking east from Deane Street.
8. “Mosman Street, is named after one of the pioneers of the Towers, the late Hugh Mosman”. (View is from Marion/Mosman Street intersection, looking North).

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(f) Images of Charters Towers
1. Burdekin River Weir, Charters Towers “Reminiscent of Niagara - on a small scale- the weir across the Burdekin which conserves the water for Charters Towers”.
2. Looking upstream from the Old Pump Station on Burdekin River, towards the weir, “On the banks of the Burdekin”.
3. Man attending to pumping equipment at the Old Pumping Station, - “In oval: These engines at the waterworks have been running for the past 40 years”.
4. Exterior view of the Old Pumping Station at the Burdekin River, showing felled timber ready for use by the steam powered engines, chimney and outbuilding -“The power-house of the Charters Towers waterworks”.PublisherQueenslanderDigitisedYesStatusFoundMaterial Description4 page photographic supplementIdentifier9857.6160

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SubjectsGill StreetShowgroundsTown HallWeirWaterworksWoollen millMullock HeapsJupiter MosmanFlying FoxCarsCollectionThe Jean Shepherdson Collection

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