The Great Cobar Museum project stages 2 and 3 are almost complete and will soon be open to the public. The Cobar Weekly had another sneak peek yesterday and snapped a few photos of the outdoor displays. Above in the background are two boilers, used at the Gladstone Mine. Also pictured is ‘Big Red’, an Ingersoll Rand compressor, used at the CSA. Workers of the time described it as ‘the pride of the fleet’. The smaller motors at front were both used at the Queen Bee mine in the early 1900s. Some of the outdoor displays feature sound recordings of the daily operations on a mine site including tapping, crushing and workers calling to each other.
The Great Cobar Museum project stages 2 and 3 are almost complete and will soon be open to the public. The Cobar Weekly had another sneak peek yesterday and snapped a few photos of the outdoor displays. Above in the background are two boilers, used at the Gladstone Mine. Also pictured is ‘Big Red’, an Ingersoll Rand compressor, used at the CSA. Workers of the time described it as ‘the pride of the fleet’. The smaller motors at front were both used at the Queen Bee mine in the early 1900s. Some of the outdoor displays feature sound recordings of the daily operations on a mine site including tapping, crushing and workers calling to each other.
There was a good turn out of more than 50 men and women representing the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club’s affiliated sporting groups at the club’s Sporting Bodies presentation dinner on Saturday night. Men and women golfers, bowlers, members of the Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club and their partners, […]
In the run up to the semi finals, the Cobar Roosters were all revved up and ready for a big game against the Gilgandra Panthers on Saturday afternoon at Tom Knight Memorial Oval. However, the game turned out to be a bit of a fizzer and was all over by […]
Cobar residents got behind the ‘Do it for Dolly Day’ anti-bullying message with local businesses Cobar Bowling & Golf Club ($6,000) and Shell Cobar Auto Port ($1,100) holding fundraisers on Friday. A group of Cobar riders also “turned blue” and joined in a Team Penning event at Trangie on the […]
