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.
Brad Burns, with a score of 10 under Par, claimed the $50,000 prize purse at the Australian PGA Senior Sand Greens Championships in Cobar over the weekend. Burns finished with a score of 68 in Round 1 on Saturday and 64 in Sunday’s Round 2 to finish with a total […]
Renowned as one of the hardest tacklers and toughest men to ever play rugby league in the Sydney competition, Terry Regan shed tears when his daughter Skye Regan rode her career first winner while later at the same meeting the winning double for local trainer Wayne Prisk destroyed the bookmakers […]
