After Merlins Lookout we headed to the Information Center and discovered the Museum in Hill End. Perfect because we were able to pay for camping fees at Glendora Campground as well as take a tour of the Museum.
Information Centre And Museum Hill End ::
In the Shed Next to the Information Centre/Museum we discovered lots of Horse Drawn Buggy’s! Old Machinery and bits n pieces ~ perfect place for Boys to explore {and their Dad!!}
Imagine delivery the Mail in one of these? Riding to the nearest big town to collect people and post to bring back to Hill End? Travelling along dirt roads for HOURS? It would have been so bumpy, dirty, dusty and hot…gosh how easy do we have it now compared to then!
Can you imagine having a family travelling on this? Or using it for farming? Or even as a means of moving items from one place to another! No air conditioners needed, no windows to clean….very basic set up yet for some families they didn’t even have a Horse and Buggy. Gosh times sure have changed over the years.
Not sure what this machine was for but its good to come across things like that because our boys learn more when exploring! Will have to re-ask David what’s it for….or maybe you already know?
Huge Bellows – used for Fireplaces to create a big air for the fire but I am thinking that this one is a bit too big for a normal House Hold Fire Place, maybe it was used in a work place setting?
Love the Bush Setting of Hill End, the buildings on big size block of land and have the “Old Australia” feeling to them
The Visitor Centre Opeed 9th December 1972…its older than me!!
Imagine how scary the Hospital looked back then with all of their equipment and sterile feel to the place? So glad I didn’t have to be operated back then….gosh their equipment was freaky looking!
That is one scary looking delivery bed! Guess with the mattress on top it wouldn’t have been so bad? Yeah I still reckon it would have!!
NO way would I want to be delivered in this bed!
Holy Molly….imagine finding this one!! That is one big Gold Nugget 🙂
That is one BIG gold find….worth 12,000 pounds which today is worth about $25,000 ~ back then it would have been a LOT of money!
As soon as we left the Visitor Centre/Information Centre he was out there in the dirt playing…this is so what he loves doing 🙂
I love to look at the Details of the Name Plaque…it is good to see who Donated to the History of the town. Donated by Annis and George Bills Australia.
The Information Centre and Museum at Hill End is a great place to start our camping trip!
Have You Been To Hill End?
Cheers
Lisa
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I thought the name Hills End was familiar and then I remembered I read about it in the autobiography of Margaret Olley a famous Australian Artist. She used to stay there with other famous artists in the 1940’s. That is a huge gold discovery. Imagine if we found something like that today!
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Oh wow – I never realised that there was a book based around Hill End! Will have to try and find the book at the library.
I kept thinking the same…imagine how much that gold would be worth now days!