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The Machinery Shed

Agriculture has played a leading role in the development of Australia as a nation. So too, the ingenuity of Australian farmers has played an important part in the development of agriculture throughout the world. Inverell has long been an agricultural centre and the Pioneer Village has a collection o...
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Rob Roy Hall - Devines Photography Museum

The museum of photography takes you back to the 1800's and the time when George P Devine opened his first studio in 1904. George travelled the Inverell District extensively by horse and sulky photographing important events. In 1934 his son George A Devine joined his father in the studio The museum ...
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The Gournama Homestead - The Historical Society's Museum

This early pit sawn plank homestead from Warialda was built c.1880. In earlier times it was the home of the Capel family and was in use at Gournama until donated to the village by Mr Dugald Livingstone in 1974 and transported to Inverell by Mr Bruce Lee Chue at nominal cost to the village. Features...
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Steam Traction Engine

This engine came from England to the Pilliga scrub where it was used to clear the timber. Members of the Village found it half buried in sand in the Pilliga region and with great effort managed to remove it to Inverell for restoration....
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The Inverell Foundry

The “Gibson’s Foundry” was opened at Inverell in 1909 by Robert Gibson when he began making fuel stoves. In 1919 Percy Campbell bought out the business and changed the name to “Campbell and Campbell and in the  1940’s to Inverell Foundry Pty. Ltd. Percy’s son...
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