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The museum includes work by the convict potter, Jonathon Leak (1777-1838). [2] Leak's pieces are the earliest marked pieces of Australian pottery. [3] Many of the Leak pieces on display were recovered from a clay pit in Sydney during an archaeological dig in 2007. [3] The museum opened in Wodonga, Victoria in 1995, and moved to Holbrook in 2006 ...
Holbrook is a small town in Southern New South Wales, Australia. It is on the Hume Highway , 384 kilometres (239 mi) by road North East of Melbourne [ 2 ] and 492 kilometres (306 mi) by road south-west of Sydney [ 3 ] between Tarcutta and Albury .
According to the 2013 NSW Museum and Gallery Sector Census and Survey conducted by Museums & Galleries of NSW, a state funded support agency, there were 495 operational museums and galleries located in NSW in that year. They include 293 community-run and -managed museums, 57 public and regional galleries, 51 public and regional museums, 37 ...
Museums of History NSW is a statutory body of the government of New South Wales that is responsible for historic sites, state collections and archives in New South Wales, Australia. In 2023, the former State Archives and Records Authority was merged with Sydney Living Museums (formerly known as Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales ) to form ...
HMAS Otway (S 59) was an Oberon-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of the first four Oberon-class boats ordered for the RAN, Otway was built in Scotland during the mid-1960s, and commissioned into naval service in 1968.
Holbrook Shire was a local government area in the eastern Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Holbrook Shire was proclaimed on 7 March 1906 as Germanton Shire, one of 134 shires created after the passing of the Local Government (Shires) Act 1905. [1] The shire was renamed Holbrook Shire on 6 August 1915. [2]
The press moved a number of times in Henty until, after a fire destroyed its premises in 1933, a new building was constructed. The paper continued to be based from this building until 2008, when it was converted to a museum. [2] [3] In 1981 it changed name to the Eastern Riverina Observer and remained in publication under this title until 2003. [4]
The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. The Greatest Wonder of the World and the American Tobacco Warehouse and Fancy Goods Emporium are of state heritage significance as rare examples of gold rush commercial buildings dating from the early period of the significant ...