I wanted to thank your community for the resources you have put online!
I have been doing research for the Tamworth Powerstation Museum catalogue and new website. The information I was able to find through your passionate collectors allowed me to identify and accurately date most of the museum's older radios!

I hope it won't be considered advertising to share our website with you http://tamworthpowerstationmuseum.com.au/entertainment/

There is also more specific info in our online catalogue: http://www.mosaicweb.com.au/Collection/tamworth-powerstation-museum/vw-Help.aspx

There is only a tiny part of the collection online at the moment. I hope that if any of you are travelling through Tamworth that you visit the museum.

Thanks!
Miranda

I will be there next week.

I remember visiting the museum back shortly after it opened for business. The two replicas of the original steam generators for the lighting on Peel Street is probably the flagship item. I think it was Electronics Australia that ran a story on how the museum managed to acquire and restore the existing engines, which involved staff from the former Peel-Cunningham County Council.

I also remember seeing the Tasma 'Baby' radio and that was one of the things that got me into collecting.

Greetings to all in the City of Light.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

Thanks Brad! Hope you will visit again and Carl makes it to the Museum.

It is only open from Wed-Sat 9-1. But if you contact us in advance we can usually organise an appointment with a volunteer to take you around at other times.

The Steam Engines will running again during the Country Music Festival in mid January.
You can also follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tamworthpowerstationmuseum

I will be there on Wed morning hopefully.

Interesting. I've driven through Tamworth a few times, but didn't know of the existence of the Museum. If I'd known I would have paid a visit.

Well I managed to make it to the museum last wednesday and I was not disappointed. There are a lot of firsts to do with this museum and a few onlys as well, like the only operating fowler steam engine of its type in the world. I have sent many photos to Brad so you are in for a treat.

The last photo shows the Greek word for electron

Many thanks for those photos.

What a fantastic collection and well displayed, too.

Spotted a few appliances that were in my grandparents' houses when I was a kid.

The one that looks like a excercise bike is a school of the air generator, so you did not have to do P.E. lol.

Miranda and Carl, you may have seen a few of these at the Museum.

This was a commemorative light globe issued by Crompton at the time of Tamworth's 100th anniversary of public street lighting.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...