Address
1 Annear Pl, Babbage Island, Carnarvon WA 6701 Australia
Description
EXPERIENCE CARNARVON'S HERITAGE
Railway Station Museum
This museum houses the Kimberley Steam Train, which was brought down from Broome in the 1950's, it was the last steam train to operate in the North West. It also houses the last mini train which ran visitors out to the end of the One Mile Jetty when it was still intact and is a unique insight to how children of the day used to get to school.
Shearing Hall of Fame
The Heritage Group in collaboration with The Gascoyne Pastoral and Shearing Museum Inc have opened Western Australia’s first Shearing Hall of Fame. Read about the golden days of the Gascoyne shearing industry during the 1950's.
You will also discover the role that Charles Kingsford Smith had in our wool industry going back to the 1920's.
Light House Keepers Cottage
This museum is a cottage which was built around the 1900's to house the lighthouse keeper and his family and was used until the 1970’s. The building has now been restored and houses memorabilia from bygone days.
The cottage is a reminder of the days that lighthouses required daily attention and their keepers were housed on site. The shipping of wool, cattle and people by coastal steamer had become big business in the north-west by the 1890's and Carnarvon was the major port to the Gascoyne region.
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