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Leonie Benesch in The Teachers' Lounge. Picture by Judith Kaufmann

No one is safe in this volatile and convulsive world.

School drama is deft and tense

Noel Coward in Mad About the Boy. Picture supplied

Some drawbacks in documentary about the life of Noel Coward.

Emotionally uninvolving look at a gigantic talent

Saree Salter

Sydney Carnie, Bar Tender at Bar Stelo on George Street, Launceston.
Picture by Paul Scambler


Bar Stelo is The Examiner's pub of the week.

Bar Stelo: From a dress shop to a popular bar in the heart of Launceston

Ben Hann

Former Brisbane Lions players Brent Staker and Daniel Rich will be playing in Bridport on the weekend. Pictures by Will Swan and Paul Scambler

'It's a one-off, money-can't-buy experience.'

Chance to join AFL players on the field in Bridport all-stars match

Carla Mascarenhas

Sydney University is one of the top higher education institutions in Australia. Picture: Sydney University

Multiple buildings at the university were evacuated.

'No item of interest found': Police investigating university 'threat'

Benjamin Seeder

A spokesperson confirmed a St Patrick's staff member has been charged with child sex offences by police. Picture by Craig George

The 34 year-old faces counts of penetrative sex abuse of child.

St Patrick's College staff member charged with child sex offences

Duncan Bailey

Man charged with numerous frauds totalling $100,000.

Tasmania Police charge man over $100,000 Facebook fraud

Declan Durrant

Travis Hennessy, Lyndon Riggall and Lauchy Hansen star in the Launceston Players' new, grisly production of 'The Pillowman'. Picture by Declan Durrant

The production - filled with exceptional performances - asks big questions.

Review: Players' 'Pillowman' a deft staging of darkness and writing

Hugh Bohane

Katrina Cook of George Town, and her van she has been living in.
Picture by Paul Scambler

Katrina Cook was made homeless after her rental's plumbing failed

'Renting that house has ruined my life' says homeless Launceston tenant

Helen Kempton

Tree feller's negligence highlighted in findings into tragedy.

Illgeal wood cutting results in death of little boy who was hit by tree

c November 4 1971  Burnie Pioneer Village Museum.

The Oast House hop museum and gallery  April 22 1975

August 24 1975  Beaconsfield gold mine ruins

c April 11 1978  Tim Palmer of Devonport is the proud owner of about 50 antique cycles, all of them in working order.

c 1978  Les Morley keeps a shine on his exhibits at the Morley Motor Museum at Brighton.

December 27 1977  Eric Thomas at the mining museum, Queenstown.

March 13 1980  Marian Weerman with an old fashioned washing machine at the entrance to the Campbell Town museum / gallery

September 29 1978 Devonport Maritime Museum will get a new lease of life when it is transferred into this building near the mouth of the Mersey River.  The house was previously occupied by Devonport Marine Board engineer Mr G Walker and is now owned by the Devonport council.

September 12 1978
Natasha Morse, 10, of Devonport, and Brett Spinks, 7, of Hobart, try out a 1930 New Hudson tandem bicycle at the invitation of "Wheel House" collector Tim Palmer.

December 18 1979  picture:  Eeddie Kerfoot
Two men drill rocks blocking the shaft entrance at the Beaconsfield gold mine.

December 18 1979  picture:  eddie Kerfoot
Two men drill rocks blocking the shaft entrance at the Beaconsfield gold mine.

May 8 1980  Wayne Shipp at PLA Museum, Low Head.

June 3 1981  Wendy Cambell, of Campbell Town, has taken over the running of the Campbell Town Wool Museum and Gallery from James O'Brien.

May 8 1980  Wayne Shipp of Low Head, Nick Haynes of Low Head, Ian Waters of Low head at the PLA Museum, Low Head.

c 25 June 1981  Brian Poke of Preston puts on a show with some of his armour.

November 19 1983  Swansea Bark Mill museum  at right, a wool press made from Huon Pine from the shipwreck "Guiding Star", which sank in the Swanport River in 1880.

September 12 1983
Ingrid Ehmke with one of her many dolls in her East Devonport doll museum.

November 19 1983  picture:  Paul Scambler
Ray Lewis looks over the tool display at the Swansea Bark Mill.   Most of the tools were found in the original mill building.

20 12 1983  Dawn Eden with a pot pourri of dried flowers at the Deloraine Folk Museum.

November 19 1983  Swansea businessman Ray Lewis stands by the orginal steam engine which he renovated, at the Swansea Bark Mill museum.

December 20 1983  Ron Johnson, of the Old sewing Box Museum, with an 1860 embroidered net lace wedding dress.

April 15 1984 Brothers Heath and Avean Hopewell, of Beaconsfield, were taken with the miner's camp display at the Grubb Shaft Museum, Beaconsfield.

c May 30 1984  Mr U Palmer, of Devonport, outside the museum that houses the bicycle collection he sold to a mainland collector.

April 16 1984  Grubb Shaft Museum, Beaconsfield.

April 15 1984  Beaconfield Grubb Shaft Museum:  West Tamar Historical Committee secretary Mrs Margaret McKenzie in a display of historical furniture and clothes.

June 1984  Rita Casey at the Dover Steam Museum.

June 1984  A steam powered log hauler at the Bush Mill, Tasman Peninsula

June 1984  Alister Matheson is the proprietor of the Bush Mill, Tasman Peninsula

June 1984  Robbie Batchelor makes horse shoes at the Bush Mill, Tasman Peninsula

June 1984  Jim Casey at his steam museum in Dover.

Low Head Pilot Station maritime museum.  May 12 1985

June 18 1985  photo:  Dick Speer
Nautical relics at the Emitta Museum, Flinders Island.

June 18 1985  photo:  Dick Speer
Emitta Museum, Flinders Island.

June 11 1985  Rebecca Sue Rowlings, 7, of Devonport, tests the fang of a stuffed Bengal tiger during a visit to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

June 18 1985  Emitta Museum, Flinders Island.

June 26 1985  Pupils from the Scottsdale High School at the Derby Tin Mine Museum during a recent excursion.

June 22 1985  
Ferneaux Historical Research Association president Derek Smith at the Eitta Museum, Flinders Island..

June 26 1985  A model of a mine shaft at the Derby Tin Mine Miseum is inspected by Scottsdale HIgh School pupils Melissa Bennett and Jody Cox, at back, and Libby Edwards and Tracey French.

Pilot Station Maritime Museum  September 19 1985  picture:  Paul Scambler

Derby tin Mine Museum, June 26 1985   Ross and Emily Barwick will take over managementof the Derby Tin Mine museum

October 7 1985  Mrs Bev Hopkins arranges a display in the art and craft gallery at the Taswegia printery in Devonport.

c October 7 1985  Apprentice compositor Nick Parrott of Devonport has carved American Beechwood typ blocks purchased from The Examiner.

October 7 1985  pDavid Hopkins with a model L linotype printer dating from 1905, and an old Imperial typewriter at the Taswegia printery in Devonport.

Shelley O'Hearn, 16, of Ulverstone, admires an 1852 press at the Taswegia printery in Devonport.  October 7 1985

A selection of finds from the Federatrion period of 1959 volunteers at the Ross Military Museum .  November 14 1985

Low Head Pilot Station, November 2 1985  The Governor Sir James Plimsoll unveils a plaque at th egates to Low Head pilot station during Saturday's celebrations.  pic:  Bob Drew

December 4 1985  Walter Brooker, of Devonport, at one of the many old printing presses at the Taswegia museum.

Ramon R Davis of Church Street, Ross, has opened a museum in the old Davis Shop Macquarie House which at different times has housed six generations of the Davis family.  November 14 1985

November 19 1985  picture:  Peter Lord
Sophie Houghton, 3, of Hawley, rides the Tiger at Taswegia.

December 4 1985  Jack Ewing, 75, of Moriarty, sets type by hand at the Taswegia museum, Devonport.

January 30 1986  picture:  KW
West Tamar Historical Society volunteers Dotand Sheila Walker look at the Museum of the Year plaque hanging in the museum.

December 4 1985  Len Hopkins, of Devonport, son of Taswegia's manager, operates an old press.

Zeehan museum curator Wally Canniford  June 12 1986  picture:  Peter Lord

The Zeehan museum June 12 1986  picture:  Peter Lord

Mount Lyell No 3 stands as a monument to the ABTS railway.  April 16 1986 picture:  Peter Lord

July 2 1986  picture:  Eddie Kerfoot.
Kathleen Burns manages the St Helens History Room with eher husband Peter.

July 18 1986  Inspecting the Rowitta restoration at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, Warrnambool, are Devonport Promotions Committee member Mick Halley (right) with Alderman Brian Douse and Flagstaff Hill executive director Peter Ronald.

July 18 1986  Inspecting the Rowitta restoration at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, Warrnambool, are Flagstaff Hill executive director Peter Ronald, Mick Halley and Allan Waddle, both of the Devonport Promotions Committee, Alderman Brian Douse, Russell Marriott, of the Warrnambool Development Board, Councillor Bob Barham of Warrnambool council, and Mr Roydon James, deputy council clerk of Warrnambool.

Beaconsfield gold mine:  August 10 1986  The interior of the Beaconsfield Grubb Shaft museum showing the new gallery viewing level.

Rotary president Rodney Bye and treasurer Peter Smith hand over a $20,000 cheque to the steam museum committee representative Philip Beveridge.  September 17 1986  pixture Barbara McLennan

July 20 1986  Sonia Baker, 14, of George Town, with a thunder egg from Queensland and a piece of petrified wood from Swansea.

October 14 1986  picture:  Peter Lord
Sherie Stone, of East Devonport, assisting with research into Latrobe's past, at Latrobe Museum.

October 28 1986  picture:  Dick Speer  Evelyn Burt, of the West Tamar Historical Society, inspects photographs at the Grubb Shaft museum, Beaconsfield.

October 29 1986  picture:  Dick Speer  The top of the Hart shaft, which was repoened in 1980.  The ruins of the Grubb shaft are iin the background.

November 25 1986  picture:  Eddie Kerfoot.  
The gemstone display staff of Jack Talbot, Yvette Jory, Marjory Goodrich, Frank Bardenhagen and James Walters at the Terry Green gemstone and mineral display at Westbury.

undated photo of Devonport Maritime Museum, c 1980's

November 25 1986  picture:  Eddie Kerfoot.  
Frank Bardenhagen in the showroom of the Terry Green gemstone and mineral display at Westbury.

undated photo of Devonport Maritime Museum, c 1987

January 5 1987  picture:  Barbara McLennan  
Pearn's steam museum committee members Allan Harvey and Ron French outside the new steam museum.

1987  Grubb Shaft Museum complex, Beaconsfield.  Colin Donald prunes roses in the gardens.

April 14 1987  One of the new displays at Beaconsfield's Grubb shaft Museum that is proving of interest to school groups in the working model of one of the gold mine's pumps.  Children from Beaconsfield Primary School have inspected the display.  Among those in a recent visit were David Graeme, Romana Cameron-Smith and Isabel Hooper.

May 3 1987  Mines Minister Ray Groom talks to West Tamar Historicalal Committee chairman Dick Hooper and Beaconsfield Warden Trevor Roach.

March 31 1987  picture:  Neil Richardson
Isla Fowler, age 85, caretaker at the Flinders Island museum, which was where she went to school in about 1910.

November 11 1987  picture:  Eddie Kerfoot
Mr Phil McDougall of the Deloraine Folk Museum shows models of some of Deloraines oldest buidlings.

February 23 1988, pic:  Paul Scambler
Ross Militaria collection.

January 12 1988  Society member Peter Wright sits on a c 1940 John Deere tractor that has been given to the Grubb Shaft Museum by John Clark of Rowella.

February 23 1988, pic:  Paul Scambler
A German BMW motorbike and sidecar from 1939 at the Ross Militaria collection.

Beaconsfield gold mine:  March 12 1988  picture:  Neil Richardson  Guests at yesterday's opening stroll along the new walkway to view the old mine shaft.

February 23 1988  picture:  Paul Scambler
Ross Militaria museum collection.

March 12 1988  picture:  Neil Richardson
Chairman of the West Tamar Historical Committee Mr Dick Hooper stands beside brickwork which once formed part of the old boiler house, at the Grubb shaft museum walkway at Beaconsfield.

Museum gallery

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