Wednesday 18 September 2019 - Tamworth

Up this morning and out for breakfast.  It was overcast with a few drops of rain but only enough to put dirty marks on everything.  We drove out to look at the Equine Centre.  There was an event on and we could see riders and horses but the gates were locked with signs pointing for where competitors were to go.  As we couldn't get in to see it we continued on our way and went to the Information Centre where the Big Golden Guitar is.  There is also a wax museum and general museum about country music but as Ian and I are not really into country music we decided to give it a miss.  We wouldn't have know who we were looking at.  

Tamworth was the first town in Australia to have Municipal Electric Street lighting with the light being turned on in November 1888.  Our next stop was the Powerstation Museum which opened in 1988 and was the first all electrical museum in Australia.   It is run by volunteers and as luck would have it the only people there were us and another couple.  The volunteer worked for PMG/Telstra and did the same type work as Ian so started giving us a personalised tour of the museum telling us information about different pieces on display.   Another volunteer turned up so he took the other couple on a personalised tour.   They had old electric kettles, vacuums, fridges, washing machines, light bulbs, batteries and a pictorial history about the early development of electricity.  At museums I like to be able to skip past the things I don't want to look at and concentrate on what interests me but with a guided tour this is difficult to do.  While listening to him I was trying hard not to yawn and half the time I had no idea what he was talking about so would just nod my head and occasionally say "Oh really".   He seemed happy with that.  We spent more time there than we expected to.

Our last visit was to Oxley Lookout for a view over Tamworth.