DSC_0009.JPG=Cloncurry North West Queensland - the telephone exchange
DSC_0093.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - a Cloncurry street lamp c1900
DSC_0065.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum display
DSC_0062.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - rail display
DSC_0016.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - a soil scraper
DSC_0077.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - outside rock display
DSC_0076.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - outside rock display
DSC_0058.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - QATB Rail Ambulance, built at the Townsville rail workshops using a modified Ford V8
DSC_0007.JPG=Cloncurry North West Queensland - the back of the Post Office and telephone exchange
05Cloncurry4.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - chaff cutter and traction engine made in Leeds, England
05Cloncurry3.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - steam traction engine and soil scraper
05Cloncurry9.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - Friezland was renamed Kuridala during WW1 because of the German sounding name. Early sttlers c1900
DSC_0002.JPG=Leaving Cloncurry in the morning, a small group of Galahs perched on the power wires. I'm sure we'll see bigger concentrations before our trip ends
05Cloncurry11.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum
DSC_0012.JPG=Cloncurry North West Queensland - the Central Hotel; great meals and wi-fi ($5)
05Cloncurry1.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - Soil scraper, hay rake and a Furphy
CloncurryPanorama03.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum (panorama)
05Cloncurry8.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - the Burke and Wills collection. THey passed through Clocurry in 1861 on their fateful expadition
DSC_0041.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - traction engine made in Leeds, England
DSC_0072.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - art wall for the boys loo
DSC_0066.JPG=Cloncurry view from the Mary Kathleen Memorial Park
DSC_0008.JPG=Cloncurry North West Queensland - the Post Office Hotel
05Cloncurry14.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - this building was moved here and used as the first museum, and obviously it has had plenty of different uses since it was built c1890s
CloncurryPanorama01.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - QATB Rail Ambulance, built at the Townsville rail workshops using a modified Ford V8
DSC_0011.JPG=Cloncurry North West Queensland - the Post Office
DSC_0006.JPG=Cloncurry North West Queensland - Shire Hall
DSC_0075.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum gardens. Gardens are lush because of the plentiful supply of good bore water. Cloncurry received only 35mm of rain in this wet season (normally expect 400mm) so the pastures aren't in good condition and livestock have had to be moved.
05Cloncurry2.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - traction engine, soil scraper and (mould and disc) ploughs
05Cloncurry.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - leather sewing machine and what looks like a roller for corrugated iron manufacture (not named)
05Cloncurry13.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - an old Post Office Ball promo, ex PMG employees might remember the telephone and telephone directory on each table so that you could call someone to request the next dance.
DSC_0073.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - art wall for the girls loo
CloncurryPanorama02.JPG=Cloncurry view from the Mary Kathleen Memorial Park (panorama)
05Cloncurry7.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - wool press and some huge cast iron machinery
05Cloncurry5.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - miscellaneous (insulators, telephone switchboard, canvas stretcher and some sheep shears parts)
DSC_0015.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum
DSC_0070.JPG=Cloncurry view from the Mary Kathleen Memorial Park
05Cloncurry10.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - images of the Mary Kathleen Uranium mine, closed in 1980 and the town dismantled in 1983.
05Cloncurry12.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - early picture of the Central Hotel
DSC_0042.JPG=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - traction engine made in Leeds, England
05Cloncurry6.jpg=Cloncurry; Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum - rail mounted crane
