Tamworth Street Lighting Plant - Historic Engineering Marker #11 Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia
By Team MavEtJu on 12-Oct-15. Waypoint GA7588

Cache Details

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Type:	Virtual
Container:	Virtual
Coordinates:	S31° 5.228' E150° 55.614' (WGS 84)
	56J 302249E 6558893N (UTM)
Elevation:	380 m
Local Government Area:	Tamworth

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Description

Tamworth Street Lighting Plant - Historic Engineering Marker #11

Contents of the plaque:

On 9 November 1888 the Tamworth Borough Council inaugurated Australia’s first electric street lighting plant on this site. Two 12 horsepower stream engines driving Crompton 230 volt 18kw dynamos supplied electricity to 52 street lights with carbon filament lamps and 7 arc lights. The system was installed and initially operated by Sydney (SYD) electrical engineers Harrison and Whiffen, agents for R.E. Crompton & Co. of England. Its success contributed significantly to the acceptance of electric lighting in Australia.

When logging this virtual, please add a photo of yourself or your GPSr at the plaque.

For more information, please see the nomination PDF at the Heritage Register at the Engineers Australia website: Nomination

Logs

16-Apr-23

Shifter Brains

Found while visiting the museum, thankfully they were running the steam engines today.
Thanks for the cache Team MavEtJu.

15-Apr-23

hatzofff

found while looking for the other one

15-Apr-23

RoddyC

Great museum.

23-Dec-22

Flintstone's

On a caching visit around town.

19-Apr-22

BigMatDozer

We are walking around the Country Music Festival and grabbed a few virtual on the way

We will have to come back and explore the museum next time we are up this way.

Thanks for the virtual cache

12-Apr-22

Banj5150

found while caching around Tamworth, visiting from Maitland with my daughter. TFTC

27-Mar-21

Opa Shrek

Grabbing some caches in Tamworth while enroute to CacheQld at Dayboro. TFTC.

31-Aug-20

Lis + Pete

Sadly the museum was closed. Thankyou COVID. Photo taken and on a way after a look around

20-Jul-20

Team737

After a walk up Flagstaff Mountain, we needed an afternoon of drive bys.... we came here just on sunset, I've been meaning to visit this one all weekend, I always enjoy these markers. Whilst here we realised there was a GC trad 4m away - its usually the reverse! Smile

Rated: for Overall Experience

09-May-19

Tassie Trekkers

Exploring Tamworth with whitewebbs and visited this location. Another interesting Engineering Marker.

Many thanks Team MavEtJu for creating this virtual and highlighting this location.

Rated: for Overall Experience

09-May-19

whitewebbs

Day 28 Mainland trip
Out and about caching around Tamworth with Tassie Trekkers. Another in the series ticked off. TFTV

15-Sep-17

Goldenwattle

Interesting history. TFTC Team MavEtJu.

Rated: for Overall Experience

03-Aug-17

Everlasting

Enjoyed wander this area. Thanks

21-May-17

firesafe

Spent the day checking out the sights of Tamworth and grabbing some caches. TFTC. Big Grin

Rated: for Overall Experience

27-Jan-17

rubymoon05

i visit here everytime i come to Tamworth
love it
TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

14-Aug-16

C○3 ♀ Ɛ○<<○3

What a great place! The history, the relics, the park. And it was great weather at lunch on Saturday when I came by here. It's days like these and places like these that make you fall in love with a town like Tamworth. Thanks so much for creating this series. I'm loving the places I'm discovering through them. Smile

Please excuse the really bad photo - it was the best I could get from a terrible film file. You should see the worst one with both myself and the plaque - actually no, no one should ever. haha

Rated: for Overall Experience

20-Jul-16

CarrollEyre

Another interesting engineering marker destination. These landmarks are certainly bringing out the inner geek/nerd.
Found the plaque and then found the themed cache nearby and enjoyed reading the information in the early morning, I will have to return to the museum with my family on my next tour up north. Thanks Smile

Rated: for Overall Experience

12-Jul-16

Brodie Family

Made a stop here to get the cache nearby and this virtual.

Rated: for Overall Experience

09-Jun-16

whiteywiskasl

I had to visit this spot to check on one of my own caches in the vacinity. Dancing

29-May-16

karsen

found while looking for another cache

29-Jan-16

geono.

On our last visit to Tamworth we didn't take co-ordinates for this and just presumed we had the right spot ..... until we arrived at it. Realising our mistake we knew where we should have been. Brick Wall

If it hadn't been so hot and the week before Christmas we would have made the effort to go to the correct location but as it was we decided to leave it for another less busy and cooler day. Today was it, and happily we're still FTF. TFTC Team MavEtJu.

Rated: for Overall Experience