“The Millers’ Tales” is the Uralla Historical Society’s (UHS) newsletter. It is published quarterly, printed and posted out free to all members, sponsors, patrons and councillors. The Newsletter keeps all members informed on the latest news and up-to-date happenings at…
Becoming a volunteer at the McCrossin’s Mill Museum and Function Centre is a rewarding and interesting way to spend an hour or two (or more) of your spare time. If you think you’d like to greet visitors at the Mill, or work…
Upcoming and New Exhibitions at the Museum McCrossin’s Mill is a Museum with a surprising variety of exhibits, some of which are of National Significance. One of these, “New Gold Mountain, The Chinese at Rocky River” has been completed in…
Amazing Find In Uralla Store…. I love to wander around Uralla in my spare time to see what new and exciting things I can discover amongst Uralla’s abundance of unique art, antique and speciality shops. This was so a couple…
The Collection Management team at McCrossin’s Mill Museum are constantly adding and updating to our Digital Collection for use as an online catalogue, library and resource for virtual visitors to our museum. The collection contains objects and artefacts that are…
Official Opening to be re-scheduled! “Sunny Jim Mackay”, a new exhibition curated by Kent Mayo tells the amazing and tragic story of this Uralla resident and it is astonishing. Tickets will be available soon for the official opening of “Sunny Jim…
Phillip Pomroy About the Artist As a young lad in Wingham, Phillip Pomroy was inspired by the works of Tom Roberts. Roberts’ famous “Bailed Up”, depicting Captain Thunderbolt’s hold-up of a stage coach at Paradise Creek near Inverell, made a dramatic…
In the Depression of the early 1930’s, people came up with ways of amusing themselves and lifting their spirits. Ernest Henry Barnden used the kitchen table in the family’s slab cottage as a workbench. With the tinsnips, pliers and a…
This collection proves that it’s quite okay for a museum to steal important things for the benefit of itself and to the public, a principle espoused for centuries by such august institutions as the Vatican Museum and the British Museum….
This is a classic example of why curators should not consume copious quantities of red wine when planning an exhibition. Then again, perhaps they should. A quote: “Bizarre! That is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in a museum in…
Australia’s First International Sporting Champion. On display in McCrossin’s Mill Museum is a superb marble obelisk, which was installed on the grave of Edward Trickett, an elderly gentleman who had come from Sydney to Uralla to visit his son. They…
The Chinese artefacts from the Tingha Joss House were purchased by the Society in 1983. The original exhibition, called New Gold Mountain – Chinese at Rocky River was originally curated by Michael van Leeuwen in 1982, revamped in 2000 by Kent Mayo…
