Loudoun House museum was established in 1984
and is the oldest high-set timber and corrugated
iron house in North Queensland.
It was entrusted
to the people of Irvinebank by the Queensland
government as a museum reserve in trust.
The museum was first open for Irvinebank's
centenary in 1981 with a display of borrowed
artefacts, which were housed in part of the
top floor. The bottom floor was still occupied
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the lease of the State Treatment Works in 1984 the
museum set up a small display in part of the bottom
floor. In 1993 the museum under went a major face-lift
and both the top and bottom floors were used as display
areas. A computer data base system was introduced
to catalogue Photos, Artefacts, and Documents etc. |
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small museum shop was established in 1995 where
we sell post cards, tin products and specialise
in North Queensland history books.
The museum
has a fine collection of local history on display.
The museum also has a very good collection of
photographs, documents, newspapers, books and
journals, which are used regularly by people
researching family history in the area.
The museum offers a family research service
for a small fee.
Loudoun House Museum is volunteer run non-profit
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Loudoun House Museum is open:
7 days a week
10:00 am to 12.00 pm
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Closed Christmas day
and Good Friday.
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Admission fees:
Adults $6.00
Pensioners and Senior card holders
$4.00
Children $2.00 |
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to Loudoun house museum are tax deductible. |
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Friends of Loudoun House
A small group of people who cannot help in the
museum but are willing to help financially.
For a membership fee of $25.00 per year you
get:
- free admission to the museum
- four newsletters a year
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Drop into The Museum Shop to purchase books about
local history. We also offer some unique local collectibles.
Just email
or ring us (07)40964020) with your order of books
or Irvinebank products. We will email you back with
a quote for your purchase including postage and package.
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Angor to Zillmanton
by Colin Hopper.
462 pages. The stories of North Queensland's deserted towns.
This book makes an excellent resource book it
contains town maps, the names of landowners,
a list of towns and camps. An Excellent book.
$65. + postage & handling. |
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Back o' Cairns
by Ion Idriess
plus postage and handling. An Ion Idriess classic. Back O' Cairns is a true story of adventure in the newly opened country west of Cairns North Queensland. This book also has several chapters on the Herberton and Irvinebank areas.
$27. + postage & handling. |
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Barefoot
through the Bindies
by Marion Houldsworth. 235 pages. A story about growing up in North Queensland
in 1901. A joy to read.
$29. + postage & handling. |
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Black
Guards and Scoundrels of Colonial Queensland
by Tony Matthews. 238 pages. Stunning true stories from Queensland's rip-roaring
days that tells us how dangerous and brutal life
could really be.
$30. + postage & handling. |
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Failure of Justice, an Eacham Historical Society Publication
This long awaited second edition of the Irvinebank Massacre is a true and intriguing story of the murder of innocent aborigines by Troopers of the Queensland Native Police.
$15. + postage & handling. |
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Heritage Trails of the Queensland Outback
by The Queensland Environmental Protection Agency.
An ideal reference for historians, travellers and tourists. This book contains over 400 colour prints, historic photos and colour maps.
$30. + postage & handling. |
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John
Moffat of Irvinebank
by Ruth s. Kerr
296 pages. The complete history of John Moffat and Irvinebank.
$32.
+ postage & handling. |
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North
Queensland's Mining Heritage Trails
by The Queensland Environmental Protection Agency.
52 pages. With information
and pictures this guide tells a story extending
from the 1870s gold rushes, through the tin and
copper booms of the late 19th century to uranium
mining in the 1950s.
$15.+ postage & handling. |
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Discovery Guide to Outback Queensland
Queensland Museum Publishing
This full, colour guide leads travellers through a diverse environment, with its sometimes curious animals and plants, and a history of human endeavour that reaches back more than 17,000 years.
$30. + postage & handling. |
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Plants of Tropical North Queensland
by John Beasley.
A compact guide with lots of information in a back-pack size book. Identifying 485 key plants using photographs and vegetation zones. This book is for everyone interested in the plants of Far North Queensland.
$20. + postage & handling. |
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Riches
of Wolfram Camp
compiled by John C. Hay. 90 pages.
The history of Wolfram Camp. This
book is a Mareeba Historical Society publication.
$20. + postage & handling. |
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The
Lone Wolf
edited by S.G. St. Clair-Kendall and John C. Hay.
208 pages.
The autobiography
of Sam Elliott the last of the old-time prospectors
on the Palmer River gold field.
$26. + postage & handling. |
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Two
White Swans
compiled by Ray Langford. 89 pages.
Reminiscences of Irvinebank and Stannary
Hills Far North Queensland 1915 to 1935.
$22. + postage & handling. |
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Up
the Palmerston
by Mike Rimmer. 228 pages. The history of the Cairns hinterland up to 1920
Vol 1. Volume 2 will published in June 2006. Up
the Palmerston is the result of over 30 years
of research into the Cairns hinterland and its
special places and characters.
$30.
+ postage & handling. |
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Wildlife
of Tropical North Queensland
A Queensland Museum publication. 368 pages. A guide to the wildlife of North
Queensland.
$30. + postage & handling. |
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Women
of the West
by Helen Gregory and W. Ross Johnston. 160
pages. This book tells the
moving stories of pioneering women of Queensland
from the 1860s to the 1960s. Also a very good
read.
$26.+ postage & handling. |
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