Hey Clive – can you take a photo of that oiler over there? Here is the result…… You can check out more of Clive’s work here http://learningtocc.blogspot.com/
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Museum trust members were thrilled at the record visitor numbers at today’s open day. A trust spokesperson explained “ this is the reward for freely giving up our time to maintain and operate the museum.” Adults and children alike enjoyed the tours, the tour highlight usually the operation of the genuine steam whistle. Older visitors [...]
Social gas, and safety
May 4, 2010
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Work and open day today, included a hazard identification exercise. Tuesday work/open days provide an opportunity for our volunteers to socialise, and “gas” about common themes. However, with a lifetime of work experience behind us, and with increasing exposure to the public, we are also very conscious of the need to provide a safe visitor [...]
Open day today with the steam engines operating. The weather gods smiled on us and we had a good response from the public. Trust Board stalwart Ann Barsby made pikelets, cooking with gas of course, and the visitors reported an enjoyable and enlightening experience.
Vintage Lathe returns to service
April 27, 2010
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A small turnout at today’s open day, as the weather was miserable, most sensible patrons would have stayed home in bed! Never-the-less, open day continued and, not only do we have operating Edwardian steam engines at the museum, sometimes we maintain them using vintage tools and machinery. Today we took the opportunity to finish restoration [...]
Busy Open day
April 21, 2010
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Open day yesterday, and we ran some tests on the boiler feed-pump motor. This allowed us to steam up – not a usual Tuesday event. DCC consultation project organiser Emma O’Neil and assistant Rowan visited this afternoon to plan for the “DCC South Dunedin Retail Centre Strategy – Issues and Opportunities Consultation” open day event, [...]
