A wonderful coffee shop in the heart of Charters Towers, specialising in delicious coffee, mouth watering ice-cream desserts and a small ran Goldfield Bakery makes fresh bread, rolls, cakes and pastries from Monday to Saturday.
They even have a drive through service. Mingela Hotel Location: Mingela. Great little country pub where you can enjoy an ale and a yarn. Pentland Hotel Motel Location: Pentland. Perry's Bakery Location: Charters Towers.
Bread, cakes, cupcakes and pastries that is sure to bring smiles to every Charters Towers face! Pizza Hut Location: Charters Towers. Charters Towers Pizza Hut delivers great value pizza, sides and desserts, made just the way you like it. Order online for fast delivery or t Whether you need fuel or food, Puma Energy Roadhouse offer quality products and great service. Railway Hotel Location: Ravenswood. Built circa , the Railway Hotel is one of two heritage listed hotels in the old gold mining town of Ravenswood.
Red Rooster Location: Charters Towers. We love chichen. Friday night Buffets and Sunday Roast lunches every week are a must. Today it is used by local businesses and specialty shops. The "Calling of the Card" audio presentation operates at the former Stock Exchange daily.
Australian Bank of Commerce has been restored as The World Theatre and is now used as a combination of civic theatre, cinema, gift shop, restaurant and public art gallery.
The complex blends the heritage architecture of the original building with state of the art theatre technology. These buildings were characterised by the prevailing, and rather ostentatious, architecture of the time which was a combination of Classical Revival with lots of columns and Victorian Italianate ornamentation.
Buildings - Gill St One of Gill Street's more interesting buildings is the Post Office , with a huge clock tower that dominates the town. The clock was added to the building in after being imported from England.
At 36 Gill Street is the former Bank of New South Wales which is a near perfect example of the Classical Revival style of architecture which was all the rage at the time. While having a number of imposing bank and public buildings at the Mosman Street end, Gill St is far more the commercial heart of the old city. It has some truly fascinating shops. Stan Pollards Store had a flying fox for cash transactions. This was removed sometime in the 's. Money received from transactions was placed into small containers which were then propelled up wires to the cash clerk who was located on a mezzanine floor above the counters.
He calculated the change and sent it whizzing back down to the counters. This extraordinary device was a common feature of large country stores until the s. The flying fox has been removed to the Zara Clark Museum. Also in Gill St is the restored former ambulance station, which was the second ambulance station outsied of Brisbane. It was built in to commemorate the town's war dead and its unusual ventilators and delicate, almost Victorian, styling make it a building of exceptional beauty.
To the west of the town centre, in Hodginson Street corner of High St , is Ay-Ot Lookout - a remarkable wooden Victorian residence with some particularly striking latticework and mouldings. It is open to the public weekdays and on weekends during the tourist season, tel: 07 The Gold Battery itself is acknowledged as one of Australia's most important historical-industrial sites.
It was one of the first permanent batteries on the Charters Towers goldfields, being established in , when it was a public mill, becoming a state battery from until its closure in It is the largest surviving battery relic in Australia and the oldest surviving battery in Queensland. Both partners still retain their old love of speculation, and are holders of interests all over the field.
The firm have also expended a large sum in the establishment, of a vegetable and fruit garden and poultry farm in connection with the hotel. Water is pumped to an altitude by steam power, and abundance is thus supplied. ONE of the most comfortable Hotels on Charters Towers is undoubtedly the Metropolitan, which has been built in a quiet portion of the town, more to command a family and a commercial trade than a residential trade.
The rooms are spacious, the balconies wide, and every ingenious device employed to render things cool and nice; for the proprietress, Mrs. Mr Brown demanded to see the minutes of a previous meeting at which his weekly salary had been cut. While the story of this murder still haunts The Towers, few people know the back story which led to the incident which has become known as "the tragedy on Mosman Street.
Brown convinced shareholders of the company to plough their profits from the operation into his new gold mining process which required expensive infrastructure and capitol. It was a folly which ultimately led to his undoing and the death of Graham Haygarth. Painted by Mark Sutherland in it is a Lowry-like depiction of the town in its heyday. Now it is a repository for photographs, equipment and memorabilia from the local area. Of particular interest is the "flying fox" which was once used to transfer cash from counters to the accounts department in the Pollard's building in Gill Street.
It was still operational as late as the s. Money received from transactions was placed into small containers which were then propelled up wires to the cash clerk who was located on a mezzanine floor above the counters.
He calculated the change and sent it whizzing back down to the counters. This extraordinary device was a common feature of large country stores until the s. The clock was added to the building in after being imported from England. The Miner's Cottage, 26 Deane Street Located in Deane Street which runs off Gill Street this historic miners cottage is now a museum where visitors can see what life was like in a miner's cottage at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Police Station, Gill Street A careful replica of the original police station which was built in and largely destroyed by fire in It is an interesting example of an early 20th century police barracks. The Queensland Heritage Register describes the building: "The rendered brick building with timber framed floors and large hipped roof clad in corrugated metal sheeting has an elaborate, classically detailed two-storey masonry arcade fronting Gill Street.
Behind, timber verandahs on the east and west sides of the first floor shelter the core of the building and provide access lanes at ground level to the rear of the site. The building comprises the former bank on the ground floor approached from Gill Street; the former residence on the first floor accessed from the eastern lane, and an attached single-storey service wing at the rear with access from Powell Lane to the south.
The former Bank of New South Wales retains a large proportion of its early fabric and displays a high standard of craftsmanship and detail. The principal interior spaces are spacious and highly decorative, contrasting with the simplicity and practicality of the service spaces. Notable features include the generous ceiling heights, substantial and handsomely detailed cedar joinery, ventilated plaster cornices and ceiling roses and hand-pressed brick walls and barrel-vaulted ceiling in the strong room.
It was built in to commemorate the town's war dead and its unusual ventilators and delicate, almost Victorian, styling make it a building of exceptional beauty. The park is an ideal place for a picnic and there are a range of sculptures by Hugh Anderson on display. Ay-Ot Lookout Located to the west of the town centre, at 63 Hodginson Street, the unusually named Ay-Ot Lookout was designed by the architect William White - a remarkable wooden Victorian residence with some particularly striking latticework and mouldings.
It was built for Herbert Foxlee, a local merchant, who named it after his childhood home, Ay Ot Farm in Hertfordshire. The Queensland Heritage Register explains: "The two storey house is constructed of timber with an exposed stud frame which has been used to decorative effect and has a complex gabled roof clad in corrugated iron.
The wide verandahs on both levels have ornate cast iron balustrading and timber handrails. The supporting posts are timber with timber capitals and brackets. There is a deep valancing between the floors. The front of the house has a bay in the verandah at both levels next to the main entrance. This is marked by a square porch which extends beyond the verandah and rises through the upper storey, so that it resembles a tower. The front door, surmounted by a large semicircular fanlight, opens into an entrance foyer; a large area with a chequerboard black and white Italian marble floor, a turned timber staircase and panelled ceiling.
The ground floor rooms have high ceilings and there are fireplaces to the drawing and dining rooms. The kitchens have been remodelled and modernised. The house has a small cellar. To the rear of the house there is an attached single storey structure with a chimney which was probably a kitchen.
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