Old Home and Workshop Museum

Old Home and Workshop Museum 

Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia

Don't throw away unserviceable and antiquated tools and equipment. They make a unique museum collection, hallmark of old folks' technology, craft and industry.

Dr Abe V Rotor

Old and antiquated, these are now replaced by modern tools.  Not really.

The principles of physics will never change, only designs do.  

Familiar they may seem to us,

DIY (Do It Yourself) guys;

from ruler to caliper to trowel,

 but how many know them well? 

 

Where have all the old kitchen wares and equipment gone?

Modernization is the name of the game today;

the price of change, and willingness to pay.  

  

The  toolshed once treasure of the workman, now an old man, or gone..

Strange these tools are to the new generation,

trained with white collar job and automation.

yet these make an enduring link of tradition

with our changing world in abiding union.  

 

  

  

   

Quaintness of a home is preserved in old collection and sweet memory. 

Work or hobby makes little distinction.   

irrespective of purpose and function. 

What matters most is the happy thought

of achieving and fulfilling, and both.

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*Redcliffe is a town in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. The author and family visited the Redcliffe Museum in 2023 where he got the idea of writing this article.