Horses to Horsepower Family Fun Day
Sunday 23 June 2024 is the date to put in your calendar. Cooneana Heritage Centre will come alive with all the activities you know and love for our Horses to Horsepower Family Fun Day starting at 9am. You can see a magnificent Clydesdale horse and perhaps a miniature horse too - the long and the short of horses!
Some veteran and vintage vehicles will be on display - cars and motorcycles. Explore the differences between them and our modern vehicles! Take a free ride on a heritage bus to experience the way your grandparents travelled to town or ride the free train around Cooneana Heritage Centre to see all the attractions.
There will be old-fashioned games to play with your children - sack races, egg and spoon races, skipping, hoops, croquet and quoits to name a few and craft activities too. Our Cooneana blacksmiths will be working, so bring a camera to capture the flames.
If hunger strikes buy a sausage and a drink - coffee, tea or soft drinks. Imbibis Distillery - our own Ipswich distillery - will have some of their products for sale.
The Ipswich Koala Protection Society will be with us, with their delightful young goats and native creatures they have been taking care of.
The displays in Cooneana Homestead and the museum will be available for you to enjoy, as well as the coal mining equipment and old farm machinery in the grounds. You should visit Jim Donald House to see more coal mine history and a video, try your hand at shovelling coal and take pictures of your children in the old mine lift.
Visit the Spinners, Weavers, Fibre Artisans in Brighton House and the Ipswich Genealogical Society in Brigg House.
Prices haven't increased. Adults $7.50, children 5 -12 years $5.00 and family ticket for two adults and up to four children $25.00.
Book your tickets online here or pay at the gate. Parking available.
We look forward to welcoming you.