Lacemaker

Textile

Material works of art

Women once used lacemakers such as this one to fashion wonderfully intricate lace as fashion extras or doilies. With infinite patience and steady hands they’d transform yard or thread into material works of art. It makes you wonder what hands once worked upon this particular lace maker, and what laceworks they produced.

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Geraldton Historical Society

Lighthouse keeper's cottage

Geraldton Historical Society houses its collection in the delightful Bluff Point Lighthouse Keeper’s Cottage - a whitewashed building which served as the home of the Geraldton lighthouse keeper and...

Address:

Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage
355 Chapman Rd
Geraldton WA 6530
Australia

Tel:

(08) 9921 3790 or (08) 9924 3217

Email:

gtonhistsoc@node1.com.au

Open Hours

Thurs & Fri and other times by calling 08 9921 3790 or 9924 3217

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Smoking Jacket

One wealthy woman’s unladylike ways

This velvety green smoking jacket once belonged to one of the district’s wealthiest women - Jane Grant. Grant lived on Moonyoonooka Station in the early 1900s and was not one to suffer fools. While...