Charters Towers

Charters Towers grew to be a prosperous town of 20,000 people during a gold rush in the late 1800s.  At its peak you could buy anything in Charters Towers.  Today the town is a ghost of its former self where the last furniture shop closed a couple of years ago.

We toured the ambulance station (which was also a first aid station) that started life with a horse drawn stretcher wagon.
 

Ambulance Station Log from 1961.  Bottom of page - buttocks wound with compass at school.
Restored 1942 Ford with Ambulance Body Built in Brisbane

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