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Pro
Lots of beautiful heritage buildings, great scenery
Con
Winter is cold
In a nutshell
A different landscape with interesting granite outcrops
GLEN INNES CELTIC AND HIGHLAND GAMES FESTIVAL
DennyP Says: GLEN INNES N.S.W In May of each year there is a Highland Games and Festival held here and is reputed to be one of the biggest in the country..This particular area of New England....Grafton..Maclean and Glen Innes all have strong Celtic ties and the "Standing Stones" is...
WHEN IN GLENN INNES DO SOME FOSSICKING..
DennyP Says: GLEN INNES .. Depending on how much time you have while in Glen Innes...Do some fossicking..!! I know when I am driving allover Australia I "fossick" whenever the chance presents itself..Of course you must be in a gem area and that is what "fossicking " is about seeking out...
wise23girl Says: Glen Innes NSW...AustraliaJust for a bit of fun in the evening you will find the RSL' fills the bill' We did not win on the poker (slot) machines but found the meal very enjoyable. We were escorted to our table set with a white cloth and chose barramundi which actually...
globetrott Says: The townhall of Glen Innes is one of the most beautiful townhalls that I saw in New South Wales and it dates back to the year 1887.In my last 2 pictures here: another shopping-centre built in the style of the early settlers and a bank-building, well banks always seemed to...
globetrott Says: The courthouse of Glen Innes is dating back to the year 1873. Most of the early settlers of Australia had been convicts and so it seemes to me that the newly built state of Australia wanted to show everywhere, that law and justice have to be obeyed there as well. So you will...
globetrott Says: The Club Hotel is a really impressive building dating back to the year 1906. It has these typical arcades on the street-level and the balconies on the upper floor. Such hotels were normally always built on the crossing of 2 main roads.There is a pub in that building...
globetrott Says: The Post & Telegraph Office is an interesting building made of red bricks and it is also one of the oldest buildings of Glen Innes. The Post Office, the townhall and the Courthouse were mostly the first buildings that were built in solid stones in each village after the...
some more of the ancient buildings
globetrott Says: Here you can see some more of the various buildings with interesting architecture in Glen Innes. In case that you love to see all details of such an architecture, you should calculate about 1-2 hours for exploring all of these great buildings of Glen Innes.
globetrott Says: The Kwong Sing Centre of 1886 is a good example of an early settlement of chinese merchants in that area and that shopping-centre is obviously still in the ha^nds of that family for more than 100 years now.For me it was interesting to see that great facade of the shop, that...
iandsmith Says: One thing you can often get, especially in autumn and winter, is wonderful sunsets.This one happened a little east of Glen Innes. The dead trees shown here are the results of a 90s dilemma called dieback that decimated parts of the New England. There were three different...
1 Review and 27 Opinions With the CBD just around the corner, this motel is well located but, don't believe the VT hype that...
Comfort Inn Central Court Hotel
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The restaurant is actually part of the New England Club and is situated right across the road from a lovely park......well, it was lovely until the drought hit but, late in 2007 the rains came and now it's all nice again. All of which has nothing to do with the food you can get here which sets a bit of a standard in the town.
Written Dec 21, 2007
Address: 96 West Avenue
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The best option to go to Glen Innes is in your own car ! You will find a lot of parking-spaces along all streets in town, you just have to be carefully watching out for potholes, as you can see in my pictures here !
I had heavy rainfalls during my stay, and in such a case it could happen that parts of the roads are flooded, so watch the weather-forecast, or ask at the tourist-information before you start driving overlands !
Written Mar 16, 2012
globetrott Says: On a rainy day I started to watch out for fancy and funny letterboxes, that were easy to photograph from my car without been forced to step out into the rain.And these are some of the letterboxes that I found in and around of Glen Innes, my favorite was the letterbox that...
globetrott Says: In Australia you will still find a lot of such streets that have covered arcades in front of their shops. That is really great in case that it is raining and it is great as well, when the sun is burning down really strong, and all pedestrians can still walk easily in the...
A touch of Art Nouveau in Glen Innes
globetrott Says: This wonderful building right in the centre of Glen Innes is dating back to the year 1911 and it was built in Art Nouveau style with some great decorations on the facade. Just a pity I was not able to take a look inside the building, as most Art Nouveau-buildings have also a...
globetrott Says: St. Joseph's School and the church that obviously belongs to it as well is the most impressive ensemble of buildings that I saw in Glen Innes. Parts of it even look like an old scottish castle, even though it is certainly just a boarding-school. You will find these buildings...
globetrott Says: I saw this interesting house opposite of the Chapel-theatre and somehow it reminded me a lot of the old, wooden houses of the early settlers.In my last picture: another great house in that same street, but much more modern.
globetrott Says: What an interesting idea to turn a former church into a theatre. You will find this chapel-theatre on the mainroad from Glen Innes to Armidale and next to St. Joseph's School.Click on the link below and you will find the running program, they will show movies as well there !
globetrott Says: The balancing rocks are a great sight, that you will pass by on the main-road from Glen Innes to Armidale. You will find signposts along the road and a good parking-space as well next to the road. It is a pity that it was heayily raining that day, otherwise I would have...
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Favorite thing: Surprised I haven't put this in before, he wrote about 5 years after the original pages I entered.
This is a stream that drops around 317m over its 76km length before it reaches the Severn River but, at one spot it crosses the beneath the Gwydir Highway east of Glen Innes.
Fondest memory: Here there's a delightful spot to park and maybe have a picnic beside some pools that have been formed in the granite. Spring when the wildflowers bloom is a particularly nice time. There's lots of insect and animal life around and on a pleasant day it's a delight just to be there.
I hope some of the pictures show that.
Written Dec 31, 2011
Glen Innes is the highest large town in Australia. Glen Innes, and around this area we saw some pretty spectacular scenery. This area is known for the large/huge granite boulders, some of them...
some great architecture & more !
Glen Innes is part of the so-called Celtic-Country, north-west of Sydney in an area with lots of villages called after scottish villages like Glencoe and there is even a village called Stonehenge as...
If you want to get noticed, you have to have a gimmick. Glen Innes realised this and went for the Celts. In just over a decade they have Australia's Celtic Festival (first weekend in May), standing......
Well I lived here for a little while as a tiny baby so my memories are of more recent times on our journeys through on our way to Tamworth or even Parkes or maybe Sydney..Of course most times we are...
I spent a fantastic few days in Glen Innes, staying with a friend who lived there. She got to show me all the wonderful things the town had to offer!
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