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19th century kindergarten to become historic archive (7/2/25)
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2/7/2025
A 19th century kindergarten is set to be converted into a state-of-the-art archive for the Launceston History Centre. Video by Aaron Smith (7/2/25)
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Well, the plans are to turn it into the Launceston History Centre.
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The three organisations, the Family History Society of Launceston, Launceston Historical Society,
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Friends of Launceston Mechanics Institute, are going to make it our headquarters.
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We're going to combine, first time we've been able to have a space for our own.
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At the moment, we spread all over the city.
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We've got books and resources spread in 20 different spots everywhere, so it's going to be great.
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Have it all in one place which is accessible and going to be open to the public
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so we can actually have people here and have it all together for once.
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So it's going to be the first time ever.
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We're preparing plans and getting council planning approval, Heritage Tasmania approval,
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and building approval to build a new archive storage facility at the rear of the property,
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across the back, which will house the Mechanics Institute collection.
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But it'll be essentially fire-resistant and temperature-controlled solar panels to make it solar-friendly
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and help us to be able to store this collection in an appropriate place,
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as well as for collections of the History Centre itself.
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We'll be able to take collections from Launceston people that relate to Launceston's history
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that perhaps the Library and the QVMAG aren't able to do.
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So we'll be able to take in things that aren't able to fit into their collections.
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We're pleased today to announce that the archive's going to be called the Jenny Gill Archives
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because Jenny left us a request of some money from her estate, which sadly passed away in 2021,
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and so she's left that for the History Centre to be able to build.
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She was an archivist and historian, so it's appropriate that we call it the Jenny Gill Archives
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so that she'll be appropriately honoured for her foresight and vision to be able to provide this
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for Launceston's history well into the future.
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