Our ambulance service hasn't always been there

Updated June 21 2019 - 1:21pm, first published June 15 2019 - 9:00am
This July 1,1925 photo shows Superintendent Bowdler with driver Webster at 65 Church Street, with their new Austin ambulance (left) and original Model T Ford (right).
This July 1,1925 photo shows Superintendent Bowdler with driver Webster at 65 Church Street, with their new Austin ambulance (left) and original Model T Ford (right).

The only time I've been in an ambulance was when I was carted up to the Tamworth Hospital in 1961, after suffering a nasty knee injury while playing Rugby League for Newcastle Boys High School against eventual University Shield winners Tamworth High on No.1 Oval - my first time in Tamworth, coming here to live 4 years later. If I'd been here when Tamworth first started I'd have needed to "make my own arrangements". Back in 1845 an AA Company overseer James Robson was found at Goonoo Goonoo suffering from several spear wounds. Loaded onto a "dog cart" by his wife Isabella, he was taken over rough tracks to the Company's hospital in Ebsworth Street but died on the way. He is buried in the original cemetery behind the Ibis Styles Motel in Ebsworth Street, and his relocated gravestone is the oldest in the West Tamworth cemetery.

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