1. The Lagoon, situated where today's CWA/Hands of Fame Park is located.

2. The Town Pump, incorporating a well, a tank and two points from which carters could draw water. Prior to a reticulated water supply in Tamworth, this system got underway in June, 1881.

3. The Pump House Paddock, a reserve giving public access to the river, later called Johnston Park, and now the site of the Olympic Pool.

4.The 'Up the Peel River Road', an early pathway being an approximate continuation of today's Carter Street and continuing roughly parallel to today's Lock's Lane, on the opposite side of Goonoo Goonoo Creek.

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5. The Cricket Ground, a 2.2 hectare section of today's Bicentennial Park, later known as 'The Oval'.

6. The original loop in the river channel at the foot of Darling Street, which was straightened by the Tamworth Council, commencing in 1912, to avoid a repetition of the 1910 Flood damage.

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