• Free general admission
  • Open 9am-5pm daily, closed Christmas Day
  • Acton Peninsula, Canberra
  • 1800 026 132
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Amy Blanch

 
Amy is a young artist student at the La Trobe University in Mildura. She lives with her family in Wentworth. Amy has a keen interest in and eye for photography.
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PS Ruby

Fotherby Park

Restored Ruby floats in Fotherby Park, Wentworth

Ruby was taken off the run in the early 1930s and went through numerous changes of ownership. By 1968 she had deteriorated substantially and through the foresight of a Wentworth electrical engineer, the late Frank Fotherby, the Wentworth Rotary Club was encouraged to purchase her. She was towed to Wentworth and placed in a park opposite the wharf that she was tied up to many years before. In 1996, Rotary placed Ruby in the trusteeship of the Wentworth Shire Council. A committee made up of the local services groups and townspeople was formed to commence full restoration work.