PHOTO: The railway’s beginning saw the township take off. (Supplied)
The Nyngan Museum Support Group has shaken up the history books as we know it, ringing in 140 years of the Nyngan railway and township with a recipe book that takes you right back to the very beginning, when it was pig’s head soup being put on the dinner table.
This year the museum is marking 140 years since the opening of the Nyngan Railway Station, a technology that allowed it to grow from a settlement into a township.
Nyngan Museum Coordinator Leonie Montgomery said the recipe book ‘Dining through the Decades: 1883 to 2023’, while maybe not always appetising, has been an exciting way to explore the history of Nyngan…