Talk:Tamworth, New South Wales

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The comment 'The city is located midway between Brisbane and Sydney the two largest cities on the Australian east coast' - aside from missing punctuation - isn't correct. Melbourne is considered to be an east coast city and is larger than Brisbane by far. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.254.214 (talk) 13:12, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

There's no way this list of schools should be on here - only notable educational institutions should be mentioned--129.78.64.100 07:27, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes. And why list every church? Just wastes space and bores people to death. This is not the yellow pages.


 * I've pared the list of schools and churches down to only those with wikipedia articles. Crocodile Punter 11:47, 5 February 2007 (UTC)


 * They were put back again, but ive removed churches without a wikipedia article. Perhaps a small segment could be written about the Combined Churches in partnership with Fusion Australia's festival in bicentennial park called "LifeFest" each year, which attracts thousands of people. --Thirdayparadise 06:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I wrote a brief article on "Lifefest" however exact estimates of how many thousand came to festival is needed. --Thirdayparadise 02:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Removal of mention of Siding Springs
The part on the lighting of Tamworth being turned off for the Siding Springs Observatory is incorrect and should be removed. I would suspect that the town of Coonabarabran would be a larger part of the light pollution problem as it is the closer town of the two, Tamworth being over 185km north of the Siding Springs Observatory at Coonabarabran.

Lights of Tamworth
Yes, the City of Lights is genuine, no dispute. That they spelt out Tamworth is... well, I'll just ask for a citation shall we - it is a well known story.. Jacketed 13:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The term 'City of Light' was derived due to Tamworth being the first town in the Southern Hemisphere to have electric street lighting. --bacco007 13:40, 28 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Both users are completely right-any local historybook will tell you that. --Dezza91 10:57, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't think Tamworth did have the first electric street lighting in the Southern Hemisphere, as Kimberley in the Cape Province (now South Africa) had such lighting in 1882. This article states Tamworth had electric street lighting in 1888. Maybe the first in what is now Australia?


 * This is from the article for Kimberley:


 * "On 2 September 1882, Kimberley became the first town in the southern hemisphere to install electric street lighting.

Booshank 17:31, 15 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I find it a shame that Australians are always claiming to be the first and largest of something in the southern hemisphere, when in fact they have not checked the sources in either Africa nor South America. What is the problem of claiming to be the first in Australia only, which is a very simple fact to check?


 * The city of Campos, Rio de Janeiro (state) had electric lighting in all streets in 1883, while some other streets in Rio de Janeiro had street lighting from 1879. Please refer to the following document. If you cannot read Portuguese, see the Google translation link.


 * Dissertation about public lighting in Brazil
 * Google Translation


 * Isn't this (and the Kimberley) evidence enough for us to remove the "first in the southern-hemisphere" claim from the wikipedia article??? Please remember that this type of claim is not always fully investigated and can easily be regarded as a "fact". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.82.205 (talk) 10:41, 13 April 2009 (UTC)


 * The assertion about Tamworth being the first town in the Southern Hemisphere with electric street lighting is certainly incorrect - I believe this distinction belongs to Kimberley in South Africa. I have changed the wording to Australia 58.168.18.245 (talk) 01:08, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Suburbs of Tamworth
Would be great if we could get some population estimates of the suburbs of Tamworth. I know its a small city, but Sydney suburbs such as the suburb of Brookvale have a population estimate, and this suburb is only 2,493 big. Surely there is suburbs of Tamworth with bigger populations than this such as East Tamworth or South Tamworth. I noticed however Calala had a population estimate. --Thirdayparadise 02:08, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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Area
Currently states the area is 486 sq km. That is too large to be the area of the Tamworth city proper,  and too small to be the area covered by the Tamworth Regional Council LGA  (  which is apparently about 9700 sq km ). So what is the 486 sq km supposed to be then ?? Is it the area of the old Tamworth LGA ? Needs to be clarified Eregli bob (talk) 05:58, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

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Hatnote
This may be relatively minor in comparison to the remainder of the article, but I feel the hatnote at the top of the article should be templatized. I know it's been done once before, but was reverted. --JB Adder | Talk 12:43, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

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disputed birthplace
The National Film and sound archive lists Australian composer Vince Courtney (died 1951) as Tamworth born and bred. Tradimus (talk) 00:10, 17 March 2018 (UTC)