Glen Innes Show Society – Glen Innes News

Feb

05

2026

The Show 100 years ago

Local News, RuralGlen Innes Show Society, Land of the Beardies Museum

From snippets sourced from the 1926 Glen Innes Examiner the Show was very different 100 years ago. ‘In Glen Innes shows have been held almost continuously since 1870, when in conjunction with Inverell the first carnival took place on the recreation ground at the back of the present Intermediate High School (now the Public School) -and the only shelter was that provided by tarpaulins. Shows were held alternately at Inverell and Glen Innes until 1877. Since then, the show society has acquired a ground of its own on which it has placed costly improvements while its operations have grown until…

More Than A Saddlery

Local NewsANZAC Day, Emmaville, Emmaville Club Hotel, Glen Innes RSL Sub-Branch, Glen Innes Show Society, Second Time Round Saddlery, Tegan Harwood, Tracey Waters

The Second Time Round Saddlery at 17 Oliver Street, Glen Innes not only sells second hand saddles and equipment for horses, fishing lures, feed and so much more, but also provides a safe haven for those ex-navy and ex-army veterans in the Glen Innes area. The saddlery, open since 2022, is run by Tegan Harwood and Tracey Waters. Tegan herself is a twelve year veteran of the navy. In those twelve years, she moved fourteen times, so she was glad to return to Glen Innes (where she had moved as a teenager) to settle down. Tegan kept coming across ex-vets…

Betta Appliances Takes First Place In Shop Window Competition

Local NewsBetta Appliances, Glen Innes Show, Glen Innes Show Society, Pacific Furniture, Timbs Pharmacy

The elaborate and creative window display at Betta Appliances has taken out the honours in this year’s Glen Innes Show Society shop window competition. The electrical store defeated second place Timbs Pharmacy with Pacific Furniture a close third. The Betta window display featured miniature representations of many treasured attractions of the Glen Innes Show including the Tea Rooms, animal nursery, demolition derby and even the bar. The quality of entries this year was incredibly high, and the judges of the shop window competition no doubt faced a very difficult task in deciding the winner.