Olympic Games

A Mural in the city of a Tasmanian Olympic and Champion Swimmer Ariarne Titmus born here in Launceston in 2000.  Ariarne and her parents moved to Queensland in 2015 for better training opportunities.  

Ariarne is an OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) she is the reigning Olympic Champion in the women's 200 meter and 400 meter freestyle, having won both events at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the world record holder in the long course 200 meter freestyle and 400 meter freestyle events.

We Tasmanian's along with the State of Queensland and all of Australia wish her well for the Paris Olympic Games this year as well as all our Athletes. 

Invention of the Notepad!

Did you know who invented The Notepad?

It was a Tasmanian, J.A Birchall and it took 500 years of human evolution for Mr. Birchall to change the way we look at single sheets of paper.  In 1902 he decided to stick them together to form the first notepad!

J.A Birchall was the once owner of Birchalls bookstore here in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.  

Founded in 1844 by Samuel Tegg, then a few owners until it became Birchalls, then owned by the Tilley family in 1969. 

Birchalls was oldest bookstore in Australia at the time of its closing in 2017. The store sold other items as well, such as hobby things and so on. The store closed due to retirement of the Tilley family who couldn't find a buyer for the store as it was.

In 1902

Birchalls in recent times