We'd luckily inherited some timed tickets for the Old Windmill, oldest building in Queensland, built by convicts in 1828. Apparently the windmill sails turned out to be completely useless so it was just as well that they'd rigged up a treadmill - bad news for the convicts who spent 16-hour shifts on it...
It's more recently been the first home of the Museum of Queensland, was then a signal tower, weather observatory, and, during the 1930s and 1940s, was the venue for pioneer television broadcasting (the first public TV transmission in Australia was made from there in 1934).
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