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Turtle Soup made in Oxley – really ?
Yes, made from giant turtles transported all the way from the Great Barrier Reef. Local livestock was used for the more mundane canned sausages, pigs trotters, and pork brawn. For nearly a hundred years the Foggitt and Jones Oxley Bacon … Continue reading
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Tagged Blunder Road, Brawn, Canned Goods, Foggitt and Jones, Huttons, Lona Grantham, Oxley Bacon Factory, Oxley-Chelmer History Group, Pigs Trotters, Pork, Sausages, Turtle Soup
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Scouting Heritage
The Queensland Branch of the Scouting Association of Australia has taken up the State Library’s ‘Community Heritage Digitisation Offer’ to scan and make available on line a number of their past monthly Scouting magazines. This initiative should be a boon … Continue reading
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Tagged heritage, history, Queensland Scouter, Scouting, Totem
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Indooroopilly Mining Heritage
The end of 2018 will mark the centenary of the accidental discovery of the Finney’s Hill silver-lead outcrop at Isles Road, Indooroopilly. Now, well timbered and largely hidden from view, few, other than a generation of UQ educated mining engineers … Continue reading
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Tagged Albyn Lynch, Colombo Plan, experimental mine, Fernbrook, Finney's Hill, GHM Addison, GJ Ohlsen, Indooroopilly, Indooroopilly & District Historical Society, Isles Road, Julius Kruttschnitt Centre, Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre, Ken Grubb, lead, mine, mining heritage, Mount Isa Mines, PJ Madden, Professor Frank White, silver, Silver Hill – The University of Queensland Silver Mine Precinct, St Lucia History Group, Sustainable Minerals Institute, Toowong History Group, ubberla Creek Catchment Group, University of Queensland, UQ
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Radio Station 4ZZZ – milestone anniversary
In December 2018 community radio station 4ZZZ will commemorate one of the important milestones in its over forty year history, its eviction on 14 December 1988 from its operational base at the University of Queensland by the student union executive. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1975, 4ZZZ, Amanda Collinge, Anne Jones, Community Radio, eviction, Harley Stumm and Ross Wilson, Helen Hambling, Jim Beatson, John Stanwell, Louise Butt, Michael Finucan, Schonell Theatre, Steve Stockwell, Students Union, UQ
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Voluntary Aid Detachments
On 5 December 2017 Red Cross Queensland launched Maids of All Work a booklet that documents the history of Queensland Voluntary Aid Detachments. VADs, mainly young women (only 5% were men), volunteered in hospitals across Queensland to do tasks such … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Red Cross, Queensland, VAD, Voluntary Aid Detachments
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Midnight Sun to Southern Cross – new book by Ruth Bonetti
In her new book Midnight Sun to Southern Cross Ruth Bonetti tells of her grandfather WA Back’s role in heading Coronation Park Ltd, a syndicate of graziers and businessmen who were active in the residential development of the southern part … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronation Park Ltd, Midnight Sun to Southern Cross, Ruth Bonneti, St Lucia, Wilhelm Anders Back
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Aerial photography research resource
The Department of Natural Resources and Mines recently launched a new website providing online access to the Queensland Government’s collection of aerial photographs dating from the 1930s to 2009. Access to the material is free, downloadable and the terms and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s to 2009, aerial photographs, Department of Natural Resources and Mines, QImagery
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Matilda – nostalgic moment
Thirty-four years today since her debut at the Commonwealth Games Matilda is now located at the rear of the Kybong Puma Service Station just south of Gympie. For a number of years after the games she was at Wet’n’Wild before … Continue reading
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Tagged 1982 Commonwealth Games, 2018 Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, Hayley Lewis, Jephson Street, Matilda, Matilda Fuel Supplies, Queen's Baton, Toowong
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A wilting logo
Time has finally caught up with this faded sign on the Clarence Road shopping strip, as it eventually will with the ‘Beattie Burger’ logo which was dropped by the LNP Queensland Government in 2012. A gradual replacement policy was espoused … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Bridge, Beattie Burger, Indooroopilly, St Lucia History Group
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Queensland Lords, Edward and Eliza Lord’s Colonial Family
Janet Spillman’s history of Edward and Eliza Lord tells the story of two of the first free settlers to Moreton Bay, arriving in 1844 seven years after emigrating to Sydney from Lancashire. As Rochdale fullers and wool merchants, Edward Lord’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward and Eliza Lord, fullers and wool merchants, Godeffroy & Son, Janet Spillman, Rochdale, textile industry
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Former Kratzmann/Chandler home site at St Lucia
Demolition of the mansion built by Noel and Olive Kratzmann in the early 1980s, and site clearance of this large property just above Gailey Fiveways is nearing completion. It is understood that Sunland, developers of the old ABC Studios in … Continue reading
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Tagged Brisbane Excelsior Band, Carr Family, Central Technical College Brisbane, Citizens' Municipal Organization, Indooroopilly Golf Club, Long Pocket, Noel and Olive Kratzmann, Pink Palace, Shea Residences, Sir John Chadler Park, Sir John Chandler, St Lucia History Group, Taringa Shire Council
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Gailey Fiveways
Phew, for a moment there I thought one of our enduring retail signs was going to be given a face lift. There has been a shop on this corner of the intersection from at least the early 1940’s, originally a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr Sinnamon, Gailey Fiveways, Sizzling Mongolian BBQ, Taringa East Post Office
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Oxley-Chelmer History Group – call for help with photographs
Members of the Oxley-Chelmer History Group were pleased to welcome many visitors to our stall at the Sherwood Community Festival on 13 November 2015. The display of photographs of The 1950s in Oxley-Chelmer brought about a lot of comment, especially … Continue reading
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Tagged Dunlop Park Swimming Pool, Duporth School Oxley, Oxley-Chelmer History Group, Sherwood Arboretum, Shops in Honour Avenue Graceville
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