Today’s short notice is just to let you know that after 96 posts, 7 pages, and around 1500 views I’m leaving and so there will be a slight delay in the next couple of months while they find someone to take up the reins. But as a last post let me show you the most…
Something new for the New Year this year. The Australian Army Flying Museum (Oakey) working with Toowoomba Regional Council are proudly hosting an exhibition for the Belgium Embassy this January, ‘The Great War in Great Outlines’. “To commemorate the centennial of the first world war, the Belgian embassy in Canberra is organizing a touring exhibition in Australia.…
There’s a wealth of local knowledge that is published in various local publications. This week I came across an interesting story from the December 11, 2012 High Country News, about the names of Crows Nest streets.
It seams not a lot happens in December around the region. Looking back 100 years there was articles about troop movements and what this country and that were doing as part of World War I, and so I decided to go further back and checked out what was happening 150 years ago. As you would…
The photo I’ve chosen for this month is the silo built on “The Towers”, Crosshill taken in 1963. Originally designed to hold loose hay. Lined inside with flat iron, wood and steel bands outside on 45 poles approximately 2 feet (60cm) apart and 35 feet (10.5m) high. Silo blew down in 1964 during a wind…
There’s a wealth of local knowledge that is published in various local publications. This week I came across an interesting story in the September 18, 2012 High Country News, about Munro’s Tramway.
While this week’s article from the Darling Downs Gazette, Saturday 18 November 1916, page 5 isn’t about the local region, but instead is the letter home of a local man from the trenches. After a little digging I discovered that Wilbraham Lee FOWLER (1887 – 1917), Landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and was…
The photo I’ve chosen for this month is from circa. 1910 of the Pig and “Poddy Calf” Sale. Thought to be in saleyards that were located where the Jondaryan Shire Council office was built.
This week’s story came about because of a question from a patron. I thought it would be pretty dry subject (well as dry as a story including water pumps can be) but I did find one bizarre bit of knowledge that I just had to include. Read on and enjoy! The Toowoomba Foundry, originally called…
There’s a wealth of local knowledge that is published in various local publications. This week I came across an interesting story in the May 29, 2012 High Country News about the Highfields State School.
Today I thought it was interesting to find in Darling Downs Gazette, Saturday 21 October 1916, page 4 the “new” legislation being passed about the use of the word ANZAC. And here’s a bit of trivia for you. The only place the word ANZAC is used without the need for consent is for ANZAC biscuits. It…
The photo I’ve chosen for this month is the wheat delivery from the 1930s prior to the silos being built at the Oakey railway station.
I found an absolute gem of a site this week. http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Other/Renamed-Places-in-Queensland.html is a huge collection of places that have gone through a name change and provides the source material as proof. I was absolutely spoilt for choice to make this week’s article, but decided to start with the town/locality of Gomorow. We’ve actually got a…
There’s a wealth of local knowledge that is published in various local publications. This week I came across an interesting story in the February 17 2015, High Country Herald about the ABC Radio in the 1970s and some of the characters that worked there.
This month I came across this article from the Darling Downs Gazette, Friday 22 September 1916, page 4. As you all know, this year we are smack in the middle of the ANZAC 100 commemoration period and so it is no surprise that I find an article about what is happening on the home front.…
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