Walking Tour: Newstead and Bowen Hills: Cloudland, Homes, Theatre, Church

17th June 2023 Join this historical walking tour over Bowen Hills, for a closer look at where Cloudland was once top spot. MEET US in the Plaza at Newstead Gasworks within the Gasometer. This is the starting point for a 90-minute walk up and over Bowen Hills. For a certain generation, Cloudland ballroom evoked magic, …

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Monthly Meeting – featuring Rayner’s Meats and the family behind the business

Sat 20th May 2023 The next meeting will be held on Saturday 20th May at 2.30pm at the Uniting Church Centre, 52 Merthyr Rd New Farm. The meeting will feature a presentation on the story of the near-century old local business – Rayner’s Meats in Brunswick St, and the Rayner family’s deep roots in New …

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1941- The Pensacola Convoy

22nd April 2023 | Speaker: Brian Martin Brian will talk about the PENSACOLA CONVOY, seven American military transport ships and their escorting warship which were making a routine voyage to the Philippines when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th 1941. The damage inflicted was so severe that existing plans for the U. S. Navy …

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ART DECO and ARTS & CRAFT Discovery Tour – New Farm

18th March 2023 International architectural trends transformed colonial New Farm. BOOK TICKETS During the Inter War period (1918-1939) local architects drew inspiration from the Californian bungalow and Mediterranean aesthetic, while other designs evoked British Arts & Craft elements. Craftmanship, historical motifs and the use of eclectic mix of materials characteristic of the Arts & Craft …

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Event – Brisbane: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares

Saturday 26th November 2022 — VIEW THE TALK HERE. Guest Speaker – Dr. Bill Metcalf Brisbane: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares tells the stories of little-known, and rather peculiar aspects of Brisbane’s colourful history. Eleven Brisbane authors from the 19th and 20th centuries wrote about how wonderfully ‘utopian’, Brisbane could become – or how dreadfully ‘dystopian’, …

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