Mark Bulley

25th February 2023 — WATCH THE TALK: https://vimeo.com/802210612 Or…how a place that exists only in my memory, can hold and ground me more than many structures where I’ve lived. Speaker Award-winning author and journalist Kristina Olsson. 2:30PM | Uniting Church Centre, 52 Merthyr Rd, New Farm Everyone is welcome to attend. Members :$5 Non Members

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’,

Saturday, 22 October 2022 — VIEW THE TALK HERE. COME and hear about the key role played by COAST-WATCHERS during WWII in the lands and seas just to the north of Australia. Commander Eric Feldt was in the midst of it! Telling his story is his grand-niece Dr Betty Lee, who wrote Right Man, Right Place, Worst Time

Saturday, 24 September 2022  — VIEW THE TALK HERE. The “Three Ladies of Moreton Bay”, Mirimar, Mirana and Mirabel, are well remembered by the people of Brisbane for their bay and river trips. The story of the “Three Ladies of Moreton Bay” will bring back very happy memories of times spent aboard these vessels. Come and listen to

Saturday, 27 August 2022 —— VIEW THE TALK HERE: https://vimeo.com/743880853 THE landmark Prince Consort Hotel in Wickham St, Fortitude Valley, celebrates its 134th birthday this August.  Hear all about this princely pub at the August meeting of the New Farm & Districts Historical Society, when the guest speaker is to be local author and historian Robert Allen. “The

Saturday, 23 July 2022 —— Enjoy the talk here. IF a picture is worth a thousand words, then John McDonnell’s Lost Brisbane Facebook Community site, which is chockful of images of yore, is worth its weight in gold. John can often be heard on Radio ABC 612, and he is to be guest speaker at

Saturday, 25 June 2022 —— Enjoy the talk here. HISTORIC Dovercourt, on the prime hilltop location at 124 Sherwood Rd, Toowong, was built at the same time (1865) and by the same architect as Teneriffe House. Author of a book about the house, Harold Peacock, will speak at the June meeting of the New Farm and Districts

Saturday, 28 May 2022 —— Enjoy the talk here. On Breakfast Creek Rd near the gasometer once stood the venerable business of Brown and Broad, Newstead Homes (est. 1898).  One of its founders was George Brown, a self-made businessman who was a pioneer of the Queensland timber industry. To tell us all about George and the business

Saturday, 23 April 2022 —— Enjoy the talk here. FOLLOWING Pearl Harbour and the fall of Singapore, the tremendous war effort meant that Americans forces soon ‘occupied’ Brisbane. All up, it is estimated that one million American troops passed through the city during 1942-45. “The social disruption altered the lives of so many in Queensland’s sleepy

Saturday, 26 March 2022 —— Enjoy the talk here. BRISBANE HISTORIAN Helen Gregory is to be the guest at our first meeting for 2022. She will speak about ‘The People of Newstead House’. It’s a timely topic since Brisbane’s beautiful 176-year-old sandstone and timber home is currently enjoying a $5M Queensland government renovation. “As well as the