Here’s your chance to revisit the McWhirters era when writer Melissa Fagan addresses the October meeting of the New Farm and Districts Historical Society. Melissa is a great-great-granddaughter of the enterprising Scottish draper, James McWhirter, who founded this retailing icon of Fortitude Valley in 1898. “I will be delighted to relate some of the discoveries
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26th Sept 2020 Hoadley, MacRobertson and Sweetacres! They were once household names for kids of the baby-boomer generation — so we are pleased to announce that the “Sweet history of lollies” is to be the subject of our meeting on Saturday 26 September at Merthyr Road Uniting Church Centre. Join Dr Toni Risson, historian and world
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Well ahead of the start time, the hall at Merthyr Road was ready for attendees to be suitably physically distanced. By 2pm, around 40 members were seated. The two cameras were rolling, thus enabling anyone anywhere to log in so as to hear Jill Barker’s fascinating talk about “The Japanese House in New Farm”. Listeners
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22nd Aug 2020 OUR FIRST PUBLIC MEETING post-COVID isolation. Jill Barker will share information about the Japanese House in New Farm. This remarkable residence was pre-fabricated in Japan in 1886 and re-erected in New Farm (see “From Japan to New Farm”, May newsletter). I am sure that you will want to hear more about this
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THAT is the question we have been asked many times! Our lives have been so different since March when we sadly saw the need to cancel our planned Old Time Movies event. After that, the restrictions meant no meetings. Now, with restrictions easing, we have planned a new way to continue sharing our interest in
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WELCOME to our second ‘isolation’ newsletter. I am wondering what effect this period of enforced change of pace is having on your life and your emotions. This is an extraordinary phase in our history and maybe we should be recording its effect on life in New Farm for our archives. Why not send/email a message
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A Queensland judge recuperating in Japan so appreciated the coolness and utility of the house in which he stayed, that he decided to buy one — and ship it back to Brisbane. Within the year, three carpenters and two plasterers from Japan arrived to assemble the flatpack. This was brave of them since in those
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I am writing this on April Fool’s Day, but there are no tricks in this message! It seems as if history is repeating itself—a pandemic just 101 years after the Spanish Flu contagion of 1919. Luckily, we are in a very different world. We understand more about how diseases are spread; we live healthy lives,
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Putting an historical edge on a leisurely walk around Kangaroo Point will be a breeze with this new edition of the Kangaroo Point Heritage Walk booklet. The well-illustrated 90-page volume will guide you on a two-hour amble around the locality’s heritage buildings and places. You will not only glean important facts but also be charmed
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Considering the pandemic situation, I am sure that it will come as the increasing gravity of the no surprise to hear that the committee, after carefully considering the implications of holding the cinema event on 28 March, has decided that it would be wiser to cancel the gathering. Deliberations have been based on news on
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