Mark Bulley

Bumper Talking Shop meeting

IT’S hard to imagine a time when Pneumatic Cash Tubes and Cash Registers were ‘new technology’ — but that was part of what attracted almost 120 people on 24 March 2018 to hear Dr Ellen McArthur outline how far shopping had come since the days of hawkers and rudimentary shop fronts. The speaker’s informative images showed […]

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Amazing demand for Reflections

THE new year starts on a very positive note for the Society, with the arrival of more copies of Reflections on New Farm. This is the book’s third reprint since 2008, and marks the milestone of more than 4,000 copies having been sold. “The steady demand for this book is simply amazing,” says President Ross

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Here’s to 2018

TO all at the New Farm & Districts Historical Society, here’s wishing you a very happy start to 2018. Thanks to SW for this great snapshot from the Queensland State Library Bookshop. It looks as if New Farm & Teneriffe occupy a key spot in Queensland History!

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New Farm Croquet Club 1921

THE New Farm Croquet Club adjoined the New Farm Bowls Club. The two homes in the background facing Lower Bowen Terrace are (from left) Sandford (No. 595) and Duddingston (No. 591). The patroness of the Club in 1921 was Mrs J.N. McCallum. The McCallum family home, Duddingston, was very convenient to the club! Both magnificent homes still

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