7th October 2023 MEET US in front of To Be Thai Restaurant at 92 Merthyr Rd, New Farm, for a 90-minute walk along the less-travelled streets of New Farm and Teneriffe. Bring your GoCard, since we’ll take the 199 bus, so as to begin our walk at the Hastings Street steps. We’ll pause beside two […]
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23rd September 2023 Before multinational soda giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi dominated the market, Brisbane had its own thriving soft drink industry. Hauritz (or Horitz) drinks in Longland St, Newstead, was one of these, delivering to homes and businesses in the area. Lionel Hauritz, an old New Farm State School boy, will tell us about his
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Wed 27 Sep 2023 Join the Princess Theatre’s historian Robert Allen for a behind-the-scenes tour of Brisbane’s oldest performing arts venue. Born as a community hall in 1889, the Princess had numerous names and identities before its rebirth as a world class performing arts venue in 2021. This tour takes in more than 130 years
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Sat 28th October 2023 Building Brisbane’s new underground has meant digging deep in the city at a variety of locations. During excavation, demolition and removing rubble from worksites, a number of items of archaeological significance have been uncovered that reveal what life was like in Brisbane at the turn of the 20th century at this
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12 Aug 2023 | FULLY BOOKED Grab some mates and come spend a Saturday afternoon exploring the fascinating history of Fortitude Valley’s oldest hotels. Many of Brisbane’s oldest pubs are long gone, but Fortitude Valley still retains a number that have survived the wrecker’s ball and reinvented themselves for the 21st century. Robert Allen is
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Mon 21st August 2023 Join the Princess Theatre’s historian Robert Allen for a behind-the-scenes tour of Brisbane’s oldest performing arts venue. Born as a community hall in 1889, the Princess had many guises, names and identities before its rebirth as a world class theatre in 2021. The Princess is located at 8 Annerley Road, Woolloongabba,
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26th August 2023 (incorporating AGM) Lisa Jones, Curator of the Qld Police Museum, will present Policing in New Farm and Fortitude Valley. Policing in New Farm and Fortitude Valley since 1864 has been interesting to say the least. There has been a police presence in New Farm since 1889, firstly in Heal Street and then
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The New Farm Park website is currently gathering stories from residents past and present, for a new section on the website – Family Stories of New Farm Park . New Farm Park is a place of wonderful family memories for many people – it is where many of life’s special moments, big and small, have
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On Wednesday 7 June 2023, a few lucky members of the Committee, along with local Member Vicki Howard, attended the official “unveiling” of the new plaque at Miss Midgley’s Hotel at 135 James Street. We were welcomed by the proprietors, Stephen (a retired senior surgeon) and Lisa (an architect) White, who gave us an exclusive
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By Karen Costello Thank you for the opportunity to offer some notes on the wonderfully informative talk given by well-known historian and author, Gerard Benjamin held on 24th June 2023 ,which complemented the walk around Bowen Hills that I attended on Saturday 17 June along with my husband, Dan, and a group of friends (including
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