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 […]
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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
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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
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Exhibition Opening The opening of the “Two to the Valley” exhibition is set for 5pm on Thursday, 17 March, at the Maud Street Photo Gallery, 6 Maud St, Newstead. You are invited to book here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/…/rsvp-opening-event-two… Published in 1992, the book featured photographs by David Hinchliffe capturing the essence of The Valley, its architecture and
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Coronet Court Flats Revisited :: View the talk here. Coronet Court at 995 Brunswick St, a New Farm landmark since 1933, was the subject of a talk to the Society in 2010 by Tamsin O’Connor whose family has been connected with the building for almost 80 years. Luckily, Tamsin’s address was recorded, and may be viewed
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Saturday, 27 November 2021 —— Enjoy the talk here In February 2018 when digging up William St in Brisbane in preparation for the new Queen’s Wharf project, workmen made an amazing discovery, something to set the hearts of historically-minded electrical engineers racing. “Hey, we’ve just found an Edison Tube!” could well have been the exultant exclamation.
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Saturday, 30 October 2021 —— Enjoy the talk here At our October meeting, historian Sr Anne Hetherington will present ‘The Bells of St Stephen’s’, centring on the St Stephen’s site in Elizabeth St which dates from 1843. St Stephen’s Chapel is Brisbane’s oldest still-standing church, and is one of only three pre-separation buildings remaining in Brisbane.
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Saturday, 25 September 2001 :: View the talk here. The Canada Cycle and Motor Agency was established by long-term New Farm resident, Alexander Vaughan Dodwell of Moray St. With branches and agencies throughout Queensland and around 200 employees by 1914, CCM was a major Queensland company during 1905–1929. The business imported early motor cars, trucks
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Saturday 28 August 2021, 2.30pm The Garnett Family Grocery Store GROWING up in a small family shop is similar to being raised on a farm: every member has chores from an early age—and while there are few breaks from the business, there are life lessons to be learned galore. The Garnett Family Grocery Store was
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Saturday 24 July 2021, 2.30pm — View Steve’s talk here… BRISBANE’S love affair with swimming from early colonial days to the present will be in focus at the July meeting of the New Farm and Districts Historical Society. The speaker is to be Steve Capelin, a writer who is a member of the West End Making
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