events

18th March 2023 International architectural trends transformed colonial New Farm. BOOK TICKETS During the Inter War period (1918-1939) local architects drew inspiration from the Californian bungalow and Mediterranean aesthetic, while other designs evoked British Arts & Craft elements. Craftmanship, historical motifs and the use of eclectic mix of materials characteristic of the Arts & Craft […]

4th March 2023  Join this historical walking tour through the Heart of New Farm, taking in landmarks and homes, and lots of stories. MEET US on the Brunswick St/Sydney St corner of NEW FARM PARK, for a 90-minute walk to see sites in Brunswick St, Bowen Tce and Merthyr Rd, along with peeks at Langshaw,

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