This is the perfect time to say thanks to those who had the foresight to start formally recording the history of New Farm and the surrounding districts via a gathering of interested people which resulted in the formation of the NFDHS.
David Hinchliffe will speak a little about this at the June meeting. We are also […]
When I was a small eight-year-old living in a flat in Macquarie Street, Sydney, just opposite was one of my playgrounds—the Mitchell Library. I’d wheel my small pram with doll to the reception desk and then walk around in the huge domed reading room, filled with silence as well as shelves upon shelves of books.
Years […]
I was one of the early members of the Society — my brother-in-law, Tom Morrison, was on the original committee — so my sister Joyce and I were early recruits.So many interesting people with stories to tell.
We all looked forward to the fourth Saturday. I recall talks about Postcards from Abroad; […]
6th July 2019
The Teneriffe Festival is a one-day event in and around the suburb’s riverside streets, offering visitors a full program of music, food, children’s entertainment, and historical displays.
The event was originally started to mark Teneriffe becoming a suburb again in its own right. This was after 150 years and it showcased the rich heritage […]
22nd June 2019
This suburb’s crime past…
New Farm hasn’t always been the suburb that rates a nine out of 10 for tranquillity.
Go back 30 or more years and the reaction was likely to be, “New Farm? Why on earth would you want to live there?”
What they really meant of course was, “What about the unsavoury characters, […]
25th May 2019
Once upon a time, a grand house named Dara stood overlooking Fortitude Valley just across from All Hallows School.
The account of Dara and how the site became known as Cathedral Place will be the subject of our post-election meeting in May.The guest speaker will be Archdiocesan Archivist, Fr Denis Martin, author of the […]
How did the many corner shops and businesses in New Farm (pre-supermarkets) survive?
It was a very different time when people walked to the shop, the butcher, the chemist, the doctor, the church …….
To keep this project manageable, we will concentrate on corner stores and butcher shops, but if you have other relevant stories to share, […]
27th April 2019
FOR our meeting closest to Anzac Day, we have invited Associate Professor Martin Crotty to talk about those returning home from war.
We often hear about the battles fought and lives lost in the great wars, but we do not often think about how returnees adjusted to life at home.
Come to meet Martin on […]
23rd March 2019
How many ghosts does your house have?
What kind of characters owned your property since it was built in 1895? Your house was once divided up into how many flats?!
These are some of the many questions which have been asked of Emma and husband Andrew in the years that they’ve been living in one […]
by Ross Garnett
Renovating an old house can present many challenges and surprises.
When we renovated some 30 years back, our ‘surprise’ was the amount of oily soot that fell when we removed the sheeting off the ceiling – soot from many years of the Powerhouse billowing out smoke!
However, we didn’t find anything interesting as […]
