28th March 2020
Here’s something very different for the meeting of the New Farm & Districts Historical Society on Saturday 28 March.
Come to enjoy an historic film in an historic theatre.
The main event is the 1940 classic comedy ‘Dad Rudd M.P.’ which includes familiar themes:
WELCOME everyone to the new year and betrust it is set to be a great one for you.
We’re just a century ahead of the Roaring Twenties when the kinds of inventions that began shaping America included the car, aeroplane, washing machine, radio, assembly line, refrigerator, garbage disposal, electric razor, instant camera, jukebox and television.
After so […]
22nd February 2020
Mrs Lores Bonney, wife of Harry Bonney, a wealthy leather goods manufacturer, appears a to have led a fairly conventional life in their comfortable home in Jordan Terrace, Bowen Hills— until she met her husband’s cousin, Bert Hinkler.
The year was 1928 and Bert had just landed at Eagle Farm after the […]
Jim MacDonald
They plodded the streets of New Farm moving the goods that we needed and consumed on a continual basis.
I particularly remember them working through the World War II era. The nation was desperately short of petrol because it all came from overseas and there was a massive demand for it to keep army, navy […]
WHAT a year! We have celebrated our 25 years with attendances of over 100 for most of the 10 meetings, four of them over 140!
We know that this area has a long and interesting history (by Queensland standards) and these attendances are proof of the interest in learning more about our past.
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23rd November 2019
Jacarandas are pictured in bloom at Sir Samuel Griffith’s grand residence, Merthyr, which had frontages to Moray Street (between Merthyr and Sydney Sts) and the river.
The man who was to be twice Premier, then Chief Justice of Queensland, arrived in Queensland in the 1850s. He was responsible for important social and legal reforms.
To […]
5 October 2019
Gerard will conduct an Historical Walk around Teneriffe on Saturday, 5 October, 9-11.30am.
Meet from 8.30 onwards at Dot210 Cafe at 53 Vernon Terrace.
It will include a look inside a wool store, a leisurely climb to the heights of Teneriffe Hill, a mini bush walk, and a survey of the Submariners Heritage Walk, plus […]
26th October 2019
A new book entitled Brisbane Bricks by local authors Joanne Heath and Virginia Russell has had people looking afresh at an astonishing variety of the city’s landmarks.
Joanne and Virginia will be the guest speakers at the October meeting of the New Farm and Districts Historical Society.
Virginia, a former Sydney architect, thought that most […]
In April 1933, a cocktail party was held at “Montana” in Jordan Terrace, Bowen Hills. Hosting the event was Maude ‘Lores’ Bonney and her husband Harry. Its aim was to give Mrs Bonney an opportunity of saying au revoir to her friends prior to her epic flight to England.
Among the guests were Captain and […]
28th September 2019
But for urban renewal in Teneriffe, the pleasing lines of buildings such as the London Woolstore (pictured above) may have been reduced to rubble.
The 1991 federal government initiative “Building Better Cities” prompted the creation of the Urban Renewal Task Force in Brisbane.
“It coincided with the city fathers wanting to find the buzz […]
