22nd Aug 2020
OUR FIRST PUBLIC MEETING post-COVID isolation.
Jill Barker will share information about the Japanese House in New Farm. This remarkable residence was pre-fabricated in Japan in 1886 and re-erected in New Farm (see “From Japan to New Farm”, May newsletter).
I am sure that you will […]
THAT is the question we have been asked many times! Our lives have been so different since March when we sadly saw the need to cancel our planned Old Time Movies event.
After that, the restrictions meant no meetings.
Now, with restrictions easing, we have planned a new way to continue sharing our interest in local history. […]
WELCOME to our second ‘isolation’ newsletter.
I am wondering what effect this period of enforced change of pace is having on your life and your emotions. This is an extraordinary phase in our history and maybe we should be recording its effect on life in New Farm for our archives.
Why not send/email […]
A Queensland judge recuperating in Japan so appreciated the coolness and utility of the house in which he stayed, that he decided to buy one — and ship it back to Brisbane.
Within the year, three carpenters and two plasterers from Japan arrived to assemble the flatpack. This was brave of them since in those times, […]
I am writing this on April Fool’s Day, but there are no tricks in this message!
It seems as if history is repeating itself—a pandemic just 101 years after the Spanish Flu contagion of 1919.
Luckily, we are in a very different world. We understand more about how diseases are spread; we live healthy lives, and are […]
Putting an historical edge on a leisurely walk around Kangaroo Point will be a breeze with this new edition of the Kangaroo Point Heritage Walk booklet.
The well-illustrated 90-page volume will guide you on a two-hour amble around the locality’s heritage buildings and places.
You will not only glean important facts but also be charmed by the […]
Considering the pandemic situation, I am sure that it will come as the increasing gravity of the no surprise to hear that the committee, after carefully considering the implications of holding the cinema event on 28 March, has decided that it would be wiser to cancel the gathering.
Deliberations have been based on […]
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 […]
