28th November 2020
WHEN you build a town on a floodplain, you must be prepared for it to flood. That is the proposition underlying Dr Margaret Cook’s popular book, A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods.
Margaret, a history lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, is to be the guest speaker […]
HEAR all about the McWhirters era when writer Melissa Fagan is the guest speaker at the coming October meeting of the New Farm & Districts Historical Society.
Join us for the live cast on Saturday, 24 October 2-4pm at the Merthyr Road Uniting Church Centre. All Covid precautions will apply. Entry is $5 ($4 for members).
You may […]
President’s Report | Ross Garnett
After a successful hybrid meeting in August, and a recorded meeting in September, the committee has engaged Synergy Video to record the next two meetings and have them loaded onto our website so they can be viewed by anyone […]
Here’s your chance to revisit the McWhirters era when writer Melissa Fagan addresses the October meeting of the New Farm and Districts Historical Society.
Melissa is a great-great-granddaughter of the enterprising Scottish draper, James McWhirter, who founded this retailing icon of Fortitude Valley in 1898.
“I will be delighted to relate some of the discoveries I […]
26th Sept 2020
Hoadley, MacRobertson and Sweetacres!
They were once household names for kids of the baby-boomer generation — so we are pleased to announce that the “Sweet history of lollies” is to be the subject of our meeting on Saturday 26 September at Merthyr Road Uniting Church Centre.
Join Dr Toni Risson, historian and world expert on lollies, […]
Well ahead of the start time, the hall at Merthyr Road was ready for attendees to be suitably physically distanced.
By 2pm, around 40 members were seated. The two cameras were rolling, thus enabling anyone anywhere to log in so as to hear Jill Barker’s fascinating talk about “The Japanese House in New Farm”. Listeners also […]
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, […]
