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The “Let Courtesy Reign on the Queen’s Highway” slogan was used to coincide with the 1954 Royal tour. It was adapted from a campaign used by London Transport for the 1953 coronation.
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The Queensland Housing Commission developed this area of Chermside in the early 1950s. A small portion of land was set aside for these shops, built c 1953 to serve the new housing development.
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Tom Barton, Jim Elder, Tony McGrady, Peter Beattie, Ken McElligott; David Hamill, Ken Hayward, Wendy Edmond, Paul Braddy, Glen Miller, Ken Davis, Terry Mackenroth; Bob Gibbs, Keith De Lacy, Leneen Forde, Wayne Goss, Tom Burns, Margaret Woodgate.
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The 1,148 t suction dredger Echeneis was built by Walkers Ltd of Maryborough in 1953 and operated by the Queensland Department of Harbours and Marine. She was scuttled near Tangalooma, Moreton Island on 22 June 1984.
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The Courier-Mail
14 April 1952
WHOPPER CAUGHT IN THE BAY
A 20 ft. 2000lb, sawfish was caught in Moreton Bay about a mile on the Bribie side of Redcliffe jetty, at .10.30 a.m. yesterday.
It was not caught by a big-game fisher man— 14 .303 bullets
fired from a trawler killed the monster after it had attacked and ruined the trawler’s £200 prawn net.
The trawler, the 72ft. Nanango, is owned by commercial prawner, Mr. M. Drinan, of Woody Point.
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From the Queensland Heritage Register.
This building was constructed in two stages. The three-storeyed William Street section was erected by the colonial Queensland Government between 1876 and 1879, as the first purpose-built home for the Queensland Museum, which had been established in 1855. The four-storeyed extension was erected in 1958-59 as the Queensland Government’s major centennial project.
In 1876 the design for the first section was completed under the supervision of colonial architect FDG Stanley, and a construction contract for £10,701 was let to W Macfarlane. The building was erected as stage one of a complex which was to incorporate two flanking wings housing the main staircases, and an arcade and colonnade fronting the river.
The choice of a classical style of architecture, modelled on 16th century Italian buildings and its central location close to the city’s southern entrance, reflected the museum’s importance in the scientific and cultural
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No.1041 Bardon Infants State School No.1041 opened in 1948 and by about 1958 the School had become Bardon State School.
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Queensland State Archives Item ID435663, Photographic material
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Whites Hill State School opened on 28 January 1958 and closed in December 2002 to merge with Camp Hill State High School and Xavier Special School to become Whites Hill State College.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435663, Photographic material