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Looking towards South Brisbane from Brisbane City. The new Victoria Bridge opened in 1969 and the old one is being demolished.
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Mackay Post Office, c 1971
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The Mackay Post Office was designed by the Colonial Architect, Francis Stanley, and built in 1883. It was extensively remodelled in 1938 to “an understated art deco style”.
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Garden City, Mount Gravatt, Brisbane, c 1971
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Mount Gravatt hill was named in 1840 after Lieutenant George Gravatt who was the commander of the Moreton Bay Settlement in 1839.
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War Memorial, Longreach, February 1974
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The War Memorial is a stone obelisk in Anzac Memorial Park. It records the names of 51 fallen and 88 returned from the First World War.
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Civic Centre, Longreach, February 1974
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Longreach Civic Centre was owned by the then Shire of Longreach, now Longreach Regional Council.
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Court House and Government Offices, Longreach, February 1974
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The Longreach Courthouse was built in 1960, replacing an earlier building dating from 1891.
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Railway bridge, Isaac River, Moranbah, c 1971
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The new bridge over the Isaac River built as part of the Goonyella rail system which opened in 1971.
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Lindeman Island, c 1971
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Lindeman Island was named by Captain Bedwell after his sub-lieutenant, George Sidney Lindeman whilst aboard the Royal Navy vessel HMS Virago during survey work of the Queensland coast in 1870.
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Bee keeping at Nambour State Rural School, 1946
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Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser
12 December 1947
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE IN PRACTICE – Author of State Rural Schools Recounts First Opening at Nambour
Particularly opportune was the visit among other University College and Education Department officials, of Mr. J. D. Story (former Public Service Commissioner) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland to Nambour on Friday last on the occasion of the Second Field Day of the Agricultural Junior Section of the Nambour Rural and High School. Mr. Story was Under-Secretary for Education in 1917 when the first rural school in Queensland as an experiment at Nambour was established. The project was regarded as something entirely new, an innovation, an experiment received coldly in various quarters, but the Government of the day saw in it possibilities, and Mr. Story was given the order to carry on. This was unfolded by the speaker in the course of an
Charles Morrison Pickering's certificate of qualification to apply for land, 14 July 1919
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Charles Morrison Pickering was a Brisbane tram driver who joined the Australian Imperial Force on 28 August 1914. He served as a gunner and driver with 7th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, rising to the rank of Staff Sergeant in 1917. He returned to Australia in September 1918 and was discharged in June 1919. He became one of the first soldier settlers at The Gap and and became a dairy farmer.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 22532