News and other stories about real people, places, and events in Fortitude Valley and nearby suburbs.
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The Burdekin Bridge spans the Burdekin River between Ayr and Home Hill. It is 1,097 metres (3,600 ft) long, only 46 metres shorter than the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Construction commenced in 1947 and took 10 years to complete. In 2010 it was recognised as a National Engineering Heritage Landmark.
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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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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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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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Longreach Civic Centre was owned by the then Shire of Longreach, now Longreach Regional Council.
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The Longreach Courthouse was built in 1960, replacing an earlier building dating from 1891.
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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 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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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
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Morning Bulletin
15 December 1886
VAGRANCY.
Thomas Clancy, on remand, was charged under the Vagrant Act, with having no lawful visible means of support. This case was remanded from yesterday, when the defendant pleaded not guilty. Inspector Stuart conducted the examination.–John Dolin, police constable, deponed : I know thc deceased ; I have known him for eighteen months ; on the 11th instant, about 11 p.m., I arrested him in East-street, and charged him with vagrancy ; for the last eighteen months I have known him to be at no business, and to have had no occupation ; I heard he had been working for about three weeks ; that was eight weeks ago ; I have constantly seen him, and at all hours of the night, and until one or two o’clock in the morning ; he was then in company with other larrikins ; I have