Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Toll Bar Road, Brisbane to Toowoomba, c 1934

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP.

ON TOLL BAR ROAD.

TOOWOOMBA SENSATION.

TOOWOOMBA, Nov. 30. – After barricading the Toll Bar-road at one of its steepest sections a masked man attempted to hold up the driver of a motor-truck last night, but the driver of the truck accelerated and escaped.

According to the police report, Stanley Poore was driving a truck down the Toll Bar-raod about 9.15 p.m. When taking a bend Poore saw a number of saplings and rails lying on the road. As he approached the obstacles he applied the brakes.

A man with a black handkerchied over his face rushed from behind an embankment with a large stone in his hand and shouted that the truck should be stopped. At the same time another man came towards the truck from the other side of the road.

Poore accelerated and drove straight at the man who was standing on the road in front

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Picnic Point Lookout, Main Range, Toowoomba, c 1931

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Picnic Point.

By “CANNIE.”

WHAT thoughts of care-free happiness one associates with Picnic Point, especially Toowoomba children who have enjoyed a day’s holiday there. There are the slides they have had on the sledges, and the laughter and scrambling when one of the sledges somersaulted with its occupants, and the panting and puffing to gain the top for just one more slide.

Picnic Point is situated at the top of the Toowoomba Range, overlooking the Toll Bar Road, with its numerous twists and turns. From the look-out there is a wonderful view of hills and valleys, sometimes basking in the bright sunshine which helps to reveal a track leading to some unvisited waterhole. But sometimes they are covered with mists, and Table Top, with its mantle of whiteness, appears as a stately mountain crowned with purity and honour. The mists come and go in an instant, but in

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Mt Beerwah 1760 Ft, from Coonowrin, 23 March 1894

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

LIVES RISKED IN NIGHT RESCUE

Hazardous Feat in Rain on Mt. Beerwah

Struggling up the precipitous face of Beerwah Mountain in pitch darkness and driving rain, three residents of Glass House Mountains rescued two men who had been stranded at the top of the 1700-foot peak last week.

So slippery were the rock faces that the rescuers – Messrs. B. Croning, R. McCosker, and H. McCosker – had to climb in bare feet. Had any man lost his footing on the ledges he would have fallen a sheer 300 feet to the rocks below.

At 10 a.m. on Sunday two men arrived by car from Cooroy, and climbed Beerwah Mountain, one of several peaks in the Glasshouse group.

Apparently on arriving at the summit they were unable to find their way down again. As there is only one practicable way up the peak, they were forced to stay where they

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Enoggera, Brisbane water supply. No 369, c.1894

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STATE FOREST AT ENOGGERA

No Pollution Of Water Supply

The City Council proposes to agree to the request of the Queensland Forest Service to gazette the Enoggera water reserve as a State forest.

Departmental officers have advised the Lord Mayor (Alderman Jones) that no disabilities would result from the proposal, as, whatever forestry operations were carried out, steps would be taken to ensure that there would be no pollution of the water supply. The council will retain its rights over the reserve.

The Forest Service has now notified the council that it is proposed to gazette the area shortly as a State forest, with the exception of the lake and a fringe of country two chains wide surrounding it, which will be retained as a water reserve.

The water and sewerage committee decided on Saturday to recommend that the area round the water reserve should be increased from two to

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Toowoomba at the time of the opening of the railway from Ipswich, c1865

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Rail in Queensland

Rail transport has been very important to the economic development of Queensland.

The first section of railway opened between Ipswich and Bigge’s Camp on 31 July 1865. A railway gauge of 3 feet 6 inches was chosen. This was one of the earliest uses of such a narrow gauge for a public railway. It was cheaper to build and the government had little financial resources.

The railways in Queensland stretched from coastal ports inland. This allowed the transport of farming produce for export. These goods were important for our economy. In 1865 it took a dray load of wool about seven days to travel from Toowoomba to Ipswich. When the railway reached Toowoomba in 1867 it reduced the same journey to only five hours.

Queensland State Archives Image ID 3387

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