Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Charleville War Memorial Cenotaph, 1991

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

The Charleville War Memorial was unveiled on October 9 1924 by the Queensland Governor Sir Matthew Nathan. It is thought to have been designed by George Brockwell Gill and cost £1000. The predominantly marble memorial honours the 310 local men who served in the First World War, including the 40 fallen.

The memorial was ‘Erected by the citizens of Charleville and district, and Charleville sub-branch of the Returned Services League’. The cast iron fence was subsequently erected some time between 1925 and 1933.

In 1864, the Queensland Government Gazette proclaimed the boundaries of the Warrego Pastoral District. This followed the arrival of farmers from New South Wales in search of sheep runs on the Upper Warrego. The town of Charleville was gazetted in 1868 and laid out by government surveyor W A Tully in the usual grid form, allowing for the roads to

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Architectural drawing of the proposed Hospital, Charleville, 24 October 1884

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The first Charleville hospital was opened in 1885. A contract for a new brick building was signed in 1937 and the building was completed in 1942 at a cost of £47,665. It was temporarily operated by the United States Army until January 1943.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 20808

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Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 16 October 1894

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The City Botanic Gardens (formerly the Brisbane Botanic Gardens) is a heritage-listed botanic garden on Alice Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was also known as Queen’s Park. It is located on Gardens Point in the Brisbane CBD and is bordered by the Brisbane River, Alice Street, George Street, Parliament House and Queensland University of Technology’s Gardens Point campus.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 3923

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Watercolour Crime Scene Map, 1928

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Truth, 28 February 1928

Pretty Girl Shot Dead – Man in Living Tomb

“It was a veritable sylvan glade in which the girl’s murdered body was found, in surroundings dedicated to the elves, fairies and the spirits of the trees, with a rippling brook tricking past a sward of rich green fringed and touched with colour by flowering lantana bushes.

It was here that Reginal Vaughan chose to end the life of the girl he loved – into this peaceful have he drove her in a motor car, his brain unbalanced. As the rays of the headlights shot across the sylvan landscape a cloud was descending upon his mind, which soon was to travel down the lanes of darkness.

The car sped on. Presently it stopped and the two lovers sat on the running board. Then Vaughan shot Cecilia – shot her dead.

What they talked of on that fatal

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