Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

War Memorial and Gates, Leslie Park, Warwick, 1946

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[Note the original photo caption dated this as 1936 but is probably 1946.]

Leslie Park in Warwick is one half of a recreation reserve allocated during the first survey of the town in 1849. While the northern section has now been largely built upon, the southern section remains a public park. It was named Leslie Park in 1901, honouring the Leslie brothers; Patrick, George and Walter who established Queensland’s earliest pastoral runs on the Darling Downs in 1840. The park comprises a number of significant elements: the pathways, dating to at least 1867, a croquet club (1906), lawn bowls club (1909), Morgan Memorial (1911), War Memorial (1923), War Memorial Gates (1925), war trophy guns (relocated to Warwick 1921) and the Leslie Centenary Memorial Gates (1941).

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 27075

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Telegram from Prime Minister W M Hughes to the Commissioner for Police regarding being assaulted during a public meeting at Warwick and the refusal of the police to arrest the ring leaders, 29 November 1917

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On 29 November 1917, Prime Minister Billy Hughes made a speech at Warwick railway station during his campaign for the plebiscite on conscription. During the speech an egg was thrown at Hughes. He ordered a local police officer Sergeant Kenny to arrest the suspect, but Kenny refused. The “egg throwing incident” led to the formation of the Commonwealth Police, now the Australian Federal Police.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 2801

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Gracemere Lagoon, Rockhampton, c 1897

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Morning Bulletin
6 February 1893

UNPRECEDENTED RAINS AT STANWELL.

The weather on Saturday in Rockhampton was very hot and muggy, and in the evening there occurred one of the longest thunderstorms ever experienced in the town. The rainfall, however, was not extraordinary, the register for the twenty-four hours ended at nine o’clock yesterday morning being only 4.24 in. But in the Gracemere, Malchi, and Stanwell districts unparalleled weather was experienced. The storm seems to have broken over the districts early on Saturday morning, and the rainfall may without exaggeration be compared to a waterspout. The information to hand is as yet meagre. A gentleman who was in town on Saturday stated that Gracemere Lagoon was higher than has been known for years, and at the time he left had risen 2 ft. since the early morning. At Malchi, a few miles further along the line, the waters reached

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Toowoomba Railway Station Signal Cabin A, 1993

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

Associated with signalling and safeworking in the Toowoomba yard is the A signal cabin, taken out of use mid 1993. This cabin possibly dates from the 1920’s. The cabin interior is still intact, and includes signal levers, safeworking instruments and Toowoomba yard diagram. Associated with this structure are the now dismantled semaphore signals from the signal gantry.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 27063

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Housing Commission Estate, Inala, September 1953

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The tiny township of Serviceton was selected in 1946 by the Serviceton Co-operative Society for development to help meet the shortage of post-war housing. The Society purchased 850 acres of land which was taken over by the Queensland Housing Commission in 1950, to which it added another 200 acres. The area was renamed Inala in 1953 to avoid confusion with the town of Serviceton in South Australia.

Inala was planned as a satellite town of Brisbane and houses were largely Modernist Revival style with elements of Art Deco.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 4896

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