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                  JOURNAL
VOLUME 32 No. 1

                  Windsor & Districts’
                  Historical Society Inc.
                  servicing the old Windsor Town Council areas
                  of Albion, Alderley, Bowen Bridge, Eagle
                  Junction*, Eildon, Grange, Kalinga, Kedron*,
                  Lutwyche, Maida Hill, Newmarket*, Wilston,
                  Wooloowin and now extended to cover
                  Gordon Park and Herston. *part of this suburb.
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NEXT MEETING
   4 p.m. 23 February
        Our next Guest Speak-        Brisbane, she decided to cre-
er is Kaye Mobsby. She has           ate a page to encompass the
been a long time collector of        whole of Queensland in June
vintage family photos due to         2013. Kaye began using her
her interest in family history       own photographs and those
which began in the 1980s.            from the State Library and
        She inherited a large        now sources them from many
collection of vintage Aus-           different online sites.              In the next issue:
tralian photographs which                    She now digitally col-       * Windsor at War
she began sharing publicly           lects a lot of her photos from       * Blackall Bridge
through Trove eight years            ebay.                                * Wilmar House
ago.                                         She also contributes         * Kedron Brook Country
        A relative was one of        soldier portraits to the Nation-     * Ploughing Match - 1869
Queensland’s earliest photog-        al Archives site called Discov-      * The Grange
                                     ering Anzacs to honour our           * Photo Page
raphers and cinematographers
                                     WW1 veterans.                        * Holloways Pills
and she published his biog-
                                                                          * War Games - 1895
raphy in 2017. His name was                  It will be a most inter-
                                                                          * Illusions
Henry William Mobsby.                esting talk. Invite your friends
                                                                          * Complaints
        After enjoying the           and neighbours to come along         * Tram Lines
facebook page called Lost            - they will be welcomed.

                                                                               JOURNAL
                                                                          Volume 32 Number 2
                                                                             February 2020
                                                                           Recent issues are viewable at the
                                                                                 National Library of
                                                                                 Australia, Canberra,
                                                                             State Library of Queensland
                                                                                    and on line at
                                                                          www.windsorhistorical.org.au
                                                                           Archive available at Windsor &
                                                                           Districts Historical Society Inc.
                                                                          Old Windsor Council Chambers,
                                                                              Lutwyche Road, Windsor.
                                                                        Much of the historical material used was
                                                                             found at Trove Newspapers,
                                                                            National Library of Australia
                                                                         51,326 lines of text corrected so far

                                                                        Circulation Manager: Gem Cowlishaw
                                                                              Proof Readers: Judy Willis
                                                                                  and Rosalie Raciti.
Link to her Flickr albums:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/          Co-incidence: Recently we had    Production costs donated by the editor.
hwmobs/albums                          two visitors to the Chambers            Produced and Edited
                                                                              by David Teague, B. Ed.
Link to over 8,000 of her photos       that were born on the same day                Life Member.
currently available through Trove:     eighty years ago at the Grange       Delivered by e-mail to members.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/picture/      Private Hospital.                       Print version courtesy of
result?q=aussie+mobs                                                              Trevor Evans, M.P.

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2/- a bottle
                                                                                                                              CONCRETE CALIFORNIAN POPPY

          HAIR OIL
                                                                                                                                    2/9 a jar
                                                                                                                              YARDLEY’S CONCRETE
                                                                                                                                    BRILLIANTINE 2/9 a jar
                                                                                                                              CAPPI & FAUSTA CONCRETE
                                                                                                                                    BRILLIANTINE 2/6 a jar
                                                                                                                              VERMAL LIQUID 2/3 a bottle
                                                                                                                              VERMAL CREAM 2/- a tube
         History records that men                      the Emperor of Russia. Often a dye                                     PIVER’S CRYSTALISED
                                                                                                                                    BRILLIANTINE 2/6 a jar
have used a wide range of substanc-                    was added to the product.                                              THREE FLOWERS BRILLIANTINE
es to keep their hair neat and tidy.                            Macassar Oil was being                                              4/6 a jar
                                                                                                                              LIME, CREAM & GLYCERINE
         Roman soldiers used bear                      advertised and supplied by drug-                                             1/6 a bottle
fat to groom their hair: sailors of-                   gists in Queensland around the mid-                                    R. & G. BRILLIANTINE 1/9 a bottle
ten used pitch to form their hair in                   1850s. It became very popular but it                             In 1928 a British hair cream
pigtails. Over the years various sub-                  was sticky and soon began smear-                      was created by County Chemicals in
stances such as fat, lard, lanolin, pe-                ing the backs of plush chairs. This                   Birmingham. It was an emulsion of
troleum jelly and beeswax have been                    was solved by placing a piece of                      water and mineral oil with the ad-
used.                                                  cloth - some plain; some elaborately                  dition of beeswax. It was originally
         The French made hair prod-                    crocheted - on the top of the chairs.                 supplied to barbers but soon became
ucts called pomades which had stiff-                   This became known as an anti-ma-                      know to the public as Brylcream.
ening properties enabling elaborate                    cassar and it was still used well into                It was responsible for the clean
hair styles. Some people avoided the                   the twentieth century after the use of                cut, groomed look in the 1930s and
problems of growing hair by cutting                    macassar oil had declined.                            1940s. In fact some of the RAF in
it off and wearing wigs.                                        Another hair preparation                     World War 11 became known as the
                                                       was called Brilliantine. It was a                     Brylcream Boys due to their pol-
                                                       perfumed oily liquid which softened                   ished looks. Sales boomed in the
                                                       hair and beards and gave a glossy                     1950s but diminished with the long
                                                       appearance. It could contain castor                   haired looks of the next decades.
                                                       oil, lanolin, alcohol, herb extracts                            It was claimed to give hair
                                                       and glycerin.                                         its rightful lustre, check dandruff and
                                                                One of the popular varie-                    promote hair health.
                                                       ties of brilliantine was Californian
                                                       Poppy oil. It had a distinct aroma.
                                          1910 Advertisement

                                                                                                                     An Australian product of the
                                                                                                             fifties was Spruso. It was largely
                                                               The next major discovery                      based on petroleum jelly and had an
                                                       was petroleum jelly (often called                     amber colour with a logo based on a
                                                       mineral oil in formulas) refined and                   map of Australia and the word Spru-
                                                       patented by Robert Cheeseborough                      so. It was manufactured in Redfern,
                                                       in 1872 and often sold as Vaseline.                   Sydney.
                                                               It soon was used for a whole
        In the early 1800s, a Lon-                     range of medical treatments includ-
don barber, Alexander Rowland                          ing hair grooming. It was often
                                                       combined with beeswax and other
                                                                                                Researched by David Teague.

developed a product which he used
for shorter hair and beards. It was                    ingredients to form other hair care
called Macassar Oil. It was a thick                    formulations.
concoction of palm and coconut and                             An advertisement in a
ylang-ylang oils. Often fragrant oils                  Queensland paper in 1925 listed a
were added also. This product was                      whole range brillantine products:
                                                                 LUXURIOUS HAIR DRESSINGS
endorsed by none other than the                                 MAKES THE HAIR STAY COMBED
Princess of Wales, Duchess of York                             SHINGALINE 2/6 a bottle
                                                               STACOMB 2/6 a tube
and the Duchess of Sussex as well as                           LIQUID CALIFORNIAN POPPY
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shoulder high. Enoggera Reservoir

              1931 FLOOD
                                                                                                   they blame for the difficulty, assert-
                                                                                                   ing that previous floods have gener-
                                                                                                   ally been the result of water being
                                                                                                   let go from the reservoir. Wednesday
                                                                                                   night’s overflow and yesterday’s high
        This flood has been covered            drowned, and bedraggled survivors                    tide, swollen by the water drained
in part in previous issues: August            huddled in the backyards on higher                   into Breakfast Creek, combined to
2015 - Floods: Breakfast Creek So-            ground. Good work was done by sev-                   make the Swan Hill flood the worst
lution? and May 2016: Water, Wa-              eral heavy dray horses, which car-                   since ‘93.
ter                                           ried out many women and children                                HELD UP.
                                              before the water became so deep that                         Railway Services.
     ROOF-HIGH.
                                              only boats could be used. Even the
   Water at Swan Hill.                        yards of homes built along the main                        MAYNE SUBMERGED.
 RESERVOIR BLAMED.                            road were feet deep in water.                                  Through the breaking down
         Swan Hill, just past the Bo-                  The task of the rescuers was                of the train services between Bris-
wen Bridge, suffered most yesterday,          made more difficult by the presence                   bane and Sandgate, Pinkenba and
and feeling ran high among homeless           of aged and sick persons in many                     Enoggera late yesterday afternoon
residents, who attributed their plight        homes, and the aid of the ambulance                  from 6000 to 7000 persons, who
to the overflow of the Enoggera Res-           had to be sought to ensure their safe                customarily used the trains, had to
ervoir. Throughout the day rescue             removal. Two men, who, misjudging                    seek other means of reaching their
work proceeded, and hundreds of               the strength of the current, attempted               homes.
families were billeted with residents         to swim to a rescue boat, narrowly es-                         The waters of Breakfast
on higher ground.                             caped drowning. George-street* and                   Creek over-flowed into the great rail-
                                                                                   *now Northey Street
         It was a pitiable spectacle          Cullin-street had the worst time, and                way yards, and covered the suburban
yesterday afternoon. The big pocket           Nicholas-street, Victoria-street, and                lines which converge at Mayne Junc-
bounded by Breakfast Creek and Bo-            Taylor-street are others in which the                tion, the electro-pneumatic interlock-
wen Bridge-road was a sheet of wa-            houses were completely swamped.                      ing gear which controls the junction
ter, house-deep. By 4.30 o’clock in           The extent of the flooding astounded                  traffic was put out of action, and the
the afternoon few homes remained              the residents. Many complained bit-                  continuance of the services had to
tenanted, and water was creeping              terly that they were not warned in                   be abandoned. In many parts of the
above the eaves. The water was                time.                                                South-eastern division the railway
strewn with debris, and out-build-                     When the Enoggera Res-                      services had to be either cancelled or
ings either leaned drunkenly on their         ervoir overflowed on Wednesday                        reduced yesterday.
stumps, or, overturned, had vanished          night a midnight alarm was given at                            Many persons remained in
completely, A child’s rocking chair,          Swan Hill, but many declared that                    town, and some of the employers al-
in the shape of a goose, floated pa-           the first intimation they had of their                lowed their hands to remain on the
thetically among the roof tops. In            danger was yesterday morning, and                    premises for the night. In the after-
this district scores of fowls were            in some places the water was then                    noon practically every line in the
                                                                                                   Brisbane district, with the exception
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of the main line to Toowoomba and         home. Taxis did a roaring trade,
Wallangarra, was in a more or less        and the ‘buses were crowded to the
flooded state. In many cases the rail-     steps. Some of those residing in the
ways were submerged to a consid-          nearer suburbs went by tram; others
erable depth, and the latest advices      walked, many of the residents in the
are that the waters are rising. At one    outer suburbs, including Mitchelton
stage last evening it was feared that     and Sandgate, experienced much
it would be necessary to curtail or       difficulty in getting home, and many
abandon the suburban services on the      took tea at an unconscionably late
main line to Ipswich and on to Manly      hour. A train travelling to Enoggera
and Cleveland, but it was found pos-      was the only one actually blocked at     homes at Swan Hill were practically
sible to carry on.                        Mayne. Another train was stopped at      submerged.
         There will be no services        Bowen Hills, and sent back to Bruns-                 The sheds, stores, and
between Brisbane and Mitchelton,          wick-street. The others scheduled to     workshops of Hornibrook’s, Crouch
Pinkenba, and Sandgate this morning.      leave Central were cancelled.            and Connah, and Campbell’s were
                                                                                   all awash, and empty casks, loos-
They will be resumed at the earliest             ON RAFTS.                         ened by the current from open sheds,
possible moment. In the meantime,
however, there will be no interrup-
                                               FACTORY GIRLS                       floated towards the creek, but per-
tion in the services to Ipswich and in           RESCUED.                          haps the most forlorn of all was an
the Southern suburban time-tables.                 Two girls employed at           office table floating legs up.
                                          Campbell’s Soap Works, in Camp-                   At 8 o’clock in the morning
     ROLLING STOCK                        bell-street, Bowen Hills, had to be      the first signs of the coming inunda-
      THREATENED.                         ferried to the road on rough rafts       tion could be seen, but few thought
         At one period at Mayne           yesterday afternoon. “The waters         that the water would rise so quickly.
Junction yesterday the quickly rising     have never risen so rapidly,” said Mr    But rise it did, and by 2 o’clock the
waters threatened to seriously dam-       Malcolm Campbell. Mr Campbell            water was only 40ft from the level
age the big reserve of rolling stock      was in bathing costume at the time,      reached in the ‘93 flood.
marshalled in the yards, and at the       and with several of his employees                 Mr Campbell said that sev-
instruction of the Commissioner (Mr.      similarly attired had just completed     eral hundred pounds worth of dam-
J. W. Davidson), who personally su-       paddling the raft bearing two girls      age had been caused by water in the
pervised the work, a big staff of men     — Miss Winifred Jackson and Miss         factory building. He attributed the
entered upon the removal of the long      Edna Roy—across 100 yards of wa-         greater extent of the waters to the
lines of carriages from the sheds and     ter. The raft was a simple affair of     fact that land reclaimed at the Mayne
the locomotives to the Roma-street        several planks lashed together, and      railway yards reduced the size of the
yards. This work presented consider-      carrying an empty soap box. The          area which could be covered by the
able difficulties and some danger, for     passengers sat gingerly on the box,      water.
at times the men in handling the ve-      while the men, ranging themselves               The Brisbane Courier:
hicles were immersed to the armpits       around the craft, pushed it, either by              6 February 1931.
in the swirling waters. The hurried       wading or swimming as the depth
removal of the rolling stock lasted       demanded, from the factory to the
well into the night, but at a late hour   drive from Campbell-street.
it was reported to have been success-              From the Normanby-Mayne
fully completed.                          Junction railway line to Bowen
         For a long while before it       Bridge road was a great lake, the
became known that the trains had          mangroves along the bank of Break-
ceased to run to the northern and         fast Creek hiding the desolation on
eastern suburbs business people,          the other side of the road, where 400
homeward bound, made their way to
Central Station, and surged on to the        After arriving in Queensland
platforms seeking their trains. Some         from Scotland, Peter Mor-
of them sought to while away the             rison Campbell established a
time with song and joke, but, though         soap factory initially at Kan-
many persons remained for a consid-          garoo Point, before relocat-
erable time, the crowd of expectant          ing to Bowen Hills in 1881. It
prospective passengers gradually             was to remain there for more
dwindled to negligible proportions.          than a century producing
         Every means of locomo-              soaps and chemicals.
tion was employed in the return
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Hon. HEDLEY
                                                                                                    obtained a position as a clerk in the
                                                                                                    accountants’ branch of the General
                                                                                                    Post and Telegraph Office which he

   VICARS STRUTT
                                                                                                    held for two years and eight months.
                                                                                                              After the arrival of young
                                                                                                    Hilda, Elizabeth’s sister was des-
                                                                                                    patched from England to assist
         The Honourable Hedley                    A few days later on 7 No-                         her sister. Unfortunately Elizabeth
Vickers Strutt died suddenly on 22       vember Hedley and Elizabeth board-                         died on 15 March 1888. When the
January 1891 at the age of 26 at Croy-   ed the Shaw, Savill and Albion Com-                        word got back to London, Hedley’s
don, England. He was the youngest        pany’s s.s. Tainui for New Zealand.                        mother requested that he should re-
son of Lord Rayleigh. He was born        After a 43 day journey via Capetown                        turn home. On 23 January 1889 the
in 1864 in Essex and secretly mar-       and Hobart, they arrived at Dunedin                        R.M.S Taroba left Brisbane for
ried Elizabeth Knight on 30 Septem-      on 21 December 1885. The Tainui                            London. On board were Hedley,
ber 1885 in Devon. Elizabeth, born       was a veritable Noah’s Ark for on                          his daughter Hilda, his sister in law,
Godstone, Surrey, a nurse, was ten       board were about 2000 birds for the                        Fanny Knight. As well as some other
years older than Hedley and was suf-     Aclimatisation Society including                           passengers the cargo included 1516
fering from tuberculosis. With his       canaries, bullfinches, linnets, robins                      bales of wool.
will Hedley left these instructions:     and parrots. Included in the shipment                                By March he was admitted
                4th Nov. 85              were 100 hedgehogs. Unfortunately                          as a Member of the Stock Exchange
        When this will is opened         all but three died.                                        and carried on business. He resided
it will be discerned that I am                    It seems that the Strutts                         on the third floor of his mother’s
married if indeed it has not             were not happy in Dunedin for only                         house at 90 Onslow Gardens in Ken-
been found out before.                   seven days later they arrived in                           sington South. On Wednesday 21
        Only one person knows            Auckland on the s.s. Rotorua. After                        January he left work as usual and
the particulars of this marriage         being in Auckland for four months,
and if he is applied to he will                                                                     went down to Croydon to visit his
                                         the Strutts were on the move again.                        sister in law intending to return to 90
give therein as devised by me.           They boarded the Union Steamship
        The marriage was sol-                                                                       Onslow Gardens that night.
                                         Wairarapa on 22 April 1886 bound                                     After his arrival at Croydon
emnized in the church of the
Holy Trinity Exmouth Devon               for Sydney.                                                he began to experience severe pain
on 30th September 1885 by li-                     The couple arrived in Bris-                       in his head and giddiness. He died
cence.                                   bane on 7 May aboard the Rodondo                           at two o’clock the next morning as a
        My wife accompanies              and on 28 October 1886 a daughter                          result of a rupture of a blood vessel
me on board ship for New Zea-            was born at Stephen Street, South                          in the brain.
land so if the ship is lost we shall     Brisbane. An item in The Brisbane                                    He left behind his four year
                                                                             Researched by David Teague.

both go too. There is at present         Courier, 16 June 1887 reported that
no likelihood of our having                                                                         old daughter and an estate valued at
                                         Messrs White and Brennan, auction-                         £581 15s 3d. Hilda then became part
children but clauses have been           eers had disposed of Mr W. Pocock’s
inserted in case there should be                                                                    of Hedley’s older brother Charles’
                                         property on the Bowen Bridge Road,                         household.
any.
                Hedley Strutt            known as Rockton to the Hon. Hed-                                    So in under six years Hedley,
Apply to Hedley Vicars Taylor            ley Strutt at a satisfactory price.                        married, emigrated to New Zealand,
my cousin - he alone knows my            The remaining land was sold as the                         came to Brisbane, had a daughter,
motives etc etc                          Rockton Rise Estate in April 1888.                         wife died, returned to England and
                         HS                       In the meantime Hedley                            passed away himself.

Schoolboy Hedley Strutt, Hedley Strutt, Elizabeth Strutt, Hilda & Fanny Knight, Hilda Strutt
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the rapidly increasing value of met-
                                                                                     ropolitan suburban property, than the

   THISTLE ESTATE
                                                                                     Thistle Estate, Lutwyche. Auction
                                                                                     Sale, 1st August.
                                                                                     A. McNish .Fraser, 140 Queen-
                                                                                     street, Brisbane.
                                                                                                     The Brisbane Courier:
         The rapid strides which this     who buy now will consider 1st Au-                                   24 July 1885.
city is making are mainly due to the      gust, 1885, as a red-letter day in their
                                                                                              The Thistle Estate consisted of
immense tracts of back country that       lives. The terms of purchase are very
                                                                                     subdivision 3 of portion 6. Portion 6 was
are being opened up, and to the min-      favourable only one-quarter cash
                                                                                     originally purchased by Alexander Bar-
eral and other wealth of Queensland,      and the balance in bills at 6, 9, 12.      ron. See also Journal February 2018
which is attracting attention in all      and 16 months.                             Gordon Park Land Sales.
parts of the world. The present di-                Mr G. T. Bell (in conjunc-
mensions of Brisbane are every day        tion with Mr A. McNish Fraser) will                 Messrs G. T. Bell and Co.
becoming too small for its over-in-       be the auctioneer, and a first-rate         report a very successful sale of the
creasing population, and land during                                                 Thistle Estate on Saturday last.
the last twelve months has in many         * Estate entrance via Rose Lane           There was a very large attendance
cases doubled and trebled in value,                                                  and bidding fairly spirited. Seventy-
and many who purchased allotments                                                    six allotments were disposed of for
even three months ago have resold                                                    the total of £1964 10s. The balance
to great pecuniary advantage. Lut-                                                   will be for sale privately at the of-
wyche is one of the most favourably                                                  fice of Mr A. McNish Fraser, 149
situated suburbs of the metropolis,                                                  Queen-street, or at the office of the
being on the railway line and only                                                   auctioneers, George-street.
three miles from the heart of the                                                                    The Brisbane Courier:
city. There being frequent omnibus                                                                          4 August 1885.
as well as rail communication, men
engaged during the day in the toils
                                                                                      Rescued by a Boy Scout.
                                                                                              Last Tuesday afternoon
and anxieties of business are thus if
                                                                                     when going home from school, a
living at Lutwyche enabled to be at
                                                                                     party of eight boys went swimming
home in less than half-an-hour. The
                                                                                     in a creek at Thistle Estate, Windsor.
Thistle Estate, which is to be sold
                                                                                     One of them, Richard Reoch who
by auction in suitable allotments on
                                                                                     could not swim, dived into the creek
Saturday, 1st August, at 2.30 p.m., is
                                                                                     was carried by the current out of his
situated in the most favourable part
                                                                                     depth and got into difficulties. One
of Lutwyche, and has large front-
                                                                                     of the other boys seeing him strug-
ages to Kedron Brook, and many
                                                                                     gling in the water called out to Scout
prominent citizens are settled in the
                                                                                     Clifford Blair, who at that time was
immediate neighbourhood. The Ke-
                                          free luncheon by a well-known ca-          undressing. Blair hurriedly went to
dron Park Hotel, one of the best
                                          terer will be provided. As no intoxi-      Reoch’s rescue, and after a struggle
suburban houses, is less than five
                                          cating liquors will be supplied, ladies    got him to land. Here another lad as-
minutes’ walk from the Thistle Es-
                                          and gentleman may rely on the sale         sisted to get the boy out of the water.
tate, and good shops are available,
                                          being conducted in a thoroughly or-        Blair commenced artificial respira-
so that anyone settling on the Thistle
                                          derly manner and no attempt will           tion, and in a little while brought Re-
Estate will have every advantage in
                                          be made to induce inflated prices by        och round and saw him home. Scout
purchasing domestic supplies. The
                                          means of artificial stimulants. There       C. Blair is a member of the First
Kedron Park Recreation Grounds
                                          is no syndicate whatever in the mat-       Wilston Troop of Boy Scouts, and
are among the most attractive resorts
                                          ter, A. McNish Fraser being the sole       is 11 years of age. He received his
of Brisbane, and property such as
                                          proprietor of the Thistle Estate. Ti-      training in life saving in the Wilston
the Thistle Estate situated in that
                                          tle under the Real Property Act. No        Troop which has accomplished a
vicinity is sure to increase in value
                                          better opportunity of either profitable     great deal of Red Cross work and
by leaps and bounds. There is no oc-
                                          investment or of establishing a home       has for its motto “Let us fail in try-
casion to praise the Thistle Estate.
                                          has been or is likely to be offered to     ing to do something rather than sit
All that is asked is that the inhabit-
                                          the residents of Brisbane, or indeed       still and do nothing.”
ants of Brisbane, whether belonging
                                          to people from any parts of the colo-                      The Brisbane Courier:
to the sterner or fairer sex, will come                                                                  9 December 1916.
and judge for themselves, and those       nies who desire to take advantage of
    Windsor & Districts Historical Society Inc. JOURNAL - February 2020 - PAGE SEVEN
pense to be incurred in the erec-

                  TIFFIN’S
    COVER                                                                         tion of a building in accordance
    STORY                                                                         with either of those designs. Ugly

                 TROUBLES
                                                                                  to the ordinary observer, they are
                                                                                  to the cultivated eye architectural
                                                                                  anachronisms; and to the visitor at
                                                                                  Government House, there appears
         In November 2017’s JOUR-                                                 in both a striking family likeness
NAL was a story DARRAMA - DAR-                                                    to that distinguished edifice. At a
RIMA which outlined the story of a                                                glance, it is seen that the condi-
house on Newmarket Road and its                                                   tions of competition have been
owners. One was Charles Tiffin,                                                    rather widely departed from in
Queensland’s first government ar-                                                  the premier design: for instance,
chitect. This article mentions a few                                              the Ministers’ rooms do not open
of his troubles.                                                                  into the Assembly Chamber, and
                                                                                  the Speaker has one room upstairs
                                                                                  and another down; again, there
       The Moreton Bay Courier:                                                   is an inexcusable confusion in
          27 December 1859                                                        the arrangement of the openings
         One of his first tasks was to                                             into the chambers and offices, by
design and convert a wing of the                                                  which the public and hon. mem-
Court House for use as Parliament                                                 bers would get into a regular jum-
for the new government. It seems                                                  ble. But the portico and the dome!
he succeded in this task by the press                                             Is the author proud of the portico
report. The elections had been com-                                               and its disproportionate columns
pleted and it was ready for use.                                                  of bastard Corinthian? And would
         The Legislative Chambers          of the designs. The Editorial in The   he not be willing to leave out his
were, by dint of hard labour and un-       Brisbane Courier, 13 April 1864,
ceasing toil, made ready for the occa-
                                                                                  useless dome, for sake of erecting
                                           summed it all up.                      the main building for some fewer
sion, and, although redolent of var-
                                                   The Royal Commission,          thousands over the stipulated sum
nish, and having unmistakeable signs
of newness about them, they yet pre-       charged with the selection of a        of £20,000? We would wager our
sented a very creditable appearance.       design for the proposed new Par-       now goose-quill against a stick of
Indeed, any one who remembers the          liament Buildings, to be erected       Indian ink that he would be glad
wretched and meagre state of that          in Brisbane, sat yesterday, and        to do so. As for the second design,
wing of the courthouse a few months        awarded the prizes which had           we have only to observe that the
ago, and compares it with its present      been offered by Government for         perspective view shows an extra
neat and creditable aspect, cannot but     competition by the profession of       storey that does not appear on the
compliment the Colonial Architect          architects in this and the neighbor-
(Mr. Tiffin) upon the success which
                                                                                  geometrical elevation— a piece of
                                           ing colonies. In the hope of having    excellent patchwork altogether. If
has attended his efforts in the difficult
                                           in future opportunity to master the    the Government should carry ei-
task of “ transmogrification.”
       The Moreton Bay Courier:            details of the whole of the designs,   ther design into effect, we shall be
            24 May 1860                    we have heretofore abstained from      surprised. Perhaps we have said
         However by the time it came       offering any comment or criticism      enough of the designs altogether,
around to the planning and building        upon them; but after several in-       in having noticed those that have
of the permanent Parliament House          spections, during the allotted four    gained the prizes; but there are
Tiffin’s fortunes changed. In 1864,         days of their exhibition, we have      many amongst the others that
a Royal Commission was set up to           arrived at the conclusion that por-    have far higher, claims judged ac-
select a design for the new Parlia-        tion of the public admitted to it,     cording to the cannons of art, and
ment Building and a prize of £200          like ourselves, on sufferance, will    equal claims in respect of cost.
was offered for the best design with       not agree with the awards of the       Neither of the prize designs can
a further £100 offered for the next        Commission. The design bearing         be carried out for less than from
best design. When it was announced         the motto “ Concinnavi teete con-      £25,000 to £30,000, and then we
that Tiffin was awarded the first prize      ditiones asservo,” carries away        fear that cement or plaster would
and his assistant, Stanley, the other,     the £200 premium; and that in-         have to be used in lieu of legiti-
there was quite an uproar. Residents       scribed “ Pro rege, lege, et grege,”   mate stonework. We have an idea
claimed that he and Stanley should         the £100, or second premium. Let       that the design marked “ I Bide”
not have been paid the premium and         us say, briefly, that we think the      could be completed for less than
there was quite a deal of criticism        colony can well be spared the ex-      the larger sum mentioned; and it
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was one that, we happen to know,
was viewed with a good deal of ap-
probation by all observers. From
the local character given to the per-
spective view, we doubt not it is by a
local architect. We like it best of all,
though we will not deny that others
might stand as high if the question
of cost were not considered. Even
the Colonial Architect, in his Rusk-
inesque criticism upon the whole
collection of designs, published in
a contemporary, describes it as “ a
well-arranged plan.” Properly, he
praises the designs of “ Victoria”
and “ Subspe” but Mr. Tiffin’s mod-
esty would not let him say much in
praise of his own which has gained
the first premium, though he was            the two prize designs—were con-          President of the Council, a retired
less reserved with respect to that         tributed by Brisbane architects;         military officer; the Speaker of the
of his office colleague, Mr Stanley,        while, of the remainder, one was         Assembly, a squatter; the Hon. J.
who drew the second prize design.          remarkably like the prize de-            Bramston, a barrister; the Hon.
We congratulate the Government             sign for the Free Library in Mel-        D. F. Roberts, a solicitor; and Mr
upon possessing such talented offi-         bourne, and another conveyed an          C. Coxen, an amateur market gar-
cers, who have distanced their pro-        excellent idea of the intended now       dener; with the Clerk of the As-
fessional brethren in three colo-          Houses of Parliament in that city.       sembly as Secretary. If any one of
nies.                                      Whether this want of interest did        those gentlemen had the slightest
         The next day, 14 April, the       not partly arise from the impossi-       pretension to architectural skill or
Editor was at it again with another        bility of complying with the speci-      knowledge, he has carefully con-
editorial.                                 fied conditions, it is not easy to say.   cealed it up to the present time.
         We have been led into the         Not one of the plans exhibited was       Taking each of these gentlemen as
foregoing reflections by observ-            in accordance with those condi-          an architectural cypher, they un-
ing,—not with any very great sur-          tions, and the first premium seems        doubtedly did good service in rang-
prise,—that the first and second            to have been awarded to the motto        ing themselves on the right hand
premiums for the plans of the new          rather than to the design. Accord-       side of the Colonial Architect, who
Houses of Parliament have been             ing to the conditions issued, the        represented, both officially and
awarded to the Colonial Architect          buildings were not to cost more          professionally, “Number One.”
and his draughtsman. The infer-            than £20,000, but we have it on          How the prize design came to be
ence which ordinary persons, who           good authority that the carrying         awarded to the Colonial Architect
are not well acquainted with the           out of the first prize plan will cost     seems to need a little explanation.
way in which these things are man-         three times that amount. It will be-     He was the referee. Was the deci-
aged, would draw from this deci-           hove the legislature, therefore, not     sion of the Commissioners arrived
sion of the Commissioners would            to accept without investigation the      at so unanimously as to render his
probably, be that the two successful       report of the Commission, even if        services in that capacity unneces-
gentlemen are at the head of their         it should be necessary to delay the      sary? Did they request his attend-
profession in the colony. It is only       commencement of the build-               ance merely to tell him that, after
fair to state, for the information of      ings until further and more reli-        having brought their best ability
persons who labor under this delu-         able evidence has been submitted.        to the consideration of the designs,
sion, that so great was the mistrust       Members of the Assembly should           it was with sincere pleasure they
entertained by the majority of the         not forget that, while the original      informed him that the first premi-
professional gentlemen in private          estimate for the new Government          um had been awarded to him, and
practice of the impartiality of the        House was £10,000, a second sum          that, with not less pleasure, they
commission, that very few thought          of £7000 had to be voted, mak-           had awarded the second premium
it worth their while to compete.           ing £17,000 in all for one of the        to his draughtsman, who had dis-
It is also noticeable that, out of         most hideous structures that ever        played so much knowledge of his
the eleven designs sent in, three          disgraced a beautiful site. Our          profession in the preparation of
of which were discarded as being           readers will remember that the           both plans?
altogether unfit, five — including           Commission was composed of the                    We must suppose that
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As finished in 1869.                              The addition of Colonades c1880s
something of this kind took place,                                                                   should pay any one to write things
                                        back-stairs influence. Happily,
                                                                                                     which the writer knew well were not
or we are led to the conclusion that    the decision is not final and irre-
                                                                                                     only unjust, but untrue.
the Colonial Architect, as the ref-     vocable, nor do we think that the                            I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
eree of the Commission adjudged         Parliament will highly applaud                                                 CHARLES TIFFIN.
the prize to Mr Tiffin i.e. himself      Mr Tiffin in adjudging the prizes                                         Colonial Architect’s Office.
That the referee should also be a       to himself and his assistant, but                                    In a sealed jar under the
competitor is certainly an offence      will rather strongly condemn such                            foundation stone were placed a copy
against professional etiquette, and     a procedure as being a transpar-                             of the Courier and Guardian news-
quite explains why the whole affair     ent piece of self-glorification, with                         papers, Pugh’s Almanac, current
should be regarded by the profes-       a profit attached. We know that it                            coins and this message.
sion generally as a gross job.          is rather difficult for the Ethiop                                      This Corner Stone of the New
         The Colonial Architect, as     to become white, or the leopard                              Houses of Parliament was laid on Fri-
the proper officer, might have been      to change his spots, but inasmuch                            day, 14th July, A.D. 1865, being the
called upon to prepare a plan, and      as there is a striking similarity be-                        twenty-ninth year of the Reign of Her
it would only have been part of         tween this affair and the conduct                            Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria
his legitimate duty. If he pleaded      of the Government, in the matter                             and the sixth year since the Erection of
want of time or inability, both of                                                                   this portion of Australia into a Separate
                                        of the railway tenders, we may ex-
                                                                                                     Colony under the name of Queensland,
these explanations might have           pect, unless great vigilance is ex-
                                                                                                     by his Excellency Sir George Ferguson
been taken as intelligible reasons      ercised, further developments of                             Bowen, G.C.M.G., Governor of the said
for his declining, and, competitive     corruption in those who are now                              Colony.
designs being advertised for, he        bringing the colony into disrepute,                                   The walls and ceilings of
might well have acted as the offi-       both here and elsewhere.                                     the two chambers were very elabo-
cial referee, with assistance if de-            Goose quills and sticks of                           rate and included beautiful and
sired; but there is something obvi-     Indian ink aside, Charles Tiffin was                          sometimes fantastic forms. The par-
ously unfair in nominating him as       none too pleased about those Edito-                          liamentary librarian was instructed
arbitrator, and at the same time        rials and immediately wrote to the                           to censor any minor desecrations.
allowing him to enter the field,         Editor.                                                      However the librarian missed one
armed with the appliances of his                  SIR,—I do myself the honor                         carving which seemingly caused
office, and the aid of his staff, thus   to deny in globo the base imputations                        great offence to the members. It was
placing him in a position of great      conveyed in your leader of this morn-
                                                                                                     a keystone in an arch near the speak-
advantage as compared with any          ing. I should not notice the matter
                                        through the medium of the Press, but
                                                                                                     er’s chair consisting of a sheep’s
other poison. Whatever time he                                                                       head. It was replaced.
                                        that, my friends and enemies might
bestowed upon the work, and                                                                                   Tiffin was very busy and
                                        think I had fallen to a most lamen-
whatever materials he employed,         table depth in the scale of morality. I                      became overwhelmed. There were
were most probably paid for by          would not have troubled myself about                         disputes often carried out in the col-
the public, thus enabling him to        the Parliament Buildings competition                         umns of the daily papers. In 1868 he
                                                                              Researched by David Teague.

supplement his salary to the extent     at all if I had not heard it insinuated                      became as well the Superintendent
of £200 by an act of positive injus-    that “ the government only wished to                         of Roads and Buildings and was fur-
tice to his professional brethren in    buy other men’s brains for me to use.”                       ther overloaded.
private practice. From whatever         As far as being appointed referee to
                                                                                                              His health suffered and he
point of view we look at the result     the commissioners, your leader of this
                                        morning was the first intimation that
                                                                                                     took a year’s leave of absence and
of this so-called competition we see                                                                 in April 1872 he retired on medical
                                        either the commissioners, the public,
much that is highly reprehensible.                                                                   grounds. He decided to move to Tas-
                                        or I, had of it.
The whole affair, from beginning                  I certainly feel surprised                         mania. En route, he died in Sydney
to end, savours of partiality and       that the proprietor of any newspaper                         on 9 January 1873, aged 40 years.
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THE FINE PRINT
         The Ranelagh Estate which
ran between Granville and Noble
Streets, Wilson consisted of forty-
five home sites mostly about 24
perches in size. It was advertised to
be sold by auction on Saturday 23
October 1926 at 3 p.m..
         The broadsheet said that all
conveniences were available and the
estate was only five minutes from
Wilston Station and that Tramway
Trust buses passed the estates. Also
it was a short walk to the Kedron and
Windsor trams on Bowen
Bridge Road.
         It also stated that the
approved tram extension to
Grange would run along New-                                                                                   Even the opening of the new
market Road to the estate be-                                                                                 line was still mired in contro-
fore turning up Silvester Road                                                                                versy with two opening cer-
(sic), under the railway line                                                                                 emonies - one held at each
into Kedron Brook Road (and                                                                                   end.
thence along Days Road to the                                                                                           The long held notion
Grange terminus.)                                                                                             of a traffic route to the north
         It also listed that the                                                                              western suburbs to Stafford
new north road through Victo-                                                                                 and Aspley was still floating
ria Park and continue along Fa-                                                                               around in 1933 when Alder-
gan Road into Granville Street                                                                                man Lanham stated the idea
over the new bridge which had                                                                                 saying it would result in a
been promised by the council                                                                                  considerable saving in mile-
at an early date.                                                                                             age and furnish an additional
         The dotted line in the                                                                               crossing of Breakfast Creek.
Local Sketch depicts the route                                                                                It would be cost effective as
of the tramway and at the bottom of                                                                           the only cost would be that of
                                        Street, across to Anderson Street and
Granville Street the proposed bridge    thence along Days Road.                                      a bridge similar to the Bowen Bridge
is indicated.                                    The debate raged for months                         as the roads were in good order.
         The year before, 1925, saw     and the local newspapers were filled                                    It was decided that as funds
the adjacent Darrima Estate opened      with Letters to the Editor on this                           were not available in that year neither
with the claim of being within a few    subject. (Most of these are copied                           this plan not the widening of Bowen
yards of the proposed new tramline.     and are in this Society’s files.)                             Bridge Road would be carried out.
         Allotment six of 2 roods 19             Evidently the Railway De-                           The widenening of this road was es-
                                                                                  Researched by David Teague.

perches contained an ideal family       partment had the last say. It did not                        sential and could be carried out at a
home and a first-class hard tennis       want the route to be near the Enog-                          reasonable cost as far as Butterfield
courts. This was the home, Rane-        gera Railway line and Windsor and                            Street as resumptions would not be
lagh, of the Noble family.              Wilston Stations for fear of compe-                          necessary as the hospital authorities
         The route of the Grange        tition. Also restricted the service lo-                      had made provisions for improve-
tramway was a contentious issue         cally of buses. The route chosen                             ments on the land they owned.
with residents proposed another         was along Maygar Street and Days                                       It just goes to show that now
route from Bowen Bridge Road            Road ending near the junction of                             more than ninety years later, the fine
starting from what is now Maygar        Grange Road.                                                 print still hasn’t come to pass.
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Lutwyche Road. Passengers called
                                                                                  out in dismay. The tram stopped and
                                                                                  the conductor and motorman held
                                                                                  a hurried pow-wow. Then the tram
                                                                                  backed to the turn-off and proceeded
                                                                                  to Kedron Brook Road, Grange. But
                                                                                  the conductor revealed that, accord-
                                                                                  ing to their schedule, they should
                                                                                  have gone to Kent Road. Kalinga.
         Old Bill’s Column was a                   A Wilston woman on holi-
                                                                                           Process of elimination. At
regular in the Brisbane Telegraph.        days at Southport went into one of
                                                                                  a cycling meeting last Saturday a
These items were taken from columns       the local drapery stores with the in-
                                                                                  rider was trying to think of anoth-
of the early 1950s which featured lo-     tention of buying a beach hat. After
                                                                                  er’s name. He mentioned Kalinga.
cal residents.                            inspecting the stock she decided to
                                                                                  Lutwyche and Chermside. Then
         Recently a Lutwyche resi-        have a look at the other shops before
                                                                                  some one said Stafford. “That’s
dent opened an account with one of        making a purchase. Seeing noth-
                                                                                  it!” he ‘exclaimed. “I knew it was
the departmental stores. His first ac-     ing better, she returned to this shop
                                                                                  some terminus:”
count was for a mattress and pillows.     to buy the hat she had picked out.
                                                                                           The other day a Grange
In the envelope was a circular con-       The proprietor said she should have
                                                                                  resident wanted to pay the baker, but
taining suggestions for a layette and     bought it when she came in the first
                                                                                  missed him. He rushed outside and
toddlers’ wear. How did the store         time. He didn’t like customers who
                                                                                  saw some one standing at the front
know he was married only a few            wasted his time, and he wouldn’t sell
                                                                                  gate with a notebook in his hand. He
months ago?                               her the hat now.
                                                                                  thought it was the baker and handed
         Wharfies are not the only                  In a city chain store a line
                                                                                  him the money. The chap at the gate
ones who want to work where they          of nuts and bolts was marked at
                                                                                  smiled and pointed to a place in the
like. A Windsor woman engaged             2/3 a dozen. A Wooloowin man
                                                                                  book, to sign. It was a collector for
a man to do scythe work at 4/ an          bought one, which was put in a
                                                                                  the Deaf and Dumb Institute.
hour. He arrived early, , but she         bag, and he was charged 2d. If
                                                                                           Awaiting her turn to be
was amazed when he told her he            he had bought a dozen singly, he
                                                                                  served at a city meat mart, a
would use the scythe only on that         would have saved 3d on the deal
                                                                                  Wooloowin housewife was amazed
section of the grounds that had           and got 12 free bags.
                                                                                  to hear butchers addressing cus-
been mowed. When she said she                      Christmas dinner was sent
                                                                                  tomers - as “Dear”, “Honey” and
wanted the long grass cut he gath-        off recently at the Salvation Army
                                                                                  the like. She was stunned when
ered up his gear and walked off           Mothers’ Hospital at Windsor. The
                                                                                  her turn came and she was ad-
the job.                                  hospital had been fattening up a flock
                                                                                  dressed as “Darling.” The cashier
         Sir Walter Raleigh outdone.      of fowls, but a dog got into the yard
                                                                                  explained, “It’s just their way of
When a Grange woman got home              one night and killed 22 of them. Be-
                                                                                  softening the blow when you learn
from town she discovered she had          cause the hospital does a fine chari-
                                                                                  the price.”
left the house key at her husband’s       table work, some generous citizen or
                                                                                           Who said there was a short-
office. She was telling the local          organisation might wish to help. The
                                                                                  age of milk bottles? A Windsor resi-
storekeeper when, a young man in          matron’s phone number is M2409.
                                                                                  dent with 106 and a Belmont resident
the shop offered to ride his motor cy-             A young woman who is
                                                                                  with 50 stored away at home rang
cle into town and get the key. Think-     blind wrote a letter in braille to a
                                                                                  the company concerned and offered
ing it was too much trouble, she tried    Valley firm, and gave it to a friend
                                                                                  the bottles for the price they paid for
to dissuade him but he insisted. Inc-     to post. The friend dropped the
                                                                                  them. They were told to take them to
identally, he said he did it because he   letter in a Wilston bus. She apolo-
                                                                                  the nearest shop. In each case the lo-
hated the idea of her husband com-        gised to the blind girl, but they de-
                                                                                  cal shop has changed hands since the
ing home to a cold tea.                   cided that the finder would drop
                                                                                  bottles were purchased and the new
         When a Wilston man and           it in a pillar box. This, didn’t hap-
                                                                                  proprietors won’t buy them back.
his wife went to His Majesty’s            pen. Maybe the finder begrudged
                                                                                  There must be thousands of milk
the other night they took their           a stamp because the letter was
                                                                                  bottles going to waste in Brisbane
baby with them. After interval the        unstamped. It didn’t need to be.
                                                                                  for the same reason.
baby started to play up and they          Braille letters go free by post.
thought they would have to leave.                  This probably explains why
But to their surprise and joy one         our tram services are so erratic. On
of the usherettes came along and          Wednesday after noon a Grange
offered to mind the baby until the        (Kedron Brook Road) tram sailed
show finished.                             past the turn-off and continued along
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PHOTOGRAPHS
                                                            Newmarket side of
                                                            Wilston Hill - 1909
                                                           Railway line in middle
                                                                 section

Kevin “Fangs” Dunleavy driving J.F.     Workers digging the trench for the
Fraser’s Milk Truck outside United      Sewerage Connection, Antill Street,
Vendors, Lyons Terrace, Windsor.        Wilston. Eildon Hill at RHS. 1949

Creating Finsbury Park in 1950
out of loop cut off Breakfast
Creek (1931)
Langley Avenue at top of photo.
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THE SKY IS
                FALLIN’ IN
         Is the sky falling in? Is the                        J.D. Switzer, R.N. joined the
moon made of green cheese? Will the                  discussion and confirrmed Mr De-
earth end in the year 2050? These                    vis’s opinion that the land on the east
are some of the questions that people                coast of Queensland was rising. He
                                                                                                                 workers have a practical interest
have asked over the years.                           quoted his observations of the Mary                         in the matter. Without claiming
         In the 1880s the question                   and Burnett Rivers and of Moreton                           much exactness of observation,
was - Is the Queensland Coast Ris-                   Island. He quoted the lowering of                           I can affirm that salt water does
ing or Sinking?                                      the tidal water of 6 inches over the                        not now travel up the Enoggera
         In the Brisbane Courier                     past eight years.                                           Creek as far as formerly. When I
                                                                                                                 first commenced clearing my gar-
(25 November 1880) Charles W.                                 His theory was that it was                         den at Kelvin Grove, sixteen years
Devis of Rockampton conveyed his                     caused by gravily coupled with the                          age, all the water in front of the
thoughts that until that time the opin-              contraction by cooling and diurnal                          land was at times salt. The salt
ion prevalent amongst geologists                     revolution. He went on to explain                           could be tasted in the water sev-
and physical geographers was that                    his theories. He wrote that his fore-                       eral chains above my highest allot-
                                                                                                                 ment. I have seen the water stand-
the midland section of our country                   going conclusions were as a result of                       ing opposite No 515 on the map
was an inverted arch of subsidence.                  his own reasoning and must be taken                         frequently salt. Pool opposite No.
         He also mentioned Darwin’s                  only for what they were worth. He                           554 was the one from which we in
theory of the formation of coral reefs               added the facts that they were based                        dry weather carried fresh water.
and their formation suggested sub-                   upon were self-evident.                                     A dam was made opposite No 474
                                                                                                                 to keep the tide out of the highest
sidence of the land. He goes on to                                                                               pool. The tide washed over it how-
cite that the existence of sea shells                                                                            ever, and spoiled the water. Now
inland suggests the opposite. He                                                                                 this pool is uniformly fresh, has
quote various sources that claim the                                                                             no dam, and a pump in the yard
land must have sunk due the exist-                                                                               draws water therefrom. Formerly
                                                                                                                 high tides swept over the log foot
ence of mangrove stumps in deep                                                                                  bridge below the now Normanby
water and yet another that the tides                                                                             Bridge, and huge mullet could
do not reach up as far as they for-                                                                              often be seen shooting across the
merly did. He finally concluded that                                                                              road. Fish 2ft long were frequent-
if subsidence is in progress it must                                                                             ly captured in the pool above the
                                                                                                                 bridge. In this pool we bathed, and
have commenced as a very recent                                                                                  if the fresh water was not enough
period and if the shortened tides of                                                                             to fill it the salt tide did invari-
the Fitzroy River region we have                                                                                 ably. Now the water at the cross-
                                                               A geologist, Mr Tenison                           ing is generally fresh, and used by
proof of the lifting power is still at
                                                     Wood joined with a letter mainly                            the residents. Salt-water mullet
work.
                                                     about the geology of the state. Swit-                       have not been seen there for years.
                                                     zer replied that the query still was                        My friend Mr Free, many years a
                                                                                                                 resident, corroborates me in these
                                 Kelvin Gr

                                                     that was the land still rising as Mr
                                                                                                                 particulars. I am glad Mr Tenison-
                                                     Woods said they it may or may not                           Woods is taking an interest in the
                                                     be and that Switzer offered proof                           question, as he brings to bear on
                                                     that the spring tides were lower by                         it knowledge the result of years of
                                          ove Road

                *FREE
                                                     either the land rising or the lowering                      geological investigation. Observ-
                                                     of the ocean level.                                         ers of the tide in the Brisbane and
                                                                                                                 other rivers will be able to throw
                                                                                           Researched by David Teague.

                                                               The discussion continued                          much light on the point I believe
                                                     with local doctor and research scien-                       it will turn out that we are rising
                                                     tist, Joseph Bancroft adding his local                      at the rate of an inch per annum
    554                  474                         observations.                                               - Yours &c,
                                                     Sir, Our thanks are due to Mr                                             J. BANCROFT, M.D.
                    BANCROFT*                                                                                            Brisbane Courier: 6 December 1880.
                                                     Devis and other contributors to
                                                     the question of the rising of the                           (The Normanby Bridge is over Breakfast
                                                     Queensland coast. If proved,                                Creek/Enoggera Creek on Kelvin Grove
          515                                        wharf builders, river dredgers,                             Road and Mr Free was a tanner whose
                                                     agriculturalists, and other shore                           tannery was on Free Street.)
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THE HISTORY
                                                                 company drove up the road,
                                                                 it was surprising how much

         OF APRONS
                                                                 furniture that old apron
                                                                 could dust in a matter of
                                                                 seconds.
       #I don’t think our              #When       company
kids know what an apron is.      came, those aprons were
       #The principal use        ideal hiding places for shy
of Grandma’s apron was to        kids.
protect the dress underneath           #And     when     the
because she only had a few       weather was cold, Grand-
and because it was easier        ma wrapped it around her
to wash aprons than dress-       arms.                                  #When dinner was
es and aprons required less                                      ready, Grandma walked
material. But along with                                         out onto the porch, waved
that, it served as a potholder                                   her apron, and the men folk
for removing hot pans from                                       knew it was time to come in
the oven.                                                        from the fields to dinner.
       #It was wonderful for                                            #It will be a long time
drying children’s tears, and                                     before someone invents some-
on occasion was even used                                        thing that will replace that
for cleaning out dirty ears.                                     ‘old-time apron’ that served
                                        #Those big old aprons    so many purposes.
                                 wiped many a perspiring
                                 brow, bent over the hot wood    REMEMBER:
                                 stove. Chips and kindling              #Grandma used to set
                                 wood were brought into the      her hot baked apple pies on
                                 kitchen in that apron.          the window sill to cool. Her
                                        #From the garden, it     granddaughters set theirs
                                 carried all sorts of vegeta-    on the window sill to thaw.
                                 bles. After the peas had been          #The      government
                                 shelled, it carried out the     would go crazy now with po-
       #From the chicken         empty shells.                   litical correctness and try-
coop, the apron was used for            #In the autumn, the      ing to figure out how many
carrying eggs, fussy chicks,     apron was used to bring in      germs were on that apron.
and sometimes half-hatched       apples that had fallen from            #I don’t think I ever
eggs to be finished in the        the trees.                      caught anything from an
warming oven.                           #When unexpected         apron - but love...

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STAR THEATRE
                                                                                                   the most graceful couple on the
                                                                                                   floor. Supper was be provided, and
                                                                                                   a good band will supply dance mu-

         KALINGA
                                                                                                   sic The floor of the Star Theatre is
                                                                                                   laid in accordance with the latest
                                                                                                   principles of modern dance floors
                                                                                                   by Mr T. Brown, who has super-
          The earliest showing of mo-    land presented by Mr Sidney Cook.                         vised the laying of similar floors in
tion pictures in the local area was by           The theatre was widely used                       England, where he is an acknowl-
travelling picture show men at the       by community groups as well as film                        edged authority on the subject.
Kedron Park Racecourse.                  programs. The Kalinga Progress As-                                   Brisbane Courier: 31 August 1928
          Soon permanent theatres        sociation often met there in 1928 as                               The theatre continued to be
started opening. An early one was        well a number of political meetings                       a local entertainment centre as well
at Nundah - applied for in 1917 by       was held there.                                           as regular screenings and Saturday
O.J. Fenwick - the Nundah Impe-                  At that time Mr Felsman                           matinees, flower shows and concerts
rial. It was followed later by another   was listed at the proprietor. On 31                       being held there. In November 1928
opened by Fenwick - the Lutwyche         August 1928 a Plain and Fancy                             the ladies committee of the Kalinga
Imperial.                                Dress Masked Ball was held there.                         Progress Association held a dance
          Also S. Cook applied for a     `The theatre was advertised as hav-                       and euchre tournament to raise funds
licence at Clayfield in 1917. This be-    ing the best floor in Brisbane. The                        for a band stand in Kalinga Park. In
came the Savoy Theatre.                  Eileen Turney Jazz Band played for                        1928 the Eagle Junction State School
          The earliest reference for a   the event.                                                held its fancy dress ball there.
theatre that was found for Kalinga       BALL AT STAR THEATRE,
was 1925. It was called the Kalinga
Theatre and a reference in the fol-
                                               KALINGA.
                                                 The first fancy dress ball
                                                                                Researched by David Teague.
lowing year called it the Star Thea-
                                         to be held in the Star Theatre, Ka-
tre. It took part in state-wide promo-
                                         linga, will take place this evening,
tions for Paramount Pictures.
                                         when prizes will be awarded for
          In 1926 Scots Presbyterian
                                         the best fancy dresses worn by
conducted a Sunday School at the
                                         lady and gentleman, best sustained
theatre and a year later a site on the
                                         characters, lady and gentleman,
corner of Emma Street and Shaw
                                         most humorous costume, and one
Road was purchased for a parish hall.                                                                       The theatre at 4 Lodge Road
                                         for the worst dress. A well known
Advertised in 1927 was a film Na-                                                                   was eventually replaced by a service
                                         teacher of dancing will judge for
ture’s Wonders of North Queens-                                                                    station.

    The Star Theatre
         Kalinga
 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was
 showing at that time. c.1937

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GALLOWAY ESTATE
                                                                                      permission to mortgage land at Ke-
                                                                                      dron Park for £160 to pay rates and
                                                                                      legal charges. Justice Real said there

  Research Project
                                                                                      was no necessity for any order to be
                                                                                      made as the parties interested were
                                                                                      of age and consented to the land be-
                                                                                      ing mortgaged. The petition was
         Almost every day in July               Chisholm Galloways. A lot from        dismissed.
1898 The Telegraph published ad-                Cheshire, England and even from                The land in question was
vertisements for the coming sale of             Wisconsin, U.S.A. are listed.         subdivisions 13 to 18 and 24 to 29
The Galloway Estate.                                     Now a search on Findmy-      and part of 30 and 12 of section 1
         The advertisement gives a              past reveals a John Galloway chris-   of portion 192, parish of Enoggera.
few clues about the estate. The land            tened 5 January 1832 at Pittenweem,   Portion 192 of 30 acres 2 roods was
had belonged to John and Elizabeth              Fife, Scotland. His father was a      originally purchased by Henry Pillow
Galloway and it was situated near               John and his mother a Janet Law-      of Ipswich for £30/10/- on 5 April
Wooloowin Station and opposite the              son. Another record leaps out and     1859. It was subdivided into 100
Wilmington Estate.                              that is a John Galloway christened    allotments of 32 perches each and
         A check with historic death            17 November 1833 at Barony, Lan-      offered for sale as the Town of Bel-
listings will reveal that John Gal-             ark, Scotland whose parents were      fast Estate on 26 September 1864.
loway, a brickmaker, son of John                John Galloway and Janet McKinlay.     An article of this estate appeared in
Chisholm Galloway and Jeanet, died              Nothing definite could be found on     Journal, Volume 28 Number 2, May
on 2 October 1882. He was 49 years              Ancestry but there were surely a      2016. Then in 1898 for The Gallo-
old. His wife Elizabeth, daughter of            large number of John Galloways.       way Estate, the land was re-subdi-
William Edwards died on 19 Sep-                          A newspaper search in the    vided into 24 grand building sites.
tember 1890. She was 43 years old.              files of The Telegraph, Brisbane,      These would have been halfway
         The only child that can be             reveals that on 15 December 1893      down Chalk Street.
found is a son John Chisholm Gal-               before Mr Justice Real a petition              The search goes on. Can you
loway who married Mary Boyd,                    was made by J.C. Galloway, trus-      help by providing any more infor-
daughter of James Boyd in 1886 and              tee of the estate of John Galloway,   mation or confirm some of the items
in 1888 had a son - you guessed it              deceased, intestate. He applied for   that have been found?
- named John.
         A search in the Queensland
records for the births of John (died
1882) and son John does not result
in any finds. N.S.W. records reveals
that a John Galloway married an
Elizabeth Edwards at Cook’s River,
Petersham on 7 March 1854. That
would make John about 21 years
old.
                                                                                                                         The Telegraph: Saturday Evening, 30 July 1898.

          A search for Queensland
Assisted Immigration list does not
reveal any John Galloways. A New
South Wales search reveals a John
Galloway who arrived on the Mait-
land on 1 October 1844. That was
a convict ship and that John was
transported for seven years from
                                         Researched by David Teague.

Perth, Scotland.. If it was our John
he would have been 11 years old.
         A more eligible contender
might have been a John Galloway,
engine driver, who arrived in Janu-
ary 1853, aged 20, in Melbourne on
the Birman, which left Scotland on
28 September 1852.
         In FamilySearch family re-
search records there are a lot of John
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