AFTER meetings to gauge interest in establishing a community hall for activities and opportunities for theatrical outlet, sufficient drive was garnered to progress this idea by forming a group, as well as finding a venue. The Beaudesert Technical Hall was designed to hold a crowd of 500, and was officially […]
BEAUDESERT’S Imperial Theatre opened on September 30, 1922. It was situated in Brisbane Street opposite the Railway Station, where the Railway Hotel now stands, with a 385 seating capacity for eager patrons. It provided the people of Beaudesert and district a peek at a world that they previously had only […]
In today’s busy world it is impossible to visualize the young ones, particularly first-time mothers, being treated in the same way as their mothers, let alone their grandmothers. Child birth and child raising is a much more streamlined affair. New mothers now are formed into support groups with other couples […]
IS IT possible for us to put ourselves in the place of our pioneers and imagine surviving for a day or a week, let alone for years, as they did? Reality TV shows portray men and women supposedly fighting the elements. What a joke! No matter the hardships they face, […]
PATRICK and Margaret Milbanks had a son, William, and two daughters, Margaret and Bridget. Sadly, Bridget passed away at age 24, and William did not marry. Margaret married Frank Clail, son of another Kerry family, and they built a house on a hill behind the cottage. Fame came to Kerry […]
IN THE mid-1850s Patrick and Margaret Milbanks joined many other Irish people and decided to journey to Australia and try their luck in a new country. They arrived in Queensland with son William, born during the voyage, and took a job on Pikedale Station at Stanthorpe. Their daughters Bridget and […]
1865, The Queensland Land Alienation Act. The name struck dread into the hearts of some, but sparked opportunity and dreams for many more. Squatters, who had selected vast Station Runs in the 1840s, were now compelled to give up half their land to make way for the settlers, and thereby […]
While constructing the Rabbit Board fence at Mt Lindesay the construction party came across a major problem. A huge rock weighing about 50 tons resting on a smaller rock of about five tons weight was blocking their way. After much thought and discussions, the working party returned during October 1906. […]
War historian CEW Bean described the men of the 2nd Convoy of men embarking for World War I as some of the finest men ever to leave Australia. This group included many Queensland men who had joined the 5thLight Horse, and other Queensland regiments. Many of these men had been unable […]
THE fertile flats of the Logan and Albert Valleys were ideal for dairying, but milk and cream are perishable and need rapid transport. Two small butter factories had operated in the district – the South Brisbane Creamery Company and the Lowood Creamery Company. However, the opening of the railway at […]
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