The Beaudesert Centenary was celebrated with a festival that commenced on September 27, with the Bells and Beaux of St Mary’s dance and ended with a Combined Church Service of Thanksgiving at the Civic Centre on October 20. The majority of events took place between October 12 and 20. To […]
An amazing, and little known, incident took place at Ziza towards the end of World War I. The war in the desert was growing to a close, and the Turkish troops had been contacted by two squadrons of the 5th Light Horse. The Turkish Commander believed that if they lay […]
How the simple act of getting married has changed over the years. From the days when marriages were arranged by the families and the couple had little say, to the freedom to choose your own partner that prevails today. A quick look at family photographs highlights the different trends. Older […]
An innovation on agricultural shows grounds, which was to be found at the inaugural Beaudesert Show in 1889, was the inclusion of a bazaar for the sale of fancy items. A ‘rough tarpaulin and bough’ structure was erected for the purpose of selling articles in aid of the Church of […]
Edward (Ned) Hawkins, arrived on the Logan River in 1842. He was travelling with stock belonging to his employer Henry Suttor of Bathurst. He took up an area of 50,000 acres running along the eastern side of the Logan, from near Cedar Grove and Cedar Vale to the Jinbroken range […]
Beaudesert’s rural lands are filled with plenty of secrets, but did you know that Round Mountain holds a secret of its own?For some, it may not be a secret at all, but Round Mountain was once the temporary home to hundreds of prisoners from World War II. In the late […]
Beaudesert Guiding commenced in March 1951 with meetings held at the State School, Anglican Church and Scout Den. Land was loaned by the caravan park for the building of a Hut. Fundraising began in 1953 with the Hut being opened July 24, 1954. There were many wonderful women who took […]
In the days before traffic lights, busy intersections were controlled by policemen on point duty, or by ‘silent cops’. The main intersection in Beaudesert had a silent cop; installed in 1928. The cop was described as a concrete dome, measuring 400mm wide and 125mm high in the centre. An article […]
As restoration work is being done on the Logan and Albert Hotel, it is interesting to reflect on what happened to the original hotel and how the new one was built. The original Logan and Albert Hotel was destroyed by fire in July 1934. The fire began in a workshop next […]
Just past the Beaudesert racecourse, stood the old Ilbogan Bridge. The timber bridge built after the devastating flood in the 1950’s took out the previous river crossing. The Boonah Beaudesert Road, at the time being a quiet link between the two towns and still mostly gravel. The new Ilbogan bridge […]
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