A small suitcase made from Weet-Bix cartons is on display at the Beaudesert Museum. It is the work of Italian prisoner-of-war Angelo, who worked as a farmhand on the Bilarabyn property of R L (Les) and Sheila Harrison of Gleneagle during the Second World War. The Italians were a war-weary […]
“Bet’ya didn’t sell dynamite”. “Yes we did, sonny.” Ric Enright was telling a group of youngsters that Enright’s Store sold everything! When Irish migrant, Michael Enright opened his small general store in Beaudesert in 1884 he never dreamed it would become one of the largest country stores in Australia with […]
Thank You This edition sadly is the last edition where Barry Kenny has provided our History article. Barry advised me this week that he is unable to continue the column due to family commitments, which is completely understandable. I wanted to acknowledge the contribution he has made to the Bulletin […]
Henry C Burgess was one of the first contacts made with the outside world by Bernard O’Reilly coming down Christmas Creek during the Stinson Rescue. Henry took Bernard and the two Buchanan boys, Ray and Charlie, to the Buchanan home by car. Henry was also responsible for the donation […]
Duck Creek Road advocates are devastated but determined after Council’s two most recent applications for funding were unsuccessful. […]
Now they were underway, and the introduction was a strong one for the party, a creek crossing as wide as a cricket pitch is long, and thigh deep and floored with slippery boulders like pumpkins. There were miles of that ahead. They came out of the creek into […]
BANG! A rifle shot. “Hoy!” from Bernard. “Where the hell did you come from?” was the reply. Bernard told him he had found the missing aircraft and two men were alive. Swiftly Bernard’s questions were answered: He was a Buchanan, this is Christmas Creek, and Lamington was nine miles away, […]
The voices came again from below – two voices – men alive, but in what condition? Bernard stood for a minute, afraid to go on to them, afraid of what he would see. Bernard saw John Proud first, lying as he had for ten days on that wet […]
Residents keen to see Duck Creek Road reopened are encouraging fellow locals to send Council letters of support to bolster funding efforts. […]
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