Next Meeting of the Toowong History Group
Thursday 1 Sept. at 7.00pm 2005
Toowong State School Heritage Library.

IS YOUR QUEENSLANDER IN ITS BEST STATE OF ORIGIN?

If you live in, own or are renovating a Queeensland timber house, you can discover how and why they developed their peculiar features with a new book by renovating expert, building historian, author and columnist Ian Evans.

Ian reveals some fascinating facts on the Queensland timber houses of the late 19th and early 20th century and how they came to have their broad, shaded verandahs, curved roofing iron, tall stumps, lattice and ornate sheetmetal roof ventilators in his new book The Queensland House - History and Conservation which he has published under his company Flannel Flower Press at Mullumbimby.

Some unusual contributors who influenced the look of the Queensland houses, says Ian, were a reform group of the Anglican Church, sugar cane planters from the West Indies, a Brisbane jam factory and German missionaries . This comprehensive and informative text is a boon for anyone seeking to renovate or restore their Queensland timber home with authenticity and for owners and people interested in how and why the houses' features developed and changed over the years. Sketches and illustrations are a comprehensive guide for builders, designers and architects and support a good read for those merely interested in the social development of dwellings in Queensland over the past 120 years.

Ian has produced the book in conjunction with The National Trust and included a definitive guide to caring a for and conserving old timber houses by conservation architect Jinx Miles.

BARDON COMMUNITY GROUP

Contact John Bray - President taromaru@bigpond.net.au