Contents of Toowong Library Local History Folder One

Western Suburbs

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Section One: Mt Cootha and Auchenflower

1.      "Dead giant"s name lingers on Honey Mountain"

2.     History of Mt Cootha tree. (Title and source unknown)

3.     Trezise, D..L. (for Queensland Department of Mines) (June 1999) "The History of Gold Mining, Brisbane Forest Park, South East Queensland: Land Use Planning and Extractive Materials Project Report".

4.     "Bid to Save Planetarium" Westside News, Wednesday May 16th, 2001

5.     "Call for release of forest plan" Westside News, Wednesday May 30th, 2001

6.     "Auchenflower and exciting" (Source Unknown)

7.     "Home of Three Leaders" Sunday Sun, January 27th, 1985 page 27

 

Section Two: St Lucia and Indooroopilly

1.      Murray, J.L. How St Lucia Gained its name!" St. Lucia Gazette, Vol. 3 No. 3, June 1976

2.     Photograph of  The University of Queensland at St. Lucia, from the St. Lucia Gazette, Vol. 3 No. 3, June 1976

3.     "Seventy-five Years of the University of Queensland" Sunday Mail Color, April 7, 1985

4.     da Costa-Roque, Sylvia "The Queensland Ballet"s Silver Anniversary" Sunday Mail Color, April 7, 1985

5.      "Down Memory Lane: New Library to have history display", The Western News, April 15, 1981

6.     Extract from "The Aldine History of Queensland", 1888, Vol. 2

7.      "Attend Roll Call 60 years later", Courier Mail, 12 July, 1949

8.     History of St Lucia, compiled from various sources. See last page for publication details.

9.     "Ironside Remembers"" 1985. From Calendar published for 1985.

10.   Newspaper article on Ironside State School. (Source unknown).

11.   "A Fair-way to Run!" Major Venues Brochure, Winter 2001, Brisbane City Council.

12.   "Local History " Indooroopilly" Prepared from the Local History File at Indooroopilly Library. Brisbane City Council Library Service, May 1987.

 

Section Three: Taringa

1.      "Go back to the Classroom" (Newspaper article, source unknown)

2.     "Taringa has kept charm" Telegraph, 5 April, 1969

3.     "Taringa and Indooroopilly" Sunday Mail, May 26, 1929

4.     "Photo 1 from the Hutchinson Collection" The Western Suburbs Advertiser, 1978 and "The First Buses" Express, 28 June, 1978

5.     "A Classic for the N.T." Advertiser, 9 June, 1978

6.     "Retained its charm" Sun , 27 October 1978

 

Section Four: Rosalie, Milton, Upper Paddington/Bardon

1.      Miles, A.T. "Rosalie " Brisbane"s Forgotten Daughter" Presented to a Meeting of the Society on 23 October 1980. (Source Unknown)

2.     "Telegraph Suburb of the month Milton-Toowong", Telegraph, June 23rd, 1977

3.     "Milton State School" (Source Unknown)

4.     "Trendy Paddington has had a richly chequered history" Courier Mail, Monday March 18, 1985

5.     History of Upper Paddington (now Bardon) Primary source unknown. Sources for this article are listed on last page.

6.     "Seen this?" (Tree on corner of Milton and Sylvan Roads, Milton), Sunday Mail, July 2nd, 1978

7.      "Once a few houses, now""Telegraph, June 23rd, 1977

 

Section Five: Lone Pine and Fig Tree Pocket

1.      "Down Memory Lane" The Western News, May 20 1981, page 10

2.     "S " Stories Told"  (Source Unknown)

3.     "Down Memory Lane" The Fig Tree which gave Fig Tree Pocket its name. (Source Unknown)

4.     "A pioneer is not forgotten: Identity has farming ties" The Express, August 9, 1970

5.     "Help Needed at Glenleighden", Western News November 6, 1981 and "New Buildings Open at States Oldest" The Express, July 26, 1970 page 22

6.     "Fig Tree Pocket School" May 1978

7.     "People: Fig Tree Pocket Petition " 1800" From the Scrapbook Collection of F.L.P Wager

 

Section Six: Kenmore

1.      "A Short History of Kenmore" (Source Unknown)

2.     Clarkson, R.J.H. A history of Kenmore prepared in response to requests by scholars of the Kenmore State School

3.     "History of Kenmore" From article in Brisbane Telegraph George Gear still lives on Brookfield Road 198?

 

Section Seven: Brookfield

1.      "Unspoiled Beauty " and Brookfield people aim to keep it that way, too" (Source Unknown)

2.     Photograph, "The Pellatt Family of Upper Brookfield" photo from Mrs W.H. Smith

3.     History of Brookfield (Source Unknown)

4.     Geological Survey Reports, various dates and pages numbers, from Queensland Government Mining Journal

 

Section Eight: Moggill

1.      Moggill Notes (Source Unknown)

2.     "How Moggill got its name" Letter from The Queenslander July 2nd 1870

3.     From R.J.H. Clarkson, "Shire of Moggill" (Centenary Booklet, date unknown)

4.     From R.J.H. Clarkson, Moggill Cemetery

5.     "Moggill: Ferry or Bridge?"(Source Unknown)

6.     " Toll Bridge for Moggill" The Express, September 13, 1978 Vol. 1 No. 36

7.     "Residents to fight bridge" June 21, 1978

8.     "Ferry in jeopardy"(Source Unknown)

9.     "Closure is spiteful" (Source Unknown)

10.   "Moggill Ferry Working at Last" The Queensland Times, Wednesday June 13, 1979, page 2

 

Section Nine: Pullenvale

1.      "Pullenvale " A Beautiful District: Work of Pioneers" (by a District Representative)"(Source Unknown)

2.     "History of our District" by an early pupil of Pullenvale school. (Source Unknown)

3.     Picture of part on one large cattle run leased by J.F. McDougall of Milton House

 

Section Ten: General Western Suburbs history

1.      Clarkson, R.J.H. "Local Story" (Source Unknown)

2.     "It may be a thriving modern suburb, but"" Courier Mail, Monday May 13, 1985

3.     "Two-up schools and bat shooting on summer nights" Courier Mail, Monday April 29, 1985

4.     Rademaker, Yolanda, "He opened up a state" Courier Mail, Saturday 1st March, 1980

5.     "My Brisbane Love Affair" (Source Unknown)

6.     "Local History of the Western Suburbs",  prepared from the Local History file at the Indooroopilly Library, Brisbane City Council Library Service, May 1987

7.     "Field of flowers field of prayer field of spirit" Information from St Ignatius Parish Newsletters

8.     Southern district electorate information. (Source Unknown)

 

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