Previous Meeting Topics
Feb 2014 O -CHG Ted Dunlop, the Berrie family
Mar 2014 SLHG 1914 -18 War centenary notes (incl Carte Postale and trench humour), Ironside and St Lucia Progress Association
Mar 2014 O -CHG Bruce Hoare , Sir Harry Gibbs
May 2014 SLHG Ironside School, 1914 -18 War centenary notes
May 2014 O -CHG Marion Mackenzie , Beth -Eden at Graceville
Jun 2014 O -CHG Jeff Hopkins -Weise and Tony Bellino, Mephisto and Colonel James Robinson
Aug 2014 O -CHG Malcolm Mackenzie, Oliver Radcliffe pupil -teacher Sherwood State School
Sep 2014 SLHG Ruth Bonetti, WA Back, Mullumbimby and St Lucia property developer. 1914 - 18 War centenary notes
Sep 2014 O -CHG Ted Dunlop, local women engaged in camouflage net making during World War II
Oct 2014 To oHG Jeff Hopkins -Weise, Charles Heaphy VC
Oct 2014 T&DHS Rad West, Development of Pharmacy in Queensland
Oct 2014 O -CHG Ted Dunlop, Anne Moon and George Cole , the first Brisbane Golf Club at Chelmer
Oct 2014 I&DHS Bev Walker, Gallipoli casualty Sydney John Penhaligan
Nov 2014 TarHG Brian Ganly, Georgiana Poulter and Ann Lane, Capemba Taringa’s famous house and garden
Nov 2014 I&DHS Michael Marendy, Gwen Gillam fashion exhibition at the Queensland Museum
Nov 2014 T&DHS Folk song Brisbane Ladies (also known as Ladies of Toowong )
Nov 2014 TooHG Darcy Maddock, Early horse racing in Queensland
Dec 2014 Joint Deb Drummond and Jan Teunis, 1947 Brisbane Arcade murder, a review of SLHG/TarHG Reg Brown’s conviction for taking the life Bronia Armstrong. 1914-18 War centenary notes
Dec 2014 O -CHG Den Graceville, Pamphlet Sea Sc outs. Michael Bischa, history/current operation of Sea Scouts. Jim Pascoe, ticket of leave timber getters/John Oxley
Feb 2015 TarHG Bruce Sinclair, Public transport in the locale
Feb 2015 K&DHS Sue Turner, Creating a chronology for ‘Misty Morn’
Feb 2015 I&DHS Tim O’Donnell, Colonial Architect FDG Stanley
Feb 2015 O -CHG Marion Mackenzie , 90 th anniversary of Sherwood Arboretum
Mar 2015 TooHG Greg Hallam, Queensland Railways and the Great War
Mar 2015 SLHG Progress snapshot 1914 -18 War, Café Kia -Ora Gailey Road, 1928 Bert Hinkler visit to hometown Bundaberg, Robert Emerson Curtis, 1914-18 War centenary notes
Mar 2015 O -CHG Heather Mattes and Russell McCurdie, Archerfield Airport during World W ar II
Mar 2015 RI&SHG Ron Powell, Local area artefacts from Ron’s youthful wanderings in the Darra , Oxley and Inala area
Apr 2015 TarHG Judith Monday, Margaret Maxim and David Munday, The Munday family of Taringa
Apr 2015 I&DHS Bev Walker, Moggill Road, Indooroopilly in the 1920s
Apr 2015 RI&SHG Visit to Walter Taylor Bridge
Apr 2015 K&DHS Trevor Dixon, ANZAC courage, yesterday, today and tomorrow
Apr 2015 O -CHG George Cole, conditions on the home front 1914 -18 . Ian Lang , the Oxley War memorial
Apr 2015 MHS Andrew Darbyshire, Thomas Lodge Murray Prior
Apr 2015 T&DHS Fred Whitchurch, Toowong RSL Sub -branch
May 2015 MHS Helen McMonagle, the Moggill Butter Factory
May 2015 K&DHS Hilda Maclean, Suffer the little children - colonial Brisbane childhood death
May 2015 T&DHS Leigh Chamberlain, Somewhere for women in distress - the story of St Mary’s Home, Toowong
Jun 2015 O -CHG Tom Beck, Milpera Stat e High School at Chelmer
Jun 2015 TarHG Eric Marggraf, Walter Marggraf the long serving Secretary/President of the Brisbane Deutscher Turn Verein (German Club)
Jun 2015 RI&SHG Ted Dunlop, Dunlop family connections to the Oxley Creek area since the mid - 1800s
Jun 2015 K&DHS Judy Magub, Chapel Hill Cemetery burials
Jun 2015 I&DHS Robin Trotter, Traffic light control box artwork
Jun2015 T&DHS Lisa Jones, Queensland Police Service, Queensland Police Museum
Jul 2015 TooHG Philip Manning, Museum of Brisbane exhibition ‘The View from here’, photographer Albert Elliot 1890-1940
Jul 2015 K&DHS Colin Hester, Mt Crosby Water Treatment Plant
Jul 2015 I&DHS General discussion, VP Day
Jul 2015 SLHG Peter Brown, History signage local parks and ferries
Jul 2015 RI&SHG Fred Clark, Old Brisbane photographs slide show
Jul 2015 MHS Joy Stacey , Brookfield history projects
Jul 2015 T&DHS Norma Lovelace, Queensland Country Women’s Association
Aug 2015 TarHG Ruth Sapsford, Dr Lionel Sapsford, WW2 prisoner of war in Europe
Aug 2015 TooHG Hilda Maclean, mortuary railway history
Sep 2015 TooHG Captain Adele Catts, French battlefield cemetery tour
Sep 2015 RI&SHG Fred Clark, old radios
Sep 2015 K& DHS Graham Wilcox, Federation of Australia an d the part played by Sir Arthur Rutledge
Sep 2015 SLHG Peter Brown, local residential construction, bush hut to pink palace. Andrew Darbyshire, internment 1914-18 War
Oct 2015 TooHG Helen Smith, Spanish Flu pandemic
Oct 2015 RI&SHG Peter Brown, Street naming, convention, Brisbane and local
Oct 2015 I&DHS Witton Barracks
Oct 2015 K&DHS Michael Marendy , 150 years of dressing in Brisbane
Oct 2015 O -CHG Susan Whitaker, the Pratten sisters
Oct 2015 T&DHS Darcy Maddock, the history of Toowong Cemetery
Oct 2015 TooHG Darcy Maddock, Russian migration to Queensland
Nov 2015 I&DHS Deb Drummond and Jan Tunis, Lingering Doubts
Dec 2015 Joint Marilyn England, local artists, Vidah Lahey, Lloyd Rees, Isaac Walter Jenner SLHG/Tar HG and Lefevre Cranstone
Feb 2016 I&DHS Janet Spillman, Queensland Lords
Feb 2016 TooHG Peter Brown, Influence of UQ on the development of St Lucia
Feb 2016 RI&SHG Andrew Darbyshire, Inala Sports Centre
Feb 2016 K&DHS Barry Searle, The Local Bulletin
Feb 2016 T &DHS Andrew Gildea, Flinders Café share/website
Mar 2016 SLHG Andrew Darbyshire, CSIRO Cunningham Laboratory at UQ, Christ Church St Lucia, St Lucia Uniting Church
Mar 2016 RI&SHG (Visit) New Guinea and Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles Museum
Mar 2016 I& DHS Ray Kerkhove, Aboriginal campsites of Greater Brisbane
Mar 2016 TooHG Darcy Maddock, Paddington and Toowong Cemeteries
Mar 2016 K&DHS Vivienne Binns, The Friary Kenmore
Apr 2016 MHS Judith Nissan, Myora Park
Apr 2016 I&DHS Robin Trotter, Lost Indooroopilly
Apr 2016 SLHG Andrew Darbyshire, the St Lucia Gazette published by the St Lucia Community Association
Apr 2016 K&DHS Janet Spillman, History of Mt Coot -tha
May 2016 TooHG Greg Hallam, 1947 Camp Mountain train crash
May 2016 MHS Col Hester, Water Pipes and Supply
Jun 2106 RI&SHG Peter Brown, The Planning and Development of Inala
Jul 2016 TooHG Philip Castle , the 'Hospital from Hell' on Lemnos Island
Jul 2016 T&DHS Judy Magub , T he settlement of Kenmore
Aug 2016 I&DHS Group discussion, Witton Barracks Heritage Listing
Aug 2016 TooHG Peter Roennfeldt , Madame Mallalieu
Aug 2016 RI&SHG Be ryl Roberts, ‘Memories - Inala plus ’
Sep 2016 SLHG Andrew Darbyshire, The Avalon Theatre
Sep 2016 I&DHS Robin Trotter, Time Capsules
Oct 2016 TooHG Dick Paten, A Home and its People – Walton 1858 -1973
Oct 2016 RI&SHG Vicki Mynott, The Blue Fin Fishing Club
Oct 2016 T&DHS Peter Brown, creation of the suburb of Inala
Nov 2016 I&DHS Marilyn England, identifying convicts at the Moreto n Bay Penal Settlement
Nov 2016 TooHG Ross Webster, Shingle Inn and Middenbury
Dec 2016 Joint Ray Kerkhove, Aboriginal camp sites SLHG/Tar HG
Jan 2017 O -CHG Marion Ma ckenzie, William Alexander Jenyns Boyd
Feb 2017 TooHG Lindy Sugars, Ashgrove
Feb 2017 K&DHS Philip Castle, 1937 Stinson air crash
Feb 2017 T&DHS Denver Beanland, Brisbane Municipal Council, Town Hall and City Hall
Mar 2017 I&DHS Kate Mobsby, Henry William Mobsby
Mar 2017 TooHG Philip Castle , Australia's military role in Vietnam from 1962 to 1972
Mar 2017 K&DHS Ross Webster, More than just biscuits
Mar 2017 MHS Hilda MacLean, Buried close to home
Apr 2017 TooHG Ross Webster and Michael Yeates, ABC Toowong
Jun 2017 MHS Andrew Darbyshire, Warner’s Road survey 1849
Jun2017 I&DHS Neville Buch, Brisbane mapping project
Jun 2017 Ron Tooth, Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre
Jul 2017 SLHG Andrew Darbyshire, Brisbane’s early roller skating rinks
Jul 2017 I&DHS Denver Beanland, The Queensland Caesar: Sir Thoma s McIlwraith
Aug 2017 TooHG Hilda MacLean, The North Brisbane Burial Grounds
Aug 2017 O -CHG Arthur Love, P hotographs of Oxley -Chelmer
Aug 2017 K&DHS Helen Gregory, The Brisbane River
Sep 2017 RI&SHG Meg Gordon, History of the land now occupied by Wolston Park Reserve
Sep 2017 I&DHS Robin Trotter, Walkabout magazine
Sep 2017 RI&SHG Caroline Hamilton, Centenary History - as viewed from the Brisbane River
Sep 2017 TooHG John Bray, Toowong State School Ball at Cloudland
Sep 2017 MHS Elizabeth Napier Munn , Moggill Koala Hospital
Sep 2017 O -CHG Ross Webster, More than just biscuits
Oct 2017 T&DHS Bruce Sinclair , Early photographs of Toowong
Oct 2017 I&DHS Margaret Graham - memories of Hunter Street and Michael Yeates - Harts, Lambert and Indooroopilly Roads 'triangle' sites Oct 2017 TooHG Andrew Darbyshire, Early Brisbane Roller Skating Rinks
Nov 2017 T&DHS Caylie Jeffery, Under the Lino (Eleanor Webster’s bankbooks and cash)
Nov 2017 Too HG Helen Smith, Soldiers health problems 1914 -18 War
Dec 2017 RI&SHG Peter Brown, Inala’s thirty places of worship