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

Oct 2014 O -CHG Ted Dunlop, Anne Moon and George Cole , the first 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

Nov 2014 T&DHS Folk song Brisbane Ladies (also known as Ladies of )

Nov 2014 TooHG Darcy Maddock, Early horse racing in Queensland

Dec 2014 Joint Deb Drummond and Jan Teunis, 1947 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 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, 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

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

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

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