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KEDRON LODGE

JOURNAL

Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society Inc. servicing the old Windsor Town Council areas of Albion, Alderley, Bowen Bridge, Eagle Junction*, Eildon, Grange, Kalinga, Kedron*, Lutwyche, Maida Hill, Newmarket*, Wilston,

VOLUME 30 No. 3 - AUGUST 2018 AUGUST - 3 No. 30 VOLUME Wooloowin and now extended to cover Herston. *part of this suburb. NEXT MEETING 19 AUGUST, 3 p.m. Guest Speaker Sallyanne In the NOVEMBER Journal * William Williams The car featured on p.17 of the Febru- Atkinson, AO ary JOURNAL, Vol. 30 No. 1, is still * Newmarket in the district. It has been owned by Progress Hall Richard Allom since 1962. * The Peace Loan * Rowallan Additions and Correction * Kedron Park Mary Ann Massey, born 1844, was omitted from John Massey’s children’s Service Station list on page 10 November 2016 issue. * St Andrew’s We are Thanks to Helen Kilber a descendant for Church pointing it out.. * Hornibrook very pleased to announce May 2018 issue page 9 3, refer- * Hearne’s ences to Charles Scott should be Charles that our August Guest Stott. * WW1 Casualities Success!! One member at least looks at * Photo Story Speaker will be former our cover and pointed out that Grange * Boot and Shoe and Wilston were omitted - not any- Repairers Lord Mayor of Brisbane more. and business woman - * In preparation of our Newsletters/Jour- nals, our Editor has corrected 41,112 Sallyanne Atkinson. lines of newspaper text in Trove so far. SOUVENIR

Make sure you mark ADVANCE NOTICE OF THE in your diary to come and REMEMBRANCE GREAT WAR meet this outstanding DAY 1914 - Queenslander. SERVICE 1919 3 p.m. Sunday, 19 August 1918 - 2018 Windsor War Memorial 11 November

Issued to the Soldiers of Windsor and their families, in 1919, a listing of the Men who enlisted from this District. A Special Limited Edition with photographs. $20 available now.

Page TWO - Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 KEDRON LODGE COVER STORY The new resident justice, Al- biscuits I brought with me, and fred James Peter Lutwyche, lost no asked me for a tin full of them, time in buying land after his arrival which I gave him. in Brisbane on 8 March 1859. Early As a result on 5 April 1859, Brisbane resident Nehemiah Bartley Judge Lutwyche became the owner takes up the narrative. of portion 196 and 200 of 20.25 and I espied Judge Lutwyche, 17.82 hectares repectively which spectacles on nose, government fronted Kedron Brook. Bartley pur- map in hand, taking stock of some chased portion 201 of 9.52 hectares. Crown allotments near the Green By 23 November he had sold the on his Mount Kedron property. (Janu- Hills, and addressed his honour. block to Arthur Algernon May who ary 1860) John Petrie was engaged to ‘You are looking at some lots, not sold it to Lutwyche on 23 January build Kedron Lodge. He had taken very eligible, and which will not be 1860. over the Petrie business after his sold for some time to cone. There It was on portion 201 that father was blinded in 1848. are some Crown ones, better Lutwyche decided to build his house On Wednesday, 13 Octo- than these, and which will be sold - Kedron Lodge. He engaged ber 1860 the ceremony of laying shortly, and which I would recom- architect Christopher Porter. Porter the stone of Kedron mend you see first, and, if you like was born in Nottingham in 1801 and Lodge was performed by his Honor to come with me tomorrow, I will in 1852 the Porter family migrated Mr Justice Lutwyche. The usual will show them to you, as I mean to Victoria. Father, Robert, elder ceremonial was observed by enclos- to buy some myself.’ brother Robert and Christopher ing in a coffer a bottle containing a He replied, ‘I will come worked in Geelong and Ballarat as parchment, on which was inscribed with you,’ We went, and Thorrold architects and builders. Christopher the name of the building, the fact of (I think) came with us. I showed moved to Brisbane in 1860 and its being commenced in the first year them the nakedness of the land. I Kedron Lodge was one of his first of the separation of the colony, and resolved on Eildon Hill, the judge commissions. He also designed the its being intended as the residence of on what he called pretty ‘haha’ Normal School in Adelaide Street. the Judge of . Also lawns where Kedron Park now included was a copy of the Moreton is; and Thorrold selected the Bay Courier. The house was de- Thorroldtown of modern days. signed in the early English style, and We camped and lunched by the will be the most imposing private brook, spent a delightful day residence yet built in the vicinity of and the Judge particularly fan- Although living in Eagle Brisbane. The principal fronts would cied some Presberger Zwieback Street, Lutwyche soon placed horses be of dressed stone, and the wings of brick, with freestone dressings. After the stone had been formally laid, the numerous workmen were regaled with wine, &c, in honour of the event, while the Judge and a few pri- vate friends enjoyed a picnic on the grass, at which the orthodox cham- pagne, &c., freely circulated. Major construction continued into 1861 and the year 1862 was painted on the lintel above the door. The property was divided into several paddocks. The horse Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 Page THREE paddock, about 4 hectares in area, 1880. had a large dam which provided Kedron Lodge was sold to drinking water for the horses and William Henry Kent on 6 February stock. The main entrance gates were 1885. Kent took up residence and at what is now Kent and Lodge had the original building completed. Roads corner, There were huge gates He also added a ballroom. It was hung from equally large posts. At ei- then sold to William Quinn in 1911. ther side there were smaller entrance Quinn sold most of the remaining gates. Large clumps of bamboo house paddock as 400 square metre grew on each side of the main drive allotments. In October 1912, Wil- which was paved with white gravel. liam Walton bought the lodge and in The Lodge itself was made from Al- December 1931, Archbishop James bion freestone from Petrie’s quarry Duhig purchased the property for the at Albion. Much of the interior work use of the Roman Catholic Church. was not done until the late 1860s. The bulk of the Kedron Park land Mr Beeston held the contract to do was cut up and sold as house allot- all the inside work - to the ments after the judge’s death and a upper rooms, doors, sashes. Most of crippled with gout but he refused large portion was used as a sports the decorative work was done in red to retire, much to the regret of the ground and racecourse. cedar. government of the day, Eventually Taken largely from his condition became such that he The History of Kedron, As the coach house and © 1976, David Teague. stables were about 500 metres from had to be carried to the bench by his the main house, an ox horn was associate and tipstaff. used to communicate with the men Lutwyche liked to fish in working in the stables. Behind the Kedron Brook for eels and catfish. Lodge there was a large fenced-in The latter he declared to be a rare area which contained the laundry, table treat. Although Lutwyche workshops, kitchen garden and a received a huge annual salary, for small orchard. those days, of £2,000, he took out Every day, when the Su- mortgages totalling £4,500 on Ke- preme Court was sitting, Lutwyche dron Lodge and the grounds. These weren’t released until a year after was driven to town in one of his Grave of Alfred and Jane Lutwyche vehicles. Later in life he became his death which occurred on 12 June in St Andrew’s Church grounds.

1862 - OVER THE DOOR

Page FOUR - Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 To the Editor of the Moreton Bay Courier. Sir,-At the court of petty sessions, held yesterday, to revise the HERBERT/DOWSE electoral list for East Moreton and neighboring electorates, I In a previous issue an ar- tional pardon. appeared to sustain my objec- ticle appeared about the found- In 1842 he moved to tion against the name of Robert ers of Herston, Robert Herbert Brisbane and soon operated a George Wyndham Herbert being and John Bramston. It men- ferry across the . retained thereon - grounding my tioned how they arrived with Soon he established a business objection, first, because the name the new governor, Sir George selling all sorts of clothing, had been inserted after the col- Bowen in December 1859. It household and farm items. He lector had signed and delivered was imperative that a govern- became an auctioneer He was the electoral roll to the clerk of

Left: Robert George Wyndham Herbert

Right: Thomas Dowse

ment was formed and elections one of the settlers who agitated petty sessions; and secondly, called for Herbert to be elected for separation from New South because Mr Herbert did not pos- and continue as the first Premier. Wales. Whilst building a cottage sess a leasehold qualification six All did not run smoothly at Shorncliffe with his two sons, months previous to the collection as a local resident objected to he was attacked and wounded of the roll. My first objection was the process. Thomas Dowse was by aborigines. After his wife’s overuled by the bench upon the born in Hackney, London and death, Dowse married Sarah the ground that, as the name of at 15 was convicted for theft Fairfax in 1856 and they had R. G. W. Herbert appeared on and sentenced to life imprison- three sons and two daughters. the list then before them, they could not entertain my objec- ment. The weird bit was that he When the Electoral Roll Researched by David Teague. stole clothing items belonging for East Moreton was revised tion, although I offered to prove, to his brother and sold them. His in April 1860, Dowse objected by the evidence of the collector, mother pressed charges. to the addition of the name of that the name had been surrepti- At the end of 1827, he Robert Herbert. He was rolled tiously inserted. was transported to to and took his revenge by writing My second was also serve his sentence. In 1832, he to The Moreton Bay Courier. vetoed, by the magistrates, cit- married Ann Kelly at Parramatta. Writing to the newspaper became ting, they holding this strange In 1836, he was granted a ticket- a habit with him - signing his let- interpretation of the qualification of-leave and in 1839 a condi- ter as OLD TOM. clause, namely - that, though Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 Page FIVE under the Constitution Act of 1855, (by which act unfortu- JOHN WAYNE AT ALBION PARK, 1943 nately we are present directed) a freeholder, householder, lodger, or salary-qualification must have been held six months previous to registration, that desideratum is not necessary in a leasehold, so long as such lease, under which the claimant qualifies, has three years to run. Marvellous that in the Electoral Act of 1858, grant- ing manhood suffrage, vote by ballot, &c, the qualification clause fixes (as I still maintain the old act does) a six months residency, or actual possession. I now leave the public to judge in this matter, and only ask my fel- low colonists to watch all these political dodges with a jealous WILSTON-NEWMARKET RED CROSS eye, and remember the value of the stakes to be won by the win- ning party. Yours, THOS DOWSE. Of course Tom was cor- rect as it was clear that Herbert had only been in the state for five months, but his argument was not accepted. Herbert was elected and continued as the first premier until 1866 when he resigned and With the object of ena- in connection with all Red Cross returned to England to be in- bling the women of Wilston and efforts in the town and other volved in a public service career Newmarket districts come to to- patriotic work generally. Taking until his death in 1905. Unlike gether and do Red Cross work a into consideration the limited his partner in Queensland, John branch was formed in the district area and population that the Bramston, Herbert never mar- on 28th July 1915. The members branch had to work on, the re- ried. have since met weekly for the sults achieved were fine indeed. Dowse became town purpose of sewing. The number This extract is taken from clerk of Brisbane in 1862 and of garments made during the Souvenir of The Great War retired in 1869. He continued in period was 2,678 and in addition 1914 - 1919 compiled by Alder- business until his death in 1885. to this the branch collected and man W.A. Jolly, Letter from The Moreton Bay Courier: made up 474 parcels of food- Mayor of Windsor 5 April 1860. stuffs which were sent to Head- and given to Herston House photo, below. quarters. returning The total funds collected servicemen. during the period amounted to A reproduction £514/16/6. edition is The members of the available branch rendered every assistance from the chambers for $20. Page SIX - Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 want the house, did not like to refuse, and there were others who signed the memorial in its fa- vour who are habituated drinkers TO THE EDITOR and are regardless of the moral or social example they may set, The Telegraph: and therefore they should have 13 December 1880 no weight against those who are the heads of families and have all A correspondent com- they possess at stake in the place. plains that the practice of omni- 3. The house is a very short dis- buses racing is becoming com- tance from the church, and the mon on the Bowen Bridge Road. idlers and drunkards with their He said that last night, on two profane language would be a occasions, two omnibuses came great annoyance to the congre- over the bridge at full speed, and gation, and would set a very bad raced up to the Hospital at a speed example to the rising generation. dangerous to the passengers. He The whole of which we wish to says also that last week it was avoid. as much as he could to prevent 4. There is enough drinking al- a man in liquor from entering an ready; and if men will get drunk omnibus in which were several on the quiet — what will it be ladies; the driver had the state of if a house is licensed? They will the man pointed out to him, and openly do what they now do in at last allowed him to ride on the ance is admitted to be the greatest quiet; and the result will be great- knife-board, the other passengers curse on earth; that towns have er temptation to old and young, undertaking to see that he did not drunkenness in proportion to the and drunkenness will increase, tumble off. It would seem as if the number of houses licensed, and whilst idleness, poverty, profan- Bowen Bridge omnibuses needed that in towns where there are no ity, and crime will follow in its some official looking after. licensed houses very little drunk- train.— Yours, &c, enness exists. Avoid Temptation. Now we, the peaceful in- habitants of Lutwyche, having en- The Telegraph: joyed this freedom from tempta- 14 December 1880. tion for so many years do not wish MR N. BARTLEY’S this curse forced upon us and our DISCLAIMER. The Telegraph: children, as we know the result To the Editor — SIR, I am very sor- 15 November 1880. would be most ruinous to many ry that anybody should have annoyed To the Editor. — SIR, We have who would not have strength to Mr Nehemiah Bartley by accusing arrived at an important period in resist the temptation of drinking him of writing the letter, signed ‘N. the history of this town. To-mor- if the said house was licensed for B.’ in your Saturday’s issue. I also row will decide whether or not the sale of drink. There are a few feel a little taken down— humiliated we are to have a licensed house matters in connection with the is, I think, the proper term — that the in our midst, and as there are two memorials which are worth con- friends of Mr Bartley should have memorials, the one in favour and sideration. thought that my composition was his. the other against, it will be well 1. The majority of property-own- As to the initials, I know not that he has any monopoly of right to the use that those who have the power of ers are strongly opposed to the of them; indeed I don’t suppose that granting the said licence should granting of the licence. he has any option as to their being seriously consider the matter be- 2. We do not consider it fair that the initials of his well-known Chris- fore making a final decision. It is the party making the application tian name and surname. The capitals a well known fact that the facili- for the licence should personally might stand for several designations, ties for getting drink everywhere canvass, as there were many upon Nota Bene, or North Brisbane, or, produce drinking; that intemper- pressure, who, whilst they do not No Blarney. Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 Page SEVEN CHLORODYNE

If you read a Queens- too forcibly urge the necessity of land paper from1862 onwards, adopting it in all cases. you would be certain to see an Doctor John Collis advertisement for Dr J. Collis Browne was a doctor in the In- Browne’s CHLORODYNE. In dian Army in the nineteenth cen- fact for the next forty years it tury and he invented chlorodyne would be the same advertisement as a cure for cholera. He later Well what was in this claiming to cure coughs, colds, sold the formula to John This- marvellous cure? diarrhoea, dysentry, cholera, tlewood Davenport, a pharma- * Laudanum (an alco- asthma, consumption, fever, ceutical chemist of Bloomsbury holic solution of opium) croup, diptheria, epilepsy, gout, Square, London. Davenport be- * Canabis tincture rheumatism, cancer, toothache, gan producing it and advertising * Chloroform meningitis and bronchitis. heavily. As mentioned lengthy No wonder sufferers felt As with other miracle better. There were many imita- cures it relied on testemonials to tors. Many replaced the lauda- sell it. num with morphine hydrochlo- *To it I fairly owe my ride and patients soon developed restoration to health, after 18 a drug dependence. There were months’ severe suffering and cases of suicide using these when other remedies had failed, products. chlorodyne is a most valuable Eventually the canabis remedy. was removed from the formula *In nearly every case and the morphine content low- of chlorera in which Dr Collis ered. Browne’s Chlorodyne was ad- Today in England you ministered, the patient recovered. can still buy Dr Collis Browne’s *So strongly are we cure for coughs and upset stom- convinced of the immense value achs. It contains peppermint oil of this remedy, that we cannot and morphine. classified advertisements ap- peared especially in Queensland country newspapers from 1862. Around 1900 onwards display advertisements were placed. In 1892, undercover police bought a dozen bottles of chlorodyne from Davenports

Researched by David Teague. pharmacy. Some time later he was prosecuted for selling poison. As it was proprietory medicine he didn’t have to reveal its ingredients.To be a patent medicine the ingredients had to be revealed. Davenport was fined five pounds and thus subjecting this product to legal control. Page EIGHT - Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 6. Thistle Street. 7. Lutwyche Road. AERIAL VIEW 8. Chalk Street. 9. Kedron Park Road. F.W. THIEL -1919 10. Magdalen Assylum. In 1919, a photographer 1. Stafford Road. 11. Bridge Street. went aloft in a plane and hung 2. Gympie Road, Kedron. 12. Albion Hotel. his large box camera off the side 3. Kedron Park 13. Sandgate Road. and took a series of aerial pho- 14. Albion Railway tographs of Brisbane. They were Racecourse. published in the 1924 Brisbane 4. Thistle Estate, Gordon Station. Centenary Book. This one shows Park. 15. Stoneleigh Street. Albion, Lutwyche, Kedron and 5. Kedron Brook. Gordon Park. Can you see more?

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Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 Page NINE See previous article on the Windsor Volunteer Fire Brigade OLD & NEW in the February 2016, Journal. Windsor Volunteer Fire Brigade Building and Tower. It was obvious that by the time the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board took over the management of fire services in Brisbane that the Windsor Fire Station building had outlived its purpose. It was decided that a new Windsor Fire Station was needed The Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board was advised on 24 November 1924 by the Treas- ury that there was no chance for a loan to build a new station. However in mid-November of the same year advice was given to proceed with the building The eleven progress as- The Telegraph: sociations and the Windsor Town 29 November 1924 Council objected to the new site. They proposed using the existing site. The Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board moved swiftly and construction was started immediately and on 1 December laid the foundation stone. The station, when erect- ed, will be second to none among suburban fire stations in Austral- ia. There has been some criticism as regards the site of the station, but I think that those who dis- as soon as possible. The De- quired four allotments in Bridge agreed with the present site will partment of Public Works was Street near the corner of Marne admit later that the board acted instructed to carry out the work Road. He suggested the police in the best interests of the people on a more suitable site facing reserve next to the School of Arts

Researched by David Teague. of the district in building the sta- Bridge Street, Albion. or as much of Clark Park as was tion here, remarked board chair- At a town council meet- needed. man, Major H. R. Carter. After ing in December, the mayor, Unrest grew in the town a myriad of toasts, the retinue Alderman Bond informed the over the proposed new site. Al- retired to the School of Arts for meeting that after taking con- derman Jones, the council repre- afternoon tea. trol the board relinguished some sentative on the board announced Under the headings of vacant land on which Colwill’s that the foundation stone for the AN UNSUITABLE SITE and shop now stood that had been new structure which would cost EMPHATIC PROTEST LAST resumed. The board then ac- £10,000 would be laid early in 1925.

Page TEN - Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 1926: Albion Fire Station during Construction

July 1998: Albion Fire Station after decomissioning. Photo: David Teague

NIGHT, the Telegraph of 17 Bridge-street, Albion, near the modern lines, and is fitted with January 1925 reported that the railway station, was erected by up-to-date fire fighting applianc- local associations and the coun- the Public Works Department es. Due provision has also been cil took strong exception to the at estimated cost of £9976. The made for the comfort of the proposed site. It was in vain as foundation stone was laid by firemen. District Officer H. J. the building was going ahead. Major H. R. Carter (chairman of Wiltshire is in charge of the Sta- NEW FIRE STATION the Metropolitan Fire Brigade tion. At the request of the board Northern Area’s Board) on December 1. 1925. Auxiliary Officer A. E. Wildman, Modern Structure The station will be known as who has been associated with INTERESTING SPEECHES the Northern Suburbs Fire fire brigade work in the AT OFFICIAL OPENING Station, and will take the place district for 38 years, will retain A dramatic surprise of the Windsor and Hamilton command of the auxiliary fire- was given to the guests at the stations, in accordance with the men. opening of the new fire brigade board’s policy of concentrating In declaring it open, station at Albion yesterday the fire-fighting force and ap- Mr Stopford congratulated the afternoon. After the Home pliances in a few large stations, board on having obtained such a Secretary (Mr J. Stopford) instead of having them gathered splendid structure, equipped with had declared the station open in small outposts over a large the most modem appliances. The he pulled the rope which rings area. Major Carter explained station would play an important the big fire bell. In a flash the that the policy of concentration part in the protection of Brisbane doors flew open, the firemen would enable the board to give against fire so far as the northern sprang to their places, and with the public more efficient service suburbs were concerned. bells clanging the two motor than was possible under the old Major Carter proposed reel and ladder trucks whirled system or small stations. the health of the “Home Secre- out into the road—greatly to The new station would tary.” and presented him with a the delight of the youngsters of be connected with all parts of the silver cigarette case as a memen- the neighbourhood, who had district it served by electrical rail to of the occasion. points, and they would have an Abridged from The Daily Standard: 18 gathered in force to see the January 1927. show. effective fire-fighting force ready The new station, a sub- to turn out instantly whenever it Strangely the name of the North- was required. ern Suburbs Fire Station disappeared and stantial two story brick build- it was always known as the Albion Fire ing, situated on high ground in The station is planned on Station. Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 Page ELEVEN Lieutenant Roberts landed on Windsor Park - also known as the Albion Flats in November 1920. Sources: Brisbane Courier, Daily Mail UP, UP and AWAY and Queensland Times newspapers.

Great excitment spread the aircraft had arrived in Aus- passenger flights before he had thru Windsor and Albion when tralia a year ago, it had been to return to Sydney for the aerial Lieutenant Roberts in his Avro flown almost every day. He said Derby on 27 November. aircraft landed back on Windsor that there had only been one ac- One of his activities he Park on Tuesday 9 November performed when first in Brisbane 1920. was to take parcels of news- He had been on a tour of papers from Brisbane to Wal- southern and western Queens- langarra. Lieut. Roberts left the land. Roberts said that his air- Albion aviation ground (Windsor craft had travelled 21,000 miles Park) at 6.35 a.m, and arrived at since he had left Sydney on 1 Wallangarra with the bundle of June and 15,000 of those miles that morning’s papers (Monday were covered in Queensland 26 July) at 9.30 a.m. Papers were since 17 August. cident, and that was at Dajarra delivered to the Prince of Wales Accompanying him were in north-west Queensland. He before the Royal train left Wal- W.H. Nicholson, his mechanic, said the aircraft had been forced langarra and were also delivered and passenger, W. Whalley. The at Warwick at 8.30 a.m. Lieut. to land on a bush track and the Researched by David Teague. aircraft had left Nambour at wings were slightly scratched by Roberts then returned to Bris- bane passing over Ipswich just before noon. After that he took Mr James Campbell on a flight to Bribie Island where photos of the Dajarra freshwater lagoons were taken. 11.15 am and arrived at Windsor the scrub. He then took eight more passen- at 12.15 pm. Roberts remained in gers on flights making a total of Roberts said that since Brisbane for several days making 6 1/2 hours flying time that day.

Windsor Park - 1920

Page TWELVE - Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 walking along the road towards a nearby shop. Investigators, reconstructing the case after pre- liminary investigations, imagine CREEK DEATH that she went to the creek bank inside the two-rail fence which borders it. There she may have Large images from Queensland Police Museum. fallen down the bank, which, although grassed, is stone-lined and scattered with pontoons and small jetties. She may have struck her head in the fall and rolled into the river and drowned. However, they do not overlook the possibility that she may have been struck on the head and thrown into the creek. A post-mortem will be made, and police hope it will assist in prov- ing or disproving this. In the meantime several sections of the C.I. Branch are continuing investigations. De- tectives, who look up the initial Woman’s Body in it was recovered at 9.50 o’clock, investigations under the direction — there was a large gash on the top of Inspector Jessen, were Detec- of the head and bruises, and sev- tive Sergeant T. Lloyd and C. Head Gashed eral other cuts on the forehead. Following the recovery Risch. Detectives who took Telegraph 13 March 1942 from Breakfast Creek this morn- charge of the case after the uni- Her suitcase was found nearby ing of the scar-marked body of formed officers from Breakfast containing an opened bottle of beer a 60-year-old woman, Mrs Ellen and a broken stout bottle. She usually Creek had reported the injuries, Gladwell, of Bale Street, Albion, walked along the inner fencing bor- discovered that the woman left a special squad of Brisbane de- dering the road and on the grass from the Breakfast Creek Hotel about which she was likely to have fallen tectives, headed by Inspector A. 7 o’clock last night. She also from the bank. This was in the direction Jessen, Chief of the C.I. Branch, Courier-Mail: 14 March 1942 was seen in company with a man of her home. instituted intensive investigations to determine the cause of her death.

The arrow shows where the body was found.

Clad in a blue and red coloured floral frock, the body was seen floating in the back- wash close to a moored launch off Breakfast Creek Road, near St Christopher’s Church. When Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 Page THIRTEEN Continued from JOURNAL, May 2017. Photos by F. W. Thiel from SHOPS - 1925 WINDSOR ILLUSTRATED THE IDEAL CASH STORE Heslop Bros Corner of Lutwyche Road and Felix Street Note petrol pump on kerb. Later a service station sell- ing Purr Pull and then Golden Fleece petrol beside it. Groceries Produce Simpson’s Flour

LEWISHAM STORE R. B. Richardson Corner of Lutwyche Road and Norman Avenue. Plume petrol pump Groceries Ironmongery Tinware B.A.L.M. Paint Ship brand Corn Flour Harper’s Empire Flour Tram Stop

The TIMES CASH STORE ALBION Phone Albion 3

Mainly canned goods Silver Star Starch

The Better Service, Quality and Service Store Note: Bent wood chair for customers. Page FOURTEEN - Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 A. William’s Drapery Shop PHOTOGRAPHS at Wilston. Do you want your feathers from STATE LIBRARY of Queensland cleaned and curled? WANTED Old photographs of the area for our collection and possible publication.

WILSTON to VALLEY

1933 Reo Bus.

Motor from U.S.A. and body built in Australia.

THISTLE STREET BRIDGE looking towards Lutwy- che Road on horizon. Can you see the Meth- odist Church and the Crown Hotel? Bridge was replaced in 1939 with the new tram- line down Bradshaw Street. Below: New Bridge nearing completion with Old Bridge still in place. See May 2018 Journal for photo of foundations of new bridge.

Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 Page FIFTEEN matter the Government has stepped in and evaded it and the police have shown no interest - obvously on Government instruc- 1950 ELECTION tions. Mr Morris said that the statement by the Attorney-Gen- Central Queensland Herald: eral (Mr Larcombe) that the 19 April 1951. Liberal Party did not avail itself WINDSOR VOTE of the opportunity to present the case to the Elections Tribunal CHARGES was designed to mislead the BRISBANE: April 13. - Mr public. Mr Larcombe knew that K. Morris, Liberal MLA, today the procedure by petition could handed over to the Commis- prove only 11 cases of fraud sioner for Police (Mr Smith) while Mr Rasey’s majority was statuary declarations and other 29. The opposition leader (Mr documents which, he claimed, Nicklin) and the Deputy Op- proved an electoral fraud in the position Leader (Mr Hiley) are 1950 Windsor State Election. expected to confer next week on Mr Morris asked for an moves to assemble Parliament exhaustive police investigation before the expected sitting date of his claim. of early August to discuss the Mr Smith said subse- Windsor election. quently that his interview with Mr Morris was a matter for his Not after administration of the Police De- Mayoralty partment. TOM RASEY, By Our City Hall Reporter Mr T. Rasey (Labour) the same section for Mr Devene. Mr T. A. Rasey, M.L.A., won the Windsor seat with a In the batch of 41 Section said yesterday he would not be majority of 29. 70 votes counted by the Windsor a candidate for the Lord Mayor- returning officer on Thursday, alty. May 4, the envelopes contained He had been approached only 11 votes on which Devene’s by a section of the Municipal name was written whereas there Labour Party, but he intended to were 30 bearing the name of devote his time to his Windsor Rasey, the Labour candidate. State electorate. Mr Morris saw Mr Smith, The secretary of the Mr Morris made these by appointment at 4 p.m. today Queensland Central Executive points to Mr Smith in an accom- and remained with him for about of the Australian Labour Party panying letter: There were 18 five minutes. (Mr S. Bryan) said yesterday that statutory declarations made by On leaving he said that Lord Mayoral and aldermanic Windsor electors who voted at when he spoke on the matter in nominations would close on the chief electoral office under Parliament on February 28 he August 18. If a plebiscite were Section 70 of the Elections Act had publicly offered to hand evi- necessary it would be held on in which they swore they record- dence on the Windsor electorate September 15. ed their vote for the Liberal can- to the police. President of the Citizens’ didate, Mr A. J. Devene. (Section The evidence shows that Municipal Organisation (Mr. C. 70 covers absent votes cast at the at least genuine Liberal votes G. Sweetman) said the commit- Chief Electoral Office before the were replaced by 11 faked votes tee of management would report election.) for the Labour candidate at that progress to a full meeting of the Four other Windsor elec- election. C.M.O. Council on August 20. tors stated they also voted under Ever since I raised the The Courier-Mail: 9 August 1951 Page SIXTEEN - Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 old road, in wet weather, are noticed by the petition. The petition asks that The Moreton Bay Courier £250 may be placed on the estimates for 1859 for the purpose. When it Bowen Bridge Story in Clippings is considered that Government land has been sold at a high price in the 11 April 1857 honour to be, Sir, your most obedi- direction indicated by the petition, THE BRIDGE OVER THE ent servant, that homesteads are increasing, UPPER PART OF JOHN HAY. improvements going on, and To: John Richardson, Esq., M.P. BREAKFAST CREEK. the increased value of unsold land, We are informed that a punt, In answer to the petition if easy access is afforded we do not capable of conveying a horse and sent to Sydney a few weeks ago, think there is any doubt but that the dray, will be stationed at the upper praying for the erection of a bridge boon will be granted. part of the Creek in the course of a in the vicinity of the Three Mile 26 March 1859 few days. Scrub, in order to open up the coun- A NEW BRIDGE FOR 14 November 1857 try to the northward, the following BREAKFAST CREEK. letter has been received from the NEW FERRY OVER The £500 which has been Secretary for Public Works, Depart- BREAKFAST CREEK. voted for the new bridge at Break- ment of Land and Public Works, A new punt has been built fast Creek will yield as much value Sydney, 23rd March, 1857. Sir, I am by Mr Feeney at the Fishery, and to the Government as to the public; directed by his Excellency the Gov- approaches have been formed to as a readier access will thereby be ernor-General to acknowledge the Breakfast Creek from the road lead- afforded to large tracts of unsold receipt of the memorial presented ing across York’s Hollow, and from lands. The spot for the proposed by you, from certain residents at the continuation of the same road bridge is the nearest way to Sand- Moreton Bay, praying that the lead- on the opposite side of the creek. A gate and the Bald Hills, and it will ing line of the road from Brisbane new facility for traffic in that neigh- afford great convenience to the small to the Northern Districts (which has borhood has thus been made, and a farmers on the Kedron Brook and been abandoned for ten years in con- beautiful and uninterrupted tide into those on the other side of the Creek. sequence of the difficulty in cross- the bush opened up to our riding 6 July 1859 ing the upper portion of Breakfast parties. The ferry will be available Tenders for Bridge across Creek), may be again opened and a from Wednesday next, for foot, pas- sengers at 1d., and for horses at 4d. Breakfast Creek. bridge built across the said creek, TENDERS will be received at this - and in reply to inform you that each. 1 December 1858 Office until noon on Saturday, the a communication has been made, 16th instant, from persons desirous through the Colonial Architect, A PROPOSED NEW of contracting for the erection of to the Surveyor of Roads in the BRIDGE. a BRIDGE ACROSS THE UPPER Moreton Day District, calling for his A petition is in course of PART OF BREAKFAST CREEK. report as to the character and impor- signature to the Government, for the Plan, Specification, and form of tance of the road. 2. The Govern- erection of a bridge at the point on Tender, may be seen daily between ment Resident at Brisbane has also Breakfast Creek where now 11 a.m., and 2 p.m. been asked to favour the govern- Feeney’s ferry boat is used. The po- Tenders must state the time within ment with his opinion as to the desir- sition described is midway between which it is proposed to complete the ability of incurring expense thereon, the new bridge already built, and the work, and at the foot of every Ten- and every enquiry will be instituted passage of the ford at the “ Three der there must be a memorandum as to the importance of the road in Mile Scrub.” The new ferry route, signed by the party tendering, and question, and the practicability of and proposed place for a bridge, is two responsible persons as Sureties, providing for its improvement out the most direct way for those who agreeing to be answerable for the of the general road vote. 3. With have lands at Breakfast Creek, Up- due performance of the contract, in regard to the bridge, however, it can per Kedron Brook, the Bald Hills, the event of the Tender being ac- scarcely be hoped that so expensive and for other settlements in that di- cepted, and undertaking in that event a work as it would be, can be so rection. The distance which could be that they will severally execute and provided for. - I have the saved, and the impassible state of the deliver at the Office of the Crown Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 Page SEVENTEEN Solicitor, in Brisbane, within four- road surveyor, and Mr D. F. Long- of Sandgate. teen days from the usual notifica- lands, the foreman of works in the 2 June 1860 tion of acceptance, a Bond to Her roads department. The plan adopted Majesty in the penal sum of £200, by Mr Roberts is remarkably simple, UPPER BREAKFAST for securing such performance, oth- while at the same time, strength and CREEK BRIDGE erwise the Tender will not be taken solidity are effectually secured. The The upper Breakfast into consideration. high road at this point crosses the Creek Bridge, of which we gave a JNO. C. WICKHAM, G. R. creek at an angle of about forty-five lengthened description in our last Government Resident’s Office, degrees, and it was therefore found Saturday’s issue was opened for 4th July, 1859. necessary to build what is is termed traffic yesterday afternoon at four Tenders to be endorsed, “Tenders for a skew bridge. The abutments at o’clock, in the presence of a large Breakfast Creek Bridge.” either end rest upon three strong number of visitors, who attended piles, and the stream is spanned both on horseback and on foot. Mr 24 August 1859 by four equal sections, & the three Justice Lutwyche announced, im- To Stonemasons, stone piers of solid masonry and mediately previous to the ceremony, TENDERS will be received by the built up to high water mark. On the that he had been requested to name undersigned, up to the 31st instant top of the piers is placed a strong the bridge, the opening of which at noon, for the erection of TWO truss cap of timber, which rises they had met to witness. He ex- STONE PIERS, according to plan about five feet, and is seemed to the plained that the structure would have and specification, for Breakfast Creek stone work with iron bolts. On the been a very different kind of affair if Bridge (Upper) at a place known as top of this truss carbels are fixed, the original grant had not been sup- Feeney’s Ferry. which receive the ends of the main plemented by the Queensland Gov- Plans and Specification to be seen at timbers, and the bottom is notched ernment, at the earnest solicitation the Police Office, Brisbane. out so as to form the abutment of of Mr F. E. Roberts, the engineer, to Tenders to be endorsed “ Tenders the main timber truss. The roadway, whom they were indebted for that for Stone Piers for Breakfast Creek which is 183 feet long, and 13 feet act, as well as for the neatness and Bridge (Upper ).” between the kerbs, - is formed of durability of the bridge itself. FRANCIS E. ROBERTS, logs about 9 inches square, placed His Honor also compliment- Surveyor of Roads. close together, and seemed with ed Mr Longlands, the foreman of Brisbane, 17th August, 1859. iron bolts. A neat handrail traverses works, for the able manner in which 24 March 1860 each side of the bridge, and strong he had carried out the plans and, at UPPER BREAKFAST kerbing timbers prevent the too near the close of his remarks, christened the bridge with a bottle of cham- CREEK BRIDGE. approach of wheels to the side rail. Thus, as we before said, the utmost pagne, naming it after His Excel- The construction of this solidity has been secured, while lency, Sir George Bowen, who has bridge is now being rapidly pro- the plan is of the simplest. The first all along manifested much interest in ceeded with, as the tides no longer stone of the first pier was laid as late its progress. A procession was then interfere with the workmen. The as the 4th February last, and when formed, and Bowen Bridge was three stone piers are finished, and we take into consideration that the formally thrown open to traffic. The the piles at either end are driven, so works were frequently delayed by men who had been engaged upon that the superstructure is all that now the inclemency of the weather - the the work were afterwards met by Mr remains to be done. delay amounting to a month alto- Roberts, who thanked them for the 26 May 1860 gether - we certainly must compli- satisfactory manner in which they UPPER BREAKFAST ment Mr Longlands upon the ability had done their part, and presented CREEK BRIDGE with which he has performed his them with a donation wherewith to The forward state of this part of the task. The whole structure drink “prosperity of the traffic,” or structure will, we understand, permit will cost about £750, inclusive, we any other toast they might fancy. As of its being opened to the public on believe, of a culvert over the small the men received similar largesse Friday next, the 1st of June. The swamp on the Brisbane side of the from other individuals whose prop- substantial character of this bridge, approach. The completion of this erty lie in that direction, the proba- and the rapidity with which it has structure will open up another de- bility is that they enjoyed themselves been erected, reflect the highest lightful ride or drive, and consider- heartily, and toasted away to the top credit upon Mr F. E. Roberts, the ably lessen the distance to the village of their bent. Page EIGHTEEN - Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 evenings from Aspley to Wooloowin Station. At the end of the year the company was making a small profit THE KEDRON and then was running three buses and fifteen horses. They then added two trips a day from Stafford as well. OMNIBUS CO. The company continued In previous issues of the elected provisional chairman. running until May 1915 when the Journal (February and May 2017) At a meeting on 3 June it company was voluntarily wound up the story of Chalk’s ‘Busses has was decided that the bus should run and sold to Mr Murrin of Ipswich been included. This story is about a to Wooloowin Station from Aspley. who was not successful operating it. latecomer to the horse bus operations. On 18 June Conradi and Hamilton Soon after it was auctioned and pur- In 1912 there was a huge transport inspected Mrs Morton’s buses at Mil- chased by Arthur Lavarack, licencee strike in Brisbane (see forthcoming ton and it was decided to purchase at of the Royal Exhange Hotel, Aspley article in Journal November 2019 a later date from her a double-decker and the stables were shifted onto his - Lethal Weapon). In desperation bus No. 54. * Local shopkeepers Local * land. After World War 1, returned the remaining horse bus proprietors This bus was made in Syd- servicemen Charles Albion and Bill decided to amalgamate forming the ney and when it was imported to Bielenberg bought the bus line and in Brisbane Motor Bus Company intro- Queensland, customs duties were 1922 sold it to Dave Little and Les ducing motor buses for the first time. paid by Mrs Morton, the proprietress Boyce. They soon converted to mo- The company rationalised of the Rosalie, Milton and Bayswa- tor buses and the route now ran from its routes and many outlying areas of ter line of horse buses. It was then Bald Hills to Wooloowin Station. Brisbane found themselves without licenced to carry 25 passengers - 12 In those days people were taught any public transport. A meeting of inside, 12 on top and one beside the to drive on the regular bus route. In northside residents was convened at driver. 1945 the company was sold to Rex Tom Hamilton’s home on Gympie Mitchell and the route then teminated Road on 21 May 1912 to consider at Lutwyche Cemetery - the end of the advisability of forming a com- the tram route. The Bald Hills - Sand- pany to establish a local bus service. gate Bus Service continued to leave The eight people present promised to from the Lutwyche Cemetery even take up £120 worth of shares if such though the tram route was extended a company were formed. to Chermside in 1947. Driver Tom Tunney was in- Bus No. 54 remained dere - structed to offer the Brisbane Motor lict and owned by J.H. McClurg until Bus Co. £120 for a bus, six horses it was given a spruce up and ran in and the necessary harness. The next the 1959 Centenary procession. day a message was phoned to Wil- It was then restored and liam Sammells* that the price would painted by Alex Hamilton, a coach be £150 and the mail contract and RESTORED HORSEBUS No. 54 painter and son of one of the original licence would be included. Hamil- At 3 p..m. on Thursday 27 directors. Alex told me that his paint ton and George Conradi* went and June 1912, two buses - numbers scheme did not copy the original inspected the horses and the bus and 63 and 73 of the Lutwyche line, six paintwork which included the words negotiated with the company rep- horses and harness and the transfer - Aspley - Wooloowin, but was in resentative, Trumph, until the price of the mail contract was made to the the best style and included the sub- was reduced to £120. Kedron Omnibus Company. £150 Researched by David Teague urbs Chermside, Kedron and Staf- That night another meeting was handed over and the buses were ford. where it had operated. All the was convened and twelve residents delivered that Saturday, 29 June and fine lines and flourishes and lettering attended bringing the promised sup- the first run was made on the same were hand done. For many years it port to £196. The following Tues- day. was on the north verandah of the old day, 28 May, fifty people attended a On 15 July the company oc- Queensland Museum (near the lung meeting in the Chermside School of cupied new stables on the Hamilton fish aquarium) and it now is a feature Arts Hall and it was formally decided property in Hall Street. of the Cobb and Co. Museum in Too- to form a company. John King* was The buses ran mornings and woomba. Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018 Page NINETEEN WAVERLEY, 638 Lutwyche Road, Wooloowin. JOURNAL Volume 30 Number 3 Home of Mr A. C. BARRON. Barron purchased this corner of 3 lots - 33, 34, AUGUST 2018 112 totalling 49.8 perches and also lots 125-8 of 64 Recent issues are viewable at the perches in Lamington Avenue on 14 December 1916. National Library of Australia, Canberra, State Library of Queensland and on line at www.windsorhistorical.org.au

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Much of the historical material used was found at Trove Newspapers, National Library of Australia BARRON. Alexander Charles Bar- — The Relatives and Circulation Manager: Gem Cowlishaw ron was born in 1890 and died on Friends of Mrs A. C. Barron are Proof Readers: Judy Willis 28 May 1952. He was the son of respectfully invited to attend the and Rosalie Raciti. James McIntosh Barron (1863 - Funeral of her beloved Husband Production costs donated by the editor. (Alexander Charles Barron), to leave 1933) and Alice Mary White. He Produced and Edited his late residence, 638 Lutwyche is the grandson of Alexander and by David Teague. Amelia Barron early landowners Rd., Wooloowin, This (Saturday) and residents of Gordon Park. Morning, after service, commencing Delivered by e-mail to members. Waverley was in the at 9.15 o’clock, for the Lutwyche Print version courtesy of second Bradshaw Estate, facing Cemetery. Trevor Evans, M.P. Lutwyche Road and Norman CANNON & CRIPPS, LTD., Avenue. Funeral Directors. For the latest news and coming events CITY MARKETS BARRON. — The Relatives and join us on our website or on Facebook. VETERAN DIES Friends of Mrs H. Barron, Mr and Mr Alex Barron, of Ked- Mrs R. W. Pearce, Mr and Mrs N. Membership Year ends

*Wooloowin ron,* a prominent figure in the Barron, Mr and Mrs C. W. Barron, 30 September 2018. Roma Street produce markets, Mr and Mrs D. McDougall, and Mr died early this morning, aged 63. and Mrs C. R. Barron are invited to This is a reminder to pay the Until 1950 he was the principal attend the Funeral of their beloved 2018 - 2019 Membership soon. partner of the produce agency Brother, Brother-in-law, Alexan- of Barron, Orr, Pty Ltd. He was der Charles Barron, to leave us per treasurer of the Brisbane Produce previous notice. LOTS ABOUT CANNON & CRIPPS, LTD., Merchants’and Produce Agents’ LUTWYCHE Funeral Directors. Association for 25 years. BARRON.— Kedron Bowling by Beres McCallum, OAM At the beginning of the Club, President and Members of the OUT NOW century, he entered the firm above are invited to attend the of Howse Brothers, where he $20 Funeral of their late Patron and Life remained until 1920 when he Member, Alexander Charles Barron, started his own agency, in part- to leave as per family notice. nership) with Mr W. Orr. BARRON.—Kedron Ladies’ Mr Barron was also the Bowling Club.— Officers and first treasurer of the Kedron Members of the above are invited Bowling Club and at the time to attend the Funeral of Alexander of his death was its patron. Charles Barron, beloved Husband, He leaves a widow. The Brisbane Telegraph: of Mrs E. Barron, to leave as per 30 May 1952. family notice. The Courier-Mail: 31 May 1952 Page TWENTY - Windsor & Districts’ Historical Society’s JOURNAL August 2018