1995 Aerial View of Taringa BCC Brisbane Images BCC-C120-9532.4
Taringa History Group Meeting Notices and Notes 2009 and 2010
Taringa History Group
Taringa History Group Meeting Notices and Notes (2009 and 2010)
Introduction
Taringa’s potential as a residential suburb was recognised early in the life of the new Colony of Queensland. In the early 1860s 50 acres south of Moggill Road had been surveyed, sub-divided into house size lots and offered for sale. Marketed as the ‘West Milton’ Estate this name was also used in the western suburbs’ first postal contract secured by Alfred Roberts who ran a horse drawn omnibus to Brisbane.
The opening of the railway in the 1870s spurred the building of homes and a number of businesses opened along the crest of Moggill Road. Something of a way stop this included a blacksmith, pub and grocery stores. In due course these would be joined by a school, places of worship, doctors surgery and private hospital, pharmacy, bakery, butchers, picture theatre, a masonic lodge and later service stations. The shopping and services strip became the centre of ‘village’ life, the hub of the local community.
Importantly Taringa became the administration centre for local government when these authorities were formed by legislation in the late 1870s. The office for the Indooroopilly Divisional Board was built in the Moggill/Morrow Road split and subsequently extended to meet the needs of the Taringa Divisional Board, then the Taringa Shire Council as the local authority boundaries were progressively adjusted to reflect closer settlement in the inner suburbs.
Widespread car ownership, residential development of what were once considered the outer suburbs, the building of the bypass, and the construction of Indooroopilly Shopping Town all had a significant impact on Taringa ‘high street’ traders and the ‘village’ life style. Non-residents now usually consider Taringa a bottleneck on their way to somewhere else, however, the shopping strip has and will adapt over time. It has increasingly becoming a centre for professional and medical specialities rather than for everyday purchases, and a hospital will again open in the suburb in 2018/19.
The Taringa History Group was set up in 2002, an initiative of Councillor Judy Magub and a group of local residents. Their initial goal was to collect and record the essence of village life before it was lost. Since that time the group has held regular meetings to discuss topics of interest and published Memories of Taringa Village in 2006. These summary Notes, prepared by Mrs Dotti Kemp, capture just the main points from these meetings where discussion ranges from heritage matters and living memory to the presentation of research based on primary material related to Taringa notables and events.
This is the first of what will be a progressive release of meeting notes up to the present time. There has been some minor reformatting of the original files. An Index is provided.
Issue One – May 2018
For further details please contact:
Group Co-ordinator: Bruce Sinclair [email protected]
Web: brisbanehistorywest.wordpress.com
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Notice of Meeting
Saturday 7th March 2009 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
The Jephson St, Toowong, connection with Taringa’s history – Salvation Army / John W. Todd
Notes from March Meeting
Marilyn England spoke of her latest research about Lang Farm, Toowong.
We also discussed Taringa Estates, including West Milton the earliest (by 1863) from Moggill Road to Swann Rd and east to Beatrice St.
John William Todd auctioneer and real estate agent; his involvement in nearly all Taringa Estates at some time including;
his own houses in Jephson St Toowong, and Sandgate; his work as Sunday School Superintendent at St Thomas’s Church, Toowong; his enthusiastic verse in the Brisbane Courier of 10 July 1884 advertising the merits of the Ellerslie Crescent area of South Toowong:
At South Toowong You can’t go wrong If you take J.W.’s tip; Buy a corner lot, Erect your cot, And then you may let it rip.
The land will rise. No matter who buys At South Toowong it’s right; Take Todd’s advice, You may fix your price; Each lot is a “swagger” site.
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Todd died in 1905, the family moved out of “Grosvenor” in Jephson St, and the house was let until 1914 when the Salvation Army acquired it for a Rescue Home to replace their Home in Ellerslie Crescent, Taringa which burned down in January that year. The Salvation Army remains at that Jephson St address though the buildings have now changed. Photo of that Toowong area from Salvation Army archives, courtesy of Peter Perros of Ellerslie Crescent.1
Notice of Meeting
Saturday 4th April 2009 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
Humphrey Shop in Taringa Village, taken over by daughter and son-in-law June and Ronald Egerton
Notes from April Meeting
Unfortunately Delvae Edwards was rained in at Beechmont and unable to speak to us about her Humphrey family until a later date.
We enjoyed some of Delvae’s interesting photos sent by email, including one of the School fête about 1917 showing the same elaborate background structure of a castle/gaol as in our photo of Taringa Theatricals which may also have been a fête event in a different year. 2
We viewed our latest photo acquisition of Taringa Railway Station (1900-18?) and discussed dates for various railway photos. Gas light in this photo. Many thanks to Marilyn England for passing on this lovely photo to us.
Further mention of John William Todd auctioneer, and his early days in Queensland. He served as Hon. Sec. of The Choral Union 1866. Ran a saddlery business in South Brisbane, donating a saddle in several years as a prize for annual Races, and sold out to Butler Bros 1867. Moved to Maryborough, and took his Brisbane bride back there by ship 1868. Settled in Brisbane sometime after first child arrived (born 1869).
1 The Salvation Army sold Todd’s old house at 15 Jephson Street in 2018 2 The ‘castle’ was associated with a 1916 fund-raising event for the Wounded Soldier’s Fund
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Further discussion of the pronunciation of St Osyth Street, Toowong. English town of the name pronounced St Toosee. Toowong school calls it St O-Syth.
Copies handed out of 1895 Electoral Roll for Oxley District, including Taringa.
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Saturday 2nd May 2009 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
(Above left) Early days [Delvae Edwards] (Above right) Roofing off after tornado, no other changes to this elevation by 1986 [John Low 1973 courtesy Jill Clark]
(Above left) Protruding window added by 2000 [John Ronolds] Above right) Front entrance 2006 [Dotti Kemp]
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Notes from May Meeting
Taringa Lodges and some of the notable identities in each were discussed at the meeting.
Two early ones were the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia, the Pride of Taringa Lodge No. 46, and the Freemasons Lodge - the Taringa Lodge, No. 801, Scottish Constitution (later No. 76, after union with other Masonic lodges of differing constitutions?).
The Taringa Masonic Hall was built in 1902, and is still standing at the corner of Frederick St and Moggill Rd, although the Lodge now meets at Sinnamon Park where local Lodges share facilities.
The Rechabites were also in Taringa but were not dealt with at this time.
Isaac Hodgson was a member of both the PAFSOA and the Freemasons.
The Lee-Bryce family provided many keen members of the Masonic Lodge. The younger brother George Buchanan Lee-Bryce served as the first Master of the Taringa Lodge, and also as Taringa’s Station Master and Post Master for many years, living in Princess Street. The older brother Robert Lee Bryce [no hyphen] served with the Grand Lodge in Brisbane; was the City Inspector for Brisbane’s Municipal Council, and lived on the river near Bryce St, St Lucia, moving his house “Inchgarvie” to higher ground in Durham St after the great flood of 1893.
Further information on the Lee-Bryce family eagerly sought.
Bob Silver did good research on the types of cars seen in the photograph of Taringa taxis outside Taringa Railway Station, and on photographs of Taringa Station.
Car left a Hupmobile 1923-1924; car centre a Hudson 1922-1926; car right a Buick 1922-1923 (Thanks to The Vintage and Veteran Car Club for their help in identification.)
Updates on John W. Todd, auctioneer; local building developments; general items.
Notice of Meeting
Saturday 6th June 2009 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
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E George Humphrey and the Humphrey then Egerton then Hughes shop, Taringa Village
Notes from June Meeting
At the June meeting we were very pleased to welcome Delvae Edwards who had travelled a long distance to come to the meeting.
Delvae (Egerton) Edwards was brought up in Taringa, the daughter of June Humphrey and Ronald Egerton, and the grand-daughter of Mr and Mrs E. G. Humphrey who ran businesses in Moggill Road from 1913 onwards.
Mr George Humphrey was a leading light in Taringa; a Master in the Taringa Lodge of Freemasonry; a supervisor of State Elections in the Masonic Hall; a Storekeeper and House and Land agent; and a devotee of Find the Ball competitions in the Courier-Mail, once winning a prize big enough to fund a trip back to New Zealand to visit his family of fifteen siblings.
Mrs Carolena “Lena” Humphrey was an expert needlewoman, and ran a Drapery business in Taringa. Ron and June Egerton who lived in Beatrice St, took over the business from June’s parents when the Humphreys retired.
Delvae brought along two large albums of photographs to show us.
The Taringa Album included wonderful snapshots of early Taringa, mostly taken by (E. G.) George Humphrey who was a keen amateur photographer. Some show the Swann Rd Bridge under construction; trains; buildings going up; Anzac Day in Moggill Road; Taringa citizens.
Delvae was a starring ballerina, and the Ballet Album contained photographs, cuttings and programmes spanning her career from first days in Taringa (with other well-known Taringa students) to Principal Dancer in the Queensland Ballet where she partnered Garth Welch. Delvae is still dancing, now devoting her efforts to Flamenco.
Delvae is an Australian Business Volunteer, and has a special talent for teaching. She travels to developing countries to show how to set up small cheese-making operations.
We look forward very much to seeing Delvae and her wonderful Taringa memorabilia again in the future. It was good of her to spare time to make the long journey to and from our meeting.
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Notice of Meeting
Saturday 4 July 2009 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
Helen Morrison (Nellie Campbell) - Mrs James Forsyth of Braelands, Bellevue Parade, Taringa John Oxley Library – Image 143189
Notes from July Meeting
The area in Taringa (South Toowong) bounded by Bellevue Parade and Alpha St – Indooroopilly Rd.
First Landholder of Portions 36 and 37 was James Henderson (Andrew Darbyshire explained the difficulty of deciding which one). Most development in 1880s and agent John Todd promoted sales.
Walter Horatio Wilson (1839-1902) Solicitor, M.L.C., organist and musician, born in Wales, lived at “Sherwood”, Sherwood Rd, Toowong, (house tersely renamed “Sherwood Grove” in 1883 after postal mistakes with suburb of Sherwood) but by 1885 had bought most of the land east of Bellevue Parade (opposite Ellerslie Crescent). Richard Gailey designed the house “Wilcelyn” for him on the crest of the hill, ready before 1888. (Eldest son Walter Frederick Wilson moved into “Rhos-y-Medre”, Burns Rd.)
W.H. Wilson’s wife Elizabeth Hannah (Field) died early in 1886 at “Sherwood Grove, Toowong” before the move.
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Another sorrow was that the beautiful new Willis organ he had ordered for “Wilcelyn” would not fit into the space allotted, and had to be sold – to the grateful Presbyterian Church on Wickham Terrace. (This organ has been traced (2009) to St Andrew’s Uniting Church, Gympie.)
Wilson studied Harmony and Composition at Trinity College London while on leave from his law practice in 1880. He was organist at St Thomas’s Toowong for twelve years, donating a harmonium to the old church, and playing at both old and new St Thomas’s. He founded the Brisbane Musical Union, and was President of the Liedertafel. W.H. Wilson pursued a busy career in Law, and in Queensland Parliament’s upper house. About 1891 both W.H. Wilson and his son W. Frederick and families left South Toowong and returned to Sherwood Rd, Frederick ultimately to Dovercourt.
In 1893 W.H. Wilson married Rose Mary Harding (d. 1934) and lived at “Sherwood Grove”.
W.H. Wilson was appointed C.M.G. in 1900, and died 28 Feb 1902, survived by his widow, a son and daughter from his first marriage, and two sons and a daughter from the second. Buried in Toowong. (See Aust. Dictionary of Biography).
Edward John Holmes (1862-1933) Managing Director in business and insurance, also bought land about 1885, (subdivisions 160 to 164) on the lower slope facing north (on Indooroopilly Rd opp. Perrin Park). His house “Kamilaroi” was designed for him in 1886 by John Hall & Son. Holmes married 1887 and lived there with his wife Ellen “Nellie” (Deazeley) and family until sometime after the 1893 flood, but by 1900 they settled in Grove St, Toowong. “Kamilaroi” vanished, along with one or two other houses close by, but its brick steps remained until 1946, and the bricks are still carefully kept on site by Bruce Sinclair. [see Sep 2009 Report. 1930 bricks.] Subdivisions 160 and 161 were sold to Mrs James Forsyth of “Wilcelyn / Braelands” in 1911.
Holmes lived a busy professional and social life, and died in 1933. Buried in NSW.
James Forsyth (1852-1927) Company Director and Politician became the owner of “Wilcelyn” by 1892. He was a Director of Burns Philp, and had married in 1882 Helen Morrison Campbell the sister of Mrs Robert Philp. After the early death of Mrs Philp, the Forsyths, who had no children, raised her youngest child Helen Bannister “Ivy” Philp. The Forsyths changed the name of “Wilcelyn” to “Braelands” more in keeping with their Scottish heritage. In the 1920s, a new solid brick “Braelands” was built on the same site. A splendid photo, courtesy of the Wesley Mission, was kindly provided by Michael and June Wynne who live on the site in Bellevue Place. Mrs Nellie Forsyth owned “Braelands” until her death in 1938 when Ivy Philp inherited.
Helen Bannister “Ivy” Philp M.B.E owned “Braelands” from 1938 to its sale in the 1960s? During World War II the house was occupied by American military officers, notably General Brett, succeeded by General Kenney a favourite of MacArthur. By this time there were no other houses in that area except “Braelands”. Ivy Philp sold or gave land around “Braelands” house from 1946, and eventually built a smaller house on the eastern slope, and took the name “Braelands” when she moved.
The big house became the property of the Methodist Church who named it “Primmer Lodge” and used it to house male students, later for Teen Challenge until about 1982. Subsequently the Montessori School occupied the building, but by 1989 all signs of the house had gone and the site had become townhouses known as “Bellevue Place”, celebrating its 20th year in 2009.
Notice of Meeting
Saturday 1 August 2009 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
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Braelands, Bellevue Parade, Taringa This 1920s building, built by James Forsyth, replaced the first Braelands (formerly Wilcelyn) Photo courtesy of Wesley Mission by kind favour June Wynne
Notes from August Meeting
Albert Fulton Jamieson – his story, as transcribed by grandson Ivan Kelly, and forwarded to us by John Ronalds. Albert was Master of the Taringa Lodge [Freemasons], and his family was also the largest in the local Rechabite Tent. He lived at “Kumulla” in Waverley Rd, Taringa.
Later history of Braelands. When sold by Miss Ivy Philp it was bought by Miss Primmer and given to the [Methodist] Church to be used as a hostel for young men studying in Brisbane. Named Primmer Lodge, it was given in memory of Miss Primmer’s parents. Primmer Lodge opened on 8 Aug 1956, [Raymont Lodge in Auchenflower was used for girls], then was later used for Teen Challenge [1978-1982]. Sold 1985-6.
The townhouse complex Bellevue Place was opened on the site on 28 Sep 1989 by Sallyanne Atkinson, and celebrates 20 years in Sep 2009.
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June Wynne who lives in Bellevue Place provided information on Primmer Lodge [courtesy Dave Tucker, Wesley Mission Church Historian], and says she also found old bricks in her garden stamped with the maker’s name Campbell (probably Ivy Philp’s grandfather James Campbell’s firm) and most likely made for Braelands.
More on Walter Horatio Wilson
Newspaper article in the Sun, 15 Jul 1917:- “..one of W. H. Wilson’s employees had already opened the Robin Hood Hotel on the Taringa hill to cater for the men who were engaged in building the railway line.”
The Willis organ built for Wilson’s new house “Wilcelyn,” but which didn’t fit, was sold to the Presbyterian Church on Wickham Terrace. When the congregation moved to the new church of St Andrew’s Creek St, it was not known where the organ went. Through contact with Erik Roberts we now know the organ is in St Andrew’s Uniting Church, Red Hill Road, Gympie, and there are photographs on the website:-
(Left) Photo courtesy T. Bunning 2007 (Right) Photo JRM 2007
Railway - Bruce Sinclair informed us that at first the railway only had a bare platform at Taringa, not a Station until much later.
“Tighnabruaich”, Indooroopilly - the Scottish name in Gaelic means “house on the hill” [appropriate for its local site above the Brisbane River] and is pronounced Ty-na-BROO-ack, although the ‘ack’ should really be a soft ‘ach’ as in ‘loch’. [James M. Nicol “How To Say It”, a guide to pronunciation of Scottish placenames.]
Nostalgia - Aan email going the rounds listed 25 items from our nostalgic past. If you could remember more than 16 you were counted as Old as Dirt, and many of us could – candy cigarettes; milk delivered in glass bottles with foil lids; newsreels before the movie; telephone numbers with letters and figures; dimmer switches on the car floor etc.
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Saturday 5 September2009 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
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The Queenslander 24 February 1923 Page 27
Notes from September Meeting
Middenbury House, Toowong (Courtesy Michelle Smith)
Middenbury House, Toowong. Photo: Michelle Smith. Local History Groups, anxious about the fate of this historic house on the river bank at Toowong, signed a letter to the Federal Member for Ryan, Michael Johnson, in August 2009 asking for clarification of the Commonwealth’s intentions for this ex-ABC site, now for sale.
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Yungaba near the Story Bridge, Kangaroo Point. This historic public building is being sold by the Government, to a foreign entity, to be converted into luxury apartments and tower blocks crowding it from public view and use. This building is the only purpose-built Immigration Depot in the country, designed by J.J. Clark who designed the Treasury Building. Wide significance to Queenslanders.
1888 – 2000 the reception centre for all Qld migrants.
1890 – Pacific Islanders for the sugar fields came through here, and were repatriated from here 1904-6. 1890s – Refuge for homeless in Depression years; 1900 – Isolation hospital; 1901 – Received Boer War returnees; 1915-19 – Army General Hospital; 1930s – rooms used for drafting plans for Story Bridge, and Somerset Dam. Later a centre for multicultural events. Urgent letters of protest required.
“Stormy Weather” the Accidents and Offences in Taringa in earlier times as listed in newspapers.
• 1890. A boy Gilbert, driving a horse and cart up Taringa hill for Hicks, furniture dealer, was kicked by the horse; leg broken; detained in hospital.
• 1891. Two young men arrested for stealing a suit of clothes from Mrs Mary Hill of Taringa, one still wearing the suit. Magistrate Mr Pinnock, grumbled of more rogues than honest men.
• 1892. Henry Briggs aged 7, wheeling a wheelbarrow on the Taringa Flat, was kicked on the forehead by a horse and severely injured. [Henry’s sister Annie married Peter McKenzie of Frederick St Taringa, perhaps why he was in the area. Henry later embarked in Brisbane for First World War in Jan 1916 and was killed on the Somme in November that year.]
• 1892. A man was fined £2 for travelling on another’s return train ticket from Taringa to Bne.
• 1892. Mr Stokes (Mineralogist), Mr Gibbon (Asst City Engineer) and his small son, had a “sensational experience” on the Taringa walking track from One-tree Hill, being knocked to the ground when a nearby tree was struck by lightning. Unhurt.
• 1893. William Congram butcher of Taringa, was fined £2 for swearing at the toll collector at Park Road gates early one morning for blocking the passage of Congram’s bullocks along the River Road until toll was paid. Magistrate Mr Pinnock said swearing was a disgusting habit.
• 1893. Great Floods early in year. Record heat – 106.3F [41C] at Taringa in December.
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• 1894. Taringa Station-master George Lee-Bryce’s horse slipped at Queen & Edward St corner in town. Shaft of buggy broken. Other horses fell there too. Salt water for street purposes blamed for slippery surface.
• 1898. “Slight accident” to train engine at Taringa when two boiler tubes burst and quenched the fire. The next train’s engine tried with much huffing and puffing to move both trains at once up the steep incline at Taringa as far as Indooroopilly to shunt the first one off. No go, but succeeded one at a time. [Indooroopilly had a side line for shunting and turning.]
• 1898. Death of Mr John Goldsbrough of Taringa on 1 April. Chairman 1897 of both Taringa Divisional Board and the committee for local celebrations of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. His gravestone in Toowong is unusually inscribed “Died in Taringa”. [Goldsbrough Rd]
• 1923. Babies born at Melford Private Hospital, [or Nursing Home] Taringa. [Where was it?]
• 1933. George Stephenson of Oxford Tce and Archibald Gordon of St Lucia, forced by lack of footpath to walk on the road in badly lit part of Moggill Rd, were knocked down by a motorcycle and concussed, Gordon lying unconscious in the path of the Toowong motor bus. Fortunately redoubtable Constable F.J. Kelly of Taringa, a bus passenger, noticed in time. The two men taken by ambulance to General Hospital. Motorcycle badly damaged, and rider suffered a lacerated knee. [Bob Silver joyfully recalls Const. Kelly, and the dubious jingle about him.]
• 1934. Motor truck on Moggill Rd loaded with logs en route from Brookfield to Chermside broke its axle and got out of control near Burns Rd running backwards through railway fence. The trailer and logs fell down the bank to the railway line, but the truck was caught at the top. Driver leapt out unhurt. Disruption to rail traffic until the outward line was used for both inward and outward trains. The logs were dragged back to the roadway. [Nesta (Dimmock) Russell remembers seeing this accident as a girl when she was sent on a message.]
Bruce Sinclair our railway buff gave further insights into Taringa Rail. Taringa has a notoriously steep incline even now. Only two lines until comparatively recently [four now], hence the hold ups if one line was blocked, as when the logs fell onto the line. In early times there was no station at Taringa, and a train only stopped when hailed. Auchenflower similar but with no official public access to the line except to landholders abutting it.
Bruce discussed the bricks he found on his property – surprisingly not from Kamilaroi the Holmes house of 1887 previously nearby, but steps of Rylance bricks from 1930s – still of an earlier date than his house.
Bruce provided a sheet with the history of St Paul’s Presbyterian Church, St Paul’s Terrace. The congregation was founded in 1863 in a small wooden church in Creek St which was replaced by a stone building in 1876. The valuable property was sold in 1885 to the Queensland National Bank, and the congregation transferred to Leichhardt St where the architect F.D.G. Stanley used stonework, windows, the organ, and street-railings from the old church to build the present St Paul’s. The church has recently undergone major restorations, and the larger part of Leichhardt St is now called St Paul’s Terrace.
Photographs of Taringa and surrounding suburbs were found in The Queenslander newspaper in February 1923 issues, some new to us.
Further additions made to names for the photo of Taringa Rechabites.
Clarification by photo from Ivan Kelly of spelling of Jamieson home “Kumulla” Waverley Rd.
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Forms offered on “How to Trace Your Family Tree”.
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Saturday 3 October 2009 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
Thomas James Rothwell (Redcliffe Museum)
Notes from October Meeting
Thomas James Rothwell OBE 1869 – 1928
Nanette Asher gave a most interesting talk about the personal and public life of Thomas Rothwell, founder of the well-known tailoring firm in Brisbane, who lived in Swann Road, Taringa. Nanette’s grandfather Alfred Pollard of St Lucia was Rothwell’s accountant and Masonic colleague, and bought the Regalia part of the business after Rothwell’s death.
From Rothwell’s obituary in the Sunday Mail 29 Jan 1928, and other data:
When Thomas Rothwell died at “Capemba” on 28 Jan 1928 a well-respected and public-spirited citizen was lost to the State. One of Brisbane’s most successful businessmen, he was always foremost in any scheme for the advancement or beautification of the city, and involved in many public movements and appeals.
Born in London, Thomas came to Queensland with his parents and siblings in 1882, but settled in the Newcastle area. He entered the commercial sphere and eventually took over the firm. He sold up and sailed for England intending to stay, but was back within months “finding the climate uncongenial.”
He opened his own tailoring business in Brisbane in 1897 in Queen St, later converting it into a limited liability company of which he was governing director. He moved to his own building in Edward St near Rowe’s and was very successful, providing not only the best attire for men, but items such as cycling skirts for women. [“A pair of trousers from Rothwells was really something” I was told this week by a gentleman.]
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When the store burned down in 1909, Thomas walked to town in the wee hours to inspect the calamity. A new building was soon constructed, with Masonic and other symbols on the pediment – still there today. Thomas was a Mason; a member of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce; Hon. Secretary of the Patriotic Fund in WW1; organised the Returned Soldiers’ Transport Corps; received the OBE for his war efforts; was an ardent motorist; was known as the Father of Children’s Day for yearly organising RACQ motorists to take sick and orphan children on a picnic to the seaside; was President of the RACQ; originated the scheme to line Anzac Memorial Avenue near Redcliffe with a tree for every local soldier, raising £6000 for it; but would not contest political honours. He was a keen horticulturist with a splendid collection of palms; and a member of Toowong Bowling Club.
A year before his death he married in Armidale a widow Ethel Mary Brodie (Ramsay) Forster of Sydney. There were no children. Thomas is buried in Toowong Cemetery.
[His widow remarried (Charles Ewen Cameron) in about 1948 but was known as Rothwell.
Grateful thanks to the volunteer from Redcliffe Museum who drove to the Rothwell Monument at Anzac Avenue, took a photo and emailed it the same day for inclusion in the talk.
Newspaper cutting (Nesta Russell)
Taringa’s horse trough
Nesta Russell found this treasure of about 1935-6 among her papers, kept from schooldays.
May Jamieson [Taringa SS 1903] recalled bullock teams passing, and pupils being ushered inside away from the teamsters’ swearing.
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Elsie [b. 1905] and Ruby [b. 1915] Glassop remember wicked men and boys being dunked in a local trough to help them mend their ways. [A different trough?]
Farmers from Brookfield taking their produce to town would have watered their horses at Taringa.
Ivan Kelly and John Ronalds particularly remember the horses of the local butcher and baker which would have used this trough [which was filled by a ball-cock].
The stand pipe outside the school [rear right] would have filled tanks on trucks.
Notice of Meeting
Saturday 7 November 2009 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
(Left to right) Sr Florence Trotter (POW), Mrs Flo (Trotter) Syer and Private Alma Bowman AAMWS
Notes from November Meeting
Remembrance Day. We remembered Taringa women who had served in various wartime organisations:
Alma Bowman [Australian Army Medical Women’s Service] of “Tor” Princess St. Alma enrolled at Taringa School aged 12 on 15 Aug 1932, and in 1943 before enlisting was a Dental Nurse. Photograph held by Australian War Memorial.
Margaret Irwin WAAAF, of Manchester Terrace, Taringa. Margaret enrolled at Taringa State School on 11 Nov 1921.
Violet Cross enrolled at Taringa State School on 30 Jan 1928. Recalled as having served in some medical field. Violet has been found alive and well down the Coast. She trained as a nurse at the Brisbane General, did her midwifery in Cairns, and remained on the hospital staff there during the war. Her nursing being considered a restricted profession in war time, she was unable to join any of the military services. Her youngest brother Ken, apprenticed to Trittons as a French polisher, also tried to join the Forces, but was not allowed as he was making coffins for the Americans.
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Kathleen Elsie Thomas of Alpha Street enrolled at Taringa School on 11 Sep 1923, and joined the Land Army, serving in Indooroopilly, Biloela and the Atherton Tableland – where the girls lived in primitive conditions, worked hard, and were fed boiled mango and burned custard every night for a long stretch.
Florence Trotter, Australian Army Nursing Service, of “Booreela” Stanley Terrace, enrolled at Taringa School in 1924 aged 9. Trained as a nurse at Brisbane General Hospital, she enlisted 1941. Served in Malaya with 2/10 AGH. Evacuated on “Vyner Brook” which was bombed and sunk. Became a POW for over three years. Her camp in Sumatra was notable for the Women’s Vocal Orchestra which sang classical works. The story was later portrayed in the 1997 film “Paradise Road”. She married and has descendants in Indooroopilly. In 1999 a 30-bed ward at Greenslopes Hospital was named the Florence Syer Unit to honour the heroism and sacrifice of this remarkable Army nurse and POW.
As light relief, we read the story of Arthur MacArthur’s Goat. The Brisbane newspapers of 29 Apr 1944 reported on Judge Brennan’s idea of giving a goat [Tojo from Longreach] to General MacArthur’s son Arthur aged 7; its arrival by train; and the complication of where to keep the goat, given that the MacArthurs were living in Lennons Hotel in the city at the time. The original cutting had recently come from Jean Barnette, a war bride from Brisbane who lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Ivan Kelly gave us some wonderful photos of Taringa, and we were pleased to welcome him and wife Bronwyn to our meeting.
Bruce Sinclair has been reading early Queensland newspapers, and queried advertisements of “slops” for sale. None of us knew what they were. Aside from the familiar usage of spillage, dregs, waste water etc clearly there is another definition that is no longer familiar to us.
Ask Bruce. [[Ready-made clothes esp. those supplied to sailors from ships stores. Loose trousers.]]
The land where the Williams Store was is up for sale again.
Stop Press: Mrs Ching’s house at 113 Moggill Rd, just west of Stanley Tce. Courier-Mail 18 Nov 2009 – The owners [Shannon Nominees No 219 Pty Ltd] have applied for a development permit for a Car Yard.
(Photo Dotti Kemp)
Notice of Meeting
Saturday 4 December 2009 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
End of year informal meeting
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Gregory Terrace, Taringa 4 December 2009 – the Christmas tree that wouldn’t wait for Christmas (Dotti Kemp and Marissa Calligeros)
Bring Information you have on Woolley Street. Happy Christmas to all, and may your tree behave beautifully No meeting in January.
Notice of Meeting
Saturday 6 February 2010 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
Planning Meeting
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Saturday 6 March 2010 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
Notes from March Meeting
Taringa Transport
Bruce Sinclair provided the results of his considerable research into Taringa’s transport services, with details of the dates and development of all bus routes and operators.
Earliest public transport provided by Alfred E. Roberts in the 1870s with his horse-drawn omnibus between Taringa [near Village or about where Taringa station is] and the city via River Road.
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Horse-drawn omnibus [in Bundaberg ca 1900] JOL
Brisbane Courier 14 Dec 1878 p. 6:
Summons Cases – Breach of Municipal By-Law.
Alfred Roberts, licensed omnibus driver, was summoned for neglecting to keep a lamp lighted inside his ’bus, in compliance with the law in such cases made and provided, pleaded guilty, and was fined 3s. 6d. costs.
The rail line went through in 1875 but for some time there was no station at Taringa, just a platform. Passengers needed to hail the train driver to get on, and declare at the start of the journey where they wished to get off. Stationmaster appointed about 1890, and also dealt with all incoming and outgoing mail and parcels. Trains now stopped automatically, but no extra side line for railway goods vans as at Indooroopilly or Toowong.
Because of Taringa’s terrain and climate, a bus service was needed in addition to the train. A licence was granted 4 Aug 1922 to Norman M. Turner for a route between St Lucia Rd and Eagle St, city. By 1926 the route was altered to extend to Lucinda and then Princess St, Taringa. Licence transferred in 1927 to S.C. Mullen, and when the routes were extended, to subsequent operators, including W.A. Donald, J.J. O’Connell. [Chris?] Berndt ran a service from Indooroopilly in the 1920s, and later a Stanley Tce service which he sold to F.J. and M. Mesh. All these services were taken over by the Brisbane City Council about 1948, and by 1958 had been given route numbers – 13 Lambert Rd; 14 Swann Rd; 15 Stanley Tce. Route 13 was changed to 2 (with variations, 2A etc, to suit the route) possibly because of complaints from superstitious locals about the number 13.
Taringa to Eagle Street bus. 1920s
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In 1950 a trolley-bus service was proposed to replace diesel buses along Moggill Rd, but did not go ahead. Bus services now cover the whole of Taringa, from Long Pocket in the south to Stanley Tce on the north, and from Indooroopilly Shoppingtown in the west to the University and St Lucia to the east. The rail line was enlarged to four lines and is a busy corridor through Taringa.
Notice of Meeting
Saturday 1 May 2010 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
37 Beatrice St Taringa, Lot 48, Portion 43 Parish Indooroopilly. Photo J Clark collection
Topic: Shop, 37 Beatrice St Taringa
Owners include Wardhaugh 1889; Tingey; Wuiske; Barringer; Webb; Watson; Chadwick; Whatnall; McWilliam; Weir; Richards; Vlakos; Seeto; Joiner; Lee 1993. Any information or stories appreciated.
Note: Meetings now held every second month
Notes from May Meeting
We began research into the Beatrice St Store, Lot 48, now 37 Beatrice St, Taringa.
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The land was originally granted to James Henderson in 1860, acquired by Walter Horatio Wilson 1874 and divided into lots from 1880.
1. William Frederick Wardhaugh arrived in Brisbane on the “Duke of Argyle” in 1886 aged 21. He bought Lot 48 in 1889 and six months later married Alice Williams. He was the first owner of the Store. Alice died in 1911 and the shop was rented to the Tingeys forthwith. Frederick Wardhaugh moved to a shop in Auchenflower and married Ivy C. England in 1918. Fred died in 1946 and is buried beside Alice in South Brisbane.
2. Samuel John Thomas Tingey, his wife and surviving two of five daughters Rosina and Vera arrived on the “Orvieto” in 1910 and took over the management of the store in 1911.
Brisbane Courier 26 Oct 1911 p.2
Samuel Tingey (1863 – 1947) had served in the Royal Artillery of the British Army from 1883 to 1905; taken part in the Boer War; and retired as Warrant Officer of 5 years. He bought the Store in Jan 1914, but sold the Store to Otto Emil Carl Wuiske in 1915, a son of Julius Wuiske of Oxford Tce.
After the Gallipoli disaster 1915, Samuel joined the AIF and served in NSW until discharged in 1920. The family returned to England, and Samuel died in 1947, having lived through the third major war in his lifetime. The daughters married in England. Vera had attended Taringa State School.
Bruce brought results of his researches into the Post Office Directories of this area.
Notice of Meeting
Saturday 3 July 2010 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
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Beatrice Street – Oxford Terrace corner, Taringa Photo J Clark collection.
Topics: Wuiske Galore [Hermann the Hercules etc] Bruce trawls for treasures “Asnug” at risk in Alpha St [photos]
Notes from July Meeting
WUISKE FAMILY
Julius Gottlieb Wuiske (1858 – 1929) and his wife Ida Caroline Fredericka Schüttkeker and their two eldest children migrated from the Pommern (Pommerania) region of Prussia in 1886. Pommern is in northern Europe on the Baltic coast in an area that was sometimes north-east Germany, sometimes north-west Poland, or even Swedish territory. The Wuiske name was originally Von Woiske, but in Australia Wuiske, sometimes reported as Winske.
The Wuiskes arrived in Queensland on the “Duke of Westminster” in January 1886, and soon made their way to Marburg where other Pommeranian families were residing. Hermann was born in April that year, the third of their ten children, all surviving except the youngest.
They moved to Brisbane by 1891 and bought a house near the corner of Oxford Tce and Wilson St, Taringa. The children attended Taringa State School. Years later Julius bought the corner block and erected and moved into a house (73 Oxford) which had the first proper bathroom in the street, a subject of great interest to the neighbours who all visited to inspect the phenomenon.
Julius was a tanner and worked for Thomas Dixon, the shoe manufacturer in West End. The Dixon building is now the home of Queensland Ballet.
Hermann became a builder, and possessed great physical strength, easily lifting a statue at the Regatta Hotel when all contenders had failed. He met his untimely death in 1942 while returning home at night from
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Rocklea in the war-time blackout, and it is said he was run over by an American truck. This was not reported in the press, probably so as not to further raise the anti-American feeling at the time.
Mrs Ida Wuiske on right, With daughter Ida Dorothea Symons and grandson Lex. 1930s photo: Wuiske Family
BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL MINUTES re TARINGA [Extracted by Bruce Sinclair]
4 Mar 1929 – Request by Taringa Progress Assoc to improve traffic visibility where Swann Rd meets Moggill Rd by cutting away part of high cliff on outbound (south) corner. Recommended by Committee.
20 May 1929 – Request by W. Williamson for extension of water main in Oxford Tce 1 Jul 1929 – Application to erect shop and dwelling in Princess St. Granted Oct 1930.
30 Jun 1930 – Petition from Taringa for extension of tram service along Stanley Tce. To be considered when funds available.
7 Jul 1930 – Petition for a bridge at Taringa end of Miskin St. No funds at present.
“ASNUG” 56 ALPHA ST, TARINGA
The last remaining cottage in the block on south side of street was for sale Jun 2010. It was the home in 1920 for the family of Charles Evans, and part of the front verandah closed in by 1923 to accommodate the twins. Family (four daughters) later moved to Oxford Tce next to Wuiskes.
Photo: D. Welch 1920 Photo: D. Welch Ca 1923 L. J. Hooker c1987
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Notice of Meeting
Saturday 4 September 2010 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
Railway Station, Taringa Photo E. G. Humphrey Collection
Guest Speaker Percy Hanlon
Notes from September Meeting
We were privileged to hear Mr Percy Hanlon, doyen of local transport history, speak about the railway – especially from Toowong through Taringa to Indooroopilly. Andrew Darbyshire expertly displayed excellent photographs and diagrams from various sources to accompany the talk.
1857 – Survey completed for a railway from Brisbane to Ipswich and beyond.
1859 – Queensland became a separate State.
1865 – Opening of Ipswich to Grandchester railway. First rail line in Qld.
1873 – Route to North Brisbane [with bridge at Indooroopilly] chosen rather than to South Brisbane.
1873-75 – Construction. Two-storey brick and stone Terminus [by Petrie] at Roma Street, then line ran past the gaol at Petrie Tce [Milton Rd was moved to the right of the line with a bridge over the cutting] to Milton, Toowong, West Milton [Taringa] and Indooroopilly. River unbridged. Line resumed from Oxley Point [Chelmer] to Ipswich. Single line [crossing loop at Toowong] opened Roma St to Indooroopilly 1875. Passengers, mail, some light goods punted over the river.
Construction of the line was executed by the Government, but where possible used local contractors – one to construct a cutting or two, another a bridge, fencing, provision of ballast etc. This sometimes worked well. Steel rails throughout. Not a single level crossing between Roma St and the river. No more land resumed
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than needed for a double line [about 10 to 12 acres per mile, which all had to be purchased]. Various bridges, culverts, cuttings, embankments constructed. Overbridge Burns Rd.
The highest point at Swann Rd “the narrow but steep ridge beyond West Milton” [B Courier 21 Jan 1874] needed a cutting 50 feet deep, and 28,000 cubic yards excavated [mainly by pick and shovel, horse and cart].
The Queenslander 23 Jan 1875 reported “The largest cutting on the line – that at West Milton, contracted for by Mr Pye – presents the greatest difficulties, and the Government have sent to Rockhampton for the Burleigh steam drill.” [one of first pneumatic drills, by Chas Burleigh of USA]
1875 – 14 Jun, rail line through Taringa, but no station or stop.
1876 – Opening of 8-span rail bridge at Indooroopilly – Albert Bridge (1).
Travel time achievable to Ipswich from Roma St was 85 minutes. Three trains a day, both ways.
Passengers had to hail trains at Taringa once a stop was allowed.
1878 – Taringa had proper station, timber building on down side [inbound].
1886 – Improvements to station buildings
1887 – Duplication of line completed Brisbane to Ipswich.
1890 – Public meeting re a footbridge over Taringa Station. [Mr Plunkett had tried to cross lines]
1893 – Albert Bridge swept away in flood
1894 – George B. Lee-Bryce, station and postmaster, Taringa by 1894, gone by 1919. d. 1921.
1895 – Two lines reopened by October, over Albert Bridge (2).
1907 – D16 tank engine reduced time Brisbane –Ipswich to 75 mins.
1950s – Quadruplication of line. Another bridge needed alongside Albert Bridge.
New better-aligned stations needed. Taringa’s overhead station is from this period, almost completed by November 1955. Diesel locomotives in use. Brisbane – Ipswich 63 mins.
1979 – Ferny Grove to Darra line electrified.
Great details were given about the rail line in general, Toowong Station in particular, other stations, construction of the bridges, embankments etc along the way, fires, floods, tracks, sidings, timetables, locomotives, distances, weights of lines and engines, loads, ticket sales, signalling. Types of trains included express mail trains to Wallangarra and to Roma/Charleville; rail motors to Brisbane Valley; freight trains; livestock trains; coal trains. Brisbane Markets were at Roma Street.
Local lobbying at Taringa re footbridge, subway, lighting, ticketing, too many stairs, access, seating. We also looked at the relevant photos from the collection of Mr E. G. Humphrey late of Taringa, train and photo buff [courtesy of Delvae Edwards].
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Pye’s Cutting, Taringa, and Swann Road bridge Photo by E. G. Humphrey, courtesy Delvae Edwards
Notice of Meeting
Saturday 6 November 2010 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
(Above left) ‘Tim’ mascot 2/2 Batt. and Captain Michelson Palestine 1940 AWM 001117 (Damien Parer) (Above Right) ‘Jack’ mascot 2nd Div Sigs with Driver WH Farrell Egypt 1916 – Better than a dog, attacked strangers to unit AWM PO1835.014
Topics: Army Animals. Horrie the Wog Dog RTA.
What really happened to Hermann Wuiske – an inquest.
Taringa Parks – new names for? Suggestions sought.
Items and Updates.
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Notes from November Meeting
Inquest into the death of Hermann Wuiske Hermann was returning home to Taringa after his first day working at Archerfield Aerodrome. He was riding his bicycle and neglected to stop at a Stop Before Entering sign as he swung onto Ipswich Rd. He collided with a large American truck and was killed on 15 April 1942 aged 56. There was no mention in the papers of the accident, perhaps to avoid inflaming wartime tensions.
Naming of local Parks Suggestions were made to name remaining pockets of parkland in Taringa, e.g. the area where the Taringa Shire Council Office used to be, and perhaps also to add signage to parks already named to better indicate former names or significance e.g. Oakman Park (formerly Toowong Sports Ground where penny-farthing bicycle races were held), and Jack Cook Park (formerly Heroes Park to honour War Veterans).
Army Animals. Animals have been part of army life forever, either as transport (horses, mules, donkeys, camels etc); as food for the troops; for communications (pigeons, messenger dogs); as official or unofficial mascots; for searching (dolphins seek mines in the Red Sea; sniffer dogs in Afghanistan];
to guard or warn of present danger (dogs, roosters, birds, monkeys) or imminent enemy aircraft; or as companion animals (all kinds) either taken from Australia or picked up along the way as pets to bring amusement, comfort and companionship in times of stress and danger. Many Australian animals taken to Egypt (kangaroos, wallabies, koalas etc) were ‘gifted’ to Cairo Zoo after wars.
Horrie the Wog Dog [Details from Australian War Memorial records; and Anthony Hill, author] Horrie was a small Egyptian terrier found lost west of Alexandria in 1941 by Private Jim Moody a despatch rider attached to 2/1 Machine Gun Battalion. The pup soon became a favourite, even accompanying the Commanding Office on parade. He was given the army number EX1 (No 1 Egyptian soldier) and smuggled from place to place.
Jim adapted his back pack with slats from a packing crate to make a rigid frame inside, and taught the dog to lie still in it. He cut a large slit down the back and laced it loosely to let air in, hanging his helmet over the hole to conceal the dog. On route marches a friend sometimes carried the dog in the pack and Jim marched behind, pouring water on his fingers and letting the dog lick them dry. The unit served in Egypt, Greece, Crete and Syria. The dog acted as a messenger dog in Greece, and also warned of incoming air raids, saving countless lives. He suffered shrapnel wounds; was squashed between two lifeboats when the ship was sunk; and became ill from extreme cold. Jim made him a coat with corporal stripes, but he took to his bed and refused to move until an old girlfriend, Imshie, from another unit reappeared and licked him on the nose. He sprang up and recovered.
At the end of war, no animal was allowed back into Australia. Our strict quarantine laws have kept rabies etc out of the country. Hundreds of animals of all kinds were found with troops and killed or thrown overboard, even Imshie. No exceptions were made, and this caused great distress among the soldiers who loved and owed their life to a loyal animal and saw it destroyed or left to its fate. Jim was conscious of the reasons, and had the dog carefully checked for disease by a Vet before the trip home. He belonged to The Rebels unit, not fazed by Authority. The dog reached Australia and was sent to Jim’s father in Victoria for the three years Jim went on to fight in New Guinea. Then the dog’s story was used for Red Cross funds and reached the Press,
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and thence the Authorities who insisted Horrie be surrendered and killed on principle. Jim was given a week to bring the dog in, and a death sentence was carried out. Bitter or begging letters were written, but to no avail. Only 60 years later was the true story told. Jim had sent Horrie out of the State; searched all the pounds for a look-alike dog with no future; bought it for 5/- and surrendered it instead. He loved dogs; regretted having to do this; and visited the dog in the days before its death, but was determined to save Horrie. Horrie lived for many years, and fathered lots of puppies which all looked like him.
This story, and its dilemma between saving an animal which had saved many soldiers versus keeping Australia free from potential disease (and the consequent death of hundreds of innocent local animals), is used in schools as a case for debate. Even in the Vietnam conflict war dogs could not be brought home. Only in very recent years have some army dogs been allowed back in, after long quarantine, and no doubt saving their handlers much anguish.
Notice of Meeting
Saturday 4 December 2010 at Toowong Community Meeting Place
Josling Street, Toowong, at 3.00 p.m.
Blazer remnant [A. Darbyshire to explain]
Joint meeting with St Lucia History Group
Nostalgia – Bring something from your childhood
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General Subject Index
Accidents and Offences ...... 13 Philp, Ivy ...... 9 Asnug ...... 23 Pollard, Alfred ...... 15 Bellevue Place ...... 9, 10, 11 Pride of Taringa Lodge ...... 6 Booreela ...... 18 Primmer Lodge ...... 9, 10, 11 Bowman, Alma ...... 17 Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia Braelands ...... 8, 9, 10, 11 ...... 6 Briggs, Henry ...... 13 Pye’s Cutting ...... 27 Brisbane Musical Union ...... 9 RACQ ...... 16 Burns Philp ...... 9 Railway Station ...... 25 Campbell, Helen Morrison ...... 9 Rechabites ...... 6, 14 Capemba ...... 15 Returned Soldiers’ Transport Corps ...... 16 Children’s Day ...... 16 Rhos-y-Medre ...... 8 Congram, William ...... 13 Roberts, Alfred ...... 2, 20 Cross, Violet ...... 17 Robin Hood Hotel ...... 11 Egerton ...... 4 Rothwell ...... 15 Evans, Charles ...... 24 Rothwell, Thomas James ...... 15 Forsyth, James ...... 9, 10 Rothwells Regalia ...... 15 Forsyth, Nellie ...... 9 Salvation Army ...... 4 Freemasons Lodge ...... 6 School fête ...... 4 Gailey, Richard ...... 8 Sherwood ...... 8 General Brett ...... 9 Sherwood Grove ...... 9 General Kenney ...... 9 St Andrew’s Uniting Church ...... 11 Gibbon, Mr (Asst City Engineer) ...... 13 St Paul’s Presbyterian Church ...... 14 Goldsbrough, John ...... 14 St Thomas’ Church, Toowong ...... 3 Gordon, Archibald ...... 14 Stephenson, George ...... 14 Grosvenor ...... 4 Stokes, Mr (Mineralogist), ...... 13 Harding, Rose Mary ...... 9 Swann Rd Bridge ...... 7 Henderson, James ...... 22 Taringa Flat ...... 13 Hill, Mary ...... 13 Taringa Masonic Hall ...... 6 Holmes, Edward John ...... 9 Taringa Progress Association ...... 24 Horse trough ...... 16 Taringa Railway Station ...... 4, 6 Humphrey ...... 4, 7 Taringa taxis ...... 6 Humphrey, Carolena...... 7 Taringa Theatricals ...... 4 Humphrey, George ...... 7 Teen Challenge ...... 9, 10 Inchgarvie ...... 6 The Choral Union ...... 4 Irwin, Margaret ...... 17 Thomas, Kathleen Elsie ...... 18 Ivy Philp ...... 9 Tighnabruaich ...... 11 James Campbell ...... 11 Tingey, Samuel John Thomas ...... 22 Jamieson, Albert Fulton...... 10 Todd, John William ...... 3, 4 John Hall & Son ...... 9 Transport ...... 19 Kamilaroi ...... 9, 14 Trotter, Florence ...... 18 Kelly, Police Constable ...... 14 Turner, Norman M ...... 20 Kumulla ...... 10, 14 Wardhaugh, William Frederick ...... 22 Lee-Bryce family ...... 6 Wilcelyn ...... 8, 9, 10, 11 Lee-Bryce, George ...... 14 Williams Store ...... 18 Liedertafel ...... 9 Willis organ ...... 9, 11 Melford Private Hospital ...... 14 Wilson, Walter Frederick ...... 8 Middenbury ...... 12 Wilson, Walter Horatio ...... 8, 11, 22 Montessori School ...... 9 Wuiske, Julius Gottlieb ...... 23 Mrs Ching’s house ...... 18 Wuiske, Otto Emil Carl ...... 22 Patriotic Fund ...... 16 Yungaba ...... 13 Perrin Park ...... 9
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