30 YEARS: 1988-2018 COVER STORY Page 3 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 column 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 foundation 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 Queensland. 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 - stairs 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 Brisbane River. 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.