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Alvey Reels closing down after 97 years
After 97 years of trading, Alvey Reels Australia are closing their doors. The company, which manufactures fishing reels, was formed in 1920 by English migrant Charles Alvey. Initially based in the...
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Wish You Were Here – Vintage Postcards of Toowoomba
Today’s tour of turn-of-the-20th-century Toowoomba is brought to you by digitised postcards from our collection, while the commentary is provided by Darling Downs, Queensland, the garden of Australia,...
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Lathorn Estate, [Yeerongpilly / Yeronga], 1885 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Lathorn Estate, [Yeerongpilly/Yeronga], 1885. John...
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A night at Cloudland with Rockpile (feat. Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds) and The...
On October 13, 1979, Brisbane radio station 4ZZZ presented British rock and roll group Rockpile in concert with Mental As Anything and The Apartments at the now demolished Cloudland in the suburb of...
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Missing plane discovered after nearly five years (1948)
On the afternoon of July 5, 1948, a long military funeral procession wound its way through Bundaberg streets. Following a service at the Christ Church of England, the caskets were carried by...
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The Thargomindah Bunyip (1941)
In August 1941, newspapers around Australia reported several sightings of a mysterious creature at the Dynevor Lakes near Thargomindah, 1000km west of Brisbane, following a spell of heavy rain. Cartoon...
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60th anniversary of Brisbane’s first parking meters
Parking meter. Undated, photographer unidentified. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland collection On August 5, 1957, Brisbane’s first parking meters were introduced in the heart of the...
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Redland Bay, 1884 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Redland Bay Estate, 1884. John Oxley Library, State...
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Seventh Division parade through Brisbane (1944)
On August 8, 1944, more than 10,000 servicemen of the Seventh Division of the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF), most of them veterans of the Middle East and New Guinea campaigns, marched...
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“I am Dan Kelly” declares aged bushman
In August 1933 an old bushman entered the offices of the Truth, a Brisbane newspaper, and claimed to be none other than Dan Kelly, brother of Ned Kelly, and a key member of the Kelly Gang, who had...
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Too Rude for Queensland?
Guest blogger – Emeritus Professor Peter Spearritt, curator of Freedom Then, Freedom Now. Censorship exists in all societies, from self-censorship in actions and language, through to bureaucratic...
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Queensland Places – Thursday Island – E.L. Brown, General Importer and Merchant
The firm of E.L. Brown was an important part of the early Thursday Island business community, having been established in 1874. Edmund Brown, also known as Captain Brown, had a long involvement in the...
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At the Brisbane Ekka, 1950-1977 – the Centaur Memorial Fund’s money spinner
In this Ekka week, Dr Madonna Grehan, 2015 John Oxley Fellow, revisits a relic of Sideshow Alley. Extract from the Brisbane Telegraph, 3 September 1949, in Scrapbook OMEG 19_1, Centaur Fund Records,...
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Wecker Estate, [Coorparoo], 1884 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Wecker Estate, Coorparoo, Queensland, 1884. John...
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Serving Queensland – Lebanese Storekeepers
Guest blogger – Dr Anne Monsour, professional historian. There has been a Lebanese presence in Queensland for almost 140 years. This is not obvious because until the 1940s, immigrants from Modern...
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Graceville Park, Graceville,1887 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Graceville Park Estate, 1887. John Oxley Library,...
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Queensland places – Proston
Two small collections that have recently gone live on SLQ’s One Search catalogue shed light on the early days of the town of Proston in Queensland’s South Burnett region. Acc 6605 Burns Family...
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Queensland Places – Cape York – J.T. Embley
One of Cape York’s early, but perhaps lesser known, explorers was John Embley, who was a surveyor with the Queensland Department of Lands. Mainly at the request of the Queensland Government, Embley...
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Break The Silence : Rally for Gay Law Reform (1989)
Break The Silence : Rally for Gay Law Reform, 1989. (In copyright). John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland This 1989 poster from our collection, Break The Silence: Rally for Gay Law Reform,...
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Imanzi Rwandan Culture Dance Group
Recently acquired by the State Library of Queensland is a small series of black and white photographs depicting the Brisbane based Imanzi Rwandan Singing and Dancing Group. Eric Kagorora. Acc 30854...
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