A new school for Scarborough was proposed in 1919 and suggested locations were included on an early drawing and the current location was suggested by a Council Clerk in 1919: Scarborough State School was opened on March 9th 1925 Photo from the Moreton Bay Library Collection: RMPC-101\101514 Restored by Duane Hart Photo Restoration Studio Redcliffe. To download a pdf file of the 1925-1934 Scarborough State School register click on the following link: A page from the book Th

Jessie Hiller ( born Gloustershire) and his wife Emma (nee Gregory) were some of Redcliffe's early settlers after arriving in Humpybong with their children Isaac and Ellen Louise and squatting on portions 125 and 126. Their daughter Rosina was born on 26th August 1865, 18 months before Jessie purchased the land at a government land sale office on 2nd January 1867. The family lived on the land with Jessie cutting timber on their property and sailing the logs across to Sandgate

We have a large selection of Redcliffe historical books and downloadable ebooks in our collection including: 1904 Tom Petrie's Reminiscences Of Early Queensland: In 1904, Constance Campbell Petrie wrote a book called “Tom Petrie's Reminiscences Of Early Queensland”. This book also provides a brief sketch of the early days of the colony of Queensland from 1837, through the eyes of her father Tom Petrie. He was considered an authority on First Nations people and in this book t

The Scarborough Hotel was originally called the Bay View Hotel with Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (later premier of Queensland) as one of the original shareholders. Built in 1878 with 150 feet (45.67m) of verandahs at the front and sides, the hotel was one of the first structures to be built on the Peninsula. The building sat on a gentle grassy slope facing Moreton Island at the narrow northerly end of the Peninsula. This was 3 years ahead of the land boom of the 1880s and it wa