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"Old House That Watches Out to Sea" Victoria House -Woody Point.
Jessie Hiller ( born Gloustershire) and his wife Emma (nee Gregory) were some of Redcliffe's early settlers after arriving in Humpybong...

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Oct 13, 202414 min read
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Redcliffe Wall of Fame in the Jetty Arcade
Residents pride in their town or city is influenced by many factors. Whether it be its historic past or even from those citizens past and...

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Jun 24, 20243 min read
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Gibb Family in Redcliffe, Cribb Island and Northgate.
Born in Douglas on the Isle of Man to English parents, Hugh and Barbara (nee Pass) the Gibb brothers, Barry (born 1st September 1946)...

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Feb 16, 20246 min read
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Thomas Pamphlett, Richard Parsons and John Finnegan
The three men are attributed as being the first Europeans to live in the Moreton Bay region. Thomas Pamphlett (Also known as James...

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Jan 3, 20244 min read
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Tristrams Soft drinks. Ice Works and the Redcliffe Bottled Water Company.
Thomas Tristram founded the company as T. Tristram Essences in 1875, almost a decade after arriving in Brisbane. Two years later, he...

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Jul 25, 20232 min read
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First Nations Toora Kerry Kerry/Humpybong/Redcliffe place names and c.1824 topography map
Before European settlement in 1824, the area now known as Redcliffe was home to the Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) and the Ningy Ningy people...

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Jul 21, 20233 min read
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William Hobbs Homestead, Reef Point Estate Scarborough
William Hobbs was born on 23rd March 1822 in London. He married Anna Louisa Barton, (sister of Sir Edmund Barton - Australia's first...

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Jun 24, 20238 min read
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Duane Hart
Duane Hart was born in Hawera, Taranaki New Zealand, and after leaving school at 15yrs he gained a trade as an engineering draughtsman....

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Mar 1, 20233 min read
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Hanlon Street and Short Creek history in Scarborough.
Hanlon Street history in Scarborough. An early 1929 land sale map showing Short St and the location of Morgans Picture Theatre which was...

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Feb 7, 20232 min read
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Bomb detonated on Redcliffe Parade in 1955
On Sunday the 10th July 1955 at 5.20pm, a bomb went off under a grey 1952 FX Holden utility on Redcliffe Parade outside Woolworths and...

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Jan 18, 20238 min read
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James Robert Hughes architectural drawings, ca. 1940-1960
Moreton Bay Library has recently made available a collection of local architectural drawings, ca.1940-1960, drawn by James Robert Hughes....

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Jan 7, 202311 min read
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HUMPYBONG 1870-1883 (By D. H. Mitchell.)
The Daily Mail Saturday 15 May 1926 Page 16 : (Original Newspaper article on Trove at the following LINK) HUMPYBONG FROM 1870 TO 1883...

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Dec 31, 202211 min read
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c.1881 O'Connell Town Estate map and James Mitchell family history
Portion 210 and 211 (119 acres) of the Redcliffe Agricultural Reserve was first purchased by James Mitchell on the 19th July 1871....

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Dec 30, 20222 min read
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Koch Ave Scarborough street history
Koch Ave (formerly Koch St and Helen St) was named after Colonial Felix Bernard Theodore Wilhelm Koch VD, who had decorated military...

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Nov 26, 20225 min read
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Kate St history and the attempted assassination of Prince Edward at Clontarf (Sydney).
Robert T. Scott first purchased portions 110 and 111 in the Redcliff Agricultural Reserve on 12th December 1864. paying 1 pound per acre...

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Nov 23, 20227 min read
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Redcliffe Fire Station early history
From the 1949 Redcliffe Sesquicentenary book: "The Redcliffe Fire Brigade - New Station opened." "For many years Redcliffe struggled...

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Nov 16, 202210 min read
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Comino's Arcade Redcliffe
The Comino's building (Acropolis) is a three storey, heritage listed, brick building on Redcliffe Parade, built by Greek businessman...

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Nov 7, 20227 min read
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Dalton Farm. Dalton St , Beach St, Oleander St and Marsala St history
Herbert Edward Dalton and his wife Ellen and family, moved to Redcliffe from Cairns in 1954 after purchasing 21 acres, part of portion...

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Nov 7, 20222 min read
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Whelan's Lagoon Humpybong Back Tracks
The Brisbane Courier - Saturday 1st May 1926 - Page 19: "Humpybong Back Tracks. The Great Lagoons—Some of the Pioneers—One of the Old...

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Nov 5, 20228 min read
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Harriet Bell history and the 1893 Tornado
Charles Frederick Bell was born on the 28th March 1829 in Middlesex, England. The eldest son of Charles Bell Esq. of 29 Stanley Gardens,...

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Oct 30, 20228 min read
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