Hinterland Stories

Sharing the memories of Montville, Flaxton, Balmoral and Hunchy.

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Tramping the Blackalls

Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. 1903 – 1926), Wednesday 23 June 1926, p. 3 TRAMPING THE BLACKALLS – To Flaxton and Mapleton A LAND OF PLEASANT...

The Wyer Family of Flaxton

This Wyer Family Story has been compiled partly as a genealogy and as a chronology of the early pioneering days. Bob Wyer was interviewed...

The Swain Family of Flaxton and Montville

By Gordon Plowman Leslie Garforth Swain, known by his friends and associates as Les, could look back on his lifetime of achievements with...

The Sunshine Coast Maestro of Music – Alfred Charles Short

Alfred Charles Short, nicknamed Shorty, was the iconic gentleman who serenaded the Blackall Range and the Sunshine Coast with his mouth...

The life-story of Flaxton born Rob Muirhead

I was born in Flaxton on 10 October 1910, moving to Montville, living in various places on the front road, now Balmoral Drive, and the...

Pat Brown Interview 1985

Date of Interview: 12 March 1985 Place of Interview: Montville Interviewer: Gillian Pechey Transcriber: Colwyn Boulton Born: 1918...

Memorial Gates and Pillars

An explanation and description of the Memorial Gate and Pillars to remember those who fought in World War 1. These gates are located at...

Manjalda Guest House

Lighted throughout with Quirk’s Air Gas; Hot and Cold Baths…… ‘Phone: Montville 3, Miss T. Pickering. Just two of the enticements for...

Henry Wilfrid Walker - The Limit, Flaxton

By Gordon Plowman (MHG) Henry Wilfrid Walker, who liked to sign his name as H. Wilfrid Walker, FRGS (Eng.), always wore his badge as a...

Glorious Montville

Brisbane Courier (Qld. 1864 – 1933), Thursday 8 June 1922, page 8 Montville sits on the escarpment SUPERB MOUNTAIN SCENERY PICTURESQUE...

Farming Recollections by Rob Muirhead

Rob Muirhead recalls growing up on his Dad’s Farm I received a rifle for my 12th birthday with the instructions from Dad that “anything I...

Early Transport – Rob Muirhead Remembers

Rob Muirhead was born on 10/10/1910. My first memories of transport to Palmwoods was by wagon drawn by four horses. On the forward trip,...

Baroon Pocket Part 2 - The first settlers

The history of settlement in Montville lists the Weitemeyers as being the first official residents in 1887. But in fact, one family,...

Annie Clark – A Legacy of Strength and Courage

Annie Phillips previously Williams nee Clark On 7th November 1944 Annie Phillips drew her final earthly breath. She was 84 years, 7...

1920s Memories

Fruit Display Brisbane RNA Show 1927 Alf Smith’s Home, Montville Map of Montville Families C1920 From the school book Montville Ladies...

A Love Affair With Music

The Les Thompson Rhythm Band circa 1930 - John Aird 2nd from right and Norm Aird, right To dance to the music of a band in the 1920s and...

Recollections of Sam Remington

I am a grandson of Richard Proctor Remington, who was reputedly one of the first white settlers on ‘Razorback’ now Montville. My...

Recollections by Richard Haynes

Richard Haynes 1928 Richard Courtenay Haynes was born in Montville on 6 August 1918. Along with his sisters, Kathleen and Marjorie,...

Recollections by Hazel Tully (nee Muirhead)

Hazel was born in Montville in 1914 – the third child of Mr and Mrs Charles Hillicotte Muirhead Hazel Tully nee Muirhead in 1987 at the...

Recollections by Jessie Greenham (nee Muirhead)

Montville in the 1920s Jessie’s grandparents – Early settlers Mr and Mrs Hamilton Muirhead I remember Montville when the access road from...