Hinterland Stories

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An entertaining tale of how an early Montville Councillor organised his transport home from Nambour.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...