Hinterland Stories

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

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Woof - Skene Family Photos

Robert Woof married Laura Skene on 26 April 1924 Robert and Laura Woof ran holiday flats at Queens Beach, Redcliffe in the 1960s Laura...

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...

Potts and Mac – Flaxton Farmers

Potts and Mac – as affectionately remembered by the Plowman Brothers Between the two Dixon properties on Mill Road, Frank Waldo Potts and...

Pat Brown Interview 1985

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

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...

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...

Elston – The First Guest House

Ernest and Emma Dalton, two of the earliest settlers in the Montville area (then known as Razorback) purchased about fifteen acres south...

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,...

Clive Blair of the Blackall Range

Clive was born on 28 November 1921 in the central west of Queensland, at the Taroom Aboriginal Settlement, a government operated reserve...

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,...

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...

Reminiscences of the Brown Family of Montville (1938-39) by Lucy O’Keefe.

Lucy O’Keefe was appointed as a teacher at the Montville State School in 1938, at the age of 21. In these reminiscences, recorded around...

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 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...