Hinterland Stories

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

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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...

Italian POWs in Montville from 1944 to 1945 When long term Montville resident, Les Gittins, told local historian and Montville Village...

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

by Laurie Grimwade nee Smith The Pupil I was born in the Palmwoods Private Hospital on 23 November 1940, the third daughter of Peter and...

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

Gordon Plowman remembers a cap made by an Italian POW for him. This one memory has helped tell the story of the Italian POWs at Flaxton....

by Gordon Plowman For decades, residents of the Blackall Range depended on kerosene, candles and carbide for their lighting needs. They...

Born in Palmwoods in 1940, by the time Victory in the Pacific was proclaimed in 1945, I was old enough to remember some aspects of WW2....

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

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

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...

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...

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...