Hinterland Stories

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Montville Farmers for Fifty Years

Two much loved Montville citizens were Les and Dulcie Gomersall who lived along Western Avenue for 50 years.

Many families in the mid-1800’s migrated to Australia from England for various reasons. It could have been the prospect of making a...

Long rows of grey-green spikes once crowned acres of Blackall Range slopes. It was postcard pretty but represented back breaking work for...

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...

Lots of Cousins! This is a brief history of the Skene family who settled at “Bon Accord” in Flaxton, just of the first 3 generations,...

Bill and Marian Collins took over Kingview farm in 1961 when his father, William Joseph, retired to Glasshouse Mountains. Bill was a war...

The Manley Family on their farm: Kev, Doreen, Nell, Ernie, Dell, and Bob the Second When Doreen Wyllie married Kevin Manley on 24 August...

George E. Brown on the steps of St Mary’s Church, 1914 George Edward Brown was 21 when he arrived in Montville in 1906 with his parents...

William Joseph Collins William Joseph Collins was born in 1889 at Redland Bay. He was the grandson of Daniel James Collins who pioneered...

Among the early settlers of the district were Alfred & Harriet Bowser. Alfred was born in 1862 and lived on the Albert River near...

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

This story was printed in the Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. (1903-1926), Sat. 25 November 1922, p. 15 BLACKALL RANGE – EARLY RECOLLECTIONS...

The scent of pineapples instantly transports me back to Montville and my Grandparents’ farm where I spent many school holidays. The...

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

Hinterland Times ran our follow-up story on the work of Italian POWs along the Blackall Range and across the Sunshine Coast Hinterland in...

When the Baroon Pocket Dam was being constructed.

Posted by Cate Patterson on Mar 3, 2019 This is a history record that everyone can contribute to by either challenging a claim or adding...

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....