Hinterland Stories

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Tony Cooper's Life of Colour

Tony Cooper - Entrepreneur, Tailor, Interior Decorator, Businessman, Developer, Natural Health Exponent in Vibration Medicine and Colour

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

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

The 1990 Montville School students’ competition for the best design and motto for Montville’s own flag had more than fifty entries and...

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

By Gordon Plowman The golden glow of evening invokes memories from the past and sometimes, when the mood is right, our minds take us back...

It must have been ten years ago that I first heard the need for a deck on the eastern side of the hall being discussed. I was the new...

On New Year’s Day 1897, ten Salvationists from Nambour rode to Razorback to lend support to local Salvationist, Frank Senescal who had...

by Julia Holloway (nee Pederson) I have treasured memories of growing up in Montville with my parents John and Jill Pederson and...

George Land Bury from Nambour Street mural George Land and Jane Ann Bury – Pioneers, Landowners and Builders Extraordinary of the Near...

2022 marked 125 years of history for the Montville Post Office. Today residents are particularly grateful to have retained the Montville...

Life in Montville 1955-1965 Our parents, (Cecil and Dorothy), moved the family to Queensland from Victoria in October, 1955, ostensibly...

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...

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

A Family who shaped early Montville Edward William (Bill) Vining selected Portion 143 V (Survey Plan M37.1168 – Selection No A. F. 2598)...

I first holidayed at the Spotted Chook in 2012 and have been back with my extended family many times since. It was simply love at first...

Early settlement of Montville Timber getters knew of the rich source of cedar in the area before the Colony of Queensland was created in...

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