Hinterland Stories

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

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Montville Memories by the Moore Children

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

Montville Firsts

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...

Montville – A Brief History

The First People The oral history of the original people of the Blackall Range relates that members of the Jinibara Federation, the Nalbo...

Horse-Slide Transport now Historic Epic

From Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld.: 1922 – 1954), Friday 26 November 1954, page 5 By T.H.Brown. In the process of...

History of Montville Precinct – School of Arts Hall and Village Green

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

Glorious Montville

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

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...

Ernest Jones Burnett – an early selector

Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld. 1922 – 1954), Friday 29 March 1940, page 1 Buderim Pioneering Days Recalled. THE LATE...

Dawne Barnett – A Life Well-Lived

Dawne Barnett, who recently passed away (2018), at the age of 94, was born on 7 September 1924. Her father George Brown was a...

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...

Building the Montville Soldier’s Memorial Hall, now St. Mary’s Hall

By Gordon Plowman First, a little history leading up to the establishment of the Soldier’s Memorial Hall in Montville: During World War...

Bev and Des McCulloch

Des arrived in Montville in 1953 as a 14-year-old with his parents who had bought a pineapple farm on the southern side of Western...

Australia Day Address 2024 - From Kindness

Address delivered by Wayne Parcell PSM, President of the Montville Village Association Inc on Australia Day, 26 January 2024, at...

A Snapshot of School and Community in the 1970s

The Montville History Group asked pupils from this 1977 School photo to share their memories of growing up in Montville and to tell a...

A History of Montville Tourism

A talk given to the Montville Chamber of Commerce by Jenny Tatton in July 2018 (slightly adapted) So how did we get from the 1880’s to...

Vale Desmond Barry (Des) McCulloch

1939 – 2023 A MONTVILLE FARMER, BUILDER, FIREMAN AND COMMUNITY WORKER Farmer Des arrived in Montville 70 years ago, in 1953 as a...

Vale Carolyn June Frost

On 30 April 2021, Montville lost one of its long serving members of the Montville Ladies Social and Benefit Club. Although Carolyn was...

Vale Dr Michael Leo Simpson

1959 to 2023 Montville Citizen of the Year, 2007 and Montville Lifetime Citizen, 2022. When Michael graduated in medicine in 1991, he...

Vale Tony Barnett

(1925 to 2021) Tony Barnett died in Brisbane on the 7th August, 2021, aged 96, after a short illness. It was a small Covid-restricted...

Montville Place Names – The Rangers

The Story Behind the Name The Rangers Although it’s pretty obvious why the first major community housing development on the Blackall...