Montville Farmers for Fifty Years
Two much loved Montville citizens were Les and Dulcie Gomersall who lived along Western Avenue for 50 years.
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Hinterland Stories
Sharing the memories of Montville, Flaxton, Balmoral and Hunchy.
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Leonie Gittins 1949 to 2024
Leonie’s creativity, resilience and strength led her to become a leading member of a wide range of communities on the Sunshine Coast
Tramping the Blackalls
Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. 1903 – 1926), Wednesday 23 June 1926, p. 3 TRAMPING THE BLACKALLS – To Flaxton and Mapleton A LAND OF PLEASANT...
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...
The next generations of Collins in Flaxton
Bill and Marian Collins took over Kingview farm in 1961 when his father, William Joseph, retired to Glasshouse Mountains. Bill was a war...
The Negus Family
Negus Road George Oswald Negus (Os) was born in Maryborough on 25 April 1873. His father had emigrated from Surrey, England to...
The Manley Family – Dairy farming along Western Avenue
The Manley Family on their farm: Kev, Doreen, Nell, Ernie, Dell, and Bob the Second When Doreen Wyllie married Kevin Manley on 24 August...
The Hunchy Senescall Family
Frank Senescall was born in April 1864 at Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire. His parents were Jonathan and Hannah (nee Drinkall). Frank’s...
The Bowser Family – First Pineapple Farmers
Among the early settlers of the district were Alfred & Harriet Bowser. Alfred was born in 1862 and lived on the Albert River near...
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...
Our POW Story Continues in Palmwoods
Hinterland Times ran our follow-up story on the work of Italian POWs along the Blackall Range and across the Sunshine Coast Hinterland in...
Obi Obi Creek Map
When the Baroon Pocket Dam was being constructed.
Italian POWs in Montville
The Story Continues In February 2018, the Hinterland Times published an article, ‘Rations and Song’, on Italian POWs serving on farms...
From Farm to Cafe
THE MONTVILLE CAFÉ BAR AND GRILL Braemar, in 2017, originally built for the Monte Dart Family The site of the Montville Cafe Bar and...
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...
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...
Montville Place Names - Glover Court
The Story Behind the Name Glover Court Glover Court is off Hillfoot Lane in Mill Hill, the southern end of Montville. It was named after...
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