Hinterland Stories

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

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Find your own Frontier

Vale for Sydney Kirkby - Antarctic Surveyor, Explorer, Map Maker

Flaxton Enlistments

WW1 FLAXTON ENLISTMENTS Slouch Hat with Emu feathers (Courtesy Australian War Memorial) Wilfred Bratton, Wilf enlisted in the First...

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 Swain Family of Flaxton and Montville

By Gordon Plowman Leslie Garforth Swain, known by his friends and associates as Les, could look back on his lifetime of achievements with...

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 first generations of the Collins Family at Flaxton

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

Quintessentially Montville – John and Beryl Davies

John and Beryl Davies at the opening December 1990 of ‘The Spirit of the Rainforest’ – a soft sculpture collection of Fairies and Gnomes...

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...

Louie made me a cap – More on our POWs in Flaxton

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....

Henry Wilfrid Walker - The Limit, Flaxton

By Gordon Plowman (MHG) Henry Wilfrid Walker, who liked to sign his name as H. Wilfrid Walker, FRGS (Eng.), always wore his badge as a...

Early Transport – Rob Muirhead Remembers

Rob Muirhead was born on 10/10/1910. My first memories of transport to Palmwoods was by wagon drawn by four horses. On the forward trip,...

Annie Clark – A Legacy of Strength and Courage

Annie Phillips previously Williams nee Clark On 7th November 1944 Annie Phillips drew her final earthly breath. She was 84 years, 7...

Flaxton vs Obi Obi

In the 1940’s when Bradman, Lindwall and Miller were playing, the youth of Australia took to the game of cricket like fish to water. Even...