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...
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Hinterland Stories
Sharing the memories of Montville, Flaxton, Balmoral and Hunchy.
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The G.E. Brown Family
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...
St Mary’s Hall – Celebrating Memories and Community
Christmas 2019 sees the St. Mary’s Hall in the best condition it has been in for years. Current Chairman of the St. Mary’s Auxiliary,...
St Mary’s Church and Community Hall
Montville Memorial Hall, St Mary’s Church Hall and Community Hall (Former RSL Hall) St. Mary’s Church Hall and Community Centre (c. 1978)...
Pat Brown Interview 1985
Date of Interview: 12 March 1985 Place of Interview: Montville Interviewer: Gillian Pechey Transcriber: Colwyn Boulton Born: 1918...
Montville Camellia Festival 1982 – 2014
by Louise Tasker Who doesn’t adore the camellia? This beautiful, sometimes blowsy, always bountiful blossom is the kind of flower that...
Jocelyn Bannister – A Montville Lifetime Citizen
Jocelyn Bannister selling raffle tickets at St Mary’s Hall NO matter where Jocelyn Bannister goes in the future, she will always be a...
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...
St Mary’s Hall – Celebrating Memories and Community
Christmas 2019 sees the St. Mary’s Hall in the best condition it has been in for years. Current Chairman of the St. Mary’s Auxiliary,...
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...
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 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...
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...
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