Recently I was looking for a book about early days of Queensland and found this great work of William Henry Corfield. I got a free ebook from Amazon. The "Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1899" presents an adventurous life of a future state politician. Originally in 1920 he prepared an essay for the Journal of the Royal Historical Society of... Read more »
Last week in a post "History of Annerley - Part 1" I wrote about beginnings of the area and the genesis of Annerley's name. This week I will write about development of the suburb. Overlooking Ipswich Road and Juliette Streets, Annerley [John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Negative number: 188320] John Soden's Omnibuses As... Read more »
Last week on Instagram I took you to Samford Village in Moreton Bay region, north-west of Brisbane. Probably the first European settler in the Samford district was Archibald Young whose application to lease land in the area to run cattle was accepted in 1855 and he called it Samford Run. Below are photos from a walk I... Read more »
