Category: Celebrations
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Chelsea Floral Festival – Gympie
For fifty years, the perfume of combined spring flowers – freesias, jonquils, carnations – wafted out…
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Remembering Goomeri’s Military Service
The Hall of Memory The Hall of Memory in Goomeri was opened in 1926, designed to…
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Seedlings
Who remembers shop owners selling little bundles of seedlings wrapped in damp newspaper? Before the invention…
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1937 Christmas Recipes
Enjoy some festive recipes from 1937 as published in The Gympie Times on 18 December 1937….…
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Haunted Stories
There are many stories and anecdotes (whichever you believe, former or latter!), on ghostly experiences in…
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Halloween Celebrations in Gympie
Halloween or All Hallow’s Eve, the day before All Saint’s Day hasn’t always been celebrated by…
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Mud Stories
The biggest flood in Gympie in living memory occurred in February 2022. The Creative Arts Gympie…
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Early Social Celebrations
There was not a moment to be missed for a celebratory picnic or social gathering in…
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The Fabric of Gympie: Historical Community Quilts
The Gympie Regional Gallery is honoured to be the first Gallery to exhibit the 2022 collection…
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Youth Week
Gympie Youth Week The video below was a originally a news clip from WBQ8 and is…
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Gimpi Gimpi, the Stinging Plant
Take a look at an insightful blog by the State Library of Queensland’s – John Oxley…
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Lewis Bros Bus Trips
Did you ever take a Lewis Bros bus to Noosa or Maroochydore?
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New Years Eve on Gympie
New Years Eve 1868 – New Years Day 1869 Note: the above… “in honour of New…
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First Christmas on Gympie Goldfields
The reporting of a discovery of a quartz reef in Gympie …. “quartz was loaded with…
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The Year that Was….1912
Attempted arson at 7 South Lady Mary Mine Gympie State High School formally opened Bell’s Bridge…
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Christmas Supplements
Take a look at a showcase of the Christmas Supplements as published by The Gympie Times,…
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The Year that Was….1905
“The year that was” series will showcase interesting key events, observations and occurrences in the Gympie…
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Postcards – Coloured Shell Series
A most collectable postcard series is the “Coloured Shell Series” otherwise known as photochrome* featuring views…
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Gympie Show 1970
It is 1970 and the Gympie Show heralded in a new decade. Exhibits were plentiful and…
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Gympie Show 1969
White hats, white gloves and a new outfit was all the go for well dressed ladies…
