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Dentistry in Gympie in 1888
For those that are frightened of modern dentists, how about letting the visiting dentist extract your…
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Gympie City Council
Gympie was declared a City Council area on 5 January 1905. The first Mayor of the…
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Fire Destroys Upper Mary Street
On 3 January 1891 fire destroyed many businesses in Upper Mary Street in Gympie, Queensland. The…
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Policewomen Zara Dare & Eileen O’Donnell
This blog has been used by kind permission from the Queensland Police Museum FROM the VAULT…
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Female Bobbies, 85 Years
This blog has been used by kind permission from the Queensland Police Museum FROM the VAULT…
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Emanuel William Gâté son of Count Guiam Gâté of Fougere, France.
Emanuel William Gâté son of Count Guiam Gâté of Fougere, France. At the age of…
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Daniel Budd Skyring 1804-1882
Daniel Budd Skyring was the son of Zachariah Skyring and his wife Mary (Tyzack) of London.…
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Zachariah Skyring Senior (1828- 1894)
Zachariah Skyring Senior was born in England on the 6th January 1828 he was the eldest…
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Daniel Murphy brother of Catherine Nash (nee Murphy)
Daniel Murphy brother of Catherine Nash (nee Murphy) wife of James Nash. As reported in the…
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Brief history of the Memorial laneway and Memorial Park
The land fronting Reef Street, River Road, and Young Street – now Memorial Park was once…
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Gympie’s Famous Boxing Champion
Archie Bradley was a famous Boxing Champion back in the 1920’s. He was known as the…
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Tree felling contest at the Brisbane Exhibition in 1928
Max Krough dropped in this wonderful story about his father winning the first ever tree felling…
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Woolooga Lane
My Grandmother’s name was Elizabeth Ann Thefs and she married Carl Ludwig Taebke. Carl Taebke migrated…
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Simple Fun
When we were kids back in the 1930’s we would go down to the local creek…
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Gympie’s First Aboriginal Nurse
My cousin, Lorraine Smith, known to the family as “Billy Boy” was the first Aboriginal Nurse…
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Childhood in Traveston
My mother’s name was Sarah Bassett nee Johnson. When my Mother’s mother and father were in…
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Swaggies
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And…
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Welcome
The Gympie region is a wonderful place with a rich history, full with fascinating stories. Here’s…
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Going to Kia-Ora School
I went to the Kia-Ora State School. It was a two teacher, two classroom school. I…
