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Boarding House, Mellor Street
75 Mellor Street Gympie (beside current Soma Soma cafe and formerly Johnson’s Store) Known as:Grosvenor Boarding…
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Grand Hotel (Otago Hotel)
Corner of Mellor and Chapple Streets, Gympie A grand old building, formerly known as the Otago…
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Hotel de France, Mary Street, Gympie
Licencees: Theophilus Junin 1868/1869 transferred to..Jacob Moss 1869/1870 transferred to….Theophilus Junin 1870/1875…Richard Brewin 1875/1876 Built in…
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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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Palm Trees at Town Hall, Gympie
Then and NowSeptember 1992 and November 2020 My, how they’ve grown! On 16 September 1992, several…
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Goomeri’s Distant Link to the Booker Prize
There’s a tiny little link to the world renowned literary award the “Booker Prize” and the…
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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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Gympie Region War Memorials
RSL memorials, cenotaphs and remembrance sites in the Gympie Region If we have omitted any entry,…
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Duke Street, Gympie
Duke Street, Gympie runs a good length north from Commissioner’s Hill on Upper Mary Street through…
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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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Swimming – Gympie and New Zealand
In January 1967 a team of 42 New Zealand swimmers and divers visited Gympie as part…
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Postcards – Mary Cox
Mary Cox (Miss M. Cox) was daughter of earlier stationer (and storeman, seedsman) T. J. Cox…
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Early Postal History – Gympie
In 1867, after the Gold Rush of Gympie had commenced, the Postmaster-General, Mr Thomas L Murray-Prior…
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World Post Day – Postal History
Welcome to our local history talk on ‘Communications’. It is a fitting theme for 2020 with…
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Car rally – June 1966
Car rallys were all the go one time – when you had to use a paper…
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Postcards – H. Llewelyn
The Hon. Henry Llewelyn was a politician. As a Member for the Queensland Legislative Council, he…
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Tennis Tournament 1970
The Gympie Tennis Association held a tournament in 1970 that featured players from as far as…
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Gympie State High School Visit WBQ-8
WBQ-8 began test transmissions in March 1965 from Granville in Maryborough. The first official transmission was…
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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…
