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WalkaboutWithRob is a YouTube video channel with over 150 short historical documentaries of areas in Brisbane, SE Queensland and beyond. Award winning film director Robert

  Frank Horace Barnett was born in Brighton England around 1889. He migrated to Queensland around 1910 and obtained work at CSR Co Ltd. in

      From 1911, Messrs Bowser & Lever operated a quarry and office at the corner of Lutwyche and Newmarket Roads at Windsor. This

Arthur William Colwill was born in the then, Shire of Windsor, 1892. He attended the Bowen Bridge Road State School that existed for 50 years

The society has a collection of copies of over 100 historical estate maps of the area. Was your house built on one of these estates?

Renowned painter and sketcher,, Tony Walker has begun sketching local prominent buildings, shops and streetscapes in the area that was once the Town of Windsor.

Ideas to establish a School of Arts existed by local residents even before the Windsor Shire was created in 1887. In 1910 after the shire

This tramway substation was constructed circa 1948 during the postwar expansion of Brisbane’s public transport infrastructure. Electric trams were first introduced to Brisbane in 1897

Rosemount House is important in demonstrating the evolution of Queensland – and Windsor’s- history. The original stone cottage was first built in 1855 by Daniel

Windsor War Memorial Park is a heritage-listed park with war memorial at 311 Lutwyche Road, Windsor, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built in

The Windsor Picture Palace (as it was known then) opened around 1920, in Lutwyche Road Windsor, near the corner with Le Geyt Street. A vestibule

Among several amateur films recently digitised by State Library of Queensland is an eight minute film of an event held at Wilston State School, purportedly

Brisbane Times | 26th January 2018 It’s funny how you can pass something a thousand times and never really see it. Such is the case

2018 has been another great year for the Windsor and District Historical Society and I thank you very much for the honour of being your

Said to be one of Brisbane’s most architecturally accomplished buildings of its time, Kirkston was built in 1889 by one John Young of Young’s Shop

from Weekend Notes Chances are, if you’ve visited or lived in Brisbane for more than a mere week, you’re most likely familiar to our iconic

AN OLD church in an inner Brisbane suburb could be born again as apartments. The post-war church building at 8 Kedron Brook Road in Wilston

Trams are an iconic part of Melbourne, just as they used to be in Sydney. But you may not know they once played an important

Brisbane Tuff indeed is a wonder rock and has been quarried since first settlement of Brisbane. The first quarry was the Kangaroo Point Cliffs and