19th August 2018 Meet former Brisbane Lord Mayor Sallyanne Atkinson AO at the Society's August General Meeting. Sallyanne was the first and, to date, only female mayor of Brisbane and released a book in 2016 [...]
25th August 2018 The 4th of August 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the first sitting of the Queensland Parliament. To mark the occasion, the Queensland Parliament, in partnership with The Royal Historical Society of [...]
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 is set to go under the hammer this month after [...]
Anzac Day Service - April 25, 2018 | 9:00 am Windsor War Memorial Park | 311 Lutwyche Road & Roblane Street | Windsor The Windsor and Districts Historical Society is honoured to once again invite all members, [...]
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 role in Brisbane's public transport system. At a time when [...]
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 from there stone for many buildings and churches was sourced. [...]
One of Brisbane's oldest shires, Windsor has unfortunately suffered the ravages of progress more than most, with quarrying, major road and tunnel works slicing through its hills and fragmenting it into little islands of preserved [...]
The Windsor Congregation of the New Apostolic Church’s origins go back to the 1920s when members of this religion settled in Brisbane and started holding services in a private home. As numbers grew they met [...]
Horses for the Army. Work at Wilston. Source: The Telegraph: 15 September 1914 One of the busiest centres of military preparations in the metropolitan area is the remount depot at Wilston, where all the horses,bought [...]
The Brisbane City Council maintains a Heritage Database which allows searches for places, heritage buildings and places of significance. Physical details, historical information, builder, architectural period and style plus photographs are all available through the [...]
The imposing Victorian villa Boothville began life as a stroke of luck for a lucky office manager of the Queensland National Bank who had a loan to build a house given to him by his [...]
While the inner city Brisbane suburb of Windsor is now, like many other areas, becoming progressively more crowded with units and small dwellings, it's still a locale that is distinguished by a number of beautiful [...]
The cuttings of busy Lutwyche Rd through Windsor's historical pocket have left the old Windsor Council Chambers on something of an island, overlooked by the cliffs of the old Windsor quarry. Designed by Brisbane architect [...]
A highly aesthetic sandstone and slate villa dating from 1864, Oakwal, one time home to distinguished Queenslanders of note still holds a commanding position in centre of the cul de sac that was once its [...]
The Amble About Albion Heritage Trail takes you on a journey through a range of places and events that have shaped Albion's history, including: early European settlement war-time activity during World War II its prominence as an [...]
Windsor, an inner suburb of Brisbane, is five km north-east of the city centre. The first land sales in the Windsor area were in 1855, with further installments until the end of the decade. The [...]
