History

IF the architecture of a home can be described as a reflection of the character of the man who commissioned it, then Washpool homestead and…

“The little barn,” as we called it, is a small brigalow slab building on low stumps on our old farm at Coulson. Originally shingle-roofed, it…

IN Biblical terms, Ludwig Becker (1808 – 1861) was the stone that the builders rejected, which eventually became the cornerstone. The least valued member of…

OUR region is home to two of the world’s most unusual animals, the platypus and the echidna. And no doubt, most of us learned about…

HER image was on an Australian postage stamp from 1973, and has been on Australian $10 notes from 1993. A NSW Federal electorate is named…

THE RUIN stood in a cow paddock. It commanded our attention once our eyes had separated the dirty brown derelict from the tall swathes of…

The caption on this old Box Brownie photograph (at left) says, “Bill Gesler on his horse, Teviot Brook in flood, outside the Coulson State School,…

1847 – The English first used it to set coloured dye in cotton and to make it inflammable. 1895 – The American Thomas Edison found…

A “flying motor car” invented in the United States could solve the problem of “road chaos” and prove “delightful alike to pedestrians and drivers”. No,…

Ghost Town Series – Arrilalah The population of Longreach is about 3,000; the population of Arrilalah is zero. Yet, but for the stroke of a…

A television production team descended on the Ipswich suburb of Augustine Heights this week to solve the 133-year-old Jack the Ripper mystery. Jack the Ripper…

The lure of a goldfield is seductive. It beguiles by the promise of quick riches; wealth enough to dissolve all life’s problems. Get in, get…