History

The Commercial Hotel was designed by architect Anton Hettrich and built for Johann Streiner in 1905. When the first photo was taken in December 1931, the…

“Suck it up and have a go!” It’s a tough, down-to-earth message and comes as a surprise when delivered by a quietly spoken, smiling woman…

The Denner family arrived in Boonah in February 1904 with hopes of a quieter more comfortable life than that of their former home in a…

Over the mountains to the west of Croftby, lies a vale where … “emus resort and camp”.  There these tallest of our native birds comported…

In August 1666 residents of the little mining village of Stoney Middleton in the English Midlands watched from a high hill as a woman named…

The names of the brothers reflected a parent’s need to promote the patronage of a family connection to Lachlan Macquarie the Governor of the New…

In 1920, the editor of a popular London sports magazine called on every English cricket enthusiast to select the best possible 11 players to represent…

THE whereabouts of a noted English cricketer was queried in an article in The Times of London in October 1820. His name was raised in…

I have a very basic farmer’s son’s knowledge of guns.  Like many lads growing up on farms, I found dad’s 12 gauge shotgun, my nearby…

The Great Fire of Kalbar This year marks the 100th anniversary of the blaze that destroyed many of the commercial buildings in Kalbar. It happened at a…

Four days into the New Year the rains began.  By the end of January, the countryside had begun to lose its brown wizened look and…

“My love of history and my love of where I live,” is Wilson Neuendorf’s eloquent answer when asked why he wrote ‘Recollections of Kalbar’. Both…