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Travels in East Moreton, 1859: An Introduction
In the early months of 1859, the Moreton Bay Courier published a series of seven articles titled‘Random Sketches of a Traveller through the district of East Moreton’, penned by an author identified...
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Travels in East Moreton, 1859 (#1): Kedron Brook & Nundah
(Read the introduction to this series here.)No. iKedron Brook and Neighbourhood(Moreton Bay Courier, 19 January 1859)To the Editor of the Moreton Bay Courier.Sir; Many of the readers of your widely...
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Travels in East Moreton, 1859 (#2): Sandgate & North Pine
(Read the introduction to this series here.) No. II SANDGATE AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD(Moreton Bay Courier, 29 January 1859, p4)HAVING in my previous letter conveyed your readers to the German’s Blunder,...
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A 10-Point Primer on the Current Boggo Road Situation
Artist's impression, Boggo Road Gaol.The Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society has recently encountered a deal of public confusion regarding the future of Boggo Road. As with an earlier outbreak this...
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Travels in East Moreton, 1859 (#3): Moggill
(Read the introduction to this series here.) No.IIIMOGGIL AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD(Moreton Bay Courier, 5 February 1859) No doubt many of the readers of the Courier have thought, as they progressed up or...
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Travels in East Moreton, 1859 (#4): Bulimba
No. IVBULIMBA AND SCENES DOWN THE RIVER BRISBANE(Moreton Bay Courier, 16 February 1859)IN my present endeavors to give your readers a sketch of the several very interesting localities situated down the...
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The Strange Case of the Brisbane River Monster
(Australian Illustrated News, 1 October 1890)If the following newspaper account is anything to go by, then in 1898 the residents of the small town of Lowood, 66km west of Brisbane, were in the grip of...
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(Please Don't Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
Know a small child that you really, really hate? Want to psychologically scar them for life? Well now you can, with BooBuddy the ghost-detecting teddy bear.BooBuddy looks like a normal bear, but he can...
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The Saga of the Thargomindah Bunyip
In the Queensland winter of 1941, as the Second World War raged overseas, the 290 residents of the small country town of Thargomindah (1,100 km west of Brisbane) were distracted by reports of a strange...
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Hanged & Dissected... For Picking a Man's Brains
The hard, early years of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement were dotted with tales of murder, disease and suicide. This remote northern outpost had been established in 1824 as a place of secondary...
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Travels in East Moreton, 1859 (#5): Cleveland
(Read the introduction to this series here.)No. VCLEVELAND(From the Moreton Bay Courier, 26 February 1859)'WELL, that designation does certainly sound with a more aristocratic twang than the old...
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What Crimes Were People Hanged For in Queensland?
94 people were executed at Moreton Bay and Queensland during 1830-1913. These were the crimes they committed:
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The Bunyip vs Jenny Greenteeth
‘The average bush youngster has a horror of darkness, and talks in awe-struck whispers of hairy men, ghosts, and bunyips. This fear is inculcated from babyhood. The mother can’t always be watching in a...
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The Bromelton Bunyip of Beaudesert
The idea of the ‘bunyip’ as a mysterious and possibly mythical water creature was well established in non-Indigenous Australian lore by the time the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement closed in 1842. For...
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A History of Queensland Bunyips (Part One): The 19th Century
‘The bunyip, though its fame has spread over all Australia, and though nearly every large reedy swamp boasts of one, has never been captured; and it is regarded by most people very much in the same...
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The Birth of Boggo Road
(The following is extracted from the Brisbane Courier, 3 July 1883. HM Prison, Brisbane- known colloquially as Boggo Road - was used for the first time on 2 July 1883. It was initially comprised of a...
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Travels in East Moreton, 1859 (#6): South Brisbane
(Read the introduction to this series here.)No.VISOUTH BRISBANE(Extracted from the Moreton Bay Courier, 5 March 1859)The Western Suburbs of South Brisbane, in common with other up-river localities, are...
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Travels in East Moreton, 1859 (#7): Boggo to Wolston
(Read the introduction to this series here.)No. VIIBOGGO TO WOLSTON(From the Moreton Bay Courier, 12 March 1859)'Having, in my last article, left off my sketch of the south-western suburbs somewhere in...
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The Fabulous Creatures of Walter Henry Bone
Bunyip and Oopidoop (Sydney Mail, 27 December 1911)Walter Henry Bone is one of the forgotten illustrators of Australian children’s literature, which is rather a shame. Writing around the turn of the...
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Within the Walls of Brisbane Gaol (1883): ‘Sentencing’
(Queensland Figaro, 20 January 1883)(These articles are reproduced from the Queensland Figaro, January-February 1883, and describe aspects of life in HM Prison, Brisbane, which at that time was located...
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