‘The Year Was .. 1814’ As promised in the last edition, we are going back to…
Category: HISTORY
History Of The Local Area
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 14
1990s to 2019 The Auchenflower House in the Toowong Parish, previously home to a nunnery, was…
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 13
1971 to 1997 In 1971, Arthur Page constructed a new observatory atop Mt Tamborine (as known…
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 12
1847 to 1968 Following the war, in 1947 a large amount of the now Yarrabilba estate…
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 11
1874 to 1970 School As a point of interest, in 1921, the population of Tamborine was…
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 10
1936 to 1948 In 1936 a letter was sent to the Department of Agriculture asking that…
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 9
1936 to 1955 One of our loyal readers, Keith Dean, has provided an interesting photographic insight…
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 8
1942 to 1947 For this edition, we will concentrate on the construction of Camp Cable which…
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 7
c.1876 to 1942 An important note of interest for the beginnings of Tambourine, is that the…
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 6
1915 to 1942 When local grazier Robert Collins first learned of the declaration of the world’s…
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 5
1902 to 1916 The Federation Drought began in 1895 and reached its peak in 1901 and…
History of Tambourine & Surrounds – Part 4
1884 to 1902 In 1862, the Lahey family emigrated from Ireland with eleven children. In 1875,…