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fuji321
Aug 14, 20221 min read
1956 Margate Beach aerial panorama ,
A recently restored aerial photo taken on 14th August 1956, showing Margate Beach from Ellen St to Ella St. Featuring the Humpybong...
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fuji321
Jul 29, 20221 min read
Alexander St Scarborough street history
Alexander Street is named after Alexander Cameron who was born in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland in 1826 and he arrived in Australia with...
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fuji321
Jul 29, 20221 min read
Longland St aerial history 1956 to1988
Longland St Redcliffe 1956 and 1986. Named after David Ferdinando Longland who arrived in Moreton Bay in 1849 on the Chaseley on which Dr...
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fuji321
Jul 29, 20223 min read
Corner of Mein and Adams Street, Scarborough aerial street history
This week's Redcliffe street aerial history is the corner of Mein and Adams Street, Scarborough. 1956, 1969 and 1988. Charles Stuart Mein...
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fuji321
Jul 15, 20221 min read
Dover Rd (North) Mary St history 1942-79
This weeks Street Aerial History featuring Dover Road (North) and Mary St in Redcliffe. Mary St is named after Mary Edds who lived in...
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fuji321
Jul 14, 20222 min read
Grant St history and the Redcliffe Aerated Water Company
Grant Street is named after former Redcliffe mayor Walter Grant. Walter Grant was born on the 6th April 1861 at Oakfield, St Helens, Isle...
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fuji321
Jul 14, 20221 min read
Herbert St Scarborough street history
A street history of Herbert St Scarborough from aerial photos taken in 1942, 1956 and 1989. One of the earliest streets, possibly named...
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fuji321
Jul 8, 20221 min read
Street history of the corner of Macdonnell Rd and Margate Parade
Aerial Street history of the corner of Macdonnell Rd and Margate Parade - featuring Sandy Lane - Revised with the 1942 and 1988 aerial...
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fuji321
Jun 29, 20221 min read
Landsborough Ave Scarborough history
With some wonderful recent posts showing images and info about Landsborough Ave in Scarborough , We thought we would share some...
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fuji321
Jun 9, 20222 min read
Percy Frost history - Frost and Percy Street
Percy Southwell Frost was a prisoner of war, a baker, zoo owner, council alderman and city stalwart. He was involved in the Redcliffe...
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fuji321
May 31, 20221 min read
1970 Crestview Estate - Kippa Ring
Land for sale in an advertisement in the Redcliffe Herald in 1970. Land was $2300 for 24 perches bordering the new streets of Jammond St,...
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fuji321
May 18, 20221 min read
Esperanto St, Redcliffe in the mid 1960's
Photos of Esperanto St in 1966/67 from Lynne Peacock An aerial from 1964 after the street was first named after The Redcliffe Esperanto...
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fuji321
May 16, 20222 min read
1956 Aerial Panorama
On the 14th October 1956, a series of 120 aerial photos were taken by a photographer flying at a low altitude of 5380 feet, and over the...
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fuji321
Apr 28, 20221 min read
Redcliffe Aerodrome history
From the Pictorial History Of Redcliffe and Moreton Bay region book 1950s-80s Norm Thurecht and Colin Bainbrigge with help from Kevin...
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fuji321
Apr 27, 20222 min read
Rothwell history aerial movie 1949-2022
From the Pictorial History Of Redcliffe and Moreton Bay region book 1950s-80s A video showing the progression of Rothwell from 1949, 1987...
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fuji321
Apr 25, 20222 min read
Clontarf Beach Estate
The street history of Clontarf Beach Estate - 1956, 1958, 1972 and 2021. In 1958 the estate was subdivided and land was sold for 395...
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fuji321
Apr 23, 20221 min read
Redcliffe land sale map 1956
An advertisement in the Courier Mail Saturday 9th June 1956 for land west of Victoria Ave, between Macdonnell Rd and Anzac Ave. This...
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fuji321
Apr 23, 20221 min read
Kippa Ring land sale advert 1961
This land sale advert appeared in the Redcliffe Herald on 2nd February 1961 advertising land for sale in the new Kippa Ring Estate....
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fuji321
Apr 23, 20221 min read
A drive down Anzac Ave in Redcliffe 1956.
From the old sawmill that is now the Kippa Ring shopping centre - to Marine Parade and the original Luna Park (now Settlement Cove...
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fuji321
Apr 23, 20221 min read
Early 1889 Humpybong Land sale maps and the proposed railway.
At a time when Humpybong was being developed as an agricultural reserve in 1886 a railway was proposed to link it to the Petrie line, In...
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