Wednesday, 18 November 2020

1965 Opening of the Lady Musgrave Maternity Ward, Maryborough

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  On the 31 July, 1965 a new Lady Musgrave Maternity Ward was opened. This block is located at the northern, rear end of the Maryborough Ho...
Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Roy Rufus Reef

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Roy Rufus Artificial Reef is located off the eastern side of Big Woody Island. In 1967 the Maryborough Skin Divers Club employed three marin...
Sunday, 13 September 2020

Jaycees' Memorial Fountain unveiled to honour plague victims

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In August, 1966 the Jaycee s ’ Memorial Fountain was unveiled to honour the nurses who sacrificed their lives when the outbreak of pneumoni...
Monday, 31 August 2020

Urimbirra Fauna Reserve, Hervey Bay

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Source: 2020 Seven Network and Fraser Coast Libraries. During the late sixties and early seventies, many of the children of the Fraser Coast...
Tuesday, 25 August 2020

Fraser Coast’s first locomotive constructed for the Queensland Government – locomotive number 299.

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Railway Station and Yards. c. 1908. Source: Maryborough City Whistle Stop Inc. Walkers Limited had its first steam locomotive trial run to H...
Monday, 10 August 2020

7: extracts from the archives of Wide Bay's first television broadcaster 1965 to 1975

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  Former Fraser Coast librarian Robyn Dowling was contacted by Channel 7 Studio in Maryborough in the 1990s. The studio was closing down and...
Sunday, 19 July 2020

L. Jesse Saddler Maryborough

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L. Jesse Saddler. Source: National Library of Australia. (1941, June 21) Many remember Jesse’s Saddlery, 353 Kent Street, Maryboroug...