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The Lang Family of Rosecliffe Street

May 7, 2022July 30, 2022 / Paul's Blogs / 6 Comments

Mr David Lang has lived in Rosecliffe Street, Highgate Hill, since his birth over 90 years ago and the Lang family have owned their property for some 135 years. David has many recollections of daily life in times gone by.

The Three Torbrecks

November 6, 2021November 14, 2022 / Paul's Blogs / 3 Comments

Since the early 1960s, the Torbreck apartment building on Highgate Hill has been a Brisbane landmark. The original Torbreck on the site was demolished in 1958 but another was built nearby by the same family in 1908.

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The Origins of Orleigh Park

June 13, 2020September 23, 2022 / Paul's Blogs / 12 Comments

With its huge spreading shade trees and pleasant breezy riverside location, Orleigh Park is understandably a great favourite with many residents and visitors. However, this pleasant place of recreation had its origins in tragedy.

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Children on the Loose

January 19, 2019May 13, 2022 / Paul's Blogs / Leave a comment

How much society norms regarding the rearing of children have changed is brought home by these stories from not that long ago.

The Enigmatic Ebenezer Thorne

July 1, 2018May 23, 2022 / Paul's Blogs / 22 Comments

Ebenezer Thorne was a newspaper man, politician and property developer who constantly generated controversy in the colony of Queensland. However he left the best until last.

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Roosters in the High Court of Australia,

April 15, 2018March 27, 2018 / Paul's Blogs / Leave a comment

In a classic case of how disputes between neighbours can escalate, in 1930 a problem with crowing roosters ended up in the High Court of Australia.

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The Yodelling Milk Money Thief and Other Scoundrels

March 18, 2018March 18, 2018 / Paul's Blogs / Leave a comment

Over the years descriptions of a number of unusual Highgate Hill thefts have appeared in newspapers including a yodelling milk money thief and an audacious gas meter thief.

Pirates on Highgate Hill 1853

May 18, 2016March 8, 2018 / Paul's Blogs / Leave a comment

After robbing a number of ships, a group of escaped convicts from Norfolk Island created havoc in Brisbane before being tracked through Highgate Hill and captured at Bundamba.

The Prince of Wales Visits Highgate Hill 1920

May 14, 2016March 11, 2018 / Paul's Blogs / 1 Comment

The Prince of Wales meets an enthusiastic crowd at Highgate Hill and admires the view.

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  • All That Glitters – Brisbane Gold Rushes
  • George and Amelia Croft’s South Brisbane Amphitheatre
  • Life with Brisbane’s Trams
  • The Dutton Park Garden Theatre
  • The Lang Family of Rosecliffe Street
  • Tom Garrick and his West End Theatres
  • A Walk Down Norfolk Road
  • “Hamlet’s Ghost”
  • Early South Brisbane Street Names and the Montague Mystery
  • The Three Torbrecks
  • Sheep, a House and Three Churches
  • Nicholas Walpole Raven and the West End Pub With No Beer
  • Brisbane’s Princess Theatre
  • The West End School of Arts
  • Beer, Books and a Bookie – the Story of a Highgate Hill House
  • The Davies Park Story
  • Alexander Brown Wilson, Architect.
  • Ferdinand and Josephine Papi – an Edwardian Power Couple
  • Kurilpa – Water, Water, Everywhere
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  • Brisbane’s Omnibuses
  • Holy Hawthorne Street
  • Vulture Street – From Dotted Line to Bitumen
  • The Origins of Orleigh Park

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