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These remarkable Indian dolls comprise an unexpected group within the Logan Historical Museum collection. In 1980, Everton Park residents Marjorie and Jim Fainges become the founder-proprietors of Panaroo’s Playings Dolls and Toy Museum, in the former public library at Windsor. Jim, a glazier and professional model-maker, was a model train enthusiast. Marjorie, an office administrator,
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We have so many great family stories around Logan and Albert District, This video collection showcases just a few of them
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The following is a memory of his school days at the Waterford State School in the 1940s by Ken Bizzell The first indications that the war was coming closer to us at the Waterford State School was when we had to carry out “Air Raid Drills”. The tolling of the Lutheran church bell at Bethania
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Bogged horse put a damper on elections Nothing came easily to the pioneers of the district. Even electing a parliamentary representative posed a problem. In the second elections of the newly created Logan electorate in 1875, transport difficulties caused a famous and unpresented parliamentary crisis. Adam Black of the Noyea sugar plantation, was returned as
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An Article by Ken Bizzell, Waterford. Fish will jump into a brightly lit boat at night but the fishermen on the Logan and Albert Rivers, a few miles south of Brisbane have been catching airborne mullet in daylight for years. They complain that few believe them, so we publish eyewitness accounts. Ken Bizzell. MULLETING Dear Friends,
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Betty Ellen Sirett nee Grose was born in the Wynnum Hospital on 4th October 1925. Her parents were William Grose, Betty’s father who was descended from the Moree Kamilaroi people and mother Nellie Lake was born in Australia. On her mother’s death Betty and her two siblings, Billy and Peggie Grose lived with her maternal
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Stories of Logan
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