After a lot of exhausting research, there’s nothing quite like a browse through the past as artists viewed it. Here are views from 1840-1870 by artists who include a Royal Navy man, a visiting Aristocrat and an artist and explorer. Graham Gore (1808-1847) was a third generation naval officer, who experienced the kind of colourfulContinue reading “Artists and Early Queensland”
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175 years ago, the Moreton Bay Courier was born
On Saturday 20 June 1846, the Moreton Bay Courier was published for the first time. Four years had passed since free settlers had been allowed in to the district, and some enterprising individuals decided that a local newspaper would be just the ticket for an outpost of New South Wales, some 500 miles from theContinue reading “175 years ago, the Moreton Bay Courier was born”
A Vanished World, in colour.
With, of course, a degree artistic licence… I find the date ascribed to this scene to be about ten years too early. Soldiers’ wives aside, I don’t think there were any ladies visiting the post office three years before free settlement. In fact, everything was taken care of by the military, who used steamers and brigsContinue reading “A Vanished World, in colour.”
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