Watercolours – Moreton Bay and More

Then and now.

1885: A young boy stands in an unpaved street, in front of a sail-less stone windmill and the Spring Hill Reservoir buildings. The Windmill was built in 1828-9 with convict labour to grind maize (via a treadmill also employing convict labour, the sails having proved unreliable). Damage caused by lightning in 1836, and the closureContinue reading “Then and now.”

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.”