The early years. Townsville in the 1890s. In 1890, a series of photographs of Townsville captured the town as it began to expand into suburbs. The locality had only been established twenty-four years earlier, and its rapid growth was largely due to the sugar industry in the region. I prefer not to include photographs ofContinue reading “Early Townsville, in colour.”
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The Meaning of a Name
A pensive-looking young man sits for the photographer at Brisbane Gaol. It’s the 28th of October 1890, and the man, listed as W.T. Boyce, born 1867, has been convicted of horse stealing at Charters Towers. He will spend a year at Saint Helena Island. That’s enough to make anyone melancholy. The report of his convictionContinue reading “The Meaning of a Name”
Moreton Bay and More 