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Courting of days gone by
In years gone by courtships were often conducted from a distance due to isolation and lack of transport
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Father's Day
The first Sunday of September is celebrated as Father’s Day in Australia
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Mothers - Keepers of our Hearts
There has been much hard work, sheer determination and, at times, heartbreak for some mothers on the Sunshine Coast over the years
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Women of the Sunshine Coast
Reflect on some milestones for women in Australia
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Agnes Boneham
Agnes came to the Coolum area with her husband in 1926. She worked on a sugar cane farm and had two children. Agnes also talks about the start of the life saving club, World War II and rationing
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Jack Browne
Jack talks about the Kenilworth Station
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Maroochydore and Cotton Tree in the 1970s
Enjoy a visit back to the 1970s courtesy of Patrick O’Callaghan and the Heritage Library
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Frank Clark
Frank talks about holidays on Petrie Creek and life in Nambour
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Mary Cordwell
Mary talks about living at Mt Ubi
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Dorothy Davison
Dorothy talks about the Mapleton Railway
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Peachester Hall: Heart, Hub and Community
Film exploring the importance of Peachester Hall
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Yandina: From staging post to township
Celebrating 150 years since the establishment of Yandina
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From the Mountains to the Sea - 50th Anniversary
A community film montage and digital story
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Westaway Family Collection
Discover the history of the Westaway family and learn about their life on the Sunshine Coast
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Emily English
Emily talks about her childhood and growing up in the family home "Fairview". She takes the interviewer through her family albums describing people and events as they go
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Eva Flatt
Eva talks about living in Cooloolabin
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May Francis
May was born in 1906. She talks about life and schooling at Woombye, social life, fruit farming and the CWA
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Madge Glover
Madge married Ernest Glover in 1942 in Montville. They made their home on the top of Mill Hill and had a beautiful orchard
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Doris Godwin
Doris talks about life in Caloundra
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Dora Gooding
Dora was born in Nambour and went to Mapleton State School. She talks about the Mapleton/Nambour tram, working in Strongarra Boarding House and life during World War II
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John Griffin
John talks about his life in Yandina
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Nell Guthrie
Nell was born 1913 at home in Maleny. Her husband Stephen was the local barber and had the casket agency in Maleny
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Monica Guy
Monica talks about the Guy family of Buderim
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Leslie Ivins
Les grew up in Cooloolabin and helped his father on the family citrus farm. He married in 1933 and worked for the Forestry Department.
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Dulcie Kelly
Dulcie was the daughter of Oliver Birrell, the Caloundra Lighthouse Keeper from 1918-1931. Dulcie lived on isolated Moreton Island until her family moved to Caloundra
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Emily Law
Emily went to school in Yandina. The family spent Christmas camping at Cotton Tree. She worked a dairy herd with her mother. She was married in 1933 at Yandina and had six children
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Doris Leach
Doris Annie Tilney was a daughter of George and Annie Maude Tilney early pioneers of Conondale area
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Ted Low
Ted talks about this life in Yandina
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Grace MacBride
Grace was born in 1900 at Nundah. Her parents were Margaret Tripcony nee Cochrane and Andrew Tripcony. Grace married Thomas Southern a painter/decorator/signwriter
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Margaret McCosker
Margaret was born in 1907 in Brisbane and educated at Glasshouse State School. She married in 1934 at Glasshouse and had seven children
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Annie Mitchell
Annie was born in 1901. She talks about education and farming at Montville. She married in 1923 at Nambour and had two children
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Minnie Olsen
Minnie was born in 1897 at North Arm. She talks about her time at Yandina State School. She married in 1916 and had six children
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Eileen Rowell
Eileen speaks of many amusing anecdotes of her time with the Nambour Amateur Theatre Society
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Mary Schulz
The Tutt family moved to the Kenilworth district from their property at the base of Mount Cooroy late in 1923
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Robyn Turner and Yvonne Turner
Squire William ‘Sonny’ Turner and Marie Isobel Turner were married at Montville in 1942 and had three children
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Hilma Weston
Hilma was of Finnish decent and lived at Image Flat