Hinterland Stories

Sharing the memories of Montville, Flaxton, Balmoral and Hunchy.

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Tony Cooper's Life of Colour

Tony Cooper - Entrepreneur, Tailor, Interior Decorator, Businessman, Developer, Natural Health Exponent in Vibration Medicine and Colour

An entertaining tale of how an early Montville Councillor organised his transport home from Nambour.

Jim Cox has been a local since 2002 and has been active in shaping the local art scene and creating awareness of environmental issues.

Two much loved Montville citizens were Les and Dulcie Gomersall who lived along Western Avenue for 50 years.

Vale for Sydney Kirkby - Antarctic Surveyor, Explorer, Map Maker

Robert Woof married Laura Skene on 26 April 1924 Robert and Laura Woof ran holiday flats at Queens Beach, Redcliffe in the 1960s Laura...

WW1 FLAXTON ENLISTMENTS Slouch Hat with Emu feathers (Courtesy Australian War Memorial) Wilfred Bratton, Wilf enlisted in the First...

Agnes and William Skene C. 1915 Mr. William Skene, of Maroochydore, collapsed and died by the side of his car a short distance from the...

Many families in the mid-1800’s migrated to Australia from England for various reasons. It could have been the prospect of making a...

Leonie’s creativity, resilience and strength led her to become a leading member of a wide range of communities on the Sunshine Coast

This Wyer Family Story has been compiled partly as a genealogy and as a chronology of the early pioneering days. Bob Wyer was interviewed...

By Gordon Plowman Leslie Garforth Swain, known by his friends and associates as Les, could look back on his lifetime of achievements with...

Alfred Charles Short, nicknamed Shorty, was the iconic gentleman who serenaded the Blackall Range and the Sunshine Coast with his mouth...

Lots of Cousins! This is a brief history of the Skene family who settled at “Bon Accord” in Flaxton, just of the first 3 generations,...

This is the house of the Shorts in Hunchy, early 1900s The Short families represented another early family group, like the Smiths, of...

Bill and Marian Collins took over Kingview farm in 1961 when his father, William Joseph, retired to Glasshouse Mountains. Bill was a war...

Negus Road George Oswald Negus (Os) was born in Maryborough on 25 April 1873. His father had emigrated from Surrey, England to...

The Manley Family on their farm: Kev, Doreen, Nell, Ernie, Dell, and Bob the Second When Doreen Wyllie married Kevin Manley on 24 August...

Frank Senescall was born in April 1864 at Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire. His parents were Jonathan and Hannah (nee Drinkall). Frank’s...

George E. Brown on the steps of St Mary’s Church, 1914 George Edward Brown was 21 when he arrived in Montville in 1906 with his parents...