Hinterland Stories

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

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Leonie Gittins 1949 to 2024

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...

William Joseph Collins William Joseph Collins was born in 1889 at Redland Bay. He was the grandson of Daniel James Collins who pioneered...

George and Maria Butt were amongst the earliest settlers in Montville, Their story is told elsewhere on this website. They had ten...

Among the early settlers of the district were Alfred & Harriet Bowser. Alfred was born in 1862 and lived on the Albert River near...

A MAN OF GOD AND COMMUNITY Jim Hooper was born in 1928 in Somerset, England the son of Frank and Mary Hooper. He was one of ten children...

Plaques on the six fig trees on the Montville Village Green, along with one fig tree in the school grounds commemorate Montville’s Fallen...

John and Beryl Davies at the opening December 1990 of ‘The Spirit of the Rainforest’ – a soft sculpture collection of Fairies and Gnomes...

Potts and Mac – as affectionately remembered by the Plowman Brothers Between the two Dixon properties on Mill Road, Frank Waldo Potts and...

George Land Bury from Nambour Street mural George Land and Jane Ann Bury – Pioneers, Landowners and Builders Extraordinary of the Near...

Montville Gems is a new Montville History Group (MHG) collection of stories about Montvillians who have helped make living in Montville...