Hinterland Stories

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

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Nicole Vertuel – A Montville Gem

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

Montville's Australia Day Awards recipients 2022 Jim Cox - Montville Citizen of the Year 2022 Jim Cox being presented the Montville...

by Laurie Grimwade nee Smith The Pupil I was born in the Palmwoods Private Hospital on 23 November 1940, the third daughter of Peter and...

The Citizen of the Year Award for 2021 went to John Watson. John was born, bred and educated in New Zealand where he started his career...

The Montville Citizen of the Year Award was first instituted in 1990. The Montville Lifetime Citizenship Award was instituted in 2015....

by Bill Thompson Our family came from England in 1947 as ten-pound poms. My father was a dentist and said that his hobbies were sailing...

The Gorsch Family, of eleven, moved to Western Avenue, Montville from the Lockyer Valley in 1956. Len, the oldest son, came up several...

Jocelyn Bannister selling raffle tickets at St Mary’s Hall NO matter where Jocelyn Bannister goes in the future, she will always be a...

Early settlement of Montville Timber getters knew of the rich source of cedar in the area before the Colony of Queensland was created in...

By Gordon Plowman (MHG) Henry Wilfrid Walker, who liked to sign his name as H. Wilfrid Walker, FRGS (Eng.), always wore his badge as a...

The Western Road to Henry Smith’s ‘Eastnor’ 1900 ‘Belbury’ once known as ‘Eastnor’, is again on the market (2018). Part of Montville’s...

The Montville History Group asked pupils from this 1977 School photo to share their memories of growing up in Montville and to tell a...

The Story Behind the Name - Western Avenue Cutting the Main Road and Western Avenue Intersection Butts Road First Nation people of the...

The Story Behind the Name Manley Drive We lived at 30 Manley Drive for 10 years. When I went to renew my driver’s licence in 2009 just...

On Friday 18th August 2023, Montville lost a community champion. Margaret Farmer epitomised community service. As her daughter, Karen,...

Meet the Australia Day Award Winners! Adam Montgomery is the Principal of Montville State School and on National Principal Day the school...