Fires at Walter Reid building Rockhampton, 1912-18

Both Walter Reid warehouses were affected by fires in 1912 and 1918. These newspaper reports describe the damage and the importance of the business nationally. The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 October 1912, The Mercury, Hobart, 14 October 1912, The Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 14 September 1918, The Argus, 12 September 1918, The Mercury, Hobart, 12 September 1928.

Walter Reid Cultural Centre, 2010

Walter Reid Cultural Centre, 2010. Photographs by Ana Stevenson.

Collection of Ana Stevenson

Walter Reid Cultural Centre, Rockhampton: back again

The Walter Reid Centre has long maintained a dominating, yet transformative, presence in the landscape of Rockhampton.

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Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, c1888

Lower Burdekin, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
1 January 1888
26 October 2010
26 October 2010

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Lower Burdekin, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
26 October 2010

James Cook University Archives, Townsville

Sugar

A sketch plan of Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, Lower Burdekin, c1888. Pioneer Mill Records, Photograph 52, James Cook University Archives, Townsville

 

Sugar

Commercial production of sugar commenced in Queensland during the mid-1860s.

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Tinaroo Dam, 1955-63

When Tinaroo Dam was completed, it was the only dam in Australia specifically constructed to service the needs of a single agricultural industry - tobacco - at that time. Slides by Beth Snewin, 1955-63, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Beth Snewin and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Mareeba, the tobacco capital of Australia, c1961

Mareeba, the tobacco capital of Australia, c1961. Postcard folder GK Bolton, Collection of John Young

 

Collection of John Young

Panorama of Atherton, 1918

Panorama of Atherton, the principal town on the Atherton Tableland, 1918. From Tablelands of North Queensland, 1918. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Atherton Tableland Butter and Bacon Co-operative Company, Ltd, 1918

Factory of the Atherton Tableland Butter and Bacon Co-operative Company, Ltd., Golden Grove, Atherton (Atherton Tableland). From Tablelands of North Queensland, 1918. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Mr Heale's dairy farm at Kureen (Atherton Tablelands), 1918

Mr. E. H. Heale's Dairy Farm at Kureen (Atherton Tableland). From Tablelands of North Queensland, 1918. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

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