Distance

Cobb & Co

There is often no road and the coach is taken at random through the forest… But the great miracle is the sudden pinches, looking as if they were almost perpendicular, do

Floor plan and drawing of a popular style of Queenslander house found throughout Queensland. The house, set on stumps, made its transportation possible.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image hch00019

This estate map advertised 191 allotments in the Townsville suburb of Hermit Park in 1884. Many houses from the gold fields town of Charters Towers were moved to Hermit Park after 1917.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 758683

The laboratory is moved to a new location at the Pioneer Sugar Mill, Brandon, 70 kilometres south-east of Townsville, 1965. Sugar train engines in the foreground. Slide by Beth Snewin, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Queensland's wooden buildings are transportable. One truck moves the old laboratory at the Pioneer Sugar Mill in Brandon, 70 kilometres south-east of Townsville, 1965. Slide by Beth Snewin, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

The architecture throughout Queensland enables many buildings to be relocated. Two trucks take away the Commonwealth Savings Bank in Barcaldine, 1961. Slide by Gladys Hartland, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Movable heritage of North Queensland

Heritage significance is often based on associations between specific places and particular people, groups or events.

Movement: how people move through the landscape

Queenslanders move around. They always have. They move themselves, their possessions, their ways of living – even their houses.

Map showing position of Queensland to the Australian Colonies, India, China &c

Australian region

Australia

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1 January 1866

Location

Australian region

Australia

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Brisbane

Government of Queensland

Map showing the position of Queensland to the Australian Colonies, India, China &c, 1866. Engraved for the Queensland Government by Thomas Ham & Co, Brisbane. One of 14 plates contained in the Atlas of the Colony of Queensland, Australia.

This map shows the relative geographical position of India and Australia, both subordinate elements of Empire.

Pathways

How things move through the landscape and where they are made.

Distance

Cobb & Co

Floor plan and drawing of Queenslander house, 1939

Estate map of Hermit Park, 1884

Moving the laboratory at the Pioneer Sugar Mill, Brandon, 1965

Moving the laboratory at the Pioneer Mill, Brandon, 1965

Moving the Commonwealth Savings Bank, Barcaldine 1961

Movable heritage of North Queensland

Movement: how people move through the landscape

Map showing position of Queensland to the Australian Colonies, India, China &c

Location

Pathways