History Archive

Mary Valley Rattler - Australian flags
Gympie Station to relive its World War association with special Mary Valley Rattler ANZAC Express: Gympie Station will relive its direct association with Australia’s war efforts by
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Has your house been built yet? Marilyn Stone's image from 1982 is only one of many submitted to the new Rainbow Beach history project
Help Make History: Margaret Grant  After visiting many historical museums while on our recent holiday
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Mary Valley Rattler volunteer & youngster at the Australia Day community event
Mary Valley Rattler “Rattler Mates” membership for locals: 28 January 2021: The Mary Valley Rattler’s Australia Day community event was
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The amount of erosion needed to expose the MV Natone
More on the shipwreck of the MV Natone: Following last month’s article on the Trish Burgess book ‘Wyatt Earp –
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Alain Henderson was a man of extraordinary ability with an encyclopedic memory and an astute judge of livestock and will be missed by all who knew him. RIP Alain - photo purchased from East Coast Images
Alain Henderson – Thank You: There are enough stories in the life of Alain Henderson to fill
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The book, Wyatt Earp: The little ship with many names, will be released by publisher Connor Court in mid May
Wyatt Earp: The little ship with many names: The Natone Shipwreck is part of Rainbow Beach’s history. Lee McCarthy talks
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Author of The Last Fraser Island Puntmen, Allan Shillig with his book - the cover was designed by 12-year-old Aiden Obst who also helped with the layout and taught Allan how to edit
The life of the Fraser Island puntmen: Allan Shillig has written a comprehensive book on his account of the
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Glamour girls at Double Island. Jessie Mallet far right
Bevan and Joy Anderson’s Rainbow Beach: Our family has been visiting Rainbow for holidays since the early ‘70s
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The front cover of the first Rainbow Beach Newspaper produced on December 17, 1998
Happy 21st Rainbow Beach Cooloola Coast Community News!: So where were you 21 years ago? I know where Caroline Taylor
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Back: Greg Biddle, Larry Dawson, George Day, Robin Perro, Allan Deen, Wayne Hewitt, Front: Billy Nolan, Garry Hewitt. They are wearing the togs they had to buy the day before to enter the March Past in.
Garry Hewitt’s Rainbow Beach: The Rainbow Beach Surf Club was formed in 1965/66 with the required
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