Going to the ‘Dump’
By Canungra Historical Assocation Back in the late 1920s and 1930s on the road heading south from Canungra and up into the mountains of Lamington National Park there was a logging operation. Today there is […]
By Canungra Historical Assocation Back in the late 1920s and 1930s on the road heading south from Canungra and up into the mountains of Lamington National Park there was a logging operation. Today there is […]
By the Canungra Historical Association. As many before him, David Day came to Canungra to work in the Lahey’s Sawmill. As well as working in the mill during the day, he built cottages in Appel […]
Wonglepong Cemetery is located in Franklin Lane, off the Beaudesert Nerang Road at Wonglepong. Prior to 1914 it was a private cemetery, part of the property Sarahvale, owned by the Franklin family. In approximately November 1914, […]
Canungra Railway Station was situated where the Canungra State Primary School grounds are today. The railway line crossed Christie Street (about where the Canungra Bowls Club is) and followed round the creek bank north to […]
In July 1925 there was a gathering, called a Corroboree, of 400 Boy Scouts from five states of Australia on the banks of the Coomera River at the Franklin property, now Kokoda Barracks. This was […]
Boyland Railway Station A short distance along the Biddaddaba Road from its junction with the Mundoolun Connection Road, on the left-hand side, there is a small plaque marking the site of the Boyland Railway Station, […]
Mary Hart was a member of the Wonglepong branch of the Country Women’s Association (CWA).She attended the QCWA Annual Conference in 1951 when the country of study was Mexico.The delegates there were given a seedling […]
When we lived at “Glen Witheren” in the 1990s we had a feral Guinea fowl arrive, who took to attacking our hens. This hen took refuge on a chair on the front verandah for weeks […]
Before we get too steamed up about rising petrol prices, let us go back seventy years to the years of WW2 (second world war 1939 to 1945) and up to 1950. During this time […]
Text taken from the book Canungra Heritage 1879 – 1979 by M Curtis. The 1914 – 1918 War ended abruptly in November 1918 and the news was telephoned to Canungra. Such was the relief that people celebrated then and […]
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