Luca Greenleaf is an engaging young man doing the behind the scenes work selling new homes with a penchant for learning and sharing the history of the historic homes in and around Toowoomba….completely opposite to his career work. This delightful young writer was...
Establishing a community based around a butter and cheese factory, sawmill, and school, the Daly brothers and their employees worked extremely hard to make this late 1880s and early 1900s venture a success. Once the risk started to pay off, their attention and capital...
Simla Simla was built in 1885 for Toowoomba Solicitor Charles William Hamilton, his wife Mary Ann Hamilton and was home for their 7 children. Simla stood in an elevated position facing north and was located near what is now the intersection of Simla and Bridge Streets...
Clifford House was built in the mid 1860’s, and was originally intended to be used as a gentleman’s club, similar to the Queensland Club in Brisbane. The club fell into financial difficulties and was sold in 1870 to James Taylor, who in fact was the original owner of...
Sitting proudly atop of a glorious ridge on the eastern reaches of the Toowoomba Range, the Fernside homestead is one of Toowoomba’s most notable homes. Added to the Queensland Heritage Register in October 1992, the story of this now iconic East Toowoomba residence...
Thanks to the research conducted by Historian Leisa Carney, the history of Quinalow’s reason for being continues to come to light. Current publicans of the Quinalow Pub are community characters Greg and Cheryl Daley. How interesting that the area was given its...
