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STILL AVAILABLE! (updated November 2007)

"Moreton Bay People - The Complete Collection"

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ISBN 0957726031

To purchase your copy, send A$27.50 by cheque or money order to:
Peter Ludlow
PO Box 852
Cleveland, Qld 4163

Now available for purchase using PayPal (see Publications page)


Also available from:

Brisbane City:
Boat Books, Albert Street
(phone 32296427)
Museum of Brisbane, City Hall (phone 34038888)
The Library Shop, State Library of Queensland (Phone 38407576)

Bulimba:
Anne's Second hand Shop (phone 33956624)
Riverbend Books
(phone 38998555)
Bribie Island:
Book City, Shop 29/30 Bribie Island Shopping Centre, 239 Goodwin Drive (phone 34080200)
Cannon Hill:
Angus & Robertson Bookshop, K Mart Plaza, Wynnum & Creek Rds, Cannon Hill (Ph 07 33956577)
Capalaba:
Angus & Robertson, Capalaba Park (phone 33903382)
Carindale:
Angus & Robertson, Carindale Shopping Centre, Old Cleveland Rd, Carindale (Ph 07 38431143)
Chermside:

Dymocks Bookshop, Chermside. (phone 33505255)
Cleveland:

Cleveland News, Middle Street, Cleveland. (phone 32861206)
Books n Art, Cleveland Harbourside.
(phone 32869744)
Indooroopilly:
Dymocks Bookshop, Indooroopilly. Shoppingtown (phone 38785544)
Manly:
Manly Casket & News (phone 33962383)
Sunnybank:
Angus & Robertson, Sunnybank Plaza (phone 32169315)

Stradbroke Island:

Dunwich News (phone 34099200)
Point Lookout News (phone 34098250)
Wynnum:
Moreton Bay News, IGA Centre, Bay Terrace (phone 33961237)

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Collected throughout the last decade of the twentieth century, these reminiscences of ‘Moreton Bay People’ provide a unique insight into the lifestyle of the Moreton Bay area during a particular time frame of history – the twentieth century.

Never again will we see a lazaret for lepers at Peel Island, a prison at St Helena, or a whaling station at Tangalooma. Hopefully, too, ‘The Bay’ will never experience another World War with its influx of foreign servicemen, or another Great Depression and its casualties seeking refuge in the bay’s islands.

Between 1990 and 2000 author, Peter Ludlow, interviewed over eighty of the bay’s ‘personalities’ and then published their stories in a series of volumes entitled ‘Moreton Bay People’. Here, for the first time, they are all brought together in a single volume: "Moreton Bay People – The Complete Collection".

With its enhanced images, full indexation, and some more previously unpublished ‘gems’ this completely re-edited edition will prove essential reading to anyone – be they reference librarians or ‘boaties’ – with an interest in Moreton Bay and its people.

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Here's the full table of contents.  As you can see, the monographs have been grouped into geographic areas of Moreton Bay, beginning with Bribie in the North and ending with the Gold Coast in the South.  New monographs (previously unpublished in "Moreton Bay People" volumes 1 to 5) are highlighted in red.

CONTENTS

BRIBIE ISLAND

1. A HEALTHY NEGLECT

(Kathleen McArthur) 5
2. SETTLING THE STILL WATER SIDE (Ian Hall) 7
3. THAT BRIBIE FEELING (Adrian Dalgarno) 12

4. A SYLVAN SKETCH

(Lisa West) 17
5. THE HOUSE BY THE SEA (Ian Fairweather) 20
6. THE ROAD TO BRIBIE (Dorothy Schulte) 23
7. STARTING FROM SCRATCH (Jim Ormiston) 25
8. SHELLGRIT AND CARGO (Audrey Abrahams [nee Maloney]) 28
9. THE PEOPLE OF THE PASSAGE 32
10. THE SHIELDS OF BRIBIE PASSAGE. (Don Shields) 35
11. THE BELL FAMILY - BRIBIE ISLAND 1915 - 1979 37
12. DOCTOR AT THE FORT (Doctor Noel Ure) 39
13. FORT BRIBIE (Stan Muller) 42
14. FORT BRIBIE REVISITED (John McKenna/Doctor Noel Ure) 44

MORETON ISLAND

15. "JESSANARRY" (The Wadsworths of Moreton Is.) 47
16. MORETON ISLAND MISCELLANY 50
17. THE CAPE MORETON PROVISIONAL SCHOOL (Clair Craig) 52
18. HENRY & ELIZABETH LOCKHARD (Beth Lawler) 56
19. A LONER MOVES ON (Allan Counter) 57

REDCLIFFE

20. PERCEIVING A NEED (Frank Duffield) 58

SANDGATE

21. SALT WATER IN HIS VEINS (Albert Jeays) 60
22. CREMORNE (John McCallum) 64
23. THE BELLS OF EVENTIDE 66
24. THE DAY WE WENT TO SANDGATE. (Ray Robinson) 68

MORETON BAY - GENERAL

25. A LIFE ON THE WAVES ('Curly' Meath) 71
26. IN WAR AND IN PEACE (Jack Little) 72
27. KEEPING THE LIGHTS (Bob Emmett) 78

BRISBANE AND RIVER

28. FERRY FAMILIES (Ron Peterson.) 83
29. BISHOP ISLAND (Ted Crouch) 86
30. S.S."LUCINDA" 88
31. CHARLIE PERSSON - HIS EARLY LIFE… (Pamela Horstman) 89
32. THE MAN, THE BOAT, THE RIVER ( Mabel Persson) 92

ST.HELENA ISLAND

33. ROAMING THE PRISON ISLAND (Fred Murrie) 95

GREEN ISLAND

34. A LIFE ON GREEN ISLAND (Merv Beitz) 99

KING ISLAND

35. LARGE FAMILY - SMALL ISLAND. (Clarrie Phillips) 100

WYNNUM/MANLY

36. FISHING LINES - FIRST AND LAST (Ron Crouch) 103
37. ROUND WYNNUM CREEK (Ron Williams) 107
38. THE PORTS OF MANLY (Rowland ," Snow" Port) 111
39. HAMMER AND NAILS (Bert Rollason) 116
40. MANLY - THE PLACE OF LONG SHADOWS (Stan Kenwrick) 120
41. AROUND THE TABLE (Merv Hazell) 124
42. THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE. (Merv Beitz) 127

CLEVELAND

43. THE PEOPLE OF THE POINT 132
44. EDWARD CROWTHER AT OYSTER POINT… (Graham Mackey) 136
45. FARMING AND FIELDING (Albert Morris) 141

PEEL ISLAND

46. COMING DOWN TO THE BAY (A former patient, Peel lazaret) 146
47. OF DRUNKARDS & ROCK POOLS. (Ivy Rowell) 148
48. THE MOST SOLITARY MAN (Noel Agnew) 150

49. DAY'S ROUTINE AT THE PEEL IS. LAZARET

(Eric Reye/Rosemary Opala)
152
50. COLD TURKEY CANVASES. (William Simmons) 155
51. BAY SERVICE (Father Gabriel Nolan) 156
52. DEAD BRANCH ON A FAMILY TREE (Hilda Finger) 159
53. A VISIT TO PEEL ISLAND 164
54. TWO MEN : TWO ISLANDS (Chas Carroll/Ray Cowie) 166
55. NOTES OF "ALEX' VISIT TO PEEL ISLAND IN THE 1990s. 169
56. MAN, MANGROVES...& MIDGES. (Eric Reye) 171

NORTH STRADBROKE ISLAND

57. THE DICKSON WAY (Bonty Dickson) 177
58. MANAGING STRADBROKE (Ellie Durbidge) 182
59. OYSTERS IN THE BILGE (Ray Barrett) 185
60. NATURE'S GENTLEMAN (Jack Borey) 189
61. THE CAMP AT THE ONE MILE (Lance Watts Jnr.) 191
62. THE DUNWICH BENEVOLENT ASYLUM. (George Ferguson) 194
63. ACROSS THE CULTURES (Vivian Cooms [nee Ruska]) 200
64. BY THE CREEK AT THE ONE MILE 206
65. AMITY TALES 209

COOCHIEMUDLO ISLAND

66. THE MYSTERIOUS SIXTH (Ted Jones) 213
67. FIRST FERRIES TO COOCHIE (Ted Jones/Rosemary Opala) 216

RKLM

68. YARNIN' THE MEM'RIES (Ollie Rowney) 218
69. ON THE FRUIT BOATS (Bill Campbell) 221
70. THREE GENERATIONS AT RUSSELL ISLAND (David Willes) 223
71. FARMING THE BAY ISLANDS (Ken King) 228
72. FRANK SANDS - PIONEER OF MACLEAY ISLAND. (Jack Sands) 230
73. A FARM ON LAMB ISLAND (Peggy Saunders) 232
74. R.K.L.M. ISLANDS AS I SAW THEM (John "Jock" Kennedy) 234
75. WILDFLOWERS OF RUSSELL ISLAND (Marjorie Yeo [nee Field]) 238

BEENLEIGH AREA

76. ROCKY ROAD TO ROCKY POINT. (Pat Heck) 240
77. BOUND FOR TABBY TABBY (Tom Gibson/Annie Russell) 243

GOLD COAST

78. ROE'S KAMP. (Dr Charles Roe) 249
79. CURRIGEE OYSTERS (Lil Levinge [nee Bostock]) 252
80. JOURNAL EXTRACTS (Clarrie Phillips) 255
81. BASIN ENGINEER (John L. Humphreys) 258
82 PLAYING THE BANJO (Frank Willoughby) 259
INDEX 263

(Also included are 80 black and white photos/maps on 30 unnumbered pages)

 

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