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Cowderoy, Tom Jnr, [miscellanea file]

Cowderoy, Tom Jnr

[miscellanea file]

Tom Cowderoy's memoir discusses the development and history of Southport and immediate surrounds, events and local families. Including in order: Hall, Radunz, Mohr, Southport Hotel, Richard Gardiner, Thomas Hanlon, Pacific Hotel, Lather family, timber, sawmills, cricket, Islen, Hutchinson, Billy Drumley, butcher shop, Felsman, Black Sam [African American], fishing, boats and boating, South Stradbroke Island, Dr Nelson, cowrie shells, church services, Aborigines and Indigenous peoples and ceremonies - Corroborees - musical instruments - weapons - didgeridoo. Meyers Ferry, TSS, Governor's House, Johnston's Paddock, Balclutha, Star of the Sea convent, Cobb & Co, Jessie River, post office, Phil Agnew, Bulletin Arcade, Robin's Nest, E. A. Grigg, Ralph Freeman, 1882 comet, Surrey House, Railway Hotel, Beetham and Burton rowing incident and drowning, Easter, regattas, Jubilee Bridge, Bond Jetty, Row's Camp, Thomas Welsby, Foss, Simpson, Tregandine, Young's Paddock.Continuing: Scottish Prince, shipwrecks, Cambus Wallace, figurehead. Chelmsford guesthouse, Thams, Cribb, Loders Creek, Grand Hotel, Labrador. Description of food and dishes served to guests at the Southport Hotel, dwellings and houses, Seabank, Maddock Hughes, Stevens, Palmer, Nelson, Power, J. G. Appel, Sea Glint, Wilson engine. Tuesley and passenger ferries, The Broadwater, picnics, O'Doherty, Howard, Barney Bolton. School of Arts, performers - Nellie Melba, Marie Narelle, Barn Band. West's picture show. Kelly Gang movie, Mr Cook and open air stadium behind the Pacific Hotel, theatre, blasting the Ernest Junction tunnel, Jowett and Home foremen of works for the railway, Maid of Sker. Stores and storekeepers - Andrews, Chant, Earl, Kramm, Lancaster, Carey. Chamber of Commerce, agricultural show, Earl Motors, Banham, transport trucks, building trade, Dannecker, houses, construction. Model and Town bands, Davis, Will Stark, photography, police - Sargeant Murray, motor cars and vehicles - Lougheed of Nind Street, Grayson, Suter Street, Schlinker, Foster - car hire business. Journalists - Fass, Logan and Albert Bulletin, Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Star newspapers. Cambridge House, Evesden, Elanora guesthouse, National Bank building, Rowallan - Dr Nelson, Bethany, croquet lawn, circuses - Wirths, Fitzgeralds, O'Reilly's Estate. Little Ipswich in vicinity of Stevens Street.