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20/10/2026

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19/10/2026

Does anyone recall Standford's Motor Cycles dealership in Rockhampton, around 1965?

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

19/10/2026

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19/10/2026

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19/10/2026

What’s new in Trove this month? A big handful of maps, newspapers, books and documents including the papers of former PM William ‘Billy’ Hughes. https://brnw.ch/21x6pGw

The National Library holds some interesting items that used to belong to Billy Hughes, including his false teeth. But you’ll have to pop around to Canberra to see those! 😬😬

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17/10/2026

Criterion Hotel, 150 Quay Street, Rockhampton.
Today we are in beautiful Rockhampton looking at the historical Criterion Hotel back in 1948.

Join me as I rewind the clock to the very beginning and follow the history of Rockhampton’s first hotel.
Find the link to my article below in the comments…
**These articles are researched and compiled by myself John Prpic, which is unpaid and done in my spare time around my employment. Any brands or business depicted in my postings are purely coincidental and are done without remuneration. The information supplied in my articles are sourced from a variety of publicly accessible locations, such as online newspaper archives, State Heritage Register, Council Heritage Registers, current newspaper articles, QImagery, word of mouth and many more locations.
(Taken: 1948/2023)
(Source: SLQ/John Prpic)
(Identifier: Negative number: 191228)
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17/10/2026

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Imagine being a passenger on the Park Avenue route bus in Rockhampton, cruising along open-air dirt roads and having the absolute time of your life in the 1920s! How incredible those times must have been back then. 😊

(Photo by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.)

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16 Highway Street
Rockhampton, QLD
4701

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+61448105755

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http://www.cqfamilyhistory.org.au/

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