Ashgrove History Movie 2

Here's a little movie that we made,
Hope it'll put a smile on your face,
Don't worry - its Ashgrove history.

Turrbal people walked the land,
Traditional owners of Killindarbin,
Don't worry - its Ashgrove history.

Darby and McGrath came along,
Bought the land before the throng,
Don't worry - its Ashgrove history.

Lots of people over the years,
Some brought smiles and some brought tears,
Don't worry - its Ashgrove history.

Young Explorers of Ashgrove History graduates

Seventy children all told have taken part in our  6 Creating Young Local Historians workshops at the Ashgrove Library.

The two public workshops for children attracted 27 children all told.

Harry and Isla consider their memorabilia choices.

Liam and Will have selected an object to go with their
Ashgrove history image.
Is that a sword or a soldering iron?

Liam drawing the horse to go with the small blacksmith pincers.

Milly does a great school bell.

Harry's drawing of Turrbal life on Ithaca and Enoggera creeks. He listed to Uncle Nurdon Serico really well.

43 Cubs all told from the Oakleigh and the St Johns Wood Scout Groups attended 2 workshops each and successfully achieved their Local History Badges.

St Johns Wood Scout Group cub drawing an old screwdriver and camera after having done a local history crossword.

The following children attended
and completed our public workshops
at the library.

Amber
Ava C.
Ava L.
Caspar
Chiara
Edward
Evie
Genevieve
Harry C.
Harry  G.
Isharna
Isla
James
Jordon
Katisha
Liam
Lila
Maddison
Meaghan
Milly
Myella
Myles
Tom
Will

Well done. Each of the above have been awarded a Young Explorers of Ashgrove History certificate.

Judy, local resident and descendant of Alexander Stewart, with Isharna, Liam, Caspar, and Harry

The following cubs attended from St Johns Wood Scout Group and received their Local History Badges
Nick
Jamie
Ben  Ca
Nicky
Cecily
Clancy
Jaime
Cian
Ben Cr
Margie
Jack
Grace
Alex
Campbell
Cooper
Duncan
Ethan
Alistair 
Annabelle
Madeleine
Georgia
Max
Dominic
 

We would like to thank all of the parents who supported their children to attend and have fun at these workshops, the Scout leaders who attended with their Cubs and Joeys and helped us run the sessions and the community members who contributed their knowledge of Ashgrove history and culture.

Project Leaders

Lindy Sugars, President - Ashgrove Historical Society
Daryll Bellingham - Storyteller and local history tragic

St. John's Wood Scouts

 St. John's Wood Cubs attended workshops on the 30th October and 6th November, 2012. We split them into two groups with one doing the Great Memorabilia Mixup and one doing the narration for the Ashgrove History Movie on the iPad.

After attending the second workshop they received their cub Local History Badge.

Rovers working on gate to den.

Drawing old Box Brownie camera and screw driver after finishing crossword.

Potted Ashgrove animation histories

Here's our first animated Ashgrove History 'talk'.

What do you think?
















 

Oakleigh Cubs and Scouts

Four of our Creating Young Local Historians workshops have been with local cub groups. Two with Oakleigh and two with St. John's Wood.

They gained their Local History Badge after their second workshop attendance.

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Gralton, Lloyd & Ray

First public YEAH workshop

Our first public workshop for the Young Explorers of Ashgrove History on Sat 13th October went well.

We kicked off with Uncle Nurdon Serico talking about Turrbal people in Kallindarbin. Here's the link http://youngexplorersashgrovehistory.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/turrbal-people-in-ashgrove-area.html

This took a little longer then we were anticipating because of the children's interest in fishing and swimming holes and sedimentation.

Our other major activity was the  Great Ashgrove Memorabilia Mixup. One of the girls did a great job reading the accompanying disaster story:


"Oh No! Strawberry the house cow got into the vegie garden again."  "And, when Mum and the kids ran out to chase it back into the paddock, the dog ran inside and knocked all of the Ashgrove history photos and memorabilia onto the floor."  "They're in a terrible mess. Better work out which photos go with objects before Mum gets back."

"Can you help me please?"

"Here's the photos. Can you work out which history memorabilia objects go with which photo?"


and the guessing began. 

Finding photo on iPad

Daryll telling a story

Selecting artefacts

 Once we successfully matched photos and objects and talked about them. The young explorers got to draw one of the objects.

Liam drawing horse to accompany blacksmiths pincers

Drawing the butter churn and the fret saw

 The Great Memorabilia Mixup activity was so successful, we kept it in all of our workshops. Children have been fascinated with some of the objects such as the string of newspaper toilet paper squares, the butter churn, the pre-decimal currency coins, tools in general and the buggy wheel.


 

Turrbal people in Ashgrove area

We started our first public workshop for children in the Ashgrove Library, with a talk by Uncle Nurdon Serico about Turrbal people in the Ashgrove area.

He passed on a lot of information about aboriginal pathways, Waterworks Road was built on one, the Turrbal name for Ashgrove (Killindarbin), local camping grounds, fishing spots, food. He also told us stories about what Ashgrove was like when he was growing up and how deep the swimming holes were.

Turrbal people at Enoggera Camp
pose for the white photographer James Trackson (standing 3rd from left)
in a simulated fight - 1893
Photo from John Oxley Indigenous collection.
Used with permission. Faces pixellated in respect for past Elders.

One of the children asked why the waterholes weren't still deep. So we acted out the filling up of the waterholes with rolling rock and sand and gravel.

YEAH participant, Harry, showing Uncle Nurdon the drawing he did of hunting by a local creek.

Excerpt from Tom Petries Reminiscences about the Turrbal people was reprinted in The Queenslander -

Article identifier

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21810706

Page identifier

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page2521702

APA citation

SKETCHED. (1903, March 21). The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), p. 672 Supplement: Unknown. Retrieved October 22, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21810706

Excerpt from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashgrove,_Queensland
Ashgrove's native name is 'Kallindarbin'^[3] and was originally inhabited by the indigenous 'Turrbal' or 'Duke of York clan'.^[4] The main thoroughfare, Waterworks Road, was built on a Turrbal pathway that led to Mount Coot-tha, a place of the 'Honey-Bee Dreaming' and to the Enoggera Reservoir. The first sales of freehold land commenced in 1856, and ceased in 1875 when all available land was sold. Soon after sale of land stopped, the first school (the Ashgrove State School) and post office was established.

1. ^ Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press. 1992. p. 318. ISBN 0702223832.
2. ^ [1] 'Brisbane's indigenous history', accessed 13 December 2009
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Great Ashgrove Memorabilia Mixup

"Oh No! Strawberry the house cow got into the vegie garden again."

 "And, when Mum and the kids ran out to chase it back into the paddock, the dog ran inside and knocked all of the Ashgrove history photos and memorabilia onto the floor."

 "They're in a terrible mess. Better work out which photos go with objects before Mum gets back."

"Can you help me please?"

"Here's the photos. Can you work out which history memorabilia objects go with which photo?"


1)

1939 Domestic Science class - Oakleigh State School

2)

1939 Manual Training Class - Oakleigh State School

3)

1955 Mr Golding's farewell gift (radiogram) at Oakleigh State School

4)

Ashgrove/Wharf Street Tram on Waterworks Road, ca 1930.

5)

1922 - George Graham, Ashgrove dairyman, driving milk cart with horse, Roannie, between the shafts.

6)

Stewart children - Dorothy (back), Alice (left), Alistair (right), Doris (front)

7)

Newmarket backyard looking across to Ashgrove with clothes line, children in garden and dunny.

8)

Kindergarten children in the 'Children's Coach' outside St Finbarr's Convent - May 1937.

9)

Dairy cows outside Holt's house in Canberra Drive.

10)

Valley Junction tram beside Glenlyon Gardens Estate sign.

Successful launch of project & QR adventure

We had a good launch of the Creating Young Local Historians project on Saturday at Ashgrove Library.

Uncle Nurdon Serico gave us a great welcome to Turrbal country and invited us to include Indigenous knowledge in our workshops.

Councillor Geraldine Knapp formally launched the project for us and told us some really interesting stories about her family's experience of Ashgrove and the Ashgrove that she has become such an important part of.  The project is only possible with the help of a Community History Grant from the Brisbane City Council. Thank you Geraldine.

 We had fun working out why Miss Pat Fahey was a special guest and a living Ashgrove treasure. (If you don't know you'll have to come along to a workshop to find out. We'll be doing an audio podcast about her adventurous childhood using GarageBand. )

We had an adventure or two with a QR code and my iPad.

One of the satisfying  results of our QR code adventure was that it worked really quickly. We gave out small cards with a QR code printed on it to attendees of the Launch.  One of the attendees, Liam, and his dad must have followed the map that it led to that very afternoon because he's already sent us a photo of him at the Ashgrove 150 History Trail.

 

Here's Liam at the start of the trail. I think he's going to know the answer to what the first plaque says.

 

and here he is at the end of the trail at the plaque that commemorates the first land sales around Ashgrove.

I wonder where there is a  memorial to the Turrbal people?

Now if you would like to have an explore around our first Family History Exploration trail, here's the QR code for you to scan with your smart phone or iPad (you might have to download a QR scanner app if you haven't already).

And of course we would love to see primary age children at our public workshop at the Library on Saturday 10th November, 2012 at 2:00 pm.

Here's a link to the registration form or you can fill it in at the Ashgrove Library.

Any suggestions or feedback welcome via the comments below.

Daryll

Ashgrove Photos

Back yard garden, clothes prop and dunny in a Newmarket backyard looking over the Enoggera Ck towards Corona Ave, Ashgrove - thank you Merle Heiner. (How many children can you find in the garden?)

St Finbarrs Students

Ashgrove Market Gardens along Ithaca Creek

1st Ashgrove Scout group in 1909. They met in Fulcher Road, Ashgrove. Leader Leonard Lovejoy.

 

Glenlyon Gardens Estate Map