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

First Young Explorers of Ashgrove History Family Exploration Map

Can you find this photo somewhere on our first family history exploration?

 Hi Young Explorers of Ashgrove History.

Lindy and Daryll would like you to have your first look at some of Ashgrove's history before you come to our first free  'Y.E.A.H' workshop if you can.

To make it easier and more fun we've created a Google map called - 'First Young Explorers of Ashgrove History Family Exploration Map' for you to find on your computer and visit three different interesting places in Ashgrove. They make pleasant walks for the whole family.

If you click on the Google map icons ( the 'P', the 2 green houses with flags, the football player, and the 'arrow and star') you'll find some suggestions and questions.

Don't forget, if you can tell us what the first two shiny steel plaques on the Ashgrove 150 History trail say, there will be a  little reward for you at our workshop on the 10th November, 2012 at the library (don't forget to book in).

You can click on the map below for a larger view and then print it out or carry it on your iPad or smartphone.

If you would like to take some photos or do some drawings and bring them along to the first workshop we would love to see them and add them to our YEAH blog.




View First Young Explorers of Ashgrove History Family Exploration Map in a larger map

Ashgrove Local Government History

In 2012 Ashgrove is part of the Brisbane City Council. If you live in Ashgrove, you live in The Gap Ward of the Brisbane City Council.

Each ward of the Brisbane City Council elects a Councillor to help look after the things that we all want to work well - roads, sewerage, rubbish collection, playgrounds, bike paths, buses and trams (oops, not any more), libraries and pooper scooper plastic bags in parks.


In 2012, The Gap Ward Councillor is Councillor Geraldine Knapp. She was first elected in 1997.



Here's a link to some information about The Gap Ward and Cr. Knapp.

I wonder who the first The Gap Ward Councillor was?




Now Ashgrove hasn't always been part of the Brisbane City Council. It was originally part of the Ithaca Town Council.

Ithaca Town Council Chambers on Enoggera Terrace, Red Hill, Brisbane, Australia. c. 1920
John Oxley Library

 
The Ithaca Divisional Board was created in 1880 under the Local Government Act of 1879.  It had 3 sub-divisions.  In 1887, the 3 sub-division became Windsor Shire Council,   Ithaca Shire Council, and the new Ithaca Divisional Board, which was then renamed the Enoggera Divisional Board to avoid confusion with the Ithaca Shire Council.

In 1903, under the new Local Government Act, all Divisional Boards became Shire Councils.

The councils operated until 30 September 1925, when they all became Greater Brisbane Council.

The Councils look after roads, bridges, water, sanitation and drainage, public health services, parks and reserves, cemeteries, libraries and recreational facilities and street lighting and all other local issues.

This project - 'Creating Young Local Historians' - is a good example of another way our local government, the Brisbane City Council, helps everybody in Brisbane. The Brisbane City Council has given the Ashgrove Historical Society a 'Community History Grant' to help run our Creating Young Local Historians project  - Y.E.A.H!

Thank you Brisbane City Council and thank you Councillor Knapp. 

A big thank you as well to the Ashgrove Library staff who have helped so much. We love your library.

Why is Miss Fahey important in Ashgrove's history?

I wonder if you can guess why we think Miss Fahey is one of Ashgrove's living treasures? 

You might have to look carefully. 

Sometimes it is the small things that make history interesting and give us clues about how people lived in different times.

Which of the four photos do you think Miss Fahey is part of?

 

A standard ten bench Ashgrove tram with Engine Man and Conductor in 1930s

61st Battalion marching in Waterworks Road, 1939



Children's Coach outside St Finbarr's Convent - 1937

3 March 1934 - guard of honour at the official opening of Oakleigh State School