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

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