Mandalay is in Myanmar (Burma) and Mandalay Palace was the residence of the last King.

……apologies’ in advance for this kinda off topic info……… The house which used to be at 142 Gladstone Road, Highgate Hill, was a very old, beautiful one. When it was demolished, I kept a pottery roof tile, which had the wording, ‘Marseilles 1911’ on it. I know the house next door, at #138, is still standing, but has had two huge renovations done to it, in 1967, & mid-2000’s. The cement, posts’ under house, were put in by my father, & grandfather in the late 1950’s. There maybe still some timber posts kept, too. It was a beautiful property, with huge rose gardens’ at the back. They all went in the earlier restoration………

Its always good to see old houses become new again, balustrade's that pretty cool, was that the your earring theme this time 'The Balustrades', another great video, keep up the great work there

Great Vid, awesome Reno..

OMG, the house is so pretty now ❤

I bought a house in Milsom st 165(Norman Park that end) , lived there for 22 years from 1991. Thanks for the memories 😁😢

How wonderful the restoration of this interesting house. Good work by you too . Well done.

Great job

I always think the old houses look more mysterious if they are a little bit shabby

It's been 100 years since the last Cobb & Co coach run (1924). I had completely forgotten until your video reminded me. My grandmother was on that coach.

Thank you!

What a fantastic episode love every minute of it thank you

great video 👍🏻 very well researched ☝️ thanks for sharing your knowledge and findings 🙏 i love this type of historical content. And a “rescue cat” 🤠 literally

What an amazing house rescue! A stunning restoration! BTW, Ancestry says that Kiora is an Aboriginal word for greetings, but I think they might be confusing it with the Maori greeting 'kia ora'.

Nice episode! I applaud the owners commitment to bringing the house back. Looks great!

People who live in Dutton Park call Deighton as in "die", long i sound. And Tillot is stressed on the second syllable as in tiLOT. It would be nice to know where Lindon House was located - the home of Lot 190 on that map and the street it was named after. The house named after Grove street still exists at the end of Lindon.

I've lived in Brisbane for almost my whole life. This video was awesome... I'm subbing and look forward to watching another from you 🙂

I have a friend who recently bought a house outside Stanthorpe and moved there. I love every visit seeing the old buildings and houses. It’s such a charming town.

Very excited to see the lounge room my dad built (the one with the fireplace)is now documented in the state library!l

I live near James st I'm so glad the house was bought and not demolished.

Grain sifter.

That church in rosewood is fantastic! I hope it gets the funding it needs. If you like country drives, you should check out the Stonehouse in Moore! It is having an open day and it's sesquicentary on the weekend of the 27th of July. It's a real treasure for those who love local history.

Interesting about returned soldiers suffering from TB. My grand-uncles (returned soldiers suffering from TB) were advised to migrate from Scotland to Queensland for their health. Sadly, they both died n their thirties.

No 1. is a wonderful photo. My first thought was the sieve was used to separate husk from grain, not by anything falling through but by airflow through it to blow empty husk out. But... surely chooks can do that themselves, it still could be leftover grain from breadmaking. The barrel is a hand-cranked washing machine.

less of you, more historical photos, maps etc.

That house in Rosewood is stunning. I noticed it doing a housecall to a patient. It just WOW.

Thank you for all your great work on Brisbane's history. Awesome job. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for another great ep 😊

Speaker, please, please, please, don't use any segments showing just you talking and waving your arms. 😥 It's annoying and distracting from the interesting topic. Show illustrations - photos and/or sketches - of what's the topic and you have plenty of good ones 😊 but don't flit through them. Focus. We're here to see the houses, not a speaker's face/room.

My grandparent's old house (842 Brunswick St) had layer upon layer of newspapers under the wallpaper, us kids used to peel the wallpaper off to read the old newspapers.

I absolutely love the tv mini series, A Town Like Alice, with Brian Brown. I like when Brian's character explains to Gordon Jackson's character "about winning the Golden Casket". I did not realise that the lottery was used to specifically fund widows houses.

The sieve is probably to keep rubbish out of the water tank and the square tank was actually a ships tank the predecessor to containers. They were filled with freight on ships including passengers luggage etc and it was common to use them for English crockery. To capture water, this one has the round entry to the tank upright but they were normally stacked with the hole and it's cover in the side with the cover either hinged on one side and secure with a bolt protruding from the tank and a large nut with steel handles welded onto it screwed the lid down.More commonly,there were two or three bolts and handled nuts rather than a hinge.ive come across these many times at clearance sales and in farm sheds and many times ,they were lined with tar paper and the name Wedgewood easily readable on the tar paper. They were used for many purposes on the old ships including to hold fresh water for the voyage and judging by the amount I've seen ,they were unloaded from the vessel and the contents remained in them Perhaps they were exchanged as pallets are today.

So many fascinating finds Maryanne! 🙂 Love your channel and research stories. That first photo of the the farmhouse and family was a great find. You got so much information from one photo!! 👏

Love your shows. The newspaper under the Lino was used to keep out the draft coming through the floorboards as well, according to my Mum, born 1925. Looking forward to your next episode. Thank you.🤗🌸

How beautiful is the old photo of that family. Can't recall seeing such a casual photo before . What a great find.

Very interesting and entertaining, informative and nicely supported with photos & details. Thank you, you've gained another subscriber!

I found an illustration of a similar looking contraption in an old book I have - I'll try and forward it to you via your website :)🙂

The classifiers/sieves that he is using to feed the fowls is also called a riddle and we used to use it for making a fine tilth in the garden. It's the sort of thing the kids could do - I used to do it for my Grandad donkey's years ago. But yes, it would be used for gold mining, too - different size holes so you classify out the larger rocks - they are still used today. It could be he was sieving some grain & the chaff was being fed to the birds. The big churn on the porch I'm sure I've seen somewhere, perhaps Woolmers in TAS, or back in England - it seems to have hefty gears on the outside, so I'm thinking it's more for milling something - seems a bit hefty for butter, as many of the larger churns were churn-like or just had a simple handle for turning - it doesn't really take that much power to make butter. I don't suppose it was anything to do with gold mining - as rocks are often pulverized...? Very interesting show, thanks for that lovely photo.

I wonder if that large keg in the first photo could be a washing machine of some sort?

As always, fascinating information. So great the cottage from the Valley is being restored.

About the photo first up: Röhr rhymes with "fur"... although for an Aussie audience I should add the final "r" is rolled, not dropped. It's an ethnically German surname, and refers to people who lived where lots of reeds grow. There were a lot of German migrants who settled in the Lockyer Valley, West Moreton and Scenic Rim regions in the 19thC, including some of my ancestors. My late grandfather (Dad's side) grew vegetables, and used a sieve just like that for separating seeds, like onion seeds, from the husks/chaff. So my guess is the farmer in the photo is feeding the waste chaff to the chooks. I think your guess about that barrel-shaped object being a large butter churn is probably correct.

Those sieves look to be the size of ya earrings. Another great vid, keep up the good work

keep up the great work..

Looking for lithium iron batteries in 2056?

Hi there, Hand screens or sieves as they were also known, were quite popular back in the day with people living on the land or cities. My father owned a couple over the years, and his main usage was for a variety of landscaping, concreting and gardening projects around our suburban home. I still use mine on rare occasions to carry out similar tasks as well. Very handy for small jobs needed doing around the home. So anything that needed sifting, the sieve was the go to tool for the job. Also, the exterior walls looks like common sawn weather boards. Cheers, Greg.

I find it suspiciously convenient when fire ravages old buildings that someone wants knocked down. Seems all one needs to do to get around heritage protection laws is to light a fire.

NEVER TAKE UP LINOLEUM It is made with hessian sacks as a backing... More often than not they had a previous life.. They were used for Asbestos....... And the News Papers were to stop drafts.....So I Have Been Told.....

With regard to newspaper under lino. Many years ago while working in Western Queensland, we came across an abandoned homestead. Me, being a bit of a quiet history geek started looking under the linoleum. I found a very short story in this 1947 newspaper that reported how a company was planning on building a fully Australian car in Australia. It may well have been the very first report of what would become the Holden.

👍🏻 great episode , i love history

Love your channel and the history you unfold looking forward to more