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My family moved into a Housing Commission house in the new Inala in the early 1950s. We boys soon found that there was lots of small arms ammo round the area, remnants of the US Ammunition Dump. Finding it and extracting the cordite was a favourite pastime for the local boys, who spent hours combing […]

On 15 August 1944, a deputation of 3 residents from Darra met with the State Minister for Health and Home Affairs and the Police Commissioner for Brisbane. They were introduced by local MLA Mr. TC Kerr. The notes of the meeting include claims that: “Several attacks have been made by American Negroes on the residents

The Loff FamilyMy mother Tilly was born in Darra on 4 November 1905. The youngest of six children, she was born at home, in a railway house. Darra was little more than a fettler’s camp then—though Brittain’s Brickworks had been going since 1899. The fettler’s houses were beyond the brickworks, near the “Nine-foot bridge”—which was

I was born in November 1931 at Lady Bowen Hospital in Brisbane, the first of four children. My parents were living in Woolloongabba (Balaclava St) then, and they saw the ads for cheap land at Richlands Estate in the local Agent’s window. So, I was just twelve months old when we moved to our bush

My father was born in Italy in 1898. (We have a photo of him at the family house in his village. When it was demolished, it was found to be 300 years old). When Pilede turned seventeen, he was conscripted into the army. (In 1915, Italy joined the Allies in WWI). He fought for two

Re-produced with permission. From the book: World War II Stories from Brisbane’s South West – By Vicki Mynott. UNDER CONSTRUCTION – stories will be added over a period of time Foreword, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Timeline – World War II, Reading List RICHLANDS DARRA WACOL GOODNA OXLEY / CORINDA OTHER STORIES AFTER THE WAR

WORLD WAR IIStories from Brisbane’s South WestRichlands, Darra, Wacol, Goodna and Oxley Vicki MynottProject Support: Angela Naumann Richlands Inala & Suburbs History Group Inc Foreword The vision held by members of the Richlands, Inala & Suburbs History Group, from which this story results, was to recognize and celebrate in a local way, the 60th Anniversary

My parents were both immigrants. My mother was English, born in 1897 west of London; she arrived in Australia in 1915. My father was born in 1906 in Switzerland, and he came to Australia in 1929-1930. They met and married here and moved to Richlands in 1931. I was born in 1932, at Lady Bowen