Kenmore and District Historical Society Incorporated
The Kenmore & District Historical Society Inc aims to research, promote, record and publish the history of the Kenmore district, including the suburbs of Kenmore, Kenmore Hills, Chapel Hill, Fig Tree Pocket and Pullenvale.
The Annual General Meetings held in November each year and the committee meets each October for a planning day to assess current activities and to plan for the next year.
The Society was formed through a Steering Committee late in 2013.
A Management Committee was formed early in 2014 and first met in February and became officially incorporated in May 2014. At October 2016 there are 62 members of the Society, many of them having lived in the Kenmore district for many decades. There are also younger people who have a keen interest in understanding the continuity of the community in which they live.
The current committee members are:
President
Judy Magub
3878 4330
Minutes Secretary
John Carter
Treasurer
Sue Deal
PO Box 47, Kenmore, Qld, 4069
Honorary Secretary
Judy Magub
3878 4330
Members
Dorothy Miller
Ian Muirhead
Edna Winkel
Latest News
The Kenmore and District Historical Society meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month from 7 to 9 pm at the Kenmore Library Meeting Room, unless otherwise advised.
Our next meeting will be held on Thursday 21 March from 7 to 9 pm. This month our guest speaker is consultant and cultural researcher, Ray Kerkhove. Ray specialises in the early history and material culture of Aboriginal south-east Queensland, including Aboriginal-settler conflicts (1830s – 1880s). His work on local Indigenous history and sites has been used to inform town Master Plans and major construction projects (e.g. Toowoomba Bypass, Queens Wharf and Sunshine Coast Airport). Ray is a member of the Professional Historians Association of Qld. His talk will include a presentation based on his book with local area references on the suburbs that are of local interest to KDHS.
Upcoming dates for 2019:
April 18th, May 16th, June 20th, July 18th, August 15th, September 19th, October 17th and November 21st.
For further information contact the committee at kenmorehistory@gmail.com
Membership
Everyone is welcome to join the Kenmore & District Historical Society Inc. The benefits of becoming a member are detailed below.
- Knowledge that you are supporting volunteer work within the Society
- Receipt of a monthly newsletter
- Events and activities
- Free access to research material
- Monthly meeting with a guest speaker
- Opportunity to meet others from our local community who have an interest in history
- Be involved in the process of recording and preserving our local history for future generations
A membership application form can be downloaded here.
Resource Location and Arrangements
The Kenmore and District Historical Society (KDHS) has a collection of resources covering a broad range of themes on Kenmore and district. The RSL have generously allowed KDHS to store these valuable resources, as well as a printer and computer, at the RSL rooms at the Fairview Aged Care Facility, Pinjarra Hills. The room is a place where members of KDHS can view the society’s resources and research material.
For more information about the KDHS resource location and arrangements please follow this link.
Please note that the KDHS collection can be viewed by appointment only. If any members wish to view our records please contact the Committee at kenmorehistory@gmail.com
Research Snippet
Members Jim and Barbara Shepherd are researching Kenmore and district postal and mailing services. The first postal service in the overall district appears to have been at Moggill in 1861. In those early years the mail was run from a store and this was the case with Moggill. Sometimes the service was run from a school as happened at Fig Tree Pocket from 1871. The next district postal services opened in Brookfield in 1876, then Pullenvale in 1878 and Indooroopilly in the early 1880s. Right up into the 20th century, farming families at Kenmore had ‘C/- Post Office, Indooroopilly’ as their postal address.
To contribute to this research please contact Jim Shepherd, jshepherd34@bigpond.com
