HERITAGE INFORMATION AND NEWS
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BRISBANE'S HERITAGE PLACES AND CHARACTER
HOMES - RESTORING AND RESEARCHING
Find out more about protecting Brisbane's heritage places
and character homes. Brisbane City Council has simple guides
in place to protect Brisbane's historic places.
Brisbane City Council has created simple guides to planning,
one of them being for heritage places and character housing
in Brisbane.
- Visit the Brisbane
City Council's website - Go to the Planning and Building
page, then Planning for a growing city and on this
page there a copy of A Simple Guide to Brisbane's
heritage places and character housing
available to download.
Brisbane City Council also has fact sheets that provide owners
and carers of heritage places with crucial information on
conservation issues and guidelines to plan for future work.
- Visit the Brisbane
City Council's website - Go to the Planning and Building
page, then to Tools and Forms, click on City Plan
2000, go to the Heritage link. This page
has information on protecting heritage, heritage incentive
schemes and how to research the history of your house. Click
here to go directly to the page.
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BRISBANE'S QUEEN'S WHARF HERITAGE
PRECINCT
Brochure
available to download.  (1.5mb)
Copies are also available at
National Trust House, 95 William Street, Brisbane.
T: (07) 3223 6666
This brochure was made possible through the Brisbane City
Council's 2008/2009 Community Grants Program. The National
Trust wishes to thank the State Library of Queensland, the
Royal Historical Society of Queensland and the Brisbane History
Hub.
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NATIONAL HISTORY CHALLENGE
The National History Challenge is a research-based competition
for students. It gives your students a chance to be an historian,
investigating their community and exploring their own past.
It emphasizes and rewards quality research, the use of community
resources and effective presentation.
For more information go to www.historychallenge.org.au
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NATIONAL TRUST BUS TOURS
2011
2010
2009
For more information please call Val on T: 07 3223 6666 on
Fridays
Email: info@nationaltrustqld.org
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SPECIAL OFFER - a book that celebrates
Queensland and its 150th birthday.
ALL FOR QUEENSLAND, The Governors and The People.
The Authors - Peter and Sheila Forrest.
The special focus of this work has been the people and places
of inland Queensland.
A lavish and generous book of 312 large pages filled by the
stories of people who have shaped our history, with insights
into episodes and places everywhere in Queensland.
$70 for hard cover edition
$140 for silk bound and boxed deluxe edition.
(prices are per copy and includes postage and handling)
For full details and order form. Click
here (329kb)
Telephone: 07 3223 6666
Email: info@nationaltrustqld.org
For book enquiries contact history@forrest.net.au
or T: (08) 8941 0435
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COLONIAL BRISBANE HERITAGE WALK
The Department of Public Works and the Department
of Natural Resources and Management, as a part of the
Q150 project, have created a downloadable podcast to guide
you through Brisbane's colonial past.
Take a walk through Brisbane’s colonial past, with your
iPod or MP3 player as your guide.
For your copy of the Colonial Brisbane Heritage Walk
download the podcast from
www.publicworks.qld.gov.au
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BRISBANE'S HISTORIC NORTH BANK
Learn more of the significance of this cherished heritage
precinct, now under threat, and read the fascinating story
of Brisbane's Historic North Bank from 1825 to 2005.
More details Click
here (143kb)
Contact: Royal Historical Society of Queensland
Telephone: 07 3221 4198
Email: info@queenslandhistory.org.au
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