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Black and white birds with black head and chest, and black eye, and grey and black beak poses in profile from the bough of a tree against a green background.
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlackAndWhite so let's go with this lovely Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) posing beautifully at #Toowong #Brisbane #Queensland #Australia #birds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin
A vibrantly coloured parrot with a pale yellow head, black eye, blue body, bright yellow and black back, black wing tips, bright blue tale, eats seed in a tree.
#BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social is #NaturesPantry so let's go with this Pale-headed Rosella (Platycercus adscitus) enjoying a feed of lovely seed at #Toowong #Brisbane #Australia #birds #wildlife #nature #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #EastCoastKin
A grey and brown moorhen adult with its back to the camera argues with its fluffy little chick who has a bright red beak and wings that are still bare of feathers so they look like little arms. Both are floating on a pond.
#BirdOfTheDay is #cootsandmoorhens so here's a Dusky Moorhen (Gallinula tenebrosa) & a demanding chick waving it's little armwings around from just a month ago at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens #Toowong #Brisbane #Australia
#birds #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
Large white bird with long, flattened bill extending to encompass a bare-skinned face with an orange triangle crown, yellow eyebrows and a red eye, paddles in pool covered in leaf litter.
#BirdOfTheDay is this Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia), #paddling at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, #Toowong
#Brisbane #Queensland #Australia #birds #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
Male Eastern Koel with vibrant satin blue/black plumage, a bright red eye and greyish beak in a tree.
Female Easter Koel with dark brown flecked wings, back and tail, a beige and black neck and chest, black chin, black head, and bright red eye, and a greyish beak in a tree.
#BirdOfTheDay theme today is a bird you have the #least captures of. Here's a pair of Eastern Koels (Eudynamys orientalis) that I saw just the once. Male is the shiny one.
#Toowong #Brisbane #Queensland #Australia #birds #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
Bird with bare black skin apart from bright red "slashes" on the back of the head. Black eye mostly covered by the 3rd eye lid and a long curved mostly black with some brown beak.
I could hardly give the alt of #longbeak for #BirdOfTheDay a miss with the famous Orstralian Bin Chicken, aka Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis moluccus). At Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, #Toowong showing the nictating membrane, aka 3rd eyelid.
#Brisbane #Australia #birds #birdphotography
Brown biird with yellow eye and light yellow cheeks faces the camera, floating on a fairly calm pond with the a small rock island behind and to the bird's right.
#BirdOfTheDay being #Grebes here's a grumpy Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae), at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens #Toowong #Brisbane #Australia #birds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #nature #wildlife #wildoz
Large blurry brown bird with large curved upper beak and out-stretched wings, streaks across the sky against a blurred background.
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #flying so let's go somewhat abstract with this speedy Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae), #Australia 's largest cuckoo #Toowong #Brisbane #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
Are you around #Toowong #Taringa #StLucia #Indooroopilly #Auchenflower #Milton? If you can, please donate #blood. You could save a life. Every donation counts! See www.lifeblood.com.au/donor-centre... #Blooddonor #blooddonation Thank you to everyone who makes time to donate blood. 🩸❤️
@fotc.au Here's a detail of my father's map of Brisbane showing the Brisbane General Cemetery in Toowong. #brisbane #toowong #australia #cemetery #fotc
Frangipanis are also known as the "Temple Tree" in India, "Dead Man's Fingers" in Australia, and the "Graveyard Tree" in South East Asia.
Early Christian missionaries spread frangipani far and wide, and started the tradition of planting them in graveyards.
#GardeningAustralia #Toowong #Cemetery
Too wet to walk on #mtcoottha even when todays drenching finally stopped. Fortunately, this beautiful spot is my fallback. As the guy with the owl glasses says at the end of the Great Gatsby, blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.
#walkpic #toowong #greatgatsby
Unmarked graves can be seen after the rain as long dark green grass grows in the hollows where the dirt in the grave has subsided.
There are many unmarked graves in Toowong Cemetery that can be clearly seen after the rain.
Need to find a #grave in #Toowong #Cemetery?
Here's how: www.fotc.au/research/fin...
Women inside the gate of the city polling station, voting for the first time in a Queensland state election, 18 May 1907. State Library of Queensland. Cropped. - https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/1dejkfd/alma99184004819102061
Under Sir Arthur Morgan, Queensland Premier (1903-1906), women gained the vote and plural voting was abolish on 25 January 1905.
Queensland was the second-last Australian State to grant women the right to vote in state elections.
Learn more: www.fotc.au/stories/suff...
#Toowong #Cemetery
Arthur Hoey Davis - Steele Rudd, Charles Lilley and Emma Miller statues located in King George Square in Brisbane, Australia. Artist: Artbusters Materials: Bronze Installation date: 1993 Source: Kgbo, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A._Davis,_C._Lilley_and_E._Miller_statues_in_Brisbane_01.JPG
Emma Miller is one of three people buried at #Toowong #Cemetery that have statues in King George Square, #Brisbane.
"She fought hard, she gave it her best, she did what was right, and she made a difference."
Learn more: www.fotc.au/research/emm...
Two friends seated in a horsedrawn buggy, Brisbane, ca. 1900. Miss Josephine Bedford (left) and Dr. Lilian Cooper, the first registered female doctor in Queensland. Dr Cooper made house calls in a horse and sulky by day and a bicycle by night. Her surgery was in George Street, Brisbane. Source: State Library of Queensland - https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/1dejkfd/alma99183859583402061
Dr. Lilian Cooper and Josephine Bedford shared a lifelong bond after travelling to Brisbane together from England.
Josephine ensured their Kangaroo Point home became the Mount Olivet Hospital after Lilian's death.
They rest together at #Toowong #Cemetery
Learn more: www.fotc.au/research/lil...
The headstone of Frederick Ness headstone is found in Portion 13, Section 4, Grave 8 in Toowong Cemetery. The carved flowers on the headstone make it one of the most beautiful in Toowong Cemetery.
Leslie Cooper Scarfe`s headstone is found in Portion 11, Section 80, Grave 1 in Toowong Cemetery. The headstone is a young girl angel holding a bunch of flowers.
One of the most beautifully carved monuments in Toowong Cemetery is that of Frederick Ness, carved by his brother-in-law, Frank Martin Downes.
Monumental Masons sculpted many beautiful monuments and headstones in #Toowong #Cemetery, #Brisbane.
Learn more: www.fotc.au/stories/monu...
In Portion 2 of the cemetery, at the intersection of Soldiers Parade and Garland Avenue, you'll find a display of symbols on headstones. Some headstones are from the old Paddington cemetery.
Toowong Cemetery opened during Queen Victoria's life (1819 - 1901) and you can see the traditions and symbols from her reign throughout the cemetery.
At the corner of Soldiers Parade and Garland Avenue, you'll find the #Toowong #Cemetery Symbolism Display.
Learn more: www.fotc.au/headstones/s...
Paddington Cemetery ca. 1900's — Brisbane City Council. Cropped. This photo is captioned 'Memorials standing in the reserved area' in Volume 2 of the 1914 Parliamentary papers.
Headstones from Paddington Cemetery found buried in Toowong Cemetery in the Friends of Toowong Cemetery 2023 Archaeological Dig.
By 1914, headstones from the closed Paddington Cemetery that hadn't been relocated to other cemeteries were placed beside Christ Church Milton.
In the 1930's these headstones disappeared. Some of the headstones have been found buried in #Toowong #Cemetery.
Learn more: www.fotc.au/headstones/l...
View of the Brisbane suburb of Milton, ca. 1870 Photograph taken in the vicinity of Caxton Street, Petrie Terrace, looking due west across the intersection of Judge and Hale Streets and across the Milton Cemetery. The mortuary chapel visible in the centre of the photograph was converted to a church in 1873, and was demolished when Christ Church (Milton) was constructed in 1874-76. State Library of Queensland - https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/bumb4u/alma99183509325102061
A Goat stands in a neglected grave in Paddington Cemetery (14 May 1910) Queensland State Archives - https://www.flickr.com/photos/queenslandstatearchives/30299711162/in/photolist-2joySJt-NatWv9-KCpMLU
The North Brisbane Burial Grounds was neglected after closing in 1875. People wanted it turned into a park and sports field.
The Paddington Cemetery Act allowed remains and headstones to be moved. Some were moved to #Toowong #Cemetery.
Learn more: www.fotc.au/headstones/m...
The headstone of Ann, Walter and Jane Hill is in Portion 6, Row 21, Grave 9, beside Walter Hill Drive.
Walter Hill, first Superintendent of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens State Library of Queensland and John Oxley Library - https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/dls06p/alma99183512992002061
Ann Hill was the second person buried in #Toowong #Cemetery.
Ann's father, Walter Hill, the first curator of the #Brisbane Botanic Gardens, planted a Brisbane Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) next to her grave which still stands there today.
Learn more: www.fotc.au/research/ann...
Left: Brisbane General Cemetery (Toowong) - General Plan, 8 July 1909. Queensland State Archives - https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM1624111 Right: Series 46 Film BCC2 Frame 34691, 31 May 1946 — Brisbane City Council, via QImagery. https://www.fotc.au/assets/toowong-cemetery-aerial-photo-1946.jpg Frederick St is the straight road on the right, running top to bottom.
The Toowong Cemetery was officially opened on 5 July 1875 and was originally called the Brisbane General Cemetery. It
is the largest cemetery in Queensland at 44 Hectares.
Over 119,000 people are buried in #Toowong #Cemetery in approximately 46,000 graves.
Learn more: www.fotc.au/history/
The Pioneer Children's Graves are Queensland's oldest surviving headstones from the 1830's. Visit the graves in Portion 13, Section 10, Grave 4 off Emma Miller Drive.
Map of Brisbane, 1844 Map of Brisbane drawn by C. F. Gerler. This basic map has a numbered list of 48 locations in the bottom right corner. Number 48 is “The First Tombstone (two graves)”. Three children and their headstones, originally interred on the banks of the Brisbane River, were re‑interred at Toowong Cemetery in October 1881. State Library of Queensland - https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/dls06p/alma99184003713402061
The oldest grave in #Toowong #Cemetery is of Governor Samuel Blackall, buried on 3 January 1871.
However, the cemetery's, and Queensland's, oldest headstone is from 15 November 1831.
Learn More: www.fotc.au/headstones/q...
Visit: Portion 13, Section 10, Grave 4 off Emma Miller Drive
Canon Garland Place at the entry of Toowong Cemetery. The Stone of Remembrance and the Cross of Sacrifice are shown and were erected in 1924 to remember the ANZACs. Anzac Day commemorations in Brisbane were held here until the Anzac Memorial in Anzac Square, Brisbane City, was completed in 1930.
Friends of Toowong Cemetery is a volunteer group that discover and share the #history and stories of #Toowong #Cemetery in #Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Join our monthly guided tours, take a self-guided walk, or use our map to find a grave.
Learn more: www.fotc.au
