Plus: what's hidden under the lino, a 1903 house photo, a TB Sanatorium, and an old QLD company!

🏠🔎 DETECTIVE DIARIES: EPISODE 15 🔎🏠
MY TOP 5 HOUSE HISTORY RESEARCH DISCOVERIES!

In this episode, I delve into Brisbane's history and my recent house history research and reveal what a friend found under their lino when renovating, I share part two of the 1897 Fortitude Valley house relocation and history, analyse a cool old house photo from 1903 and delve into what it reveals about the lives of the residents, discuss a fantastic Queensland business that stocked EVERYTHING for the home and finally, I discuss a fantastic Queensland medical facility established by an enterprising woman in 1907!

00:00 Intro
01:01 Secrets of a 1903 house photo
06:35 What's under the lino???
09:05 From the Valley to Moorooka- moving house literally: Part 2
15:39 A remarkable Queensland business
18:11 Stanthorpe's TB hospital
22:30 Outro

I'm an architectural historian called The House Detective. I research houses and find out amazing things about their history all the time, so I thought I would share some of them with you all!

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[sandramackin]

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

[GrahamHouston-yj]

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

[BradGryphonn]

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.

[austinvert]

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.

[kristyhaysart]

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.

[MadonnaMead]

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

[lunauga]

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

[elephantgiftstore]

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.

[damonroberts]

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.

[robfos]

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

[dannywarner]

19 Walton street Dutton park, and Walton street in general would be a great place to research, lots of stories in that street and the old biscuit factory that used to be on the corner still has some heritage window arches and brick wall there

[mrfomiatti]

Thanks for sharing House Detective. Have you heard about Wynnum Fringe is embarking on an ambitious project to rescue, reimagine, and revive the Augathella Spiegeltent, an iconic cultural asset originally known as the Q150 Shed. Designed by 5th generation Belgian Spiegeltent masters the Klessens, and constructed in Brisbane.
Now erected Bay Terrace Wynnum Central.🐨

[SmallWonda]

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.

[delmabond]

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.🤗🌸

[muddyboots]

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.

[fractalmusicj]

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

[leeny]

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!! 👏

[SmallWonda]

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

[ParadiseBlue]

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.

[andersdottir]

The large barrel in the first picture could be an early washing machine.
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