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Elsie Bilbrough, the first teacher at Mount Shamrock school, is standing in the middle of a group of her pupils

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    The school was also located in a place of prominence, at the top of the second hill in Mount Shamrock. The selection of this position by residents can be considered deliberate as adequate flat land was available behind the residential and business area. Churches and administrative buildings such as courthouses in nineteenth-century Queensland settlements often occupied a hilltop position but there were no municipal or administrative buildings in Mount Shamrock. Instead, the school building fulfilled these roles, being the venue for public performances, community dances, and other entertainment, the location where visiting clergymen held church services, and the venue for elections, public meetings, and receptions for visiting dignitaries. The location was not selected for practical reasons; there was considerable debate over location between residents when the school building from Paradise was moved to Mount Shamrock (QSA 15567). Despite the identification of more suitable and accessible locations, the school remained in a focal position on the hill, overlooking the town, visible to all. Source: "Streets and stamper batteries – an ‘industrial’ landscape of gold mining townships in nineteenth-century Queensland" by GERALDINE MATE AUSTRALASIAN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 32, 2014
  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    For Mount Shamrock, a 19th-century gold-mining town outside of Biggenden in Queensland, we get a picture of a mining town where the mine was an important feature in the town, yet also a town where the relationships between the residents are important enough to transcribe onto a map and are features of the everyday social milieu. Government authorities saw it as “a mine of great promise” (Annual Report of the Department of Mines 1896) with the locals promoting a “settled and business-like aspect” (Maryborough Chronicle 1887). Elsie Bilbrough, a young teacher who recently arrived from England, saw wilderness, flooding, and disorder. Source: blog.qm.qld.gov.au/2017/05/16/meaning-in-maps/

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