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Steam ferry on the Town Reach of the river, ca. 1898

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    The first recorded ferry service to Kangaroo Point was a row boat from Edward Street to what must have been Thornton Street in 1860 and in 1866, a punt operated between Customs House and, no doubt, Holman Street. The first steam powered passenger ferry was launched on the 22nd of September 1883 and in 1884, the cable operated steam punt Transit was introduced between Charlotte Street, City and Bright Street, which was then called Ferry Road. In 1887, the 50 passenger steam ferries Emu and Kangaroo replaced the rowing boats on the Edward Street to Thornton Street run and from the 1st of November to the 4th of November 1888, 20,037 (???) passengers were carried on the three Kangaroo Point ferries. During this time, an unofficial ferry began operating between Ferry Street and either Merthyr Road or Sydney Street at New Farm. This will almost certainly be Hughie Moar’s ferry. He also had a slipway at Ferry Street. The steam ferry Ena was launched in 1909 for the Brisbane Municipal Council. It operated on Town Reach. Source: kangaroopointhistory.com.au/the-river/ferries/

Many Happy Returns to Hillsborough

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 19 older comments, and then…
  • O Mac said:
    Streetview... there has been a few window alterations since.
    The Square, Hillsborough.
    maps.app.goo.gl/52YfPh8CKUDZqPuo9
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Hillsborough Fort Guard was one of only two private armies in the United Kingdom, the other being the Duke of Atholl's Atholl Highlanders.

    The War Office attempted to disband the Guard in 1874; law officers, however, advised against it, and the War Office continued to pay £5 per warder per annum (equivalent to £578 in 2020), and a free uniform every two years to twenty of Lord Downshire's estate workers.”

    lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2021/04/hillsbo...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Lord Downshire near 1900 would have been Arthur Wills John Wellington Trumbull Hill, 6th Marquess of Downshire

    b. 2 July 1871, d. 29 May 1918 Marquess from 1874
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Leigh McKinnon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hill,_6th_Marquess_of_Downshire
  • John Spooner said:
    There were big celebrations for the 21st birthday of the Marquis in July 1892, which lasted several days, a banquet in the biggest marquee ever seen in Ireland, special trains to bring interested members of the public, illuminated addresses of congratulation from the tenants of his vast land , and also a spectacular firework display . All reported at great length in the press.

    But the only references to his private army was in the Northern Whig: "the armed warders in the uniform of the Dutch Guards could not but remind all present Saturday that the young Marquis holds office as Hereditary Constable of Hillsborough Fort. "

McGarrity and Markievicz

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons