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17 MAR LOCAL HISTORY WITH BETTY LAVER – THE BLUE BELL HOTEL Posted at 07:00h in Art & Culture, Lifestyle by News 0 Comments The Bluebell Hotel c1930’s Walter and Robert Cowan came to the Gladstone area around 1859. Walter went into the hotel trade while Robert was more interested in life on the land and initially worked for Robert Bell at Stowe, Calliope. The Blue Bell Hotel was built on the corner of Yarroon Street and China Lane (now Central Lane) and Walter and Sarah Cowan ran this hotel until 1892. It was called the Blue Bell Hotel until 1950 when it was changed to the Ocean View Hotel and in 1999 it became the Port Curtis Hotel. It has since had more name changes. Source: gladstonenews.com.au/local-history-with-betty-laver-the-p...

These photos are priceless !! Especially this one !! Thank you for sharing !

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I think this is the Currumbin State school currumbinss.eq.edu.au/our-school/history

In the past Girls spent a lot of time at home learning to do domestic tasks, like sewing, cooking, washing, and cleaning. Their education was geared towards training them for womanhood and how to be good wives and mothers. Needlework was a key part of this education, from the working class to the wealthy. It was seen as an essential feminine skill—plain sewing to make and mend clothing and household items, and embroidery to decorate them. Needlework samplers have been around since the 15th century and had become a standard feature of girls’ education by the 1700s. Settler girls in Australia made cross-stitching samplers at school. But samplers and other domestic items don’t tell us much about the lives these girls led outside the home. Girls often worked out of the home as domestic servants or in factories, went to school, and played in the urban neighborhood. Some evidence of this can be found in the shape of homemade wooden dolls from archaeological digs around Little Lon—a working-class area on Little Lonsdale Street. We have written correspondence, photos, and paintings of prominent men and women from the era, but these rarely include much detail about children. Of the hundreds of thousands of girls born in 19th-century Australia, very little of what they made have survived. Source: museumsvictoria.com.au/article/a-discovery-of-stitches-ne...