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BOWEN Allies Theatre Cinema 29-08-1918 Demolished Source: www.caths.org.au/venues/pdf/qld.pdf According to this source, the Allies Theatre Cinema was demolished 1918. I could not find more data.

Situated in Moreton Bay off Cleveland Point, and now named Teerk Roo Ra (Peel Island) National Park, the island has a unique history. Once a feasting and ceremonial site for the Indigenous people of the area, Peel was also used as a quarantine station in the late 1800s, and a home for inebriates in the early 1900s. From 1907 to 1959, the island functioned as a lazaret, where sufferers of Hansen’s disease (or leprosy) were separated from society and isolated under the Leprosy Act 1892. Now heritage-listed, the island’s historic remains are being preserved and the park is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. The John Oxley Library continues to contribute to the preservation of the documentary history of the island. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/50th-anniversary-closing-peel-isl...

The original Victoria Hotel was a modest single-storey wooden building with a shingle roof. Hitching posts and horse troughs flanked the intersecting dirt tracks that are today’s Marshall and Herbert Streets. In the 1920’s William Pendock and his wife Margaret bought the little pub and made sweeping changes. As their daughter-in-law, Mrs Nellie Pendock tells today, “Every now and again they added a few rooms – until they had fifty!” Master builder Bill Bell practically rebuilt the Victoria Hotel. He created a sturdy building of brick and timber, with a criss-cross of dark paneling and white lattice on its facades, stained glass windows and doorways, and an ornamental (and slight off-kilter) tower to top it off. An eye-catching building indeed: a picturesque mix of Victoriana and Jazz Age, with a dash of Early Colonial, and still looks much the same today. The Pendock family was associated with “The Vic” for three generations before selling it in the 1960s to Mr. George Pippos. George Pippos was a member of the syndicate who raced Gunsynd and he named his new Gunsynd Lounge after the champion. He also made many other improvements, smoothly blending the old with the new. Large clear windows have replaced the stained glass, but the main entrance still has its art deco front door, and the graceful panels of Art Nouveau glass still adorn shop fronts in the hotel building. The wide verandahs today are still unchanged – a superb vantage point for street processions! There are stories of horsemen riding into the bar and lassoing bottles from the shelves in the old days. It is certainly true that a customer took his boat into the bar during the 1956 floods. The crowd loved it. The Endeavour Group are the current owners who purchased the hotel from John and Michelle Klein, previous owners of fourteen years. Along with Michael Bell (current builder and Great Grandson of Original Builder), the Klein’s saved the hotel from demolishment after it closed in 2005 due to “not trading well” and made a painstaking effort to restore “The Good Old Vic”. Source: www.victoriahotelgoondiwindi.com.au/history#:~:text=The%2....