Historical photographs - Sunshine Coast Trees

The archival photographs listed below are available from Picture Sunshine Coast, the photographic collection managed by Sunshine Coast Libraries. To view each image, simply click on the image title to connect to further information and a digital copy of the orginal photograph on the Sunshine Coast Libraries catalogue.

Images are to be used for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of Sunshine Coast Libraries. To seek permission for other uses, please contact Jane Harding, Acting Heritage Library Coordinator, Sunshine Coast Libraries:

Tel: 07 5441 8335  Email: jane.harding@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

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Original Treescapes on the Sunshine Coast
Memorial Trees on the Sunshine Coast
Trees associated with place names on the Sunshine Coast
Beachscapes with trees on the Sunshine Coast
‘Exotic’ trees introduced to the Sunshine Coast
Tree clearing and logging on the Sunshine Coast – what we have lost
Tree planting and reafforestation

Original treescapes on the Sunshine Coast

Grove of tree ferns in Montville, ca 1915

Rainforest in the Maroochydore district, ca 1910

Forest in the Maroochydore area, ca 1910

Country idyll at London Creek, between Bald Knob and Mount Mellum, 1927

Large Black Bean tree in rainforest on Buderim Mountain, ca 1890

Emily Fielding and son Herbert dwarfed by a huge Moreton Bay Fig tree on their Buderim property, ca 1890

Joseph Foote (1865-1943) with two nephews and William Bell in forest behind John Kerle Burnett’s house, Buderim, ca 1915

Large rainforest tree covered in a strangler vine, Bunya Mountains, 1913

Road to the coast from Buderim via Foote’s Hill (now King Street) Buderim, ca 1915

Untouched rainforest on Martin’s Creek, Buderim, ca 1935

Memorial trees on the Sunshine Coast

Queen of the Colonies pandanus tree, Moffat head, ca 1920

Queen of the Colonies pandanus tree [with cross], Moffat head, 1927

Queen of the Colonies pandanus tree, Moffat head, close-up of carved inscription (now in Newstead House, Brisbane), ca 1920

Caloundra Wishing Tree sign, ca 1940

Canoe tree, Aboriginal relic, Lake Cooroibah Road, 1977

Mary Sawrey Memorial Mango Tree, Forest Glen, 1979 (Tree was planted in 1889)

Ruby, Mary and David Sawrey at Forest Glen, ca 1915

Bunya pine trees planted by Bob Breton at the entrance to his property on Bretons Road, Croamhurst (near Peachester), 1988

Fig Tree, Poinciana Avenue, Tewantin, ca 1885 – The tree (Ficus virens) thought to be an Aboriginal burial tree

Fig Tree, Poinciana Avenue, Tewantin, ca 1890 with Tait’s Horse and Buggies

Memorial service for Peace Day August 1945 beneath Fig Tree at Tewantin, with war memorial

Memorial Drive, Eumundi, 1951 (Trees on northern side of street planted between 1914 and 1918 to honour the twenty local men lost in WWI)

Trees associated with place names on the Sunshine Coast

Cotton Tree

The ‘Cotton Tree’ at Cotton Tree, Maroochydore, ca 1918

Salvation Army Christmas Camp at Cotton Tree, 1894

Pincushion Island

Pincushion Island viewed from Maroochydore Beach, 1910

Pincushion Island at the mouth of the Maroochy River, looking southward, ca 1925

Pincushion Island near the mouth of the Maroochy River, ca 1925

Pincushion Island off Maroochydore Beach, late 1950s

Landsborough

First dwelling built on Hardwood Road, Landsborough

Maleny

Shelter at the entrance to Cooke Park on the corner of Fig and Maple Streets, Maleny

Beachscapes with trees on the Sunshine Coast

Alexandra Headland beach looking north towards Maroochydore, 1954 [with Norfolk Pine]

Tripcony Park camping grounds at Caloundra with Norfolk pines and Cotton trees, 1950

Shelly Beach and an undeveloped Moffat head with Norfolk pines and Pandanus

Young Norfolk pines on Bulcock Beach, looking towards Black Flat and Golden beach, 1936

Bulcock Beach showing damage to trees from cyclonic winds in Caloundra 19-21 February, 1954 – Norfolk pines remained standing

Edith Campbell sitting inside a rubber inner tube on Bulcock Beach near White Fleet boat shed, Norfolk pines in background, ca 1960

View of King’s Beach, Caloundra, looking south, ca 1962

Mooloolaba Beach, looking north, 1954 with she oaks, cotton trees and Norfolk pine

‘Exotic’ trees introduced to the Sunshine Coast

Banana trees

Cavendish bananas on scrub land, Buderim Mountain, ca 1925

George Cunning with wife Jean and son Greville on the Cunning family’s banana plantation, Tanawha, ca 1952

Dan Daniels of Hawthorne, Brisbane, packing a case of bananas at Bald Knob, 1920s

Family group with harvested bananas seated in their pick-up truck on Buderim Mountain, ca 1925

C.M. Walters, his son, David Walters, and his mother, Violet Maskall, take a tea break beside a banana tree on their pineapple farm at ‘Mitta Keri’, Meridan Plains

Mango trees

The Mayes family home, Bowman Road, Caloundra – in 1934 the Mayes family moved from Bowen to Caloundra bringing with them Bowen mango trees in Uncle Toby’s oats tins

Wally Box, John Mayes and Godfrey Lowesby skylarking outside the Mayes residence in Bowman Road, Caloundra [mango tree behind]

Original residence of Gustav A. Riebe, Orme Road, Buderim, 1920 – house built in 1882 on the property where Riebe planted some 39 varieties of fruit trees, including an avenue of mangoes leading to the house which are now among the oldest trees on Buderim.

Maddock family homestead, ‘Koon-ang-oom’, situated beside Ewen Maddock Dam, Mooloolah, ca 1980 – Shows large Bunya pines and mango trees planted late 19thC.

Other ‘exotic’ trees

Flowering Poinciana trees in Gooloi Street, Tewantin, 1960s [colour photograph]

James Lindsay Snr with son in their citrus orchard, Buderim, 1909 – this family planted the first banana suckers on Buderim in 1883 and also developed a major citrus orchard.

Tropical fruits and heavily laden pawpaw trees in the Woombye District, ca 1955 [colour photo]

Group picking pawpaws on Harry Andersen’s property, Golden Creel Road, Mount Eerwah, ca 1915

Webbers Orchard, Mapleton, ca 1908

Tree clearing and logging on the Sunshine Coast – what we have lost

Large Flooded Gum tree being felled by William F. Bell, Buderim, ca 1911 on land now occupied by the Buderim Mountain State School

Flooded gum tree felled near the site of the northern reservoir on Buderim Mountain, ca 1912

Felling a giant Fig in dense rainforest, Blackall Range, ca 1908

Fred and Dick Caplick on spring-boards felling trees on Joe Sanderson’s farm south of Eumundi, 1915

Fig tree felled from 50 feet above the ground on a property in the Eumundi District, 1915

Dick Caplick on a spring-board ready to fell a tree on Joe Sanderson’s farm south of Eumundi, 1915 – location of this tree is now occupied by Lodewig’s Dam

Miller brothers using spring-boards to fell a large rainforest tree in Eumundi area, ca 1916

Timber cutting Eumundi-Cooroy district, 1910

Group taking a picnic break whilst felling trees on Allan Burnett’s property, Buderim, ca 1897

Young men with axes, camped in the rainforest scrub of the Maleny area, ca 1910?

Pioneer saw pit in the Maleny area, ca 1910

Bert Pearce with a record load of timber on a bullock wagon Kenilworth, ca 1910

Log on a bullock wagon hauled by George Lander’s team, Eudlo, ca 1930

Arthur and Ernest Dellit with a large Blue Gum log mounted on a bullock wagon, Kenilworth-Eumundi District, 1917 – the log was 20988 feet in length

Jack Ring with a large Kauri log felled on Charles Ball’s property near Cooroy Mountain, ca 1912

Linley Ball with a large Kauri log felled on Charles Ball’s property near Cooroy Mountain, ca 1912

Large Kauri log felled on Charles Ball’s property near Cooroy Mountain loaded on a bullock wagon, ca 1912

Kauri log felled on Charles Ball’s property near Cooroy Mountain loaded on a railway wagon in Eumundi, ca 1912

Large Kauri log from Charles Ball’s property near Cooroy Mountain being unloaded from Jack Ring’s bullock wagon in Eumundi, 1910

Foster’s Sawmill truck (1) carting timber piles from Cooloolabin to Brisbane, ca 1940

Foster’s Sawmill truck (2) carting timber piles from Cooloolabin to Brisbane, ca 1940

Frank Foster hauling log timber with a tractor and a jinker, Cooloolabin, ca 1938

Group on Foster’s logging truck at Cooloolabin, ca 1937

International truck with load of log timber in Foster’s Sawmill yard, Cooloolabin, ca 1936

Foster family members at their sawmill in Cooloolabin, ca 1939

Truck transporting logs through Yabba Creek Crossing, Kenilworth district, ca 1927

Truck transporting pine logs, Kenilworth, ca 1935

Large log being transported by Harry Duh’s bullock wagon and team, Kiamba, ca 1929

Bullock wagon loaded with logs in Eudlo district, ca 1905

Francis Grigor and Eva Doggett with wagon load of timber at Croamhurst Cream Depot, 1926

Record load of pine from Coolabine Creek Road on bullock wagon at Kenilworth, ca 1910

Bullock team hauling a log out of a forest in the Cooloolabin area, ca 1935

Logs in Eumundi timberyard ready to be loaded onto rail wagons, ca 1915

Bullock team hauling full load of log timber, Perwillowen, early 1950s [colour photo]

Wilkinson’s sawmill interior, Yandina, 1940s

Kenilworth Sawing and Planing Mill, 1920

Jefferies sawmill at Kulangoor, ca 1935

Enterprise Sawmill, Caloundra Road, Landsborough, owned and managed by the Imberger Family

Henry Dyer’s Sawmill, Landsborough

Foster’s Sawmill at Cooloolabin, ca 1937

Logs in Foster’s Sawmill yard at Cooloolabin, ca 1937

Truck from Foster’s Sawmill at Cooloolabin loaded with timber for delivery to Brisbane, ca 1940s

Bullock teams at William A. Grigor’s sawmill, near the Stanley River, Peachester, ca 1905 – this was the first sawmill in the area (Built 1899)

William A. Grigor’s sawmill, Peachester, ca1900

Timbergetters debarking felled trees for transport to Wilkinson’s Sawmill, Yandina, ca 1940

Eumundi looking east from the railway station, showing scrub cleared for dairying, ca 1917

Arthur E. Tanner and Herbert Tutt cutting railway sleepers and girders, Kenilworth District, ca 1920

Clearing land on Hubert Hoare’s property to make way for pineapples and citrus trees, Woombye, ca 1930

Clearing timber during the construction of the main road into Maroochydore, ca 1923

Rainforest clearing for pastures, Maleny, ca 1908

Burning off for fruit growing at Mapleton

Clearing rainforest on the site of the Kureelpa Dam, 1957

Atkinson Road, Bli Bli, under construction, March 1962

View of the Maroochy River, taken from Smith family’s house Maroochydore showing gap in trees made in order to view large ships with binoculars while sitting on the verandah of the house, ca 1925

War Memorial monument and Australian Hotel, Stevens Street, Yandina, featuring three large bunya pines, cut down ca 1930

Lenske bullock team at Hotel Premier, Cooran, ca 1920

Tree planting and reafforestation

Gathering of residents following a tree planting ceremony (Norfolk Pines) on the Esplanade, Coolum, September 1933

Inspecting seedlings at the Forestry Department’s Pine Nursery, Little Yabba Creek, Kenilworth, 1955

Inspecting pine trees along the roadside in the State Forest, Kenilworth, 1955

Planting trees at the opening of Peatling Park, Gayome Street, Pacific Paradise, 1996 (colour photo)