My heritage place
All Saints Anglican Church at Tamrookum near Beaudesert is family-owned, built in 1915 as a memorial to Robert Martin Collins, one of the advocates of Queensland’s...
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Memorial Park, Gympie (established 1919-1921 as the Gympie and Widgee District Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Park)
Created as a lasting tribute to the citizens of Gympie and its district who had died for their country during the Great War of 1914-1918 and the Boer War of 1899-1902, the Memorial Park remains important evidence of the spontaneous outpouring of national grief at the loss of 60,000 Australians during the Great War. The park retains much of its original layout, plantings and 1920 focal timber bandstand.