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  • HS1 Ashgrove Titles Map 1875

    1875 Map showing first freehold blocks 26 - 29.

  • HS2 Ashgrove State School 1890

    First Ashgrove school - 1890.

  • HS3 St Johns Wood House ca 1930

    'St John's Wood House' or 'Granite House' c.a. 1930.

  • HS4 Glenlyon House and Billiards Room

    Glenlyon House and Billiards Room - built 1876.

  • HS5 Tram on Waterworks Rd 1924

    Tram on Waterworks Road 1924.

  • HS6 James Brunton Stephens 1902

    James Brunton Stephens, 1902 - celebrated poet and head teacher at Ashgrove State  School in 1877.

  • HS7 Federal to Grove Estate Horse Bus

    William Marshall and passengers in the horse bus, corner of Three Mile Scrub Road (Ashgrove Avenue) and Dorset Street.  Source: Eunice Adame.

  • HS8 Trout Family Federation Celebration 1901

    Trout family "federation reunion", perhaps at Richard Trout's home ‘Cumstree’, corner of  Dalton Street and Waterworks Road.  1901.
    Image source: Alan Trout.

  • HS9 WWII soldiers Embassy Hall St Johns Wood

    WWII soldiers  c.1945 outside Embassy Hall in Royal Parade in St Johns Wood. Part of 2/1 Australian Chemical Warfare Laboratory contingent.

  • HS10 BP Garage Stewart Rd 1974

    Old BP garage, Stewart Road near old bridge, Jan 1974 flood.

About Ashgrove Historical Society Inc.

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Written by Administrator

Ashgrove Historical Society Inc.

(ABN: 85 369 822 992)

Patron
:
Manfred Cross


 

Welcome to the Ashgrove Historical Society's website. Ashgrove is an inner suburb of Brisbane (Australia). We hope you have a wonderful time exploring Ashgrove's past through the resources you will find here.  If you would like to add to the Society's collection, please contact the secretary.  We are able to scan documents and images and return originals to you promptly.  We welcome visitors to our monthly presentations and hope you will consider becoming a member of this vibrant society.

The Ashgrove Historical Society Inc. was incorporated as the Ashgrove-The Gap Heritage Association Inc. in 1999. It was re-launched as the Ashgrove Historical Society Inc. in May 2003 with new objects reflecting its changed role and focus.

Membership is open to all those people who have an interest in ensuring the history of Ashgrove and its historic features are not lost to time. The Society’s vision is broad, reflecting the full range of interests of its members from serious to social, all set within the context of preserving and recording the suburb’s history.

The Society aims to research, record, preserve, inform and generally entertain and entrance all those who join its ranks. Applicants for membership are welcome whether they bring nothing more than an interest in its aims, or those particular skills and experience that will allow its historical goals to be well met. It is a member of History Queensland Inc.

Read more: About Ashgrove Historical Society Inc.

Ashgrove Historical Society News

Display outside Woolworths Ashgrove

Our photo display and stall will be outside Woolworths Ashgrove from 10.00am - 5:30pm on the following dates:

TO BE ADVISED

We will be selling our publications including the recently updated (2019) Ashgrove Heritage Tour ($10.00), our most popular book Lost Ashgrove ($25.00), the compact Ashgrove 150 Timeline booklet ($6.00) and the useful Anniversary & Birthday perpetual calendar ($7.00). 

 

 

Ashgrove 150 Timeline Booklet Publication

Thumbnail image of cover of Ashgrove 150 Plaques booklet

The Society has recently produced the booklet Ashgrove 150 Timeline: Enoggera Creek Bikeway, Ashgrove Sportsground.  This publication is an update of the Ashgrove 150 Plaques booklet published in 2013.

The 32 page publication documents the history behind each of the plaques, covering 150 years from 1856 - 2006, laid on the bike path around the Ashgrove Sportsground.

Each page represents one of the plaques in order and contains a related photograph or map and a summary of the significance of the event or year represented on the plaque.

Visit one of our displays or a monthly meeting to purchase a copy.

MEETINGS and DISPLAYS

MONTHLY MEETINGS - 2021

1st Saturday of each month

10:00 am to 12 noon

Ashgrove Library

87 Amarina Avenue

13/03/2021 –  AGM.  Topic: Ashgrove's Historical Timeline, presented by Lindy Sugars

10/04/2021 -   Ashgrove:  a Suburb of Churches, presented by Thom Blake

01/05/2021 - to be advised

 

 

 

 

 

NEXT DISPLAY STALLS

Ashgrove Market Place, Woolworths forecourt

    

To be advised

 10.00AM - 5:30PM

 First Ashgrove Tram - 124

For more information contact the Secretary, Julie, ahs.secretary@bigpond.com

Address

Ashgrove Historical Society Inc.

PO Box 355,
Ashgrove, 
Qld  4060

Email:  ahs.secretary@bigpond.com

ABN 85 369 822 992

www.ashgrovehistoricalsociety.org