Library Catalogue
We have over 300 wonderful books in our library with thousands of stories about our locality… come on down to the Lower Level, 144 Latrobe Tce, Monday to Thursday, 9am-4pm, if you’d like to browse, read, relax and have a cuppa while you do it! Get in touch if you’re planning a visit, so we can make sure we’re here to greet you!
Our books…
150 Years of Learning: Petrie Terrace State School
1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet. David Hill
4BH Carols Festival Booklet 1963
86 Heussler Terrace Pictorial Place Real Estate 2019
A brief history of R. Matthews & Son of Chardon's Cnr Annerley Kerry-Anne Matthews-Forsythe and Trevor Matthews
A Community Self-Portrait of Brisbane John Smouth 1990
A Complete History of the Yellow Cab Company Robert Longhurst 2001
A Concise History of 1st Brisbane Company The Boys' Brigade Keith Young and John Cooper 2020
A Dirty Dozen: Hanging and the Moreton Bay Convicts Christopher Dawson
A Far Country Nevil Shute
A History of Queensland from the Dreaming to 1915 Ross Fitzgerald
A History of Queensland from 1915 to the 1980s Ross Fitzgerald
A History of Rosalie No.13 of 20 A. T. Miles 1980s
A History of the Queensland House Peter Bell 2002
A History of the Rosalie Baptist Church 1884-1957 Leonard Hill
A History of the Rosalie Baptist Church 1884-1984 Allan Miles 1984
A Journey Through Time: The Gap Historical Timeline
A Life of One and One of Many Vanna M Passaro
A Lion in the Colony Major D. M. Wyatt
A Robin Dodds Brisbane Heritage Tour Paul Sayer
A Sounding Brass: A Memoir George Patterson
A Street Walker's Guide to West End #1
A Superb Century: 100 Years of the Gabba 1895-1995 Wayne Smith 1995
A Town Like Alice Neville Shute
A World in a Street: Banks Street, Newmarket John Pearn
Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane: An Historical Guide Dr Ray Kerkhove
Absolute Fairyland: Heady Days in Dutton Park Christopher Dawson
Adventures in Cubbing 1983
All the Rivers Run Nancy Cato
Alphabetical Index of Changed Street Names 1940 CD Brisbane
And we the People Tim O'Neill
Anderson's Fairytales Hans Christian Anderson
Animal Farm George Orwall
Arcadian Simplicity J B Fewings
Memoirs of Toowong Helen Gregory Editor
Architects of Air Power The Epic of Flight
Arthur Phillip Derek Parker
Ascot: A Different School Noela Guy and Harold Sutcliffe 1995
Athenians and the Red Invincibles: The Origins of Qld Football Murray Bird 2015
Atlas and Directory of Residents and Streets Brisbane 1931 CD
Auchenflower: The Suburb and the Name John Pearn
Australia After WW1 Philip Castle
Australia: A Celebration Readers Digest
Australia's Army A K Macdougall
Australian Girl Guide Handbook 1980
Australian Heroines of WW1 Susanna De Vries
Australian Pub Crawl Douglass Baglin and Yvonne Austin
Australian Women at War Patsy Adam-Smith
Australians and Egypt 1914-1919 Suzanne Brugger
Bardon Heritage Tour Brisbane History Group 2005
Bardon House: Its People and Environs Maureen Freer
Beaus, Butchers & Boomerangs: Mareeba The History of a WWII Airfield 1942-45 Damian Waters
Because of their Beliefs: Emigration from Prussia to Australia W. Iwan
Beneath the Surface John Pearn
Between Kedron Brook and Taylor Range Enoggera & Districts Historical Society 2004
Beyond the Seas: A Story of Thomas Saunders and Mary Boucher Valerie Rees
Beyond the Verandahs: Companion Volume to Jacarandas and Verandas Stories of Brisbane through the Century Ashgrove Writers' Group 1997
Bjelke Blues Edwina Shaw
Brisbane and World War II Brisbane History Group Papers 2015
Brisbane at War 1988-1918 Brisbane History Group Papers 2017
Brisbane Beginnings: Dutton Park Christopher Dawson and Tracey Olivieri
Brisbane Beginnings: Fairfield Christopher Dawson
Brisbane Folk: Folk Music in Brisbane 1950-now Andrea Baldwin Editor
Brisbane House Styles 1880-1940 Judy Rechner... Brisbane History Group 1998
Brisbane Houses with Gardens Beth Wilson
Brisbane Sketchbook Unk White and P. Newell
Brisbane Street Directory UBD 2008
Brisbane Then and Now Helen Gregory 2007
Brisbane Trams: Combined Edition George Lucas 2021
Brisbane: Commerce, Construction and Controversy 1840-2018 Brisbane History Group
Brisbane: Houses, Gardens, Suburbs and Congregations Brisbane History Group
Brisbane: Our Town, A Century of Photographs Helen Dash 1988
Brisbane: People, Places and Progress Brisbane History Group Papers 1995
Brisbane: Schemes and Dreams: 19th Century Arrivals Brisbane History Group
Brisbane: The Aboriginal Presence 1824-1860 Rod Fisher/Barry Shaw Editors
Brisbane's Historic North Bank 1825-2005 Royal Historical Society of Qld
Brisbane's Inner City: Our Heritage in Focus Robert Longhurst 1995
Brisbane's Western Suburbs: Our Heritage in Focus Jane Meadows
Builder Rebeka Morgan and Kribashini Hannon
Burrum District Mine Maps
Burrum River News Issue 330
Bygone Brisbane: Its History, Your Heritage Rod Fisher
Caring for Old Houses Ian Evans 1988
Changing Places Brisbane Jan Jorgensen
Conquest: An Inside Story Claire Faulkner
Conservation and Restoration of Buildings: Masonry Walls Australian Council of National Trusts
Cranwell: 15 Macartney Street, Paddington Melva A Welch
Dark Emu Bruce Pascoe
Dash and Danger, Life and Love Susan Ellen Laidlaw
Dear Dad: Short Letters Samuel Johnson Editor
Deception Bay: The History of a Seaside Community Thom Blake and Peter Osborne
Deeds, Dreams and Dedication: A History of the REIQ Gary McKay
Design Thinking Drawing Peter Richards
Devil's Cub Georgette Heyer 1932/2004
Down the Back: The Era of the Outhouse Fred Hillier
Draft No. 4 On the Writing Process John McPhee
Drawn to the Coast: Gold Coast Heritage Sketchbook Anne Green
Echoes of Stories of Stephens: History of Annerley Stephen Sheafe and Annerley Stephens History Group 2019
Electric Refrigerator Recipes and Menus 1927
Enoggera District Heritage Trail Enoggera & Districts Historical Society 2001
Enquiring Minds: Women of the Lyceum Club of Brisbane Ruth Kerr
Fernvale or the Qld Squatter Colin Munro
Four Streets of Childhood John Pearn Francis Greenway M H Ellis
Friday's Child Georgette Heyer
From River Banks to Shearing Sheds: 30 years with Flying Arts Marilyn England 2009
Fun in Cubbing 1978
Generations of Resistance: Mabo and Justice Lorna Lippmann
Gray's Hollow Mary Grant Bruce
Handbook The Baptist Union of Queensland 1984
Haunted Brisbane Volume 1 Jack Sim
Haunted Brisbane: Ghosts of the River City Jack Sim
Health History and Horizons John Pearn
Held in Trust: Brisbane in the Eighties Anne Green and Geoffrey Pie
Heritage Trail: Davidson's Paddock Newmarket Historical Group
Historic Homes of Brisbane Janet Hogan
Historic North Stradbroke Island North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum
Home Away from Home: 125 Years of the Victoria Hotel Katherine Sheedy
Hospital Chaplaincy John Pearn
Houses 101 Andrew Degn
I, The Aboriginal Douglas Lockwood
In Freedom's Cause: The Qld Legal Profession and the Great War Supreme Court Library Qld
In the Capacity of a Surgeon John Pearn
Interview Kit Paddington History Group
Ithaca Creek State School 120 Years 1885-2005
Jacarandas and Verandahs Stories of Brisbane through the century Ashgrove Writers' Group 1995
John Dunmore Lang: Australia's Pioneer Republican Archibald Gilchrist and Gordon Powell
John Stevenson of Fernberg Dorothy French
Just a Nurse… 1960s A M Milvik (Ann Maree Dunning)
Kookaburra Cafe Menu 2012
Lady of Quality Georgette Heyer
Landscape of Farewell Alex Miller
Life and Death in the Petrie Tce Gaol: The Prisoners of Toowong Cemetery Christopher Dawson
Little Men Louisa May Alcott
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1949
Living History of Brisbane Janet Hogan
Logan City - Historical Headstones Logan City Council Booklet
Looking up Looking Back at Old Brisbane Grahame Readshaw 1987
Lost Horizon James Hilton
Love from Grandma and Grandpa Diary Kikki K
MacArthur Museum 75 Year book 2017
Marist Brothers Rosalie Jubilee Book 1929-1979 Marist Brothers Rosalie
Marjorie Norval: The Girl a Railway Station Swallowed Ken Blanch
Matthew Flinders James D Mack
Mayes Cottage House Museum Handbook
Medicine and Botany John Pearn
Memories Along the Boggo Track Annie Mackenzie
Men of Queensland 1928
Milton State School Centenary Book 1889-1989
Minutes Paddington History Group 1997-1999
Moongalba - Myora: Sitting Down Place: North Stradbroke Island Bernice Fischer
More of the Kangaroo: 150 Years of Australian Football in Qld 1866-2016 Murray Bird and Greg Parker
More Over the Top with Jim Stories Hugh Lunn
Naming Brisbane: Origins of Brisbane Suburb and Locality Names Beryl Roberts
Native Title and the Descent of Rights Peter Sutton
No Regrets in the Evening of Life: History of Junction Park State School 1888-2013 Dr Neville Buch
Not to be Trusted: A Sketchbook of Brisbane's Heritage Anne Green and Jack Murphy
Now We are Six A A Milne 1977
Open Road: 100 Years of the NRMA Collector's Edition
Oral History Handbook 5th Edition Beth M Robertson
Our Backyard: Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History Society Volume 1
Our Backyard: Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History Society Volume 4
Our Family Tree: A History of Our Family Workbook
Our Federation Barry Shaw Brisbane History Group Volume 18 2001
Oxford Atlas
Pacific 360 Roland Perry
Padd Paddo Paddington Dawn Buckberry and Paddington History Group 1999
Paddington Heritage Trail Rotary Club of Paddington Judy Magub 2020
Patricia's Poetry Pat Appleford
Personalities and Communities: The Living Character of Brisbane BCC Lord Mayor Photographic Awards 1997
Petrie Terrace Brisbane 1858-1988 Steve Woolcock and Rod Fisher
Phillip of Australia M Barnard Eldershaw
Portrait of Brisbane. Bill Scott and Cedric Emanuel 1976
Pride of the River: The Forecful Story Helen Coughlan and Jan Carnegie
Publications on CD notebook Qld Family History Society
Pugh's Almanac & Qld Directory 1867 CD
Qld Post Office Directory 1895 CD
Qld Post Office Directory 1901-1905 CD
Qld Post Office Directory 1909 CD
Qld Post Office Directory 1918 CD
Queen of the Dance Halls: Cloudland Ballroom Brisbane 1939-1982 James G Lergessner
Queensland Founding Families Biographies before 1859 CD Qld Family History Society
Queenslanders: Their Historic Timbered Homes. Rod Fisher
RAAF Sandgate at the mouth of the Pine Sandgate & District Historical Society and Museum Inc
Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
Red Hill - Paddington: Character Housing Study Brisbane Inner Suburbs Action 1990
Refidex Directory Maps 1926 Brisbane CD
Reflections on New Farm New Farm and District Historical Society
Remembering who I am Ruby Mordecai
Rest in Peace: How to Manage Estate Dispute Zinta Harris
River: 150 Years of Brisbane River Housing Patrick Dixon and David Millar
Safer Motherhood 1930
Sandgate, Tides of Change A Historic Perspective Maree McDonald
Sermons in Stones: A Look at Cemetary Symbols Peter Cullen
Six bob a day tourists: Tasmanians in the First World War Army Museum Tasmania
Social Sketches of Australia 1888-1975 Humphrey McQueen
Souvenir from Opening of Brisbane Fire Brigade 1908
Spring Hill Re-Sprung Clare Glazebrook and Jack Murphy
Stories from Brisbane's Victoria Barracks Army Museum South Qld
Stories of Stephens: A History of Annerley and Surrounds Stephen Sheafe and Annerley Stephens History Group
Sturt of the Murray Michael Langley
Surveying Success: The Hume Family in Colonial Queensland Hilary J Davies
Symbols of Service: RCH Badges, symbols and medals John Pearn
Tales of Toowong and Early Brisbane Toowong History Group
Tattersalls: Friendship is Life Robert Longhurst
Teacher's Handbook 1970 ABC
The Paddo Boys Peter Coman
The Amity John Pearn and Danny Tangney
The Annals of Annerley Royal Historical Society of Qld 1997
The Australian Women's Weekly Souvenir Edition: Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
The Australian Writer's Marketplace Qld Writer's Centre 2015/16
The Big Short Michael Lewis
The Bobsy Twins Annual 1957
The Brisbane Club Malcolm Thomas 1980
The Brisbane Grammar School Magazine 1957
The Brisbane Line J. P. Powell
The Brisbane River J. G. Steele
The Brisbane River Story Helen Gregory
The Brisbane River: A Pictorial History Robert Longhurst and William Douglas
The Brisbane that I used to know James G Lergessner
The Building of the Queensland House Andy Jenner
The Courier Mail 50 Years of Great Pages 1933-1983 Golden Jubilee
The Discovery and Exploration of Moreton Bay and the Brisbane River 1799-1823 Part 2 George Mackaness
The Emigrant's Guide to Australia in the 1850s DJ Golding editor 1851/1973
The Exposure Peter Fischer and David Fryer
The Federation House: Australia's Own Style H. Fraser and R. Joyce 1986
The Final Common Path John Pearn
The Flying Doctor Barry Brown
The Forgotten Giant of Australian Aviation: Australian National Airways Peter Yule
The Forties in Pictures James Lescott
The Ghosts of Boggo Road Gaol: Ghosts and Gallows Jack Sim
The Ghosts of Toowong Cemetery Jack Sim 2007
The History of the Caxton Street Hall 1883-1999 Des Galligan
The Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland Volume XL No. 21980-81
The Man from Snowy River A B Patterson
The Manual of Home Economics Florence Cullen 1950s
The Mayne Inheritance Rosamond Siemon
The Mitchie Picture Show: The Story of the Nugent Family and the Mitchelton Picture Theatre Kevin Oliveri 2001
The Mount Pleasant Ridge at Holland Park: 1930s Architecture John W. East 2017
The Naughtiest Girl in School Enid Blyton 1951
The Nonesuch Georgette Heyer
The Observer's Book of Automobiles L. A. Manwaring 1968
The Observer's Book of Basic Aircraft: Military William Green 1967
The Pathfinders The Epic of Flight
The Pictorial History of Air Warfare Chris Chant
The Pioneer Wilsons: A Tasmanian Family History Gwenda Oxley 1987
The Queensland House: A Roof over our Heads Rod Fisher and Brian Crozier 2000
The Queensland Scene 1979
The Red Flag Riots: A Study of Intolerance Raymond Evans
The Sandgate Guide August 2022
The Scottish Presence at Moreton Bay 1837-1859 John Mackenzie-Smith
The Shorncliffe Pier Community History Project Sandgate and Districts Historical Society and Museum 2013
The Slow Natives Thea Astley
The Stolen Children and their stories Carmel Bird editor
The Story of the Second World War for Children 1939-1945 Peter Chrisp
The Tale of Johnny Townmouse Beatrix Potter
The Thornbirds Colleen McCullough
They Wrote it Themselves: The Book of the WAAAF 1946
This Southern Outpost: Hobart 1846-1914 Julia Clark
Toowong 1863-2011 Toowong History Group 2012
Toowong A Community's History Toowong History Group 2005
Toowong Snapshots in Time 2005 Leigh Chamberlain
Toowong Tales of Toowong and Early Brisbane Toowong History Group 2000
Toowoomba Sketchbook David and Bert Hinchcliffe
Tram Fires Folder Paddington History Group
Under the Lino Caylie Jeffery 2018
Vet in Harness James Herriot
Victoria Barracks Brisbane Souvenir Booklet Army Museum South Qld
Western Front Diaries Jonathan King
Western Wing of Care Timothy O'Leary
What I wish I knew at 18 Marty Wilson & Daniel Gregory
Who Killed Betty Shanks Ken Blanch William Charles Wentworth A C V Melbourne
Willingly to School John Pearn
Within/Without These Walls Various authors
Women Aloft The Epic of Flight
Women of Stephens: Annerley and Surrounds Annerley-Stephens History Group
World Expo 88 Official Souvenir Program
World War II Stories from Brisbane's South West (Richlands, Darra, Wacol, Goodna and Oxley) Vicki Mynott
Write a Non-Boring Family History Hazel Edwards
Writing Your Life Patti Miller
XII Commonwealth Games The Offical Pictorial History 1982
Year Book and Church Directory Baptist Union of Qld 1970
Zigzag Street Nick Earls
