North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah)

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Black and white photo of a bus on a sand track

Amity Claytons Bus c.1930

black and white photo of wind sculpted hills along Main Beach

Main Beach pre mining c. 1940

Three men shovelling mineral sand onto a truck on Main Beach, North Stradbroke Island. The North Stradbroke Island sandmining industry started soon after World War 2 (1939-1945). It began on the east-facing Main Beach where wave action exposed seams of the black, mineral-bearing sand.

Shoveling mineral sand c.1940

Group of four men working on an ocean beach. Two men are standing, one is sitting and one is bending over handling an implement. The one standing is holding a very long handled post-hole digger and the other standing man holds a long metal rod with the base obscured by the seated figure.

Drilling crew

Black and white photograph of wooden cottage beside the beach at Amity Point.

Thomas Welsby's cottage Amity Point c.1950

image of dozer on beach

Bogged sand truck ca 1954

Sand trucks being unloaded from the barge onto the beach ca 1957

Sand trucks, ca 1957

color cover of postcard book. picture of South Gorge and Main Beach.

Folding Postcard book cover

Moving a sandmining dredge along Main Beach on North Stradbroke Island, 1960s. Bulldozers are pulling the dredge, which is sliding on a constructed base. Desc: Six bulldozers towing a mining dredge along a beach just above high tide mark. Beyond the sand dune is vegetation and an area of fresh water. The dunes are criss-crossed with tyre marks.

Moving a sandmining dredge along Main Beach c.1960's

Black and white photograph of the Stradbroke Hotel

Stradbroke Hotel

black and white sticker, leave straddie unabridged

Sticker: Leave Straddie Unabridged

Group of people marching down Mooloomba Road Point Lookout holding a banner.

The first Anti Bridge Rally organised by the Stradbroke Island Management Organisation (SIMO