Exterior of the 1940s style car dealership seen form the road


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Daily Mercury, Monday 14 Dec 1953, page 12

"At Fields Used Cars you get full value for your money with easy terms available. Compare prices and conditions and you'll buy Fields Used Cars, cnr. Wood and Gordon St. Mackay (opposite the Parish Hall).

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Exterior of Roma Street train stations

Roma Street Station, c1880

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

Extract from the inquest into the death of the passengers on a Stinson aeroplane which crashed at Lamington Plateau, 23 March 1937

The Stinson air disaster