Tea-towel: Crow’s Nest

Crow's Nest, QLD
Australia
27° 15' 43.4736" S, 152° 3' 19.5156" E
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Crow's Nest, QLD
Australia
27° 15' 43.4736" S, 152° 3' 19.5156" E
Murray Views Pty Ltd

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Crow’s Nest. This tea-towel is from Crow’s Nest, in the hinterland of Brisbane. It depicts some of the wild-life, local attractions such as the Valley of Diamonds and Perseverance Dam and provides the story of Jimmy Crow the town’s namesake. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

Ross' Run, Glenora Historical Complex

3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Ross' Run, Glenora Historical Complex. In the late 1970s Lionel De Landelles, a pioneer breeder of Brahman cattle, moved Glenora House to a site on his property outside Rockhampton. It became the focus of a group of other buildings which included a Methodist Church, Congregational Church and other dwellings. It is representative of the pseudo-village assemblages that have been established throughout Australia to preserve early timber buildings rescued from demolition. As a commercial venture it failed and De Landelles sold the property. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

Tea-towel: Channel Country

Channel Country, QLD
Australia
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Channel Country, QLD
Australia
Murray Views Pty Ltd

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Channel Country. Although largely confined within Queensland’s borders the unique inland river system which occasionally innundates the Channel Country extends from Camooweal to Leigh Creek in South Australia before finally disgorging in Lake Eyre. The famous journey of the explorers, Burke and Wills, terminated in 1861 on the north bank of Coopers Creek, the site of the ‘Dig tree’ on Nappa Merrie Station. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

Tea-towel: Matilda Country, 1989

Normanton, QLD
Australia
17° 40' 9.9876" S, 141° 4' 47.532" E
1 January 1989
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Normanton, QLD
Australia
17° 40' 9.9876" S, 141° 4' 47.532" E
Action Graphics

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Matilda Country, 1989. This tea-towel was designed in 1989 in response to requests from western tourism venues. It documents sites of interest in inland Queensland from Burketown on the Gulf of Carpentaria to Cunnamulla in the far south-west. Within this vast area and the numerous attractions this example was sourced from Normanton. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Maryborough

Maryborough, QLD
Australia
25° 32' 13.6428" S, 152° 42' 5.5908" E
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Maryborough, QLD
Australia
25° 32' 13.6428" S, 152° 42' 5.5908" E
Murray Views Pty Ltd

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Maryborough. The men of Maryborough. This tea-towel records explorers James Cook and Matthew Flinders, flyer Bert Hinkler, publican Edward Aldridge, and gold discoverer James Nash. It also gives foundation dates for major towns. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Queensland Oil Field

3 December 2010
3 December 2010
Lamont

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Queensland Oil Field. This tea-towel is highly unusual as it promoted the development of an industrial resource in the Surat Basin Oil Field. It shows the industry including its extraction at Moonie on the Darling Downs, and the transportation of the crude oil through the 170 mile-long pipeline for final processing at Brisbane. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

Tea-towel: Map of Queensland, c1950s

3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Map of Queensland, c1950s. Despite the curious shape of the map itself this appears to be one of the most popular tea-towels produced as it was printed in several colourways including pink, buff, mauve and green. This tea-towel probably dates to the early 1950s as the popular tourist destination of the Gold Coast had not developed sufficiently to merit inclusion. Although strangely located in central-western Queensland, the identification of Brisbane with the Story Bridge is very early. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

Tea-towel: Great Keppel Island

Great Keppel Island, QLD
Australia
23° 10' 42.2256" S, 150° 56' 53.4804" E
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Great Keppel Island, QLD
Australia
23° 10' 42.2256" S, 150° 56' 53.4804" E

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Great Keppel Island. Great Keppel Island is the largest in the Keppel Group of fourteen islands which was named when Captain James Cook passed by in 1770. The land area of this national park covers some 1400 hectares and is surrounded by 17 white sand beaches. The first resort established in 1967, was taken over by Trans-Australian Airlines in 1975 and was closed in 2008 for redevelopment. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Cape York

Cape York Peninsula, QLD
Australia
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Cape York Peninsula, QLD
Australia
Radford Screen Prints

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Cape York. Archer River Roadhouse with kangaroo and great palm cockatoo. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Nerada Tea

Nerada Valley, QLD
Australia
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Nerada Valley, QLD
Australia
Reef Productions

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Nerada Tea. The Cutten Brothers established a farm at Bingal Bay in 1882 and began the first tea planting in Australia in 1886. The farm was destroyed by a cyclone in 1918 but Indian born Dr Allan Maruff settled in Cairns in the early 1950s and, discovering the surviving trees and seedlings, purchased 320 acres in the Nerada Valley in 1958. By 1970 the estate was thriving and Dr Maruff utilised mechanical harvesting and formed a partnership with Burns-Philp to establish the first tea-processing factory in Australia. Collection of Glenn Cooke

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