Exhibition Eccentricities, 1885

Och! the gorgeous condition

Of this year’s Exhibition;

Och! the pyramids!

1 January 1885
7 October 2010
7 October 2010

Since 1876 the Brisbane Exhibition – or Ekka, as it is affectionately known today – has enticed visitors from across Queensland and beyond with the promise of a combination of sights, sounds, taste

The markers of how we remember in the landscape seem to be everywhere.

Plaque to Stinson crash, O'Reilly's Guest House, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. The plaque documents the air crash on 19 February 1937 of the 'City of Brisbane' with the deaths of Rex Boyden, Beverley Shepherd, James Westray, Roland Graham and William Fountain, the survival of Josiah Binstead and John Proud and the role of Bernard O'Reilly in locating the site. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Copyright © John Boult and Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, 2010

Plaque at the site of the Stinson airplane that crashed February 1937, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Copyright © John Boult and Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, 2010

How people remember the landscape.
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