The Woodford Folk Festival is an annual celebration of culture: the arts, the environment and the carnivalesque. According to Neil Cameron in 1995,

Writer Thomas Welsby fell in love with Moreton Bay from his first sighting of it at age nineteen.  Thus began, too, his love of the water, of sailing and of fishing and from that time accordin

The Golden Circle Cannery, Northgate, Brisbane - as seen from the air. Thousands of visitors from all states have toured the Cannery with Golden Circle Hostesses. From Golden Circle tropical recipe book, c1961. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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How to save at the supermarket, c1961. From Golden Circle tropical recipe book, c1961.

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John Nicholson's daughter with part of their pineapple crop at Grovely, Brisbane, Queensland, 1864. 'Grovely is situated in the valley between the Taylor Range and Arana Hills.

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'Sweet Potato Casserole' c1961, a recipe found in Angel Rendle-Short’s notebooks, 2006. Collection of Francesca Rendle-Short. 'Sweet Potato Casserole', from Golden Circle tropical recipe book, c1960.

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'Curried Pineapple Sausages' c1981, a recipe from the author’s collection. 'Pineapple Fruit Cake', a recipe from the collection of Stephen Cassidy.

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Francesca in the garden in St Lucia, c1964. Collection of Francesca Rendle-Short

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Mrs E Buikstra checks slices of pineapple for faults, Northgate cannery, 1959. 'Immigrants, particularly married women, rush the huge Northgate pineapple cannery, Brisbane, QLD, for seasonal work at the height of the summer pineapple crop. They work long hours but each week collect pay envelops fattened by penalty rates. Unskilled men get up to £31  a week and unskilled women, up to £21. The cannery processes up to 600 000 pineapples a day and employs up to 1600 workers. Last year more than half the 64 million cans processed were exported to Europe.

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Two children seated at the end of a row of plants at Atthow’s pineapple farm, Lindum, Brisbane, 1914.

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