Contents include: Coming to Queensland: Early shipping and immigration to Queensland / Dr Rod McLeod p1. Oral histories from Fay Sheriff, Malcolm Barrett and Pat Wales p13. Living by the river / Shirley Lahey p15. Heritage houses: The Davies family and 'Drysllwyn' / Jackie Bentley and Kevin Southern p25. Memories of the Philp family and 'Mallow' / Jean Haughton-James p33. Living at 112 Sherwood Road / oral history from Jocelyn Dixon p39. ‘Moorlands’: its neighbours and myths / Dr Rosamond Siemon p41. Living at ‘Warrawee’ / oral history from Sheila Mullan p48. The town of Toowong: Early government services in the local area: extracts from the research paper ‘Posties, cops and ferrymen’ / Andrew Darbyshire p53. Sergeant Kelly of Toowong / courtesy 1986 Sunday Mail nostalgia book p59. Murder in Toowong: a case followed in the local press [William Munday 1905] / Roy Thake p61. Mortality and mourning [death] / Hilda Maclean p69. Memories of Toowong village / Malcolm Finlayson (Patterson’s Sawmill) p75. Working at Patterson’s / oral history from Fay Reid (nee Shield) p83. Daily life: Around Toowong in the 1930s and 1940s / Ian Cook p87.
Local families: Wright family of 52 Elizabeth Street / oral history from Mavis Merritt p94. Lansbury family of Elizabeth Street / oral history from Barbara Lansbury p95. Hutchison family of 25 Elizabeth Street / oral history from Doreen Woolard p98. Growing up in Duke Street / oral history from Dawn Degn p101. Hitchcock family of 53 Elizabeth Street / oral history from Peter Hitchcock p101. World War 2: an American in Toowong / Bill Bentson p103. 44 Morley Street and 61 Bent Street / oral histories from Val Waring and Dianne Seales p113. Bell family of Bent Street / oral history from Allan Bell p115.