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Cooroy Social History

Train Traveling Through Cooroy District ca. 1900

Cooroy is 80.75 miles from Brisbane, Queensland, with the north coast section of the line from Yandina to Cooroy being 11.45 miles and opened on the 17 July, 1891.

Early Living Conditions Cooroy ca. 1909

Many early settlers and sawmillers had to live under canvas while the township of Cooroy grew.

Ladies v Gentlemen Cricket Match Cooroy ca. 1910

Ladies v Gentleman Cricket Match on the Showground (now Cooroy Sporting Complex)

Cooroy’s First RTA? ca. 1910

Possibly Cooroy’s first RTA. The International Harvester Company ( IHC ) high wheeler was made from 1907 to 1911. Large diameter carriage wheels with solid rubber tyres specifically for rough road

Cooroy Woodchop ca. 1911

Wood chopping contest at the Victory Hotel Cooroy

Bullock Team in Cooroy ca. 1911

Bullock teams were the main form of transport and haulage in early Cooroy. Seen here at the Elm Street Railway crossing.

Precious Timber grew in the Cooroy Area

Linley Ball with felled Kauri logs on Charles Ball’s property near Cooroy mountain ca. 1912

Cooroy Fire Brigade ca. 1912

Cooroy’s first Fire Brigade

Cooroy v Nambour Football Match ca. 1912

Cooroy v Nambour Football match on the Showgrounds (now Cooroy Sporting Complex) watch by a number of spectators.

Collecting Milk in Ridgewood ca.1912

Collecting Milk in the Ridgewood area with a home engineered, horse drawn cart.

Cooroy Rifle Club at the Cooroy showgrounds ca. 1914

Members of the Cooroy Rifle Club at the Cooroy showgrounds in 1914, note a small number are in uniform.

Passenger train departing the Cooroy Railway Station ca. 1914

Passengers on the train waving from the windows at family and friends on the platform.

Sports Day Procession ca. 1916

Cooroy sports day procession past the Victory Hotel, Maple Street.

First Aeroplane in Cooroy ca. 1918

First plane to land in Cooroy – landed where High School now is – William Brittain on right behind suitcases.

Cooroy Taxis – ca. 1927

Taxis in Diamond Street, Cooroy. Sid Littman (driver & William Brittain above’s Nephew) or Lettman along with his wife Ethel (nee McLean) provided the Cooroy Taxi to the citizens of Cooroy for nearly fifty years. They were there during the great depression years of the late nineteen twenties, World War Two and the troop movement as soldiers took leave to Noosa. The fifties, sixties, and early seventies saw the development and changing face of Cooroy and the district and the same taxi service was there.

CWA Meeting ca. 1927

Ladies of the Cooroy CWA outside the Memorial Hall / School of Arts in Maple Street

Ridegwood Entry in Cooroy Agricultural Show ca. 1950

Ridegewood area entry in the Cooroy Agricultural Society Show 1950 at Cooroy Showgrounds.

For more historic information about Cooroy and the surrounding areas you can visit Cooroy-Noosa Genealogical & Historical Research Group Inc. https://www.genealogy-noosa.org.au/

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