http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/blog daily 0.75 2025-07-24 http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/blog/oddment-4-wooden-chimneys-and-comic-book-robberies monthly 0.5 2022-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/cc118cf1-5710-49f2-9260-2fd0e7cd2046/nla.news-page000000006200-nla.news-article627002-L3-2b2b0c796d8a8f967c4098889275736e-0003.jpg Blog - Oddment #4 - wooden chimneys and slapstick robberies - Make it stand out Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Sunday 5 January 1806, page 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/90f2b2dc-3167-4290-87b0-6427845ee6d9/nla.obj-148095952-1.png Blog - Oddment #4 - wooden chimneys and slapstick robberies - Make it stand out Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897 & Merlin, Beaufoy, approximately 1830-1873. American & Australasian Photographic Company (Sydney, N.S.W.) (1872). Seated woman outside whitewashed cottage with bark roof and wattle and daub chimney, Hill End, New South Wales, ca. 1872. 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Laurie Smith was nanny to the prominent Metcalfe family in Toowoomba. http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/blog/agnes-learmonth-and-the-sons-of-neptune monthly 0.5 2022-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/1626350624666-MC08DB707RZKOGK3QTXB/3.+bris+ship+learmonth.jpg Blog - Agnes Learmonth and the ‘Sons of Neptune’ - Make it stand out Ship docked at the wharves, South Brisbane ca. 1881. Negative number 61754, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/blog/drama-on-the-high-seas-the-shipboard-diary-of-margaret-gray-1883 monthly 0.5 2022-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/1614829249817-YE2E0I1FU97YVU034Z4V/2.%2BFeb%2B2021%2BM%2BGrey%2Bdiary%2Brecipes.jpg Blog - Drama on the high seas: the shipboard diary of Margaret Gray http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/blog/guest-blogger-john-oxley-library-state-library-of-queensland monthly 0.5 2022-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/1613040933898-0Y1IA0YP2RXBYH4N284N/1.+Jan+2021+image+Leslie.jpg Blog - Guest blogger: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland M 1510 Dorothy Leslie Diary 1901-1905. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. 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Image © State Library of NSW, BCP06954. http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/blog/beginnings monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/1595214219558-4935BAJ9WVW7WON4K4LW/alma+new+jpg.jpg Blog - The Archive Detective: beginnings… - Alma Street, Darlington Alma Street, Darlington © State Library of NSW, BCP06955. http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/inherownwords daily 0.75 2025-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/0ea8ac44-cd20-418b-ad39-3af3930064d4/SLQ+logo.jpg http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/inherownwords/research-reveals-at-the-state-library-of-queensland monthly 0.5 2024-06-03 http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/inherownwords/chapter-01-isabella-lucy-eliott monthly 0.5 2025-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/86a4de42-fa85-4244-830b-6714b090de9f/shafston+house+Brisbane+Images%2C+Brisbane+City+Council.jpg In her own words - Isabella Lucy Eliott - Make it stand out Shafston at Kangaroo Point, the home of the Eliott family in Brisbane. Brisbane Images, Brisbane City Council. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/d56df9cb-4efb-45f1-a7c2-a7d36387023d/109223+gilbert+sLQ.jpg In her own words - Isabella Lucy Eliott - Gilbert Eliott, 1870 State Library of Queensland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/55ea6a57-1851-4f98-a92b-30b400770f40/yenda+into+burnett+mitchell.jpg In her own words - Isabella Lucy Eliott - Make it stand out The fall of the Yenda into the Burnett, c1852-53. James Gay Sawkins. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. The Burnett River is the primary water source for the areas surrounding both Yenda and Mingo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/4939219b-19ee-4d8d-8e66-6a5b8775a076/c11377_0001_c+ravenscott+martens.jpg In her own words - Isabella Lucy Eliott - Make it stand out Ravenscott on the Brisbane River, 1853. Conrad Martens. State Library of New South Wales. Ravenscott was the original name of Shafston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0fcb817c7f02785f993a66/806f6795-07c2-4c04-a5cd-a476d0b80281/FL1178083.jpg In her own words - Isabella Lucy Eliott - Make it stand out Early view of Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland, c1864. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. This is the Brisbane Isabella would have navigated with her granddaughters and servants as they shopped and met with Gilbert for lunch during parliamentary session breaks. http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/about daily 0.75 2025-03-25 http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/contact daily 0.75 2024-06-03 http://www.thearchivedetective.com.au/the-archive-detective daily 1.0 2025-06-05