Where is drayton qld

You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically. Show comments 4 Submitted by Emmanuel 29 February I found your blog on gglooe and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader.

Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future. Hi, the author of this article was senior librarian Brian Randall. Brian retired several years ago. The John Oxley Library recently received an important and fascinating collection of personal papers and…. State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of…. John Oxley Library. Queensland Place Histories - Drayton, Toowoomba.

Toowoomba and Drayton prior to View of a street in Drayton. State Library of Queensland, image number Drayton Post Office, State Library of Queensland, negative number: Portrait of Arthur Hoey Davis, author. State Library of Queensland, negative number John Oxley Library Collections Add new comment. Your name Your name Your name. About text formats. Please confirm you are a real person. Show comments 4. Submitted by. I found your blog on gglooe and read a few of your other posts.

Lee Cazaly. Very interesting, makes me more intrigued. I would like to reference this article. Who is the writer please? JOL Admin. Writing as Steele Rudd, Davis described in numerous yarns and novels the life of Downs selectors, based partly on his life at a Greenmount selection taken up by his ex-blacksmith father in By then, the railway out of Toowoomba bypassed the built-up part of Drayton, and municipal government foundered on the non-collection of rates.

Ultimately Drayton shire was proclaimed in Drayton had a National School and a Church of England , and a description in the Australian handbook also mentioned Catholic and Wesleyan churches and two hotels, the Criterion and the Downs.

The Australian handbook stated that Drayton 'may now almost be considered a suburb' of Toowoomba, its surrounds dotted with farms and homesteads:. Drayton has local shops, a sporting complex, two hotels, two churches, a bowling club, a primary school and a public hall.

Skip to main content. Drayton and Drayton Shire. The Australian handbook stated that Drayton 'may now almost be considered a suburb' of Toowoomba, its surrounds dotted with farms and homesteads: Drayton Shire was described in the Australian Blue Book : In Drayton Shire was abolished and absorbed by Cambooya and Crows Nest Shires.