Jeffrey Robert Thomson is a former Australian cricketer. Known as "Thommo",he is one of the fastest bowlers in the history of cricket;he bowled a delivery with a speed of 160.6 km/h against the West Indies in Perth in 1975,which was the fastest recorded delivery at the time,and the fourth-fastest recorded delivery of all time.
Alfred Percy Marr was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match in 1885.
Ashgrove is a suburb in the City of Brisbane,Queensland,Australia. In the 2016 census,Ashgrove had a population of 13,039 people.
Phillip Henry Carlson was an Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. He was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played his two Test matches for Australia v England in the 1978–79 Ashes series and the four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket.
Eastern Suburbs Football Club is an Australian soccer club from East Brisbane,Queensland,Australia. The club is the most centrally located of all the semi-professional clubs in Brisbane,situated approximately 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) from the city centre. Easts competes in the National Premier Leagues Queensland,in both the men's and women's competitions,and play their home games at Heath Park,East Brisbane.
The South Coast railway line was a railway from Brisbane,the capital city of Queensland,Australia. The route via the South Coast to Tweed Heads on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. The line operated from 1889 to 1964. The Gold Coast railway line re-opened in 1996 along a modified alignment in the north and a new route south but does not extend as far south yet as the South Coast line.
Ivy May Hassard (nee Pearce) (8 June 1914 –26 April 1998) was one of the first female pilots in the southern hemisphere and a pioneer of the Gold Coast,Queensland,Australia. She is noted for her contribution to the cultural development of the Gold Coast,opening the first fashion boutique in Surfers Paradise in 1946.
William Percy Lipscomb was a British-born Hollywood playwright,screenwriter,producer and director. He died in London in 1958,aged 71.
Bulwer is a coastal town and locality at the north-western end of Moreton Island in the City of Brisbane,Queensland,Australia. In the 2016 census the locality of Bulwer had a population of 49 people.
Patrick James S. "Paddy" Carew was an Australian rugby union national and state representative and a first-class cricketer and public servant. He was born in Pine Mountain in southern Queensland.
The Queensland Open is a golf tournament held in Queensland,Australia as part of the PGA Tour of Australasia. It was founded in 1925. The event was not held from 2008 to 2012 but returned as a PGA Tour of Australasia event in 2013.
Alfred Haddrick was an Australian cricketer who was an all-rounder. He played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria in 1893.
John McEwan Hunter was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Bernard Flewell-Smith (1898–1992) was an Australian fruit grower and soldier. He was one of the leaders in developing the Golden Circle fruit cannery in Northgate,Brisbane,Queensland. Son of farmer,John Francis Flewell-Smith,and Frances Maude,née Stephens,Flewell-Smith was born in Lowood on 4 March 1898. Throwing away his desire to work in medicine,Flewell-Smith overtook his father's farm when he left for the war. He later began fruit farming in Bracken Ridge after returning to Australia. In 1935 he was appointed as manager of the Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing,succeeding W. Ranger. He previously held a position as a scholar at Ipswich Boys' Grammar School,the same school where he studied and was awarded the prize for best Junior pass in the state. In 1950 Flewell-Smith was elected as Citizen of the Week by the Brisbane Telegraph.
Richard Frank Tunley MBE,(1879–1968) was a blinds manufacturer and inventor of educational resources for visually impaired children in Queensland,Australia. He was a foundation member of the Blind,Deaf,and Dumb Institution and was central to the passage of the Blind,Deaf and Dumb Children Instruction Act of 1924 through the Parliament of Queensland which made education for visual and hearing impaired children compulsory in Queensland.
Turbot Street runs parallel to Ann Street and is on the northern side of the Brisbane CBD in Queensland,Australia. It is a major thoroughfare,linking as a three-to-five lane one-way street with the Riverside Expressway in the southwest to the suburb of Fortitude Valley in the northeast;address numbers run the same direction. It is a one-way pair with Ann Street.
George Henry Cooper was an Australian cricketer. He played in two first-class matches for Queensland in 1930.
William Lance Druery was an Australian cricketer. He played in two first-class matches for Queensland in 1949/50.
Colin Loxton was an Australian cricketer who was an all-rounder who was an aggressive batsman and fast-medium bowler. He played in one first-class match for Cambridge University in 1935 and four matches for Queensland in 1937/38.
The 1950 Great Britain Lions tour was a tour by the Great Britain national rugby league team of Australia and New Zealand which took place between May and August 1950. The tour involved a schedule of 25 games:19 in Australia including a three-test series against Australia for the Ashes,and a further 6 in New Zealand including two test matches against New Zealand. A scheduled fixture in Forbes,New South Wales,against a Western Districts team,was abandoned when the chartered plane could not land due to bad weather. Captained by Ernest Ward,the Lions returned home having won 19 and lost 6 of their games. The team won the first test match of the tour but lost the second and third to lose the Ashes Test series to Australia. The team also lost both Test Matches in and against New Zealand. Despite being a British team –five of the squad were Welsh –the team played,and were often referred to by both the press at home and away,as England.
