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Kenilworth Historical Museum

Locality: Kenilworth, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5472 3090

Address: 7 Alexandra St 4574 Kenilworth, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.kenilworthmuseum.org.au

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25.01.2022 Hi Mary Valley Voice readers - quick preview of the 14 October issue. Out in Kenilworth tomorrow afternoon. Note postal votes for the upcoming 2020 State electi...on need to be received by 7pm Fri 16 October however there's always pre-voting stations. Check the AEC website. https://issuu.com/maryvalleyvoice/docs/2020mvv_oct_web See more

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22.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/australiaalloverofficial/videos/2692737217708916/UzpfSTEwMDAwMzYyMzQ4Njc1NToyMTA3MDcxNjgyNzU2OTI3/?sk=h_chr

16.01.2022 Heat wave condition - some from the past https://www.abc.net.au//1896-heatwave-killed-435-/11809998

14.01.2022 There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a strange tradition. Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to go... out to the hives and tell the bees of the terrible loss that had befallen the family. Failing to do so often resulted in further losses such as the bees leaving the hive, or not producing enough honey or even dying. Traditionally, the bees were kept abreast of not only deaths but all important family matters including births, marriages, and long absence due to journeys. If the bees were not told, all sorts of calamities were thought to happen. This peculiar custom is known as telling the bees. The practice of telling the bees may have its origins in Celtic mythology that held that bees were the link between our world and the spirit world. So if you had any message that you wished to pass to someone who was dead, all you had to do was tell the bees and they would pass along the message. The typical way to tell the bees was for the head of the household, or goodwife of the house to go out to the hives, knock gently to get the attention of the bees, and then softly murmur in a doleful tune the solemn news. Little rhymes developed over the centuries specific to a particular region. In Nottinghamshire, the wife of the dead was heard singing quietly in front of the hive, The master's dead, but don't you go; Your mistress will be a good mistress to you. In Germany, a similar couplet was heard, Little bee, our lord is dead; Leave me not in my distress. But the relationship between bees and humans goes beyond superstition. It’s a fact, that bees help humans survive. 70 of the top 100 crop species that feed 90% of the human population rely on bees for pollination. Without them, these plants would cease to exist and with it all animals that eat those plants. This can have a cascading effect that would ripple catastrophically up the food chain. Losing a beehive is much worse than losing a supply of honey. The consequences are life threatening. The act of telling the bees emphasizes this deep connection humans share with the insect. Art: The Bee Friend, a painting by Hans Thoma (18391924)

14.01.2022 First established in Woodville South Australia in 1942, ACTIL (Australian Cotton Textile Industries) has been a leading player in the Australian textile market since its inception. Initially playing a vital role in the war effort, ACTIL became the first company to produce Australian made bed linen in the 1940s.

13.01.2022 A newspaper header from yesteryear - didn't those early newspaper owners do the district proud?

11.01.2022 Although pumpkins (or their seeds) arrived in Australia with the First Fleet and scones had their origin in Scotland sometime in the 1500s, the first recipes for pumpkin scones appeared in the early 20th century. Almost certainly, home cooks were producing them before The Queenslander printed a recipe in 1913, as the Beenleigh Show had a special pumpkin scone category in 1914. https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/tag/1910s/

11.01.2022 Who remembers this TV advertisement?https://www.youtube.com/watch

09.01.2022 For those of you who watched the Ferrone family go further back in time on the ABC this week - some historical facts "Chocolate Crackles are small, chocolate-flavoured cakes made from Rice Bubbles, coconut and Copha. The earliest Chocolate Crackles recipe so far discovered was printed in an advertisement in the Australian Women’s Weekly on Saturday 18 December 1937. The advertisement was placed by Edible Oil Industries, a subsidiary of Unilever, who made Copha a uniquely Australian ingredient made from solidified coconut oil." https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/

09.01.2022 PRESIDENTS REPORT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 27 JUNE, 2020 Welcome everyone, to the Annual General Meeting of the Kenilworth and District Historical Association Inc. 2020. The financial year of the Museum ends on January 31 and for all the the financial year 2019/2020 things went smoothly then the world was hit with the COVID-19 pandemic and as with our forebears in 1919 the world turned to treacle but I am sure you are all aware of the problems. During that financial year m...Continue reading

09.01.2022 How many of you remember this? - Chermside Drive-In Shopping Centre (Now Westfield Chermside) was opened on 31 May 1957 by the then Premier of Queensland Vince Gair. Police were needed to keep an estimated 15,000 shoppers who had queued to secure bargains. It was marketed as the first suburban-style, post-war shopping precinct in the southern hemisphere. The shopping centre was air-conditioned and had a modern design It initially contained an Allan & Stark department store, a Brisbane Cash & Carry supermarket, 24 specialty stores, parking for 650 cars and covered 28 acres. Porters were available to carry purchased items to shoppers’ carshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_Chermside#:~:text=Chermside%20Drive%2DIn%20Shopping%20Centre,had%20queued%20to%20secure%20bargains