Stanthorpe burnt to the core

Not a lot could be salvaged after a major fire destroyed a whole block of business houses on the eastern side of Maryland Street, from Locke Street to Railway Street. The horse and cart in the centre of the photograph has the safe from the local bank in the cart. Picture: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

By ROBERT MACMAURICE THE two worst fires in Stanthorpe’s history would have to be the 1914 and 1928 fires, that […]

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