Australian life in Queensland in the bushrangers time

The bushrangers roamed Australia during the 1800's. The term bushranger was first used in a newspaper in 1805. Here is are some images of what life was like in the northern state of Queensland during that time.


Mounted Police station in Cooktown.
Barracks and police station in the country above Cooktown 1878

Hopetoun selection in southern Queensland.

Edward McDermott's grocery store
in Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, ca 1884

 Family having tea in the garden of Richmond Hill homestead,
Mackay, Queensland, ca. 1890

Group of women having a tea party in Queensland, ca. 1887

Reading the paper in a Gympie garden, ca. 1871

Blacksmith shop, Oxley Road, Oxley, Brisbane 1888.
 

 Gold miners outside a bark hut, Queensland, ca. 1870
Two gold miners dressed in working clothes outside a slab bark hut
with mining tools nearby

You might like to find out more about:

• gold mining in Australia in the bushranger days.
• bush homes in the 1800's.
• what bushrangers ate.
• From the bookstore: Blacks and Bushrangers. Adventures in Queensland ... With Illustrations By Edward B. Kennedy.