Some vintage snapshots of life on the Sunshine Coast have been displayed in a limited-edition calendar.
The pictures – including tiny caravans, classic cars and knitted bathing suits – are featured in the Sunshine Coast Heritage Calendar.
There are photos from private family collections, alongside offerings from Sunshine Coast Council’s Picture Sunshine Coast heritage collection.
It’s available from libraries and customer contact centres for $6.
All images have been tinted with colour, a technique in keeping with the tradition of hand-colouring monochrome photographs that started in 1900.
Mayor Mark Jamieson said this year’s calendar provided another great snapshot of life on our Sunshine Coast.
“Our journey as a region is a continuous story and how we experience it plays an important role in our community – from education to creating a sense of perspective, pride and belonging,” he said.
“We are guided by our Sunshine Coast Heritage Plan, which together with the Arts and Heritage Levy, helps us to preserve community stories, sites, trees and landscapes, buildings and museums.
“Our heritage programs provide genuine opportunities for all residents and visitors to get involved and the Heritage Calendar is a great example.
“The calendar provides a wonderful opportunity to document our community’s shared stories and highlight the important role of all collections, whether they be personal or official archival records.”
Community Portfolio Councillor Rick Baberowski said he was struck by the power of a simple snapshot in time.
“The wonderful range of faces captured from 1912 to the 1960s are for me just intriguing glimpses into our collective past,” he said.
“Our region’s heritage is intrinsically built upon the memories and stories of our community.
“The Sunshine Coast Heritage Calendar provides a wonderful way to provoke discussion between ourselves and add those community stories into our recorded Sunshine Coast heritage.
“The calendar images submitted by our community will now be gratefully archived into council’s heritage library Picture Sunshine Coast. They add another layer to our knowledge of what life was really like back then.”
Picture Sunshine Coast is a growing collection of more than 17,000 images showing the history and development of the Sunshine Coast. The database is easy to access via council’s library website.
The project is supported by the Sunshine Coast Arts and Heritage Levy. The levy, which is charged to every rateable property, is used to document, research, conserve, protect, promote and provide access to those tangible and intangible items, places, facilities and events that define the stories, history and values of the people, communities and culture of the Sunshine Coast.
Winners of this year’s heritage calendar competition
- Yvonne James: “Family visiting Caloundra”, c.1950s.
- Eumundi Museum: “Picnic in the scrub after the felling of the big Kauri Pine”, Eumundi, 1912.
- Bruce Tallon: “Family and friends in rock pools”, Mooloolaba, 1967.
- Petro Geyl: “Brotherly Fun’, Kings Beach, 1960.
- Steve Newton: “Family regular road trip to Maroochydore”, c.1963.
- Anne Wakely: “Anne and her sister Janice fishing”, Bulcock Beach, c.1963.
- Courtney Michael: “The Osborne family”, Cotton Tree, c.1959
Help us deliver more news by registering for our FREE daily news feed. All it requires is your name and email at the bottom of this article.
