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12 unusual facts about Toowoomba


Alix Bidstrup

Alix Bidstrup (born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian actress best known for her role as nurse Amy Fielding on All Saints.

Arthur McIlveen

After his departure in 1921, he worked in various country towns in New South Wales, and also in Sydney, Melbourne and Toowoomba.

Fairholme College

Fairholme College is an independent, day and boarding school for girls, located in Toowoomba, one of Australia's largest provincial cities, in South East Queensland, Australia.

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

In Hagan v. Australia, the Committee ruled that, while not originally intended to demean anyone, the name of the "E. S. 'Nigger' Brown Stand" (named in honour of 1920s rugby league player Edward Stanley Brown) at a Toowoomba sports field was racially offensive and should be removed.

Lost and Running

He eventually walks out of the hotel and finds himself on a country road which was filmed halfway between Toowoomba and Dalby.

Pam Brown

Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria, and her childhood was spent in on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane.

Psaltoda moerens

It is found from the coast inland to Toowoomba and Inverell in the north, and the Grampians and Mount Lofty Ranges in the south.

Queenwood School for Girls

The two women had met in 1918, at the Glennie Memorial School in Toowoomba, Queensland, where Lawrance was Principal, and Rennie first assistant-mistress.

Scott Alderdice

Scott Alderdice is a Shakespearean director, media producer and acting lecturer currently based at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove

The taxonomy of the Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove is disputed, and some authorities split it into two species: M. amboinensis (Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and M. phasianella (Brown Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Australia from Weipa and Aurukun in the north to Bega in the south, and most inland at Atherton and Toowoomba.

TNQ

However, the station faced a crisis in the days leading up to aggregation when WIN Television bought the Toowoomba and Rockhampton-based Star Television, and switched the affiliation from Ten to Nine, in line with WIN's NSW station.

Veracity Systems

The company, founded in 1988 by Mark Chimes, is based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.


Channel Zero

RTQ, a Toowoomba television station previously known as "DDQ-0"

Clifton, Australia

Clifton, Queensland, town and Shire south of Toowoomba, Queensland in Australia

Crows Nest

Shire of Crows Nest, Queensland, Australia (replaced by Toowoomba Regional Council)

Douglas Annand

Born at Toowoomba, Queensland, to Frederick Annand and Helen Alice Robinson, Annand studied commercial art at the Central Technical College in Brisbane.

Finabah

The band formed in high school (Centenary Heights State High School Special Education Programme) in Toowoomba before moving to Brisbane in early 2008 to pursue their music.

Gowrie Junction, Queensland

Possibly Gowrie Junction's best known resident remains Frank Riethmuller, born in 1884 in Glenvale outside Toowoomba, who taught at Gowrie Junction's primary school from 1899 to 1905.

Highfields, Queensland

The Historical Village also has a fully operating blacksmith shop, a Heritage Chapel, an original Toowoomba 1928 Dennis Fire Engine, a two cell lock up short term prison from 1903, Model T Fords, and a collection of restored antique radios and appliances.

Hunter Poon

Returning from the war, with shrapnel wounds in his right hand and lower back, Poon continued to star in Toowoomba cricket and was chosen to represent Queensland in a first-class match against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground starting 21 December 1923.

J J Hilder

Hilder was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, the fourth son and eighth child of Henry Hilder, an engineer originally from Sussex.

Jacob Stumm

Born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at state schools in Toowoomba before becoming a Hansard reporter, a journalist and the proprietor of the Gympie Times.

Ken McCaffery

After three seasons with them he was persuaded to move to Toowoomba by legendary Queensland footballer Duncan Thompson.

Penelope Wensley

Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, she was educated at Penrith High School in New South Wales, the Rosa Bassett School in London (UK), and the University of Queensland where she graduated with a first class honours degree in English and French literature.

Spring Bluff, Queensland

The railway station, which with its gardens is heritage listed, is maintained by a trust consisting of the regional councils of Toowoomba and Lockyer Valley along with Queensland Rail, who also operate a cafe at the site.

St John's Anglican Church, Dalby

In 1922, a third church was designed by architect Harry Marks, a member of the prominent family of architects in Toowoomba and the foundation stone laid.

Stephen Hagan

In 1999, Stephen Hagan visited the Clive Berghofer Stadium in Toowoomba, Queensland, and noticed a large sign declaring the name of the E. S. "Nigger" Brown Stand, which had been named after the 1920s rugby player Edwin Stanley Brown – also known as "Nigger" Brown, in reference to a brand of boot polish available at the time as he was slick on the Rugby League field.

Toowoomba Airport

The commencement of Skytrans Dash-8 services on the Western Route via Toowoomba has assisted to demonstrate the effectiveness of regional turbo-prop aircraft operating directly in Toowoomba with a low noise footprint.

In August 1932 Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, a pioneer Australian aviator, landed at Toowoomba in his Fokker Trimotor named the 'Southern Cross'.

Toowoomba City, Queensland

Toowoomba City is situated at the intersection of the New England Highway and Warrego Highway, and contains Toowoomba railway station (the terminus of the Westlander service) and the city's bus interchange on Neil Street, from which various buses depart for the suburbs.Toowoomba also has a taxi facility available.

University College of Southern Queensland

A transition phase between the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education and the University of Southern Queensland, tertiary education facilities based at Darling Heights, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

Wellcamp, Queensland

There is currently a jet-capable airport being built within Wellcamp to service Toowoomba and the surrounding districts, it will be known officially as Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport.