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Saunders Beach, Queensland, Australia

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Saunders Beach, Queensland, Australia

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North Queensland Cowboys – made history in our time

05 Saturday Mar 2016

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ARL, Cadigan, Community Centre, Doug Kingston, Kerry Boustead, Lee Kernaghan, NQ Cowboys, NRL, Ron McLean, Saunders Beach, Saunders Beach Community Centre Association Inc, Stockland Stadium, Thuringowa City Council, Townsville City Council, Wests Tigers, Willows Paceway

In their twenty-first playing year on 4th October 2015 the Cowboys team won the National Rugby League premiership for the first time.

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Photo kindly contributed by John Sheil.

 

It came as a just reward for the club whose beginnings were found in community desire and sustained effort . Continue reading →

Community Christmases at Saunders Beach

27 Sunday Dec 2015

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Beach Banter, Community Centre, Delta Dogs, NanKivell Park, rural fire brigade, Saunder Park, Springfield, Volunteers

By all accounts the Saunders family generously opened their home Springfield in the late 1800s and the early twentieth century. George Saunders and his wife Elizabeth were from rural backgrounds – George came from the small village of Whitwell in Hertfordshire, England and Elizabeth was a farmer’s daughter from Cappyroe, Offaly, Ireland. They carried the hospitality of rustic life learnt in their homelands to Springfield, hosting such activities as a New Year’s Eve 1891 house party for thirty guests.

Modern Saunders Beach unknowingly carried on this tradition when the Saunders Beach rural fire brigade put on the first kids’ Christmas Party on the beach at the northern end of Reef Street in 1990.

1990 Tug-of-war.

1990 Tug-of-war.

1990 Santa

1990 Reef Street car park (now Saunders Park).

 

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Movies under the Stars

29 Monday Jun 2015

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8mm projector, Community Centre, NanKivell Park, Saunders Beach, Saunders Beach Progress Association, Volunteers

The beautiful tropical evenings we enjoy at Saunders Beach provided a perfect backdrop for Cinema Under the Stars.

Full moon rising over Maggie at Saunders Beach

Full moon rising over Maggie at Saunders Beach

Saunders Beach Progress Association (forerunner of today’s Community Centre) always had a keen eye on including fun events – the kids were never forgotten. Continue reading →

Saunders Beach History Project acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of Saunders Beach, the Wulgurukaba people.

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24 Reef Street, Saunders Beach

The first permanent house in Saunders Beach, built for Bruce Robinson, grandson of George and Elizabeth Saunders. Photo by Judith Ecuyer, May 2009.

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