Best Family

Alf Best milking his cow at “Sweet Home Dairy”.

Horse Mona poses at Alf Best’s Sweet Home Diary in the early 1940s with the barn in the background on the left.

Alf Best with his cows on “Sweet Home Dairy” on Payne Road. These photos taken in the 1940s show the farm’s post and rail fences. Alf Best was married to Ellen Fanning’s sister Lucina.

Alfred John Best aged 71 at Payne Road. Alfred Best was born in Sandgate, 1869 and died in 1948 at age 79.

Alfred John Best with his grandson Bill Best near Payne Road in the late 1930s.

Alfred Best delivering milk with horse and wagon from the family’s Sweet Home Dairy.

Alfred John Best smoking his pipe in the front garden wearing a traditional grey flannel shirt.

Alfred John Best, 1869-1848. This photograph was taken in the 1940s with the diary’s cream shed in the background.

Alfred John Best (on the left) pictured with his 1942 Cher utility and his son Reg Best, grandson Doug Best holding grand-daughter Julie Best.

The back paddock of the Best property in Payne Road beside Enoggera Creek.

Bill Best with his future wife Grace pictured beside Payne Road, which was an unsealed dirt road in the early 1940s.

Bill Best and his future wife Grace Simpson on the corner of (what is now) Kernel Street and Payne Road with the view outbound towards the Best Property.

Daphne Best, the daughter of Les Best, doing the washing at Grandma Best’s home. This was the era of the bush clothes prop (before the invention of Hills hoists). The bush clothes prop was a long (2.5-metre) tree branch, with a vee at the top, used to prop up a clothesline.

Doug Best relaxing in the front yard of his grandfather’s home in Payne Road.

Doug Best holding a stock whip at his grandfather’s farm on Payne Road.

Doug Best riding Mona at Alf Best’s “Sweet Home Dairy” farm.

Doug Best around 15 years old, riding Mona at Sweet Home Dairy on Payne Road.

Doug Best riding Mona behind the bush house at “Sweet Home Dairy”.

Looking east from the Earle property “Fairearth”. This location is nearby the area known to modern residents as Whitehead Rd. You can see a glimpse of unsealed Payne Road with Alf Best’s home amongst the trees in the upper left.

Essie (the wife of Ossie Best) and her daughter Lola Best feeding the chickens.

The gardening team enjoying morning tea at Glenlyon House in Glenlyon Drive. Reg Best is the 2nd from left.

James Campbell standing near the milk separator shed of  “Sweet Home Dairy”. This location is 50 yards off Payne Road where the Payne Road School is today.

Les and Doris Best pictured with their children, Daphne and Keith (in the back), and Lawrence and Joyce (in the front).

Lillian Best, daughter of Alfred Ernest and Margaret Best playing under the family home on the corner of Waterworks and Settlement Road. Old-school old washing tubs can be seen the left and a gorgeous cane dolls pram.

Rose Kay’s cockatoo Joey photobombed this photograph of the eastern end of Lucina and Alfred Best’s home in Payne Road.

Professional portrait of Emma Best (nee Bennet) with her son Leslie Herbert Best, taken around 1915.

Merv Kay with his grandfather Alf Best, both looking very handsome in their Sunday best. Photograph taken in the late 1920s.

Merv Kay with his cows on “Sweet Home Dairy”. In the background is the neighbouring Stanley property to the west.

Merv Kay receives his birthday telegram whilst serving with the B.C.O.F. in Kure, Japan after the end of WW II.

This photo of Mervyn Kay in the early 1940s is proof that cowboy boots never go out of style.

Mervyn Kay’s home at 181 Payne Road with a Jowett Javelin car out front. Mervyn’s grandparents’ (Alfred and Lucina Best) home can be seen in the background.

Muriel Best, the wife of Reginald Walter Best, photographed in the 1920–30s.

Muriel Prackert, the future wife of Reginald Walter Best, looking beautiful in her best Sunday dress.

Ossie Best with Rosie Stanley who lived next door. The Stanley family owned the adjoining farm on the western boundary of the Best property on Payne Road.

Ossie Best at his father’s “Sweet Home Dairy”, riding past the barn with Fluffy on the bike and Bluey running beside him. The diary separator room can be seen on the right.

View from Payne Road in the late 1930s near the Campbell residence and looking outbound. The Best homestead and farm buildings can be seen at the crest of the hill on the right hand side of the road. Paten Road is visible running off to the left.

Reg Best with his two horses, Robyn and Diamond in front of the “Sweet Home Dairy” sulky shed.

The home of Rosanna Lucina Kay, daughter of Alfred and Lucina Best at 185 Payne Road.Rosanna’s home was named “Home” and her son Mervyn lived at 181 Payne Road.

Rose Kay in the paddock at Payne Road with her cockatoo Joey and Mona the horse in the 1930s.

Rose Kay (nee Best) with her cockatoo Joey.

Rose Kay's cockatoo Joey on a bicycle in Ossie Best's driveway on Payne Road looking inbound towards Kernel Street, circa 1940s.

Home of Rose Kay, located on “Sweet Home Dairy” property in Payne Road. Rose Kay is the daughter of Alfred and Lucina Best, and mother of Merv Kay.

Portrait of William and Sarah (nee Black) Todd, grandparents of Bruce and Lilly Best. The couple emigrated to Australia in 1910 and later moved to Fletcher Parade where Sarah operated a small dairy and milk run. William had a horse and cart and worked on road repair.