1974 ANZAC Day Service, Settlement Road, The Gap.

The view from the back of Bill Harvey’s property in Moggill Road and looking towards Herb Wilson’s property. Bill Harvey’s farm buildings are in the foreground and in the background on Moggill Road are from left, Wilson’s house, garage and cow bails, circa 1990.

Catherine and Janet Johnston relaxing on some rocks in the creek under Walton Bridge, The Gap, circa 1970.

Interior of the Elita Theatre Ashgrove, circa 1951.

Elita Theatre – 12th March 1954.

Elita Theatre Manager George Cuffe, January 1956.

The Gap 1974 Jan after the flood. The R.S.L. Club, Settlement Rd. The cars are parked facing Settlement Rd. Fish Creek was later redirected, water level up to window sills.

Ros Williams (on the right) standing in the driveway of her property at 340 Payne Road, The Gap with her neighbour, surveying the flood waters of 1974. School Rd bridge is underwater.

1974 floods, a truck is forging its way through the flood waters outbound in Payne Road just past the School Road bridge.

Outbound view of the flood damage sustained overnight at the peak of the January 1974 floods at the Payne Road end of the School Road bridge.

The southern approach to the School Road bridge, The Gap is underwater in the 1974 floods and the community water stand pipe has burst.

Cleaning up around the R.S.L. Building on Settlement Road, next to Fish Creek, after the 1974 floods.

Beth Hedley and John Diprose at their wedding day on 2nd March 1963, with The Gap Methodist Junior Choir. This was the first wedding ceremony to be conducted in the new brick church.

Early owners and family of Greenlanes Swimming Pool enjoy the water ~ Circa 1960. Later to become Taylor Range Country Club in 1971.

Herb Wilson’s house located on Moggill Road, circa 1990.

1. First Litter & crew, Senior Office J.W. Taylor (in helmet)

2. The Sulky & Litter. In 1897 the first sulky, drawn by a white pony, was introduced. The litter was taken out behind the sulky and wheeled back to Hospital by the Bearers.. The Ambulance wagonette was also introduced about this time.

3. A well equipped plant room at the turn of the century.

1. The Motor Car – Ambulance
In 1908 the Motor Vehicle was introduced into the Service, note that the litter was still transported out, to be wheeled on the return to Hospital.
The first Motor Vehicle Body was made by the same firm that built the first Litter in 1893 – The Federal Carriage Co.

2. The Ambulance Vehicle
Within several years motorised transport had improved so greatly that by the early 1900's Ambulance Transport was completely motorised. The litter was now obsolete.
Image: Ford Motor Ambulance

3. The Latest in ambulance vehicles – 1974

Looking west from 11 Laird Street, St Johns Wood from home of the Lake Family – Built 1935.

Bill Harvey’s home in Moggill Road, circa 1990.

The view from the paddock off Moggill Road, The Gap, with the homes of Dr Kay on the right and Bill Harvey on the left, circa 1990.

Prior to development along Moggill Road, (Moggill meaning “Place of Lizards”).

The old dairy shed on the farm of Frank and Harriet Wilson – circa 1960, prior to arrival of housing estates. The farm was situated on right between first and second dip in Moggill Road west of Payne Road. The home on hill in background is that of Bill and Jean Harvey.

Connie Carnegie (front left) and May Grimes (front right) with Matthew and Laura Symes behind Bill Harvey’s home and looking towards Moggill Road, circa 1990.

A rainy day on the construction site of the new School Road bridge as viewed from the Williams driveway at 340 Payne Road. Circa 1995/6.

This home was the “Sheffield Family” home on right-hand bottom side of School Road just down from Waterworks Road. At the rear was a sawmill used in cutting local timber. Photograph – courtesy of the late Ruth Proctor who rented the home.

The old R.S.L. premises at Settlement Road Bridge, The Gap in the foreground with the new brick premises visible at the rear. Photographed in March 1980.

Tom Cummins smoking a pipe with two lads, possibly his brothers. The son in law of Christian and Margaret Nielsen, Tom married Emily Nielsen.

View of the TV towers on Mt Cootha and from the home of Mervyn Kay at 181 Paynes Road, The Gap, circa 1960s.

Woolworths at Walton Bridge Shopping Centre, The Gap, circa 1977.

Barry Park Shopping Centre, referred to by the locals as “Barry’s”, at Walton Bridge, The Gap, circa 1977.

Wilson’s Farm (and pony), Moggill Road, The Gap. 1988.