This page on sunshinecoastplaces was set up in 2013 as our website was hacked
 see us on facebook
On the 4th Oct Trevor & Roger met with Damien & Wayne from Council to discuss
the glass in the lantern of the Signal Station. Leaks in the glazing
are allowing water penetration into the concrete structure.
This Thursday 19th Sept we had a group of Caloundra State School Grade 2 students at the lighthouses as part of their local history course.
Saturday 2nd August. The USS George Washington sails past with a tender. Photos by Trevor with his long lens. The people waiting on the hill got a surprise tour of the Signal Station. We saw the USS Bonhomme Richard last month. So far this year we have numbers 6, 73 & 54. "Collect them all" you can understand the size difference by comparing views of Moreton Island.
Thanks to all the visitors from the Caloundra State High School's Golden Anniversity. Photo shows the school badge published in Anne Wensleys and John & Janice Grove's book "Caloundra State High School - The Early Years 1963-1970" school badge 13th July view of the Glass House Mountains from the Signal Station, taken the day the Keep Australia Beautiful awards were held in Caloundra (Caloundra was Australian winner in 2012) Delegates from around Australia visited the lighthouses. Talk about "on a clear day" June 2013 Jenny dropped in some copies of paintings from
1944 by Harriet Hills McKay. Douglass and Harriet with daughter Mary
were Americans who had been allocated refugee housing in Caloundra by
the Red Cross after escaping the Japanese occupation in
the Philippines.
Information with the paintings includes their wartime
story and a copy of ten year old Mary’s enrollment at Caloundra State
School. They had been separated from their son Bob who remained in the
Philippines until the end of the war.Kings Beach Surf Lifesaving clubhouse 1944
May 2013 John Bradley dropped in with a book he had written for his grandchildren loosly based on the story of the lighthouses.
We suggested he apply for a RADF grant to take it to the next stage. Sample pages attached
March 2013. The Friends purchased the 250mm
4th Order optic lens in 2001 for $250. It is the type fitted in the old
Caloundra light in 1896. In the early 1940s the original fixed lens
was replaced by a revolving lens with an electric lamp. Pictured are
Barrie & Donnalea working on the lens. Barrie describes it as working on a three dimensional
glass jigsaw.
2012 Golden Beach State School art competition 1st prize by Eva, & Once were Heroes by Robyn Shaw The Lighthouses between 1968 & 1970 photo
by A Fulton Regional Lighthouse Engineer from Colin Gladstone July 1999
Objects
- To act as a consultative body to Sunshine Coast Regional Council in the care of the Caloundra lighthouse precinct
-
To assist in conservation of the place and associated movable heritage based on best practice guidelines.
-
To encourage and facilitate use for educational and cultural tourism purposes.
-
To provide guidance and support for appropriate future development of the precinct.
-
To
collect, collate and make available to the public objects and
information important for the interpretation of the lighthouses.
-
To promote and support conservation of places of cultural heritage significance within the wider community.
Current Activity
- State Government has given Sunshine Coast Council
a ten year licence for the site occupied by the 1896 Lighthouse; the
1968 Signal Station & light; and the Auxiliaries Building
- In August 2012, we signed a three year licence for the buildings, but we need
to pay an annual rental, plus all other costs associated
including insurance, maintenance, elect, sewerage, water, garbage, fire
service levies, tax etc.
- After prepared the buildings for guided public visitation, gaining a Certificate of Classification, and revising our operational procedures, we are now officially open to the public.
- The Friends open the buildings on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month, and for booked tours.
-
We seeking interest through business and community links for sponsorship, and feel that we can offer unique promotional exposure
- As
part of our sixth object, starting with a grant from
Council, wear doing some research and promotion into places associated with
the post WW2 boom in Caloundra. see www sunshinecoastplaces.com.au
|
|
|
