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| Despite TLM-P's problems with Bromelton, Helen Gregory found that, during 1852-54, he spent just over £1,364 on land in and around Brisbane. That sum was around $92,619 in 2017 values. {{:p81_gregory_table.jpg?400|}}((Helen Gregory, 'Squatters, selectors and - dare I say it - speculators', //Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland//, XI:4, 1983, p.81.)) \\ | Despite TLM-P's problems with Bromelton, Helen Gregory found that, during 1852-54, he spent just over £1,364 on land in and around Brisbane. That sum was around $92,619 in 2017 values. {{:p81_gregory_table.jpg?400|}}((Helen Gregory, 'Squatters, selectors and - dare I say it - speculators', //Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland//, XI:4, 1983, p.81.)) \\ |
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| The last selection at Toocoohah became known as Prior's Pocket. Helen Gregory outlines how TLM-P had a house 'across the river at Woogaroo' and used the peninsula Prior's Pocket to fatten his 'imported herd of short-horned Durham cattle'.((Helen Gregory, 'Squatters, selectors and - dare I say it - speculators', //Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland//, XI:4, 1983, p.81.)) \\ | The last selection at Toocoohah (Moggill) became known as Prior's Pocket. Helen Gregory outlines how TLM-P had a house 'across the river at Woogaroo' (later called Goodna, now an outer eastern suburb of Ipswich) and used the peninsula Prior's Pocket to fatten his 'imported herd of short-horned Durham cattle'.((Helen Gregory, 'Squatters, selectors and - dare I say it - speculators', //Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland//, XI:4, 1983, p.81.)) \\ |
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| ==== Hawkwood and massacres ==== | ==== Hawkwood and massacres ==== |