| Redcliffe Remembers: The War Years 1939 - 1949 | |
This web site is a companion to the book, “Redcliffe Remembers: the War Years 1939 – 1949” published November 2004. Through this site we hope to present the unique social and cultural history of Redcliffe during the decade 1939-1949 covering the War Years and the first few years after the war.
Redcliffe is located just north of Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland. Situated on a peninsula, it covers an area of 37 square kilometres, or 14.285 square miles. The population in 1939 was about 2,500. By 1949 that population had nearly doubled to over 4,500. Redcliffe in 1939 was a charming, seaside town, predominantly a farming community, with the Hornibrook Highway providing relatively easy access to Brisbane. By the middle of the 1940s it had become a rest and recreation area for both American and Australian troops, and then eventually, after the end of World War II, and towards the end of the decade, Redcliffe became a bustling little town ready and raring to go into the fifties.
Personal narratives form the basis of this site. Heartfelt accounts make us laugh, cry and remember. The stories are not a formal history of Redcliffe, or of WWII, but are a treasure trove of individual feelings and personal recollections.
This web site has been funded by a Queensland Stories Grant from State Library of Queensland, Redcliffe City Council, Redcliffe Historical Society, Bluegum Media. Primary source material is in the form of transcripts, audio, video, photographs, objects and facsimiles of letters.
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