Queanbeyan & District - Land & People
Modern Masterpiece
Places of worship were and still are art works in themselves, created as edifices to deity as examples of the faith, creativity and unusual work ethic and patronage that achieved the final result.
In some of the oldest places of worship in the world, the workers and perhaps some unbelievers painted and carved and decorated [...]
Queanbeyan’s Terpischore Mayor?
Who will be the new Queanbeyan Mayor?
Anyone can have a go now that votary, Councillor and Mayor, Frank Pangallo has announced he will step down and move across the border into Canberra, ACT to further his political career
Who will have the numbers to take over and make over Queanbeyan City Council after 13 [...]
‘Clear Water‘ ‘Beautiful Woman’
The two most popular Aboriginal meanings 1 for our town Queanbeyan are ‘clear water’ and ‘beautiful woman’ 2 but the pronunciation of Queanbeyan using the recorded phonic spelling made by white people during the early contact period, make the Aboriginal pronunciation less clear.
Cu-Um-bean is the phonetic spelling used by Stewart Mowle for [...]
Mayoral family
With three Mayors in the family it is easy to understand why the ‘Land’ family are known locally as Queanbeyan’s Mayoral Family. 1
Edwin Land senior was born in 1827 at Devonshire, England and was 15 years of age when he arrived in Sydney Cove in 1842. 2
Over the following 80 years the name Edwin [...]