Here in History

The Gladstone Meatworks Company built an eighty-metre-long jetty with wooden piles, and this was linked to the meatworks by a...

WOODSTOCK – The depot paddock for Swifts Meatworks   The original Woodstock Station on the southern outskirts of Gladstone had...

A small settlement that became known as Parson’s Point sprang up around the meatworks and, by 1920, Barney Point had...

The Meatworks   The opening of the Lakes Creek Meatworks in Rockhampton in 1871 established a market for cattle in...

Bags of Sorghum on the Auckland Point Wharf   In the 1960s the Central Highland region became a sorghum growing...