We moved here in the afternoon of April 19th, Jo the home owner asked us to come a bit earlier to go through all the ins and outs. With all the business end finished it was time for Jo to leave she and 3 workmates were flying out the same night at midnight on route to Kathmandu via Singapore, the final destination around the end of April is a trek into Everest Base Camp - I am so jealous it is something I have always wanted to do and was on my bucket list until Brian said no it is way too dangerous. So here we are up in the hills above Beerwah and close to the Glasshouse Mountains.
A Bit About Peachester
A year after the town survey a public hall was built, and in 1892
the Peachester school started in the hall. There was ample unfelled
timber to supply Grigor's sawmill (1899) and a case factory for fruit
growers in the 1920s and the post World War II years. Dairying,
however, was the main farm industry, and three-quarters of the 50 or
more farms listed in the post office directory in 1949 were dairy.
Most of the others were fruit growers.Between the 1930s and 1950s Peachester was well-known as the home of Inigo Jones, long-range weather forecaster. Jones' family settled just north of Peachester in 1892, at Crohamhurst, and Jones opened his weather observatory in 1935. He worked there until his death in 1954.During the 1970s dairy farms were sold up and in many cases turned over to rural/residential living. Peachester has a general store, a Uniting Church (the Church of England was lost in a cyclone in 1963), two recreation reserves, the public hall and the primary school. Its cemetery is north of the Stanley River, in Crohamhurst.
Below Photo Is The Local Shop And Servo
