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30 August, 2025
Residents invited to share stories and help bring Somerset’s history to life
SOMERSET historians have a new invaluable learning tool and the opportunity to help piece together the region’s rich history.
Somerset Regional Council has introduced Somerset Stories, a new online platform hosting a collection of historical images, documents, maps and audiovisual items.
Arts, Culture and Heritage Advisory Committee member, Deputy Mayor Helen Brieschke, said the collection brought Somerset’s history to life.
“It captures moments in time, celebrations, the changing streetscapes and landscapes, large projects like the construction of Somerset Dam and more,” Cr Brieschke said.
“Somerset Stories will continue to grow too, with your help.
“Residents can rebuild our history by donating historical photographs, postcards, reports, digitised maps, objects, oral histories, short stories, town guides and more.”
Cr Brieschke said the community can help fill in the chapters of Somerset’s past.
“We have photos without names, videos without dates, stories without pictures.”
If you want to share a piece of history or dig through the Somerset Stories collection, visit somerset.recollect.net.au.
Somerset Libraries will host a series of Tech Savvy sessions in September to teach residents how to use the program.
Sessions will be held on the following dates:
· 10am-11.30am Friday, 5 September – Toogoolawah Library
· 10.30am-12pm Monday, 8 September – Kilcoy Library
· 10.30am-12pm Monday, 8 September – Lowood Library
· 10.30am-12pm Wednesday, 10 September – Esk Library
Bookings essential. Call 5424 4000 or mail@somerset.qld.gov.au or register through the Somerset On The Go app.
