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c1930s -- Redrooffs cottages

The Redrooffs Resort cottages, accessed only by water for many years, had red roofs, perhaps to attract customers. The spelling is said to be a joke to simulate "Ye Olde England." Hubert Kitchin started his resort in the 1900s and built his store in 1915.

Photograph by Helen McCall

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c1926 -- The bridge over Roberts Creek with flume overhead. Water from the flume dripped on anyone walking over the bridge. The flume ran from Roy Fleming's shingle bolt camp (known as McNair's camp) about four miles up the mountain down to the mouth of Roberts Creek where the bolts were flumed into cribs. Roy Fleming was the operator during the 1920s.

Photographer unknown

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c1926 -- Roberts Creek store and wharf Bailey's Store situated at the mouth of Roberts Creek beside the wharf. Harry Robert's house (`Castle') with square shingled wooden turret is at the far right.

Photographer unknown

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1927 -- Roberts Creek School, Roberts Creek, Spring 1927,

Gladys Disney McNutt taught elementary children from neighbouring homes here. Later a private dwelling house was built around the old school situated at the corner of Highway 101, showing little traffic here, and Orange Road to the left.

Photograph by Gladys Disney McNutt, courtesy Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives.

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1931 -- Elphinstone Bay School and pupils

Elphinstone Bay Elementary School stood on the corner of Lockyer and Hanbury Roads. Lockyer was originally known as Elphinstone Bay Road. The school was destroyed by fire but its oval-shaped name plate survived and is in the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives in Gibsons.

Photograph by Helen McCall