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The Lota community came together through 1926 to help construct this hall. It opened in March 1927 and soon became a social hub of the small suburb, hosting such activities as weddings, a library, church services, community meetings, movie nights and dances (the timber dancing floor was made of crow’s ash). The Boomerang Youth Club also used the club for a few years from 1952. The hall Trustees donated the building and 40 perches of land to the Police Citizen Youth Club in 1966, and in 1973 it was demolished and replaced with a modern building for the PCYC, which still stands today.
Citations
The Telegraph, 8 March 1927; Lota State School, ‘History’ (https://lotass.eq.edu.au/Ourschool/History/Pages/History.aspx), sighted 26 July 2017.
Image Citations
Stump capping ceremony, Lota School of Arts, 1926. Lota State School (http://resources.lotass.eq.edu.au/lotahistory/index.htm).
Map References
Qimagery. Brisbane 1936. Scale: 1:11,000.