Glanville Park, Redcliffe (Qld.)

Glanville Park was named for the Glanville family and its long association with Redcliffe. Mr and Mrs Robert Glanville, their four sons - Maurice, Harold, William and Robert - and one daughter - Doris - arrived in Australia from England in approximately 1908 and settled in Proston district. In 1934 Maurice Norman Glanville settled in Redcliffe and went into business as a builder. In 1935 his brother Harold also came to Redcliffe and opened a butcher shop on Oxley Avenue at Margate in 1942. Harold was followed by William who settled in Baynes Street at Margate. Bill had shares in the Redcliffe Herald and worked as a journalist until his retirement writing a very popular weekly column on farming on the Peninsula. Robert, the fourth brother, settled in Redcliffe on his retirement from the Titles Office. Doris married Stanley Tumbridge - a teacher at Humpybong State School - and they lived in Dunbar Street for many years. -- Redcliffe : Looking at the landscape by Pat Gee acknowledging the work of Jack Stapleton and Pat Fields