Brooks Family of Stanmore in 1941. (looks like it‘s been taken by a travelling photographer with the wonderful white background of the dairy). Seated are William (Bill) and Maria (May). Behind are Mavis (Schofield) 14, Ray 12, and Mervyn 16 – and there’s cute little me, about one (and now, at 80, the only survivor). While I have the attention of the young historians, I’d like to point out Dad’s contribution to the Woodford District. William Charles Brooks (1899-1970) came from Beenleigh to Woodford in the early 1920’s to work in Woodrow Road for the Herbst Family. Later he purchased a farm nearby. (In coming to Woodford, he was following in the footsteps of his Aunts Sophia and Susan who married early pioneers, John Charles Roberts and William Hart.) Dad was obviously a bunny, a sucker, the fool who always said yes. It was a case of, “Billy Brooks will do it!” Positions I recall his holding were Chairman of the Stanmore School and Hall Committees, Chairman or Secretary of the Woodford Show Society, the Progress Association, the Race Committee (yes, Woodford had a race course), Delegate to both the Queensland Dairymen’s Organisation (QDO) and the Committee of Direction of Fruit Market (COD). Organiser of the Near North Coast fruit exhibit at the RNA, member of the Woodford Butter Factory Committee and the Cemetery Trust. No doubt I have forgotten a few.
Bill (William) and May Brooks’ first home, Stanmore. Perhaps children are Mervyn and Mavis, others unknown c1920s 
Bill (William) and Mervyn Brooks. Possibly Woodford Show early 1940s 
Bill (William) Brooks with his bananas early 1920s 
Bill Brooks with some of his Stanmore bananas, Brisbane EKKA. 1950’s 
Bill Brooks, Merv and Ray in background Stanmore 1930s 
Brooks Family Ray (Raymond), Mervyn, Bill (William), May, Mavis and Kevin in front. 1944 
Brooks’ Model T loaded with bananas. 1930s 
Brooks’s home at Stanmore. Moved in about 1930. Dorothy Usher, May and Mavis Brooks on veranda. Bill and Jack Zornig on horses 
Kevin Brooks and Jack Schofield c1946 
Kevin Brooks c1944 
Kevin Brooks c1948 
Kevin Brooks, Stanmore farm c1945 
Kevin Brooks 
Mavis Schofield nee Brooks with Kathryn Schofield 1955 Mavis and Jacks Ford motor car. 
May and Will Brooks with Kathryn Schofield c1960 
May Brooks and Mervyn Brooks. Cove Road Stanmore c1925 
Mervyn (Adrian Brooks’ hairdressing salon Archer Street Woodford c1950 
Mervyn and Mavis Brooks on ‘Billy’ on way to school at Stanmore. 1930’s 
Mervyn Brooks beside the creek near original Stanmore home 1926 
Mervyn Brooks, Stanmore 
Mervyn, Mavis and Raymond Brooks. Tennis court Stanmore 1929 
Ray and Mavis Brooks, Nev and Rosemary Dixon. Brooks’ Farm c1935 
Robert and Russell Brooks (Mervyns boys) with Bill Brooks. 1950 
Brooks Family – Ray, Kevin, Mavis, May and Mervyn. 1970’s 
Tennis Court Woodrow Road Stanmore. Rupert Woodrow’s house in distance. Victor Woodrow oh RHS. Late 1930s 
Tom Usher, Sarah Usher (nee Russell), Bill Russell. Stanmore. Late 40’s May Brooks’ parents and Uncle. 
View from Ray and Joan Brooks’ farm Stanmore c1950s 
Will, Kevin and Ray Brooks