About Somerset Stories

Somerset is a large scenic region of lakes and landscapes an hour west of Brisbane City. Somerset is home to the First Nations peoples of Dungibara, Jinibara, Kabi Kabi and Yuggera Ugarapul people. Their songs and stories live on in the flora, fauna and natural beauty of the region.

Somerset Stories is a digital archive of photos, memorabilia, stories, documents, maps, and interviews that bring the community’s history to life. It captures key moments, evolving streetscapes and landscapes, major projects like Somerset Dam, local celebrations, and much more.

Somerset Stories includes:

• historical photographs
• postcards and ephemera
• reports
• digitised maps
• objects 
• oral histories (personal histories)
• short stories  
• town guides
• research indexes 

Somerset Stories contains information about businesses, clubs, events, people and places throughout the region.  Directed at the general public, local history buffs and students, the content in Somerset Stories can be viewed, downloaded, saved or printed. 

You can help build Somerset Stories by:

• providing comments and suggested edits, 
• adding tags to images, 
• pinning the location of items on the Map,  
• adding your personal recollections and memories 
• providing photographs or documents for digitisation (your items are returned to you),
• uploading videos of interest to the community, and
• telling us about events and places in the region.

Donations 

Somerset Stories needs your contributions to grow its collection of past and current stories about those that have lived and worked in region. If you are interested in donating to Somerset Stories learn about how you can Contribute.  Somerset Libraries doesn’t retain physical items donated. Your donations will be captured digitally and returned to you. They will then be displayed on the Somerset Stories website.  Content displayed on Somerset Stories is protected under the Copyright Act 1968. For information read, Copyright .  

Removal 

Content contained on Somerset Stories is believed to be compliant with donor copyright permissions. Occasionally the content may need to be reviewed against the Copyright Act 1968, the Information Privacy Act 2009 (QLD) or might contain images or information that are culturally sensitive.  If you identify content that is of concern, you can request its removal.  

To request removal of content, email somersetstories@somerset.qld.gov.au with the following information: 

• Your contact details,
• URL/s to the content on Somerset Stories,
• the reason for your request e.g., privacy, copyright, defamation etc, and 
• if the issue is copyright related, proof that you are the copyright holder, or their authorised representative.