Mural honours Lanhams’ 110 year history

A mural of the old Nambour saw mill has been created for the Nambour heritage trail by street artist Ross Holloway, centre, pictured with, from left, Racheal Pascoe from Street Art Nambour, building owners David and Janet Heath and Paul Lanham.  

A mural of the old Nambour saw mill has been created for the Nambour heritage trail by street artist Ross Holloway. 

The artwork is a welcome feature facing  the train station car park in Price Street behind the Bridgestone building.

The Street Art Nambour mural is an historic nod to Nambour pioneer Walter Lanham who established the mill to select, cut and mill his own timber for building many of the historic buildings and homes in Nambour and the surrounding region. 

Some of them are still standing today. Walter died in 1940 at age 83. 

The mill was continued for a time by Walter’s sons Arthur and Ted.

Nambour is where the company’s 110-year history began and the Lanham family association remains strong to this day. 

The Price Street sawmill evolved into a hardware store which later moved to Court Road and became Sunshine Mitre 10.

Recently the Lanhams opened a flagship Sunshine Mitre 10 store at 980 Nambour Connection Road   employing 40 staff, dwarfing the Court Road footprint and offering a large variety of products to retail and trade customers.

But it all started at the Price Street mill, powered by a large steam boiler with the water pumped from a nearby well. 

Having passed along Currie Street, the bullock teams used to deliver logs via the railway underpass.