Summary

The Townsville real estate firm of Brownhill, Kirk and Company commenced operation some time prior to 1904 in an office in Denham Street, Townsville. The company was registered in 1904. It later occupied Bartlett's Building in Denham Street. The firm subsequently became Kingsberry, Brownhill Kirk Realty located in Holliman's Arcade, Flinders Street. These ledgers are the private land sales records of Mr Herbert Richard Howell who, over a sixty-year association with the firm, rose from the position of office boy to owner. Howell sold the company upon his retirement.

The ledgers cover sales of parcels of land in North Queensland conducted by Brownhill, Kirk Ltd., and include land sales in, for example, the Burdekin district, Charters Towers, Cloncurry, Innisfail, etc. as well as in Townsville. The records cover the period 1910-1946.