Atherton Antiques & Australiana

Fran and Nick are a mother and son team who established Atherton Antiques and Australiana in 1993.
This shop is a 2 storey Art Deco building that was contstructed by local business man Bert Francis in 1948. Bert ran a general goods shop supplying groceries and fuel and a small transport and earthmoving business.
The building is located on Tolga Road which becomes the Kennedy Hwy, the link to Mareeba and beyond to the Cape York Peninsula, Land of crocodiles, Barramundi and the toughest breed of cattlemen and women.
The family roots for Pamela and Nick run deep in the local area, Pamela's maternal GrandFather Jim Salmond moved from Lismore Northern New South Wales to the Atherton area in about 1910, establishing a dairy farm and cutting and hauling hardwood timbers out of the wild virgin forrests.
Her paternal Grandfather Cornelius Leahy was from Limerick in Ireland. He immigrated to Australia and then to Herberton in the early 1900's, buying the Tin minning lease "The Deep Lead", and supplementing his income by breeding "Walers", a type of Australian mixed breed horse famous for their endurance and made legendary by the Australian Light Horse Brigades in the boar War and WW1.
Atherton Antiques was established with a strong understanding of history and people. Please come and visit us soon and expearience some of the stories and character of the Atherton Tableland region.