GLASS HOUSE MOUNTAINS Wheelwright, Steve Ralph, turned back time last month when he secretly plotted to transport his new bride Maxine to their wedding reception in his Cobb & Co Coach.
Steve successfully hid his restored Coach in the lower paddock of his ‘Australian Teamsters Hall of Fame’ property without Maxine’s knowledge and out of view of their guests arriving at the Reception.
At the appointed time Maxine was brought down to where the Coach was hidden and the newly married couple were transported to the reception venue in the magnificent white Cobb & Co Coach pulled by five horses (three greys and two bays).
The Coach briefly entered Old Gympie Road before turning into the ‘Hall of Fame’ driveway.
Maxine was overjoyed at the experience and wedding guests surprised and enthralled.
From 1868 Cobb & Co Coaches regularly travelled the Old Gympie Road conveying passengers between Brisbane and Gympie.
The heritage-listed Bankfoot House was a midday meal stop for drivers and passengers while the Cobb & Co groom changed five horses, agisted in what is now Steve’s property.
