We are trying to get information and foto’s on the Zuiderzee (or Zuider Zee) Restaurant that was situated on Ferny Ave in Surfers Paradise. Unconfirmed information indicates it was established in the 1950 possibly by the van Egmond Family.
After it stopped operating as a restaurant it became the clubhouse of Gold Coast United FC.
The following information comes from the Gold Coast Nostalgie Facebook site.
In 1950, a group of approximately 100 Dutch workers travelled from the Netherlands to Australia under two-year contracts to undertake dredging and maritime construction work in and around Port Phillip Bay. Many came from Sliedrecht, Read more
Johanna Maria van Bommel was born in January 1927 in Sabang, a small island NW of Sumatra, Indonesia. She is now 95 years old, widowed and living in a low-care unit of the Prins Willem Read more
Antonius (Tony) Sanders met and married his wife Elizabeth (Liz) van Steijn in Indonesia after the end of World War II. Their migration journey took them from the Netherlands to Indonesia, Dutch New Guinea, back Read more