This post is the last for 2017, and haven’t we had a feast of information throughout the year! It also announces our last meeting for 2017 and I do hope that you have found that the variety of speakers and topics has inspired you to learn more about this historic peninsula which is a marvellous
Time to plan for 2018… Read More »
Some years ago, the Kangaroo Point Neighbourhood Watch group produced a Heritage Walk booklet detailing a trail around Kangaroo Point visiting the many existing heritage locations. The booklet is available for a gold-coin donation. Try the Medley Café, next to Yungaba on the east side of Kangaroo Point (incidentally a great place for coffee or
Memories of old Kangaroo Point Read More »
During the late 1880s and early 1900s, New Farm, and especially the area around Moray Street, was the place to be—a sort of semi-rural retreat for politicians, lawyers, wealthy merchants, and property speculators. Of the many fine residences that once graced leafy Moray Street in those days, only a handful have survived including the recently
A snapshot of Vera on Moray Street Read More »
18th November 2017 | 10am-12noon 1864 was such a terrible year for Brisbane. If you could ask a Brisbane oldtimer about 1864, he would tell you that it was a dreadful year: “The town endured a cyclone and flood, then an outbreak of typhoid, not forgetting three major fires that destroyed most of Queen Street.”
November Meeting – Year of Disaster: Brisbane 1864 – date change to 18th Nov Read More »
28th October 2017 This year, the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital celebrates 150 years of nursing and midwifery, so the timing is perfect for Dr Cliff Pollard to recount some of the highlights of this venerable institution. The first public hospital in Brisbane was established on 12 January 1849 near the site of the recently-demolished
October meeting – The Brisbane Hospital (RBWH): 150 years at Herston Read More »
by Ross Garnett Many thanks to those who attended the Annual General Meeting in August. I have listed below the new committee for the 2017-2018 year. Special thanks to Barry Martin as he retires from the committee. Barry has meticulously kept the membership list up to date for several years— however, you will be pleased
Presidents Report – Your office holders for another year Read More »
RAVENSWOOD, Casa del Rio and Casa del Mar were conceived in 1930 as part of a group of four apartment buildings, or “flats”, around a common courtyard, with a tennis court, gardens and a garage, to be built in the thirties. Today a tennis court has been reinstalled, but is now owned by the more
Brisbane’s first local government power station was an early project of the Jolly Council (the first Council of Greater Brisbane) built on land that had been purchased by Brisbane Council in 1915 for a park – the site of the former first racecourse of Brisbane. The new Greater Brisbane Council resumed part of New Farm
Brisbane Powerhouse Read More »
This article draws on the excellent history by Michael Moy, Story Bridge: Idea to Icon, as well as articles and information. This fine structure is an icon for many New Farm residents as well as Brisbane and Queensland people. In 1926 the new Brisbane City Council recommended the building of a bridge linking Kangaroo Point
27 August 2008 IN 1935 Jack lost his father, who passed away in the General Hospital from peritonitis. He was survived by his wife Ruth and two children, a girl named Joyce and a son two years younger, Jack. (Jack was born in the Craigneish Private Hospital on Moray Street. It was owned and operated
A Conversation with Jack and Judith Read More »
