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Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen opening the Captain Cook Bridge, Brisbane 13 December 1972
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Construction of the Captain Cook Bridge commenced in 1968 and was completed in 1972. The main span of 183 metres was the precast prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge for 3 months until it was overtaken by the Harada Bridge in Japan.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436346, Photographic material
First public traffic on the Captain Cook Bridge, Brisbane, 13 December 1972
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Construction of the Captain Cook Bridge commenced in 1968 and was completed in 1972. The main span of 183 metres was the precast prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge for 3 months until it was overtaken by the Harada Bridge in Japan.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436346, Photographic material
Governor Sir Alan Mansfield, Brisbane Airport, Eagle Farm, c 1971
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Sir Alan Mansfield was Lieutenant-Governor of Queensland on several occasions during his time as Chief Justice. He was appointed Governor in 1966 and retired in 1972. The suburb of Mansfield in south east Brisbane is named after him.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436342, Photographic material
Control room, Callide Power Station, c 1967
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Callide A power station opened in stages between June 1965 and May 1969 at a cost of $28.7 million.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436340, Photographic material
HM Prison Boggo Road, August 1965
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
From the Queensland Heritage Register.
Boggo Road Gaol No 2 Division was opened in 1903 as the State Prison for Women at Boggo Road South Brisbane.
It was built adjacent to a male prison, which was established on the site in 1883. The male prison was later to become No 1 Division. The female prison was constructed in response to a 1887 Parliamentary Inquiry, which recommended that the “separate system” be introduced, that is a separate cell for each prisoner. The Inquiry also recommended that a female section be established within the Brisbane Gaol. Although in a diluted form, the design was based on ideas of prison planning and reform that were current in England in the nineteenth century.
The State Prison for Women, with 80 cells was designed by the Department of Public Works, during an era when it was producing a large number of high quality
Longreach Pastoral College, c 1974
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Longreach Pastoral College opened in 1967 to deliver basic skills to young graziers. It was an all-male institution until it enrolled its first female students in 1980.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436338, Photographic material
Longreach Pastoral College, c 1974
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Longreach Pastoral College opened in 1967 to deliver basic skills to young graziers. It was an all-male institution until it enrolled its first female students in 1980.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436338, Photographic material