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Aerial view of Surfers Paradise, March 1973

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Gold Coast Bulletin
25 April 1973

$32m SCHEME FOR HEART OF SURFERS

company applied to the Gold Coast City Council for permission to go ahead with a $32 million redevelopment plan for the heart of Surfers Paradise.

The project featured a giant complex featuring a circular 33-storey tower block as the centrepiece of an international hotel.

Other features included a major convention centre, department store, supermarket, specialty stores, bus terminal, cinema, offices, a new surf club, sports facilities and landscaped public areas.

It also provided for developing part of Cavill Ave as a pedestrian mall.

The redevelopment project was to involve the entire block between the Gold Coast Highway, Cavill Ave and Hanlan St.

Hanover Holdings Ltd had an option to buy the block from the Chevron Hotel Group.

Under the plan the Surfers Paradise Hotel and other buildings would be bulldozed to make way for the hotel.

A dominant feature was to be the

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Scene in Hinchinbrook Channel, North Queensland, c 1927

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The Week
3 June 1927

TOURIST TRAFFIC. RECORD SEASON. PROMISED.

The tourist traffic In Queensland for this winter gives promise of breaking all records. Officers of the Intelligence and Tourist Bureau report that the traffic to date has exceeded expectations, and visitors are coming from West Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand In large numbers.

The winter attractions of Queensland, particularly the north, orb being more and more recognised. The glories of the Cairns hinterland, of the Barron Falls and the many other, beauty spots are gradually being advertised, not so much by the Tourist Bureau, but by tho tourists who have seen for themselves.

The passenger steamers from Melbourne to Cairns are running with full complements. The congestion will be relieved .when the four steamers Oxley, Olindu, Kariowna, and Canberra begin a weekly service on June 29.

The coming establishment of a regular steamer service between Townsvllle and Cairns

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Boonah – Fassifern, c 1896

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Queensland Times
29 October 1896

BOONAH PHOTOGRAPHERS.

Messrs. J. H. Cannon and Son announce in our business columns today that they have taken up their residence in Boonah as photographers, and will also work the country districts from that centre. They have been in the locality now for some weeks, and have met with encouraging success. Photography and enlargements are main features of their business, but they likewise do groups, farm-sketches, horses, &c. They have also on view some very pretty photographic memorial cards.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 1035

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Aerial view of Urangan Pier, Hervey Bay, 1973

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Urangan Pier was built between 1913 and 1917. It was originally 1107 metres long. The last ship docked in January 1985 and the pier was closed. Later that year it was transferred from the Department of Harbour and Marine to Hervey Bay City Council. It is now listed on the Fraser Coast Regional Council Local Heritage Register.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 1054

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Train on Indooroopilly Railway Bridge, Brisbane, 1 October 1896

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

Albert Bridge, which is a ‘hogsback’ steel truss bridge on masonry piers, was constructed in 1894-95. It is the second Albert Bridge on the site, replacing an earlier 1876 structure which was washed away in the floods of 1893. Both bridges were named in honour of the Prince of Wales, Prince Albert.

The second bridge was designed by Henry Charles Stanley, Queensland’s Chief Engineer of Railways from 1892 to 1901, and is considered his major work. In designing the bridge as two long spans with one central pier, Stanley sought to avoid the obstruction to flood waters posed by multiple piers, which had been the downfall of the previous Albert Bridge.

Innovations in the design included the attachment of cross girders, protection against derailment, provision against strong wind gusts, and provision for free expansion under varying temperatures. The working drawings and specification were

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