Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

The Treasury Building, Brisbane, 1949

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

The Treasury Building was erected in three stages between 1886 and 1928.

The site at the junction of the George and Queen Street axes had been reserved for government purposes from 1825, and was associated with the Treasury from the 1860s. It was occupied initially by convict-built officers’ quarters and military barracks. In 1864 the military moved from the site and the existing buildings were occupied by the Registrar-General, Treasury and Engineer of Harbours. In 1874 a single-storeyed building for the Registrar-General was erected on the corner of George and Queen Streets, anticipating a government re-development of what had become known as Treasury Square.

In 1883 the colonial government decided to construct new public offices on Treasury Square. A design competition, for a two-storeyed perimeter block to occupy the entire square, was won by Melbourne architects Grainger and D’Ebro, but their design was

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Yungaba Immigration Centre, Kangaroo Point, 1948

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

“Yungaba” is a two-storey brick institutional building designed as an immigrant depot in 1885 by John James Clark, colonial architect for Queensland. Following his dismissal shortly after, the plan was developed by Edward Henry Alder and Robert Henry Mills. Constructed by William Peter Clark, the building is described as being of Italianate/Queensland/ Institutional style.

Following the subdivision of Kangaroo Point in 1843-44, lots 21 and 22 were purchased by Judah and Isaac Solomon and Thomas Adams. Some time later John “Tinker” Campbell, a neighbouring land-owner, purchased a share in both lots and transferred his boiling-down works to that location to gain the benefit of the small stream which crossed the properties. Following a series of financial transactions, the land was eventually purchased by Robert Douglas in 1853 for £400. Douglas constructed a house on lot 21 which he named “The Willows”. Douglas

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Diamantina Receiving Depot, Wooloowin. State Children's Home, 1948

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The Diamantina Orphanage was established at Roma Street, Brisbane in 1865 and the Queensland Government assumed control in 1879. It moved to South Brisbane in 1883 and to the Sandgate in 1893. In 1910 it was renamed the Diamantina Receiving Depot and Infants’ Home and moved to Wooloowin, and was also known as the Wooloowin State Childrens’ Home.

In was further renamed the Diamantina Receiving Home in 1962, the Warilda Children’s Home and Warilda Infants’ Home in 1964 and the Warilda Receiving and Assessment Centre in 1967. It closed in 1989.

Queensland State Archives Item ID2111826, Photographic material

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Wharves and shipping, Gladstone, 1927

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The Telegraph
22 August 1927

Improving Harbours – Gladstone and Townsville

Mr George Carger, M.L.A., accompanied by Mr L.S. Crow (Chairman of the Gladstone Harbour Board), interviewed the Acting Treasurer (Mr. J. Mullan), and asked that permission be granted to the Gladstone Harbour Board to borrow £4,000 to reclaim certain land for harbour purposes, in which connection it was explained that the board proposed to lease the land at a rental sufficient to cover the interest and redemption payments on the loan.

A request was also made that a loan of approximately £4,000 be granted to defray the cost of an extension of about 200 feet to the existing wharf, outside the railway approach.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 120

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