News and other stories about real people, places, and events in Fortitude Valley and nearby suburbs.
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The new Longreach base hospital was approved in 1935 and expected to cost £12,500. Construction did not commence until 1939 and due to the outbreak of WW2 and the shortage of materials was not completed until February 1944. The eventual cost was £70,000.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435659, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Aramac State School was founded in 1878. This building dates from 1933.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435659, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
In the background in the historic Albion Mill, demolished in 2013 after a fire. As of July 2017 the two shops on the right are still there.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435660, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The temporary railway station was used while the track was being lowered to eliminate the 1 in 50 gradient from Eagle Junction and the Sandgate Road level crossing.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435661, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The 1250 class locomotives were built by the English Electric Company of Australia at Rocklea, Brisbane for the Queensland Railways between 1959 and 1963.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436293, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Queensland International Exhibition, held from 22 March to 28 July 1897, showcased Queensland’s agricultural and mineral wealth to the public. This included a a cake of retorted gold from Gympie weighing 2,679 oz.
Some of the exhibits later went to the the Greater Britain Exhibition in London in 1899 and the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1901.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 23688
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Wynnum State School, later Wynnum Central State School, was established in 1896. Major extensions to the building were completed in 1919 and 1953.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435713, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
On the wall is a calendar from Simpson Halligan & Co, a Brisbane printing company which often did work for the Lands Department.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435714, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Survey Office was responsible for the surveying, mapping and management of Crown lands.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435714, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Stirling Henry Limited was originally a Sydney importing warehouse. It branched out into textile manufacturing in the 1920s. A new factory was opened in Whinstanes in 1948.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435714, Photographic material