News and other stories about real people, places, and events in Fortitude Valley and nearby suburbs.
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The English Electric Company of Australia Pty Ltd established a factory in the Brisbane suburb of Rocklea in 1956 to build locomotives for Queensland and other states. It also built a large amount of electrical equipment for Queensland electricity generation. In 1970 it became the General Electric Company of Australia.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436305, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Golden Circle cannery was established at Northgate in 1947.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436305, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Lord Mayor of Brisbane Clem Jones hosted a civic reception for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh after the Royal Yacht Britannia docked at Newstead.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436305, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Coolangatta Airport opened in 1936 with three grass strips intended as an emergency landing ground between Brisbane and Sydney. Occasional passenger flights commenced in 1939.
Queensland Airlines and Butler Air Transport commenced regular services after WW2. Ansett-ANA started flying to Coolangatta in 1950 and Trans Australia Airlines in 1954. The runway and taxiways were paved in 1958 to allow the operation of larger aircraft and jet operations.
In 1988 it was transferred to the Federal Airports Corporation and in 1999 was renamed Gold Coast Airport.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436305, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Queensland Cement and Lime Company was established in 1914. From 1916 it obtained limestone from the Darling Downs. In the 1930s it built a wharf on the Brisbane River at Seventeen Mile Rocks, bringing coral from Moreton Bay by barge. The company became Queensland Cement Limited in 1988. In 1995 it was unable to renew its dredging licences and the factory closed in 1998.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436310, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Courier-Mail
8 April 1954
INDUSTRIAL SITES DEMAND. Southern firms set up offices and factories
A BIG demand for industrial sites in and around Brisbane has been made in recent weeks by large southern industries and manufacturing firms.
Sydney and Melbourne firms which formerly had only a representative in Brisbane are now setting up branch offices, storage rooms, and, in some cases, factories. Real estate agents reported yesterday that already several sales of
small sites had been made, while other firms had placed orders for suitable sites.
Mr. Alan White, of Ray White Pty Ltd, said yesterday: ‘This is one of the most; remarkable trends in real estate we have seen in Brisbane in recent years.’ Other agents said the demand was mostly for 24 perch or 32-perch sites in the city for branch offices and despatch and show rooms, and for larger blocks of land or buildings in the outer
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Looking towards the mouth of the Brisbane River. On the left is the old Brisbane Airport at Eagle Farm. On the right is Bulimba Barracks.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436310, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Queensland Occupational Safety Convention was held at Festival Hall, Brisbane on 8-9 April 1965.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436310, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Bank of New South Wales Building was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436310, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Looking from the north end towards Kangaroo Point.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436310, Photographic material