Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

New Brisbane Produce Markets, Rocklea, August 1964

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Brisbane’s first Central Market began in 1868 in a Brisbane Municipal Council built shed on the corner of Charlotte and Eagle Streets. It closed in 1881 due to poor patronage.

In 1885, the Council opened the purpose-built Municipal Market in Roma Street, beside the railway station.

Due to increasing congestion, the State Government agreed to move the Central Market to Rocklea in 1964, were the Brisbane Markets are located today.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436307, Photographic material

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Premier Frank Nicklin opening the Brisbane Produce Markets, Rocklea, 24 August 1964

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Brisbane’s first Central Market began in 1868 in a Brisbane Municipal Council built shed on the corner of Charlotte and Eagle Streets. It closed in 1881 due to poor patronage.

In 1885, the Council opened the purpose-built Municipal Market in Roma Street, beside the railway station.

Due to increasing congestion, the State Government agreed to move the Central Market to Rocklea in 1964, and they were opened by Premier Frank Nicklin on 24 August.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436307, Photographic material

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Mango Trees, c 1930

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Mackay Daily Mercury
1 March 1930

WHAT IS A MANGO ?

Stories of Queenslanders visiting Sydney and Melbourne and causing profound astonishment amongst shop keepers by asking for mangoes or papaws, are not new (says a writer in the ‘Daily ‘Mail’), but this one from considerably nearer, Newcastle, is certainly no chestnut. A friend of mine, whose business necessitated a sojourn of several months in Newcastle, was grateful for a present of a case of choice mangoes from thoughtful relatives in Brisbane. His land lady was asked to try one, and, expressing delight at the flavor, a number of seeds were collected and sent to some friends of hers on an orchard outside the city for planting purposes. Having neither seen nor heard of the fruit, information was solicited from a seedsman in Newcastle. His reply was responsible for no little amusement and indignation to the patriotic Queenslander.

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Queensland Cement and Lime Company, Darra, April 1965

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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

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Rocklea Industrial Area, April 1965

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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

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