Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Pavilion and bathers, Redcliffe, December 1937

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Redcliffe holds the distinction of being the first European settlement in Queensland, first visited by Matthew Flinders on 17 July 1799. He penned the name Red Cliffe Point after the red coloured cliffs visible from the bay now called Woody Point. Explorer John Oxley recommended “Red Cliff Point” to the Governor Thomas Brisbane for the new colony, reporting that ships could land at any tide and easily get close to the shore.The party settled in Redcliffe on 13 September 1824, under the command of Lieutenant Henry Miller with 14 soldiers, some with wives and children, and 29 convicts. However, this settlement was abandoned after one year and the colony was moved south to a site on the Brisbane River at North Quay, 28 km (17 mi) south, that offered a more reliable water supply. Before European arrival the indigenous Ningy Ningy people lived in this

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Play Shed at State School, Goondiwindi, 17 July 1909

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Play Shed at State School, Goondiwindi, Elevation, Section and Plans, 17 July 1909.

Goondiwindi East Provisional School officially opened on 4 July 1898 with admissions starting on the next day. It became a State School in 1909 and closed in 1947.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 4186

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Brisbane Street, Ipswich, April 1965

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The two prominent buildings are the Ipswich Post Office (built 1900) and Old Town Hall (built 1861). The Town Hall had its clock installed in 1879. From 1901 until 1912, Ipswich had two clocks side by side in these two buildings, although they were generally showing different times! The Post Office clock was illuminated in 1912 and the Town Hall clock was sold to Sandgate Town Council and was installed in Sandgate Town Hall in 1923.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436310, Photographic material

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Tennyson Power Station, April 1965

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The land for Tennyson Power Station was acquired in 1947 and construction began in 1949. It opened in 1953 and closed in 1986, partly due to asbestos in the buildings. It is now the site of the Queensland Tennis Centre and Tennyson Reach apartment complex.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436310, Photographic material

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Court House, Gladstone, May 1987

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

Gladstone Court House (former), a two-storeyed masonry building, was erected in 1940-42. The building was designed in the office of the Queensland Department of Public Works, and replaced an 1873-74 court house and lands office. The 1940s building was at least the third purpose-designed court house in Gladstone.

Gladstone was established by the New South Wales government in 1853-54, possibly in an attempt to create a more centralised alternative to Brisbane as the capital of any future northern colony. When Captain Maurice O’Connell, first Government Resident and Police Magistrate of the Port Curtis district, arrived in March 1854, the township of Gladstone had been laid out near Auckland Inlet, and the first slab buildings had been erected. O’Connell and his family set up residence [initially in tents] at Barney Point, a couple of miles south of Auckland Inlet, and around the residency

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