Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Woolworths, Sundale Shopping Centre, Southport, 18 July 1969

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Sundale Shopping Centre opened in 1968 and featured many stored plus a booth for local radio station 4GG. After many tenants moved out in the 1980s, the centre closed in 1990. It was demolished in 2003 to make way for high-rise apartments.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 818

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Prisoners' Barrack buildings, Moreton Bay, July 1839

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Elevations and plans of Prisoners’ Barrack buildings, showing alterations and additions required for the converting the barracks into a permanent Military Barracks, Officers’ quarters and hospital, etc, Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, July 1839.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 5250

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HM Prison Boggo Road, August 1965

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

Boggo Road Gaol No 2 Division was opened in 1903 as the State Prison for Women at Boggo Road South Brisbane.

It was built adjacent to a male prison, which was established on the site in 1883. The male prison was later to become No 1 Division. The female prison was constructed in response to a 1887 Parliamentary Inquiry, which recommended that the “separate system” be introduced, that is a separate cell for each prisoner. The Inquiry also recommended that a female section be established within the Brisbane Gaol. Although in a diluted form, the design was based on ideas of prison planning and reform that were current in England in the nineteenth century.

The State Prison for Women, with 80 cells was designed by the Department of Public Works, during an era when it was producing a large number of high quality

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