The Hamilton Reach of the Brisbane River, taken from a photo by Lomer.Self-explanatory, but after seeing it, I have spire envy. And verandah envy. And fence envy. And gate envy.Crowds in a holiday mood at Hamilton, 1906.Toorak House, Hamilton. (Queensland Heritage Register).Woolahra, Hamilton. (Queensland Heritage Register).Mrs MacFarlane’s Refreshment Kiosk, 1906.Hamilton and Brisbane River in flood, 1893.
Houses and the riverbank, Hamilton.
Herston’s beginnings.
Clydesdale, Clyde Road, Herston (from an image in the Queensland State Library).Early colonial style house in Herston c 1890.Coralyn Residence in Clyde Road, Herston (Clyde Road was clearly the place to be in Old Brisbane).View of Herston from Bowen Bridge 1875.
Highgate Hill then and now.
Corner of Brighton road and Sussex Streets, Highgate Hill, 1890. From image in the State Library of Queensland.Home of Mrs Stephen Blakeney, Highgate Hill 1881.Panorama of Highgate Hill, 1902.Kinaud at Highgate Hill (Queensland Heritage Register).
Hotels in old Brisbane.
Adapted from image of Bellevue Hotel in the State Library of Queensland.The Queensland Club Hotel in 1884.Hotel National, Brisbane, 1890.Morse’s Excelsior Family Hotel, 1889.Longreach Hotel, 1890.
The Brisbane Hospital.
The first Brisbane Hospital, c 1865. (QUT Digital Collection).The Brisbane Hospital at Herston, 1885.1885 view of Brisbane including Lady Bowen Hospital (from an image in the State Library of Queensland).The Hospital from the Acclimatisation Gardens, 1875.
All images, unless otherwise credited, are from the State Library of Queensland.
I 💜💜💜 this post. I grew up in Kelvin Grove but adjacent to Herston where I went to school at the little Catholic school which is no longer there. The nuns lived in Clydesdale at the time. Clyde Rd was the boundary between KG and Herston. Always saw the hospital on our bus run and later worked there for a few years.
Hi Cass, I spent my early childhood in a little house in Herston – across a deep gully from the back of the hospital. I remember seeing tadpoles in a little stream at the bottom of the gully. I went to Kelvin Grove High, although by then my family had moved to Ashgrove. Thank you for liking my post!
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I 💜💜💜 this post. I grew up in Kelvin Grove but adjacent to Herston where I went to school at the little Catholic school which is no longer there. The nuns lived in Clydesdale at the time. Clyde Rd was the boundary between KG and Herston. Always saw the hospital on our bus run and later worked there for a few years.
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Hi Cass, I spent my early childhood in a little house in Herston – across a deep gully from the back of the hospital. I remember seeing tadpoles in a little stream at the bottom of the gully. I went to Kelvin Grove High, although by then my family had moved to Ashgrove. Thank you for liking my post!
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