Ascot through the years. Ascot and Ashgrove are now inner Brisbane suburbs, being 6 and 5 kilometres from the Central Business District respectively. The history of Ascot is intertwined with the name Eagle Farm, although Eagle Farm is today a separate suburb. In the 1830s, the Female Factory was located at Eagle Farm, and theContinue reading “A-Z of Old Brisbane: Ascot and Ashgrove.”
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A-Z of Old Brisbane: Alderley and Annerley.
Alderley The suburb of Alderley officially came into being in the late 1870s, with the establishment of a post office. The suburb took its name from Alderley Edge in Cheshire England, according to the nice, helpful people of Wikipedia. Alderley is bordered by Newmarket and Enoggera in modern Brisbane, and in recent decades, Alderley’s proximityContinue reading “A-Z of Old Brisbane: Alderley and Annerley.”
The A-Z of Old Brisbane: Adelaide Street
One of the main thoroughfares of Brisbane’s Central Business District. Established before Brisbane had a business district. 1842 – Adelaide Street is named. Moreton Bay had been proclaimed as a place of free settlement, and Lieutenant Owen Gorman and his Regiment had been recalled, handing over management to Dr Stephen Simpson until Captain Wickham couldContinue reading “The A-Z of Old Brisbane: Adelaide Street”
The A-Z of Old Brisbane -Albion
From a bush hotel on the way to the beach to an inner-urban suburb. In 1864, Thomas Hayselden advertised for a Publican’s License to turn his property on the Sandgate Road into an “Inn or Public House” under the sign of the Albion Hotel. Sandgate was a popular seaside hamlet, but it was a deucedContinue reading “The A-Z of Old Brisbane -Albion”
Moreton Bay and More 