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Clayfield
Clayfield is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Clayfield had a population of 10,555 people. Geography Clayfield is by road from the Brisbane GPO. Clayfield is bordered to the north by Nundah, to the east by Ascot and Hendra, to the west by Wooloowin and to the south by Albion. Its name derives from the fine white-grey sedimentary clay mined in Albion, between Morgan and Sykes Street, used in the brickworks that once existed between Oriel Road and Reeve Street near Sandgate Road. This industry, once known as "the clay fields", was instrumental in the residential surge of European settlement of inner-north Brisbane. Kalinga Park and the Kalinga locality lay on the northern limit. Clayfield also encompasses the locality of Eagle Junction History In 1874 a Baptist Church opened in Hendra/Clayfield. In October 1885, "Sefton Estate" consisting of 254 16 perch allotments were auctioned by John Cameron, Auctioneer. The land for sale is re-subdivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eagle Junction, Queensland
Eagle Junction is a former suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is now a neighbourhood within the suburb of Clayfield. History The neighbourhood takes its name from the Eagle Junction railway station. The station was originally named ''Eagle Farm Junction'', but the name was changed to just ''Eagle Junction'' in January 1888. The original name reflects that this station was the junction at which the railway line to Eagle Farm railway station split off. Education Schools Eagle Junction State School is a primary school which is located in Eagle Junction. Transport Train Eagle Junction railway station provides regular Queensland Rail City network services to Brisbane CBD, Brisbane Airport, Shorncliffe, Doomben and Caboolture. Bus Inbound Route 320 – Chermside, Wavell Heights, Eagle Junction, Bowen Hills, City Outbound Route 320 – City, Bowen Hills, Eagle Junction, Wavell Heights, Chermside East Route 303 – Toombul, Ascot, Eagle Farm, Pinkenba Route 36 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendra, Queensland
Hendra is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Hendra had a population of 4,625 people. Geography Hendra lies roughly six kilometres north-east of Brisbane central business district. The streets of Hendra are lined with Jacaranda and Royal poinciana Trees. Hendra is roughly bounded by Schultz Canal and the Airport Link motorway in the north, and to the east by the Southern Cross Way and to the south by the Ascot racecourse and the Doomben racecourse. The Doomben railway line enters the suburb from the south-west (Clayfield) and exits to the south ( Ascot). The Hendra railway station services the suburb (). The land use is predominantly residential with an industrial precinct in the north-east of the suburb. History The name ''Hendra'' is derived from the railway station name which was assigned 1882 probably given by Queensland Railway Commissioner Francis Curnow. ''Hendra'' is a traditional Cornish place name meaning an ancient or old ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Clayfield
Clayfield is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. It is centred on the inner northern suburb of Clayfield in the state capital of Brisbane. The seat was first created in 1950, and consistently returned members for the Liberal Party until its abolition in 1977. The bulk of the seat was merged into nearby Merthyr. It was recreated in 1992 as part of the electoral reforms that ended Bjelke-Petersen-era malapportionment, and was easily won by Liberal candidate Santo Santoro, the last member for Merthyr and later a Borbidge government minister. Santoro was re-elected in 1996 and 1998, but was defeated in a shock result in 2001 by actress and Labor candidate Liddy Clark. Clark held on to the normally safe Liberal seat for two terms, but after a controversy-scarred term as a minister, was defeated by Liberal candidate Tim Nicholls in 2006. A redistribution in 2008 made Clayfield notionally Labor by 0.2%, but the Liberal National Party achieved a swing str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wooloowin, Queensland
Wooloowin is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wooloowin had a population of 3,938 people. Geography Wooloowin is an inner-north suburb of Brisbane, Australia located approximately 5–6 km north of the city's central business district. History The origin of the suburb's name has been attributed to either the local Indigenous Australian term for a pigeon or the term for a species of fish. It was the home of Brisbane's first Resident Judge, Alfred Lutwyche, who lived in Kedron Lodge. Holy Cross Primary School opened in 1889. A stump-capping ceremony for Wooloowin Methodist Church was held on Saturday 30 November 1901. The site was on Old Sandgate Road at the junction with Bayview Terrace (now 170 Bonney Avenue). While the church was being built, it was destroyed by a cyclone in January 1901. The church was re-built and opened on Sunday 13 April 1902 by Reverend Robert Stewart, President of the Queensland Methodist Conference. In 1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyndhurst, Clayfield
Lyndhurst is a heritage-listed villa at 3 London Road, Clayfield, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built from 1896 onwards by Walls & Juster. It is also known as The Reid House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 12 December 2003. History Lyndhurst is a timber residence erected in 1896 for John Reid, principal of J C Hutton & Co., ham and bacon processors. It was the first substantial house designed by R S (Robin) Dods after his commencement in the Brisbane partnership of Hall and Dods from August 1896. Dods was a prolific, innovative and highly skilled architect whose work moved the Queensland timber house tradition forward. His work was influential and during his lifetime, the "Lyndhurst" design was published more often than any other of his domestic works. In the mid 19th century the "Lyndhurst" site was included in a parcel of just under alienated in 1858 by Theodore Franz of Kedron Brook. This land was subdivid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Hall, Clayfield
Stanley Hall is a heritage-listed former residence at 25 Enderley Road, Clayfield, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was first built in 1885 and redeveloped to a design by architect George Henry Male Addison. It is now part of St Rita's College. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History This large masonry residence was erected -86 as a single-storeyed building for successful Brisbane produce dealer John William Forth. The house was remodelled and two-storeyed additions were constructed for the subsequent owner, Western Queensland pastoralist Herbert Hunter, in 1890. The site was part of a larger parcel of land, comprising portions 86-90, parish of Toombul, first alienated by Brisbane businessman James Sutherland in 1858. Sutherland's interest in this property was purely speculative. He later subdivided portions 86 & 87 into four allotments, but in 1879 transferred the bulk of these subdivisions (approximately 23 acres) to Queensl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turrawan
Turrawan is a heritage-listed detached house at 8 London Road, Clayfield, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built from 1906 onwards. It is also known as Turrawan Private Hospital and Clayfield House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 September 2004. History Turrawan was constructed in 1906 to a design by Robin Dods as a combined residence and surgery for Dr Arthur Charles Frederick Halford. Robert Smith (Robin) Dods (1868-1920) was born in New Zealand. After living in Scotland in the early 1870s, the family moved to Brisbane after his father's death. From the age of 11 he lived with his mother and stepfather, Dr Charles Ferdinand Marks, on Wickham Terrace. In 1886, he returned to Scotland to study architecture, where he was articled with Hay and Henderson in Edinburgh. Completing his articles, Dods moved to London in 1890, where he worked for a number of architects, including the prestigious firm of Aston Webb and In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nundah, Queensland
Nundah (previously called German Station) is an inner suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It contains the neighbourhood of Toombul. In the , Nundah had a population of 12,141 people. Prior to European settlement, Nundah was inhabited by Aboriginal people from the Turrbul tribe. Nundah is primarily a residential suburb, which straddles Sandgate Road, one of the major arterial roads of Brisbane's north. It was first settled by Europeans in the mid-19th century, although the suburb remained primarily a rural area until it was connected to Brisbane via railway in the 1880s. Originally considered a working-class suburb, the area has become gentrified in recent years, and today features a mix of traditional worker's cottages and modern high-density apartment blocks. It is close to the Centro Shopping Centre. Geography Nundah is a mixed-density residential suburb, with some light industry and a commercial retail area concentrated on Sandgate Road. It is adjacent t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albion, Queensland
Albion is an inner north-eastern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Albion had a population of 2,296 people. Geography Albion is bounded by Wooloowin in the north, Ascot in the east, Newstead in the south, and Windsor to the west, with Breakfast Creek defining the suburb border in its south and south-west. Sandgate Road, a major road on the north side of Brisbane, runs through the middle of the suburb. A variety of housing styles, from former workers' cottages through to modern brick homes and unit blocks, can be found in Albion. Breakfast Creek is a neighbourhood within the west of the suburb (). The Albion Park Paceway is a harness racing club and greyhound racing track is Yulestar Street (). History The name ''Breakfast Creek'' comes from ''Breakfast Point'', which was a rocky point of the downstream side of the creek and was named by explorer John Oxley during his 1823 exploration of the Brisbane River. In 1860 John Petrie opened a quarry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalinga Park, Brisbane
Kalinga Park is a heritage-listed park at 100 Bertha Street, Kalinga (formerly part of Wooloowin), City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The eastern section of the park is in neighbouring Clayfield. It is also known as Anzac Memorial Park. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 July 2007. History Previously known as Anzac Memorial Park, Kalinga Park was officially opened in 1910 and is located on the southwest bank of Kedron Brook at Kalinga. Kalinga Park occupies a portion of the early German Mission Station established at Zion Hill in 1838, forming the first free European settlement in Queensland. The missionaries named Kedron Brook, but the mission closed in 1850 and the area was surveyed in 1851 prior to other settlers moving into the area. By the 1880s, this area was industrial and in 1884 much of the land now comprising the park was declared a water reserve. Kalinga is derived from Ngalin-nga, a phrase in the Turrbal dialect said to mean ''"belongi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalinga, Queensland
Kalinga is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kalinga had a population of 2,126 people. Geography Kalinga is bounded by Kedron Brook to the north. The Kedron Brook bikeway follows the brook on the suburb's north-east boundary with two bridges over the creek to Shaw Park in Wavell Heights () and to Toombul Terrace in Nundah (). There is a third bridge over the creek () from the bikeway (but not part of the bikeway) to Carew and New Street in Nundah. Kalinga is predominantly flat, approximately above sea level. The M7 Airport Link passes under the suburb through a tunnel. The land use is predemoniantly residential with the remainder of the suburb being parks. It has a mix of small apartment blocks and houses, with some older style Queenslanders still extant. History The name ''Kalinga'' derives from Aboriginal word Ngalinnga ("ngalin-nga"), probably from the Yuggera language, Turrbal dialect, meaning ''belonging to us''. This area is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralahyne
Ralahyne is a heritage-listed villa at 40 Enderley Road, Clayfield, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Henry Male Addison and built in 1888 and extended in 1904 to a design by Hall and Dods. It is also known as East View, Huntington, and Koojarewon. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History This single storeyed timber residence was built in 1888 for Robert Gray, the then under colonial secretary. It was designed by prominent architect George HM Addison and replaced a small four-roomed house on the site. The 8 acre (3.2 hectare) property was called "East View" until 1892 then Koojarewon until 1900 and then Huntington. Gray became Commissioner of Railways in 1889 and died in 1902. The property was bought by Ada Laird who lived there with her husband until 1907. In 1904 the Lairds engaged the firm of Hall & Dods to undertake alterations and additions to the house valued at over £1000. Huntington was sold to Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
