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St John's Anglican Church, South Townsville
St John's Anglican Church Precinct is a heritage-listed churchyard at 30-34 Macrossan Street, South Townsville, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to . It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History St John's Anglican Precinct at South Townsville comprises a small timber church constructed in 1907; a timber rectory constructed ; and a small timber and fibrous-cement sheeted church hall. St John's Church is the third church erected on this site, replacing an 1898 church destroyed in 1903 by Cyclone Leonta, which in turn had replaced an 1884 church destroyed by Cyclone Sigma in 1896. The rectory also is the third residence on the site, replacing vicarages destroyed in the 1896 and 1903 cyclones. These buildings remain amongst the earliest surviving Anglican church buildings in the Diocese of North Queensland. Townsville was established in the mid-1860s as a port to service new pastoral runs being taken up in the Kenned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Townsville, Queensland
South Townsville is a coastal suburb of Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. In the , South Townsville had a population of 2,353 people. Geography South Townsville is located on the northern end of Ross Island, bounded by the Coral Sea to the north, Ross Creek to the west and the Ross River to the east. The suburb of Railway Estate occupies the southern part of the island. Predominantly residential, it also is an important commercial and industrial hub of the city. The suburb is also a continuation to the Townsville CBD, serving as an accommodation and nightlife centre for the locals. The Palmer Street area of the suburb is known locally for its restaurants, hotels and its atmosphere. The suburb is also home to both the Port of Townsville and formerly Queensland Rail's North Rail Yards which have been redeveloped into the Queensland Country Bank Stadium. History Ross Island State School opened on 26 February 1884. In 1936 it became Townsville South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hughenden, Queensland
Hughenden is a rural town and locality in the Flinders Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Hughenden had a population of 1,136 people. Geography Hughenden is situated on the banks of the Flinders River. Hughenden has the following mountains (from west to east): * Mount Walker () * Mount Mowbray () * Mount Devlin () * Mount Castor () * Mount Beckford () Hughenden is located on the Flinders Highway, west of Townsville and north-west of Brisbane, the state capital. The region around Hughenden is a major centre for the grazing of sheep and cattle. The main feed is annual grasses known as Flinders grass, which grow rapidly on the (by Australian standards) fertile grey or brown cracking clay soils after rain between November and March. However, because the rainfall is extremely erratic – at Hughenden itself it has ranged from in 1926 to in 1950 – droughts and floods are normal and stock numbers fluctuate greatly. The runoff from the Flinder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Frodsham
George Horsfall Frodsham (1863–1937) was an English-born Anglican priest. From 1902 to 1913 he was the Bishop of North Queensland in Australia. Early life Frodsham was born in Sale Moor, Cheshire, England on 14 September 1863, the son of James Frodsham and his wife Jane (née Horsfall). He was educated at Birkenhead School and University College, Durham. Religious life Frodsham trained for ordination at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead and was ordained both deacon and priest in 1889. His first positions were curacies at St Thomas' Leeds and St Margaret's Ilkley. From 1896 he was Rector of St Thomas’ in Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland and then chaplain to the Bishop of Brisbane. In 1902 it was announced that he would become Bishop of North Queensland, and he was consecrated as such on 17 August 1902 at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, by Archbishop Saumarez Smith. He served as bishop until 1913. Frodsham served as a military chaplain from 1899 to 1910, and later ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunbridge And Tunbridge
Tunbridge & Tunbridge is an architectural partnership in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It consisted of Walter Howard Tunbridge and his brother Oliver Tunbridge. A number of their works are now heritage-listed. History Walter Howard Tunbridge was born and trained in England as an architect. In 1884 he migrated to Australia and worked for Rooney Brothers in Townsville. He left to establish his own practice in 1886 and invited his younger brother, Oliver, to join him in 1887. This partnership subsequently became an important architectural and civil engineering firm in North Queensland. Significant works * Victoria Park Hotel Victoria Park Hotel was a heritage-listed hotel at 266 Boundary Street, South Townsville, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Tunbridge & Tunbridge and built from 1895 to 1896 by Jeremiah Dempsey. It was added to the ... * Bishop's Lodge References Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Tunbridge and Tunbridge Architects fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townsville City, Queensland
Townsville City is a coastal suburb at the centre of the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. In the , the suburb of Townsville City had a population of 2,910 people. It is the city's central business district and a major hub for businesses of all sectors in the Northern Australia region. Geography Townsville City is a strip of land along the northern-eastern bank Ross Creek at its mouth at the Coral Sea, thus the suburb is bounded to the north by the Coral Sea and to the south-east by Ross Creek. It is overlooked to the west by Castle Hill. The land is mostly low-lying, just about sea level, apart from Melton Hill () which creates a natural boundary to North Ward to the north-west. History Townsville City is situated in the traditional Wulgurukaba Aboriginal country. Townsville City takes its name from Robert Towns, a merchant and entrepreneur, who was a pioneer financial supporter of pastoral development around the Ross River area. Services of worship for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Bridge, Townsville
Victoria Bridge is a heritage-listed swing bridge over the Ross Creek at Stokes Street, Townsville CBD, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The central-pivoting swing bridge was constructed by G. H. Royce & Co. in 1888 to 1889. It is one of only two of its type constructed in Australia. By 1924 the swing section had ceased to function, but the bridge continued to serve as a road bridge until 1975. Following a 1988 redevelopment, it was converted to pedestrian traffic, with a row of modern shops built along its length. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History Apart from Victoria Bridge, built in 1888-1889, the only other metal girder swing bridge constructed in Australia was the smaller one over the Forth River at Leith in Tasmania, built in 1884. Tenders were called by the Department of Works, Bridges Branch, on 25 September 1885 for the Townsville structure. A tender submitted by G.H. Royce & Co. of Sydney was accepted at a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townsville Herald
The ''Townsville Herald'' was a newspaper published in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was also known as ''North Queensland Herald, Cleveland Bay Express and Northern Advertiser, and Townsville Times and North Queensland Advertiser''. History ''The Cleveland Bay Herald and Northern Pioneer'' came into existence on 3 March 1866, by James Thornburn Brown and published by a Mr Bohm, before shortly afterwards, changed to the ''Cleveland Bay Express'', conducted by John Melton Black. The ''Townsville Herald'' was published from 1876 to 5 August 1891. Archibald Meston became the editor of the paper in May 1881. This became part of libel action where Meston felt another newspaper's article suggested he was subservient to John Macrossan John Murtagh Macrossan (1832 – 30 March 1891) was an Australian politician of the late 19th century in the parliament of Queensland. Early and parliamentary life Macrossan was born in Donegal, Ireland. He moved to the colony of V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Island (Townsville, Queensland)
Ross Island is an island in City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Geography Ross Island is the land that lies between '' Ross Creek'' and '' Ross River'' and the ''Coral Sea''. ''Ross Creek'' is itself a small estuarine portion of the ''Ross River'' which creates a bay inlet at the ''Coral Sea''. Ross Island is divided into two suburbs of Townsville Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of 180,820 as of June 2018, it is the largest settlement in North Queensland; it is unofficially considered its capital. Estimated resident population, 30 ...: South Townsville on the north of the island and Railway Estate on the south of the island. History Ross Island is named after William Alfred Ross, European pioneer of the Townsville area and its first publican. References {{commons category, Ross Island (Townsville, Queensland) Islands of Queensland City of Townsville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End, Queensland
West End is an inner southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , West End had a population of 9,474 people. The Aboriginal name for the area is ''Kurilpa'', which means ''place of the water rat''. Geography Geographically, West End is bounded by the median of the Brisbane River to the west and the south. Hill End is a neighbourhood () within West End in the south-west of the suburb near the Brisbane River. West End is adjacent to the suburbs of South Brisbane and Highgate Hill. These three suburbs make up a peninsula of the Brisbane River. History Before the arrival of Europeans in West End, there was an important habitual Aboriginal camp in the area around the upper part of Musgrave Park where Brisbane State High School now stands. Boundary Street in West End and in Spring Hill were named as along with Vulture Street and Wellington Road, they formed the original boundary of the Town of Brisbane. Later, when Brisbane grew out to these boundar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Henry Stanton
George Henry Stanton (3 September 18354 December 1905) was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th. Stanton was born in Stratford, Essex, England and educated at Hertford College, Oxford graduating B.A. in 1858 and M.A. in 1862, receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1878. He was ordained deacon in 1858 by Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, and priest in 1859, and was Curate of Christ Church, Rotherhithe, from 1858 to 1862; of All Saints Church, Maidstone, from 1862 to 1864, of St. Saviour's, Fitzroy Square, London, from 1864 to 1867; and vicar of Holy Trinity, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London, from 1867 to 1878. Stanton was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Lincoln's Inn Fields He was consecrated a bishop by Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist 1878 (24 June) at St Paul's Cathedral. Appointed the inaugural Bishop of Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
