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Vulture Street, Brisbane
Vulture Street is a road in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It connects the inner southern suburbs. Its eastern segment is known as Vulture Street East. Geography Vulture Street commences at a junction with Montague Road, West End, Queensland, West End () and then travels east through West End, South Brisbane, Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Kangaroo Point and East Brisbane, where it terminates at a junction at Stanley Terrace () being unable to go further east due to Norman Creek (Queensland), Norman Creek. It is known as Vulture Street East from east of the intersection with Wellington Road in East Brisbane. It is long. Significant landmarks and junctions Vulture Street has a number of significant landmarks and junctions, including (from west to east): * 24: West End State School * 150: Brisbane State High School ; intersection with Gladstone Road, Brisbane, Gladstone Road and Ernest Street * 160: St Andrews Anglican Church, South Brisbane, St Andrews Anglican Church ; overbri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Street, Brisbane
Stanley Street is a major street in Brisbane, Queensland. It carries the designation state route 41 for the entirety of its length and state route 10 between the Vulture Street, Brisbane, Vulture Street and Annerley Road intersections. For the majority of its length the road is a one-way carriageway westbound. The route is a major connector between the Southern and Eastern suburbs and South Brisbane. The street passes directly to the south of The Gabba and runs directly through the Mater Health Services, Mater Hospital precinct. Stanley Street is accessible via exit 2 on the Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads), Pacific Motorway. History Stanley Street was named after Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, the United Kingdom, United Kingdom's Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Secretary, 1885–1886. In the late 1880s, at least two hotels were built on Stanley Street, the Brisbane Bridge Hotel and Graham's Hotel. Stanley Street used to continue past the V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End State School
West End State School is a heritage-listed state school at 24 Vulture Street, West End, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1891 to 1960. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 April 2018. History West End State School (established 1875), located in the inner Brisbane suburb of West End, about 1.2 kilometres southwest of the Brisbane central business district (CBD), is important in demonstrating the evolution of state education and its associated architecture. It retains a Depression-era brick school building (1936, extended 1976, 1984), set in landscaped grounds including a Memorial Fountain (1930), mature trees and perimeter retaining walls (pre-WWII, 1947). The school has a strong and ongoing association with its surrounding community. Traditionally part of the land of the Turrbal and Jagera people, land in the vicinity of the West End State School site was sold by the Queensland colonial government from the 1840s as suburban all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Street, Kangaroo Point
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St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral
St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral church at 330–334B Vulture Street, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The cathedral was designed by Gregory Mechonoshin and Cavanagh and Cavanagh and built from 1935 to 1950s by B. Robinson. The cathedral served as the seat for the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Australia from the time of arrival of the first prelate, Bishop Theodore Rafalsky, in 1948 until 1950, when the Bishop was relocated to Sydney. The cathedral was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St Nicholas was erected in 1935–1936. It was the first purpose-built Russian Orthodox church in Australia, and one of the earlier parishes established in the post-1917 Russian Diaspora, yet its construction came comparatively late in the history of Russian emigration to Queensland. A trickle of Russian emigration to Queensland had been sustained through the 19th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads)
The Pacific Motorway is a motorway in Australia between Brisbane, Queensland, and Brunswick Heads, New South Wales, through the New South Wales–Queensland border at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Tweed Heads. The motorway starts at Coronation Drive, Brisbane, Coronation Drive at Milton, Queensland, Milton in Brisbane, The Brisbane city section of the motorway is often referred to by its former name, the Riverside Expressway. The motorway is about long, and features eight traffic lanes with a speed limit between the M6 Logan Motorway at Loganholme, Queensland, Loganholme and State Route 10 Smith Street Motorway, Gold Coast, Smith Street Motorway at Gaven, Queensland, Gaven and generally six or four lanes at on other sections. The motorway then passes through the major tourist region of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast, the destination for most of the vehicular traffic from Brisbane. It passes attractions such as Warner Bros. Movie World, Wet'n'Wild Water World at Oxen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mater Health Services
Mater Group was formed in 2016 by aligning Mater Health, Mater Education, Mater Research and Mater Foundation under a single, unified banner. Mater provides care for some 500,000 patients each year. Mater was established in 1906 by the Sisters of Mercy. In 2002, Mater became an incorporated body, charged with the responsibility to continue the Mission of the Sisters of Mercy to "offer compassionate service to the sick and needy". History In 1906, the Sisters of Mercy opened the first Mater Hospital in a private house, Mater Hospital Aubigny, Aubigny, at North Quay, Brisbane, North Quay. The house was converted into a 20-bed private hospital. In 1911, the funds generated by the first Mater Private Hospital, and its successor at South Brisbane, allowed the Sisters of Mercy to open a free public hospital for the city of Brisbane. The branding Mater Misericordiae is a translation from Latin of "Mother of Mercy", and was named after the Mater Hospital in Dublin, Ireland (1861) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Brisbane Library
South Brisbane Library is a heritage-listed former library at 472 Stanley Street, South Brisbane, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built from 1881 to 1902 by W Macfarlane. It is also known as South Brisbane School of Arts, South Brisbane Mechanics Institute, South Brisbane Technical College, and South Brisbane Post & Telegraph Office. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. It now houses the Griffith University Film School, which forms part of the Queensland College of Art. History This complex is composed of three structures built at different times in response to different needs: the South Brisbane Post Office (1881); the South Brisbane Municipal Library (1897); and the City Concert Hall (1902). The South Brisbane Post Office was designed by FDG Stanley and W Macfarlane was the contractor. The one-room post office occupied the ground floor. The postmaster's accommodation included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Brisbane Town Hall
The Old South Brisbane Town Hall is the heritage-listed town hall of the Borough of South Brisbane, later the City of South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located at 263 Vulture Street (on the south-west corner of the intersection of Graham Street), South Brisbane, adjacent to Cumbooquepa, the residence of William Stephens, the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland and mayor of Borough of South Brisbane. History In 1888 the Borough of South Brisbane was established, independent of the Brisbane Municipal Council. In 1891, work commenced on the construction of the town hall. The building was officially opened on 1 July 1892 Although it was widely known as the "Town Hall", it was officially the South Brisbane Municipal Chambers. On 6 June 1892 the Brisbane Courier reported that: ''"It has been customary to refer to this building as town hall, but it is not a town hall, and was never meant to be such, but merely offices for the accommodation of the munici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Brisbane Memorial Park
South Brisbane is an inner southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , South Brisbane had a population of 14,292 people. Geography South Brisbane is on the southern bank of the Brisbane River, bounded to the north-west, north, and east by the median of the river. It adjoins the suburbs of Woolloongabba to the east, Highgate Hill to the south, and West End to the southwest. The river to the east of South Brisbane is the South Brisbane Reach.(). The suburb is directly connected to the central business district across the river by the following bridges (upstream to downstream): * Go Between Bridge (toll road, ) * Merivale Bridge (rail, ) * William Jolly Bridge (road, ) * Kurilpa Bridge (pedestrian/cycling, ) * Victoria Bridge (road, ) * Goodwill Bridge (pedestrian/cycling, ). Modern public transport services include suburban train stations at South Brisbane and South Bank, and South East Busway stations at Cultural Centre, South Bank, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerville House
Somerville House is an independent, boarding and day school for girls, located in South Brisbane, an inner-city suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Established in 1899 as the Brisbane High School for Girls, the School was eventually named after the Scottish scientific writer, Mary Somerville (1780–1872), though the school's official name is still Brisbane High School for Girls. Today, Somerville House is owned by the Presbyterian and Methodist Schools Association (PMSA), and provides classes from Preparatory to Year 12, within two sub-schools — Junior School (Years Prep to 6) and Senior School (Years 7 to 12). Within the Senior School it is also split into Middle Years (Years 7–9) and Senior Years (Years 10–12). The school currently caters for approximately 1,385 students from Prep to Year 12, including approximately 100 boarders currently ranging from Years 6 to 12. Somerville House is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland Railway Line
The Cleveland railway line is a suburban railway line extending east-southeast from Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Queensland Rail Citytrain network. History Following the opening of the Wooloongabba Branch railway line from Corinda to Stanley Street in South Brisbane in 1884, calls were made for extending the line to Cleveland to serve the developing farming area. A line was surveyed, and took an indirect route to avoid hilly country and to serve Fort Lytton, a gun emplacement at the south entrance to the Brisbane River, then the major defence installation for the city. The line was opened to Manly in 1888 and extended to the first Cleveland station in 1889. An extension to the second Cleveland station opened in 1897, at which time the first Cleveland station was renamed West Cleveland (later Cleveland Central). The initial constricted terminus at Stanley St was replaced by a dual track line to South Brisbane in 1891, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beenleigh Railway Line
The Beenleigh railway line is a suburban railway line extending 40.1 km from Boggo Road / Park Road to Beenleigh. It is part of the Queensland Rail Citytrain network. History Originally known as the Logan railway line, the line opened to Loganlea in April 1885 being the first section of the South Coast line which was opened beyond Beenleigh to Southport in 1889. The original city terminus of the line was Stanley St, South Brisbane until a dual track line was constructed from Dutton Park to South Brisbane opposite the Victoria Bridge opening in 1891. The railway originally approximately paralleled Fairfield Road between Dutton Park and Yeronga. Following the 1893 Brisbane flood, the Fairfield Deviation realigned the route above the flood level onto the current alignment. The line from Dutton Park to Yeerongpilly was duplicated at the same time. The standard gauge line from Sydney, NSW which opened in 1930 was built parallel to the line from Salisbury to South Brisbane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
