Highset Queenslander in Merivale Street 1908
Escape stairs on Apartment Block 1970
Escaped stairs on an unnamed apartment block in Vulture Street, South Brisbane, 1970
House on Grey Street August 1961
164 Melbourne Street – Then and Now
164 Melbourne Street, corner of Melbourne and Manning Streets, South Brisbane 1952 and 2020.
Old house Vulture Street 1966
Fire at Mater Hill Lodge, South Brisbane
On 21 December 1983 a deliberately-lit fire at the Mater Hill Lodge boarding house in South Brisbane killed two residents, a 79-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man.
Six years later an ex-soldier was jailed for life after he admitted lighting the fire as part of an insurance claim plot. (The Canberra Times, 30 December 1990).
The photos from “Brisbane Ablaze” show the intensity of the fire and the aftermath.
