Collecting and preserving the history of Kangaroo Point, East Brisbane, Woolloongabba and South Brisbane.
Woolloongabba streetscapes
1900: Logan Road (Brisbane City Council)
ca. 1906: Clarence Corner, Stanley Street, looking east from the corner of Annerley Road, along Stanley Street. The Clarence Hotel is on the right and Murray and Magee Drapery is on the left. Trams are visible travelling down Stanley Street. (State Library of Queensland)
1921: The Gabba Fiveways (State Library of Queensland)
1923: Ipswich Road seen from the Fiveways. (Brisbane Courier, 8 September 1923)
1927: Roadworks Ipswich Road. (State Library of Queensland)
1949: Intersection of Annerley Road and Lockhart Street. (Brisbane City Council)
1954: Queensland style housing, Vulture Street. (Brisbane City Council)
1955: Traffic at the Fiveways. (State Library of Queensland)
1956: Crowd outside the ‘Gabba’ sportsground after Brothers refused to play Wests during the Referees’ strike. (State Library of Queensland)
1959: Intersection of Ipswich Road and O’Keefe Street, 1959. (Brisbane City Council)
1959: View of Stanley Street from Allen Street. (Brisbane City Council)
1962: Merton Street, 1 June 1962 (Brisbane City Council)
1962: Corner Allen and Stanley Streets. (Brisbane City Council)
1964: Park Road. (Brisbane City Council)
1965: Allen Street. (Brisbane City Council)
1967: Stanley Street.(State Library of Queensland)
1968: Tram along Ipswich Road. (Roderick Smith, Tramsdownunder)
1969: Shops Stanley Street and Raymond Terrace. (Brisbane City Council)
1969: Woolloongabba Rail Line before construction of South East Freeway. 5 March 1969. Area along Stanley Street between Trinity Street and Reid Street. (Brisbane City Council)
1970:Balaclava Street. (Brisbane City Council)
1971: Intersection of Vulture and Stanley Streets. (State Library of Queensland)
1971: South East Freeway Construction seen from Vulture Street 1971. (Brisbane City Council)
1972: AEC buses corner Stanley Street and Main Streets (Brisbane City Council)
1974: Stanley Street and Ipswich Road. (Brisbane City Council)
Bus stop islands in Woolloongabba in 1973 and 1976.
Two views of the Bus stop islands at Woolloongabba, without shelters in 1973 and with shelters in 1976. (BCC)
Bus stop lanes in Woolloongabba in 1973 and 1976. (Brisbane City Council)
The way it was done in 1973: Kerbside Collection in O’Keefe Street
Kerbside Collection in Woolloongabba in 1973. (Brisbane City Council). Workers collecting unwanted items in O’Keefe Street, near the intersection with Gillingham Street, with the relatively new South East Freeway overpass in the background. The trucks are a “T series” [above] and the one below is a “J Series Bedford” which were owned by Hunter Brothers trading as ‘Brisbane Cleansing Contractors’ and were operated by their crews.
Normally these trucks would have been used for the usual weekly removal of household rubbish around Brisbane, but for this task the “A” frame covers were removed from the top of the bins to allow for ease of loading large objects. (information supplied by Craig Justo). Kerbside Collection in Woolloongabba in 1973. (Brisbane City Council)
Kerbside Collection in Woolloongabba in 1973. (Brisbane City Council)