A few days ago I posted an 1890’s photo of the First St John’s Anglican Church which was located on Queen Street opposite the Treasury Building,...
View of the demolished Queensland Government Tourist and Intelligence Bureau, corner of George and Queen Streets to allow extension of the Treasury Building, 1923. (State Library...
Lady Musgrave Lodge, ca.1892 and 1910. Lady Musgrave Lodge was originally located at Montpelier (now The United Service Club) before relocating to this building in 1892....
On this day, 21 October (1922), the Goanna Oil man – Joseph Marconi, 46 – died in Brisbane City. He founded the iconic Goanna Oil company...
Old Brisbane CIB, corner Elizabeth and George Streets, ca.1905 and 1925. This was originally the Church Institute and Synod buildings attached to St John’s Anglican Pro...
Photograph of original St John’s Church, Brisbane (on the site of current Queen and George Streets – on the western side of Queen Street towards North...
Top: Queensland Colonial Forces heading for the Boer War march along Queen Street past the Australian Hotel on the corner of Albert Street, 1900. Bottom: A...
In the second half of the 19th century, Diamantina Bowen, Sister Ellen Whitty and Eliza O’Connell battled indifference and prejudice to improve health care, the arts...
Thomas George Maugham, of Raceview-avenue, Hendra, Brisbane, milk vendor, was fined £1, in default 14 days’ imprisonment, for having carted milk before the fixed starting time...
Dear Lost Brisbane Followers, as I have recently found myself unemployed for the first time in 50+ years, I hope readers will forgive me for occasionally...