Back around 1955 I stayed with Min and Bill Battis. Their house was in Barker Street East Brisbane. Min was a relative of my Mother. I...
Hi everyone! It’s The House Detective here with exciting news for fellow Brisbane history and building nerds! Brisbane City Council Archives have just digitised and uploaded...
Victoria Baths located at South Brisbane just upstream from Victoria Bridge, built 1857, were the first public baths in Brisbane. Album contains archive photos courtesy of...
I found this painting inside a wall that I was demolishing back in 2009. On the rear it is written ‘old barge Kangaroo point 1950’. I...
The Mount Mulligan Mine Disaster event (The 100 Years Since) Sept. 1921 update to Members, I’ve been informed by Robert White that the official ceremony will...
The suburb of Windsor was named after Queen Victoria’s home, Windsor Castle. Lutwyche was named after Judge Alfred Lutwyche who built the first house in the...
On the weekend was the launch of Sandgate Voices from the Past, an historical documentary. It screened at the Sandgate Town Hall to a full house....
IT IS THANKS to 19th Century Photographers like Alfred Henry Elliott, P.C. Poulsen and Albert Lomer & Co, that Brisbane has such a wealth of historical...
The name Albion comes from the Albion Hotel built by Thomas Hayseldon (also written as Hazeldon) in 1864, which was so called because the white wall...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-11/final-planning-protections-for-lamb-house-approved/100131154?fbclid=IwAR2JhOPjuRCsfl97IGoUtBifam49dDkHmSGUNwJBOFCT9gyTYh2BQNiIChk Riverfront site of Brisbane’s Lamb House permanently protected from development Click here to view the original post.