Walk on the Captain Cook Bridge, 1973

Walk on the Captain Cook Bridge, 1973. Residents were invited to walk across the Captain Cook Bridge to commemorate its opening.

Collection of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Victoria and Grey Street Bridges, Brisbane, c1934

'A river city is held together by its bridges, collects them like sutures across a wound’ from Simon Cleary, The comfort of figs, St Lucia, UQP, 2008, p91.

Victoria (replaced 1969) and Grey Street Bridges (now William Jolly), Brisbane, c1934. Postcard, Sidues Series, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Brisbane River

The Brisbane River divides Queensland’s capital city and threads its way through the suburbs and into its hinterland.

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