Indooroopilly and St Lucia estate, 1895

St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
1 January 1895
29 April 2011
29 April 2011

Location

St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
Brisbane
Survey Office

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Six chains to an inch

Indooroopilly and St Lucia estate, 1895.  This map, sheet 11 of ‘McKellar’s Official Map of Brisbane and Suburbs’, depicted the St Lucia estate and undeveloped land where the University of Queensland would be later built. Brisbane city council resumed 976 land parcels for the project. The cottages of the 284 people that were living at St Lucia were also sold off to raise money. Where the carefully sculpted UQ lakes now lie, the left bank of Carmody Creek was lined with land parcels. Later converted into sports fields, the vacant land on the other side was used for the farm school for young men during the Depression. Street names such as Ethel, May and Alice disappeared from the map as the streetscape was replaced with sweeping thoroughfares which curved around new buildings, accentuating the University’s prominence in the newly created landscape. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Proposed design of the new University buildings at St Lucia appearing in The Courier Mail 11 May 1935. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms UQFL458

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Model of possible St Lucia layout from the ideas of J.J.C Bradfield, c1936. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms F3376

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

St Lucia from Dutton Park, c1936. Photographed by J.J.C. Bradfield, Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms F3376

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

St Lucia layout, c1950

University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
1 January 1950
24 February 2011
24 February 2011

Location

University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

St Lucia layout, c1950. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms UQFL458

St Lucia, c1950

University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
1 January 1950
24 February 2011
24 February 2011

Location

University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
Brisbane

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

St Lucia, c1950. This Co-Ordinator-General’s Department topographic map of St Lucia from 1 November 1950 has been drawn over in pencil to accommodate new plans for the University Buildings and Grounds Committee. In the original map also note the proposed bridge linking St Lucia to Highgate Hill, and adjacent to the bridge the ‘Area made available by Brisbane City Council to Queensland Government for military training of University Students.’ To the left of this area also note the low lying Smyths Creek which has been largely built over, and the elevated position that the Great Court was built on. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms UQFL458

St Lucia Farm School from the air, c1936. Photographed by J.J.C. Bradfield, Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms F3376

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Layout Plan of University of Queensland site, 1950

University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
1 January 1950
24 February 2011
24 February 2011

Location

University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
Brisbane
Co-Ordinator General’s Department

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

1 inch = 100 feet

Co-Ordinator General’s Department Layout Plan of University of Queensland site, 1950. Notice the ‘Front Drive’ on the map, Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms UQFL458

‘St Lucia will be no Pandora’s Box where students lift the lid and each takes what he or she requires’, declared J.J.C.

University of Queensland Student Commemoration Day, 1962.  The House of St Jean parade, George Street, Brisbane.  Slide by Patrick Conaghan. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Patrick Conaghan and the Centre for the Government of Queensland, 2010

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