Dreaming

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

Woodford Folk Festival: celebrating 10 years at Woodford, 2004. Through the banner advertising the Woodford Folk Festival for 2003-2004 a cartoon map of the festival is laid out to show an exciting time to be had. At the festival there were international and national guests, as well as a musical ‘oasis’ of live performers. Collection of the State Library of Queensland

Dagworth bore, 1896. This profile of Dagworth bore recorded the geological layers beneath the surface. The bore was drilled to a depth of 3335 feet and the water came out at 196° fahrenheit. The source of this water was a thick layer of sandstone wedged between two layers of shale. When Banjo Paterson composed ‘Song of the Artesian Water’ in 1896, the bore produced 775,000 gallons per day. This was a substantial reduction from the previous year when Paterson was holidaying at Dagworth station. Queensland votes and proceedings, Vol 4, 1896

Bulcock estate land sale at Caloundra, 1917. The advertising plan boasts 404 ‘superb sea view sites’ located at a tramway terminus and at a convenient distance from Brisbane. Overlooking the Bribie Passage, the Bulcock estate was the ‘sportman’s paradise for fishing, surfing and boating’. Vance and Nettie Palmer lived at Caloundra from 1925-29. The development from fishing villages to small allotments in the Sunshine Coast region was a feature of Vance Palmer’s well known novel The Passage (1930). Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, DERM, Brisbane