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History of Roads and Road Names Peter Brown St Lucia History Group Paper No 12

ST LUCIA HISTORY GROUP

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ST LUCIA HISTORY GROUP RESEARCH PAPER

12. HISTORY OF ROADS AND ROAD NAMES

CONTENTS:

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1. Street Map 1926 2

2. Early History of Streets 3

3. St Lucia Road (now Sir Fred Schonell Drive) 16

4. Further History of Streets 22

5. Street Schedule Alphabetical 30

6. Depper Street 43

7. Post Codes 44

Peter Brown 2017

Private Study Paper – not for general publication

St Lucia History Group PO Box 4343 St Lucia South QLD 4067

Email: [email protected]

Web: brisbanehistorywest.wordpress.com

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St Lucia is located at Latitude 27° 30’00” S. Longitude 153° 00’30” E, in the Parish of Indooroopilly, County of Stanley, Pastoral District of Moreton.1

European names of places and features have traditionally been used by the first explorers of the area such as Cook, and later over-land explorers. They often used names of sponsors, relatives, politicians etc. In 1810 Governor Macquarie named the streets of Sydney for the first time: George St – 1st son of King George who was also Prince of Wales and became Prince Regent in 1920, York St- Duke of York, second son, Clarence St, third son, Pitt St, an earlier prime minister.

Government surveyors such as John Oxley often used names that were an anglicised interpretation of an aboriginal spoken name for a place i.e. Indooroopilly.

Before European settlement, the Aborigines made various walking tracks as they followed the seasonal food trail. The Convict settlement established the first permanent tracks, now known as Queen Street and William Street in Brisbane, together with wagon tracks between the convict farming areas, and also on the south side of the river to Limestone, now Ipswich.

When the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement moved in 1825 from Redcliffe to the now Brisbane, the soldiers had found a constant water supply and a degree of security from the native population neither of which they had at Point Redcliffe. Lt Miller established a settlement which followed the layout of traditional convict settlements, as he had done at Redcliffe, i.e. the officers etc on the high ground signifying their superior command, the convicts at a lower level signifying their lower status, with the military and workshops etc in between.2 Tents formed the basis of the accommodation, with the wooden commandant’s house – prefabricated in Sydney – the only building. The next commandant, Peter Bishop, erected some wooden buildings in similar locations to the tents.

When Captain Patrick Logan arrived to take command in 1826 he commenced building an extensive range of permanent buildings, basically following Millers original layout, with a road along part of the ridge line for government officers (approximately George Street), and for the convicts a road down (Queen Street). At the junction of these were the soldiers and officers quarters and the Lumber Yard (Carpentry/Blacksmith etc) where convicts were mustered and worked (Redacliff Plaza). A further road existed approximately where Elizabeth Street is today. A track led from (Queen Street) to the farm (approximately Albert Street to the Botanical Gardens). History books give credit to Logan for laying out the first streets of Brisbane upon which the whole basis of the City exists today, with its Government precinct occupying the William St/ George St area, but it was Lt Miller that established the initial layout which Logan follwed.

A map of the convict settlement c 1839 indicates that several bush tracks led away from the central area. Using today’s names, Queen Street extended to the north and east, Roma Street extended up Countess Street to the north-west, and North Quay extended west to the burial grounds near Boundary Creek, at the junction with Hale Street. The track to Limestone (Ipswich) went from the other side of the river and necessitated the use of a row boat: 3

1 Queensland Pl Names Board Card Index. QSA 2 J S Kerr, Design for Convicts National Trust of Australia NSW 1984, p 116, QSL 725.6 KER 3 Johnston W R, Brisbane The First Thirty Years, p 82 MT 11, 1988, Boolarong Press. Ref NSW GG 1846 Folio 537



Just before the penal settlement began to close in 1838 Andrew Petrie surveyed the area, and a plan based on this was included in a report to Colonial Engineer Major George Barney in May 1839:4

In 1839 NSW surveyors Dixon, Warner and Stapylton carried out a trigonometric survey of the Moreton District:5

4 Steele J G, Brisbane Town in Convict Years 1824 – 1842 p 263 5 Steele J G, Brisbane Town in Convict Years 1824 – 1842, Diagram 116 p 161



Also in1939 NSW Government Surveyor Wade surveyed the settlement:6

In 1840 Robert Dixon, then the NSW Surveyor in Charge of Moreton Bay, laid out a town plan for the free settlement of Brisbane Town. Recognised as the first plan of streets, it

6 Map MT 11 Steele J G, Brisbane Town in Convict Years 1824 – 1842



comprised a square grid based upon the soldier’s basic four streets as they already had modest buildings, yards etc associated with them. This plan showed the existing convict settlement roads shaded but did not include any street names; it also proposed extending the square street grid to the west as far as the One-mile boundary (Hale Street) although these ignored the topography:7

In early 1842 Surveyor Henry Wade, under the control of Colonial Engineer Major Barney, laid out a similar town plan but on a rectangular rather than square grid and he slightly

7 Johnston W R, Brisbane The First Thirty Years, p 35 MT 3, 1988, Boolarong Press.



realigned and extended William Street. Wade included street names on his map some of which we use today although not always on the same street i.e. George, Albert, Edward; others are not used today i.e. Thomas and Parker:8

Governor Gipps famously visited Brisbane in March 1842 and reportedly said it would never be more than a ‘paltry village’; he therefore reduced the width of the main streets from the two chains Henry Wade had proposed, to one chain (66feet). He also possibly selected or approved the names of the streets as we know them today, using Queen for the main street (Queen Victoria crowned five years earlier), with streets parallel to Queen Street named after female members of royal families and the cross streets after male members. George was the Queen’s grandfather, Edward her father, Albert her husband etc.9 Henry Wade produced an updated map in 1843, which showed the new and existing roads, and final names:10

8 Johnston W R, Brisbane The First Thirty Years p 78, MT 5, 1988, Boolarong Press. 9 Steele J G, Brisbane Town in Convict Years 1824 – 1842 p 307. 10 Steele J G, Brisbane Town in Convict Years 1824 – 1842 p 310, MT8.

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The sale of this land, in the Parish of Enoggera was held on 14 August 1851.15

Whilst the route along the riverbank (now Coronation Drive) was surveyed in 1849, several bridges would have been needed to cross the tidal creek outlets, and so it was not usable, Milton Road being the substitute. In 1855 Mr Eldridge the owner of Milton House wrote to his neighbour Mr Brookes requesting that he remove the fence at the riverbank which was preventing access to Mr. Eldridge’s property, so that section of the road to the west was not in common usage at that time.16

A journalist riding along the track in 1859 reported that after passing Milton, he was ‘crossing a small creek, (now Western Creek) by a very durable and creditable looking wooden bridge’. After passing Robert Cribb’s house under construction he was ‘crossing a second bridge of similar construction as the first, we pass the modest cottage’ of John Markwell (now the vicinity of Wesley Hospital).17 Milton Road did not continue beyond Sylvan Road as the riverside road was by then in use as the main entry from the west to Brisbane Town.

The eventual road along the riverbank and on to Moggill Creek was first named Moggill Road. Around 1865 the riverside stretch was known as River View Rd,18 then River Rd, and in 1887 was listed as Toowong Rd19, and finally in 1937 Coronation Drive to commemorate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elisabeth I. The couple had made a hugely successful visit to Brisbane ten years earlier as the Duke and Duchess of York.20

15 Gregory H, Arcadian Simplicity – J. B. Fewings Memoirs of Toowong, 1990, Boolarong Press, p.25. 16 Moreton Bay District Surveyors Office, notes from Letterbooks 1844-1860, A Darbyshire private papers. 17 The Moreton Bay Courier 5 February 1859 p2. 18 Pugh’s Almanac Map, 1865, researched by A Darbyshire. 19 The Brisbane Post Office Directory and Country Guide for 1887, Queensland Postal Directory Co. CD Archive Books. 20 The Sunday Mail, 3 June 2007, p.67.



The new ‘arterial roads’ were little more than cleared tracks through the bush, but gradually the Government in Sydney authorised additional expenditure for works such as culverts and drainage. Roads were so poor the main mode of transport for produce in those early years was boats on the rivers, and up and down the coast.21

When the first sale of Crown land occurred in St Lucia in 1852 – Lang Farm – on the far side of Toowong Creek, the main access to Town was via the Brisbane River, the land being some distance off the Milton Road/Moggill Road access.

To provide access to new land in the future St Lucia, Long Pocket and Taringa, proposed roads were surveyed by the Government of the Colony of New South Wales from 1857.22 The purpose of the roads was to permit division of the land into farms, most with river frontage, and to provide for access from Moggill Rd to those farms. Roads and boundaries generally were surveyed along ridge tops and through valleys; where there were no relevant physical features then they ran due north/south or east/west.

The word ‘road’ gives the wrong impression. They were originally sight-lines cut through the bush by the surveyors, who usually put in the occasional peg or notched a tree to mark the route. There was no cleared path, no levelling, and no bridges or culverts – that was the job of the new land owners.

Initially each was called ‘Government Road Reserves’, and now those first roads are known as:

Burns Rd/Moggill Rd junction, down Burns Rd, across Toowong Creek, up Indooroopilly Rd from Heroes Ave up to Fiveways, over the ridge and down past Lambert Rd to Harts Rd. This three mile (4.8 klm) length of road was originally known as Indooroopilly Pocket Rd.

Swann Rd east from Moggill Rd along the ridge over Indooroopilly Pocket Rd, continuing along the ridge and then dropping down to Sandy Creek (in the Golf Links).

Carmody Rd from Swann Rd eastwards to the University, originally going to the Elbow at the end of the peninsular.

Ryans Rd from Carmody Rd, north along a subsidiary ridge to the edge of the river.

Jetty Rd (now Sir William MacGregor Dr (part) and Mill Rd) north south right across the peninsular from river to river.

The distance by river from St Lucia’s Six Mile Rocks to the city markets was just that (9.6 klm), and from Long Pocket eleven miles (17.6 klm), by track four miles (6.4 klm), but the latter being impractical for drays.

From the 1860s, the new Queensland Colonial Government gave preference to funding railways from the inland to the coastal ports. Brisbane Town had its own local authority and progressively developed streets in the central area, but outside that local residents and land owners had to use their own labour to clear bush and form roads.

Even the Moggill Road, an ‘arterial road’, was not in a good state and in 1860 some of the Long Pocket and St Lucia farmers petitioned the Government asking for the road to be

21 ‘From Bulldust to Beef Roads and Beyond, Main Roads- The First 50 years.’ Marion Diamond, Main Roads c.1970 22 Plan of Country Lots Portions 8-19 Indooroopilly, 1857, S1518.29; W Kitson Sunmap Museum.



repaired.23 In November 1862 the Government called tenders for the construction of a culvert across Toowong Creek ‘near Lang Farm’ – presumably on the line of Burns Rd.24

The farmers again signed a hand-written petition in 1865 requesting the Government ‘open’ the first of the Government roads listed above, Indooroopilly Pocket Rd, and an approximate transcription follows (Six-Mile Reach having been later re-named Long Pocket Reach stretching from Long Pocket to the end of the St Lucia peninsular):

Six-Mile Reach Brisbane River January 18, 1865 To The Honourable A McAllister Minister for Land and Works Sir, We the undersigned free-holders, leaseholders and residents in and about the neighbourhood of the Six Mile Reach on the north side of the Brisbane River and beyond Lang Farm, beg most respectfully to invite your attention to the serious disabilities under which we at present labour in bringing farm and garden produce to market. By reference to the Surveyor general’s map of the locality you will perceive roads have been marked out, which if opened out would give access to our homesteads, that not having been done necessitates our conveying the produce of our farms by the river. ???? we are fully alive to the advantages of the river communications, yet the delay and loss of much valuable time waiting for the tide when proceeding to or from Brisbane, is found to be a very serious drawback to an industrious man whose entire attention is requires upon the ground to make farming pay Under these circumstances and with the knowledge that you have done much to ameliorate the condition of many persons engaged in agricultural pursuits by causing roads to open out to the locations. We beg most respectfully that you will be pleased to take this our prayers into your kind consideration and direct the roads in the locality above be opened to be at least partially cleared so that we may make a dray track from our farms to the metropolis whereby we shall be enabled to save much valuable time and instead of losing as we sometimes do, a day in getting to markets, accomplish that objective in a couple of hours. ???? to a favourable answer to this our application We beg with the greatest respect to ???? ???? You’re most obedient servants [letter then signed by the following 45] Robert Jarrott Michael O’Neil William Ewart Chas O’Brien J Smith Henry Ash Samuel Berry John Berry Charles Lane James Behan L Murray Prior Samuel Skinner Alexander Watt James Bains H Rawnsley W Spode Edward McTaggart Richard Law William Blasdall M Blasdall H Ireland John Redhead Henry Walker James Latmer Arthur Richards Henry Evens William Lane John Hickey Charles Bradford Thomas Ford George Joyce Edwin Ford George Goodmans Robert Strong Joshua Lusch James Phillips

23 Jarrott J K, The Jarrott Family: Aylesbury to Brisbane 1984, P.12; QSA Colonial Secretary’s Inwards Correspondence File 1860/61 Microfilm 4900 p 60 Doc 2485. 24 The Courier 17 November 1862 p 2 c 4.



William Brook Ann Clapp William Purchase John Tomblin Richard Meddleton William Cribb William Dart Isaac Markwell John Markwell

It is not obvious from the handwriting who actually wrote the letter, and whilst R Jarrott is the first signatory it would not appear to be by his hand. Some of the farmers could not write and probably asked others to sign on their behalf. Interestingly it took seven months to collect all the signatures and Robert Cribb is not a signatory but his son William is. However the petition is overwritten “Received from Mr R Cribb this day Aug 17”.

The A3 folded-to-four A4 pages letter was clean and in good condition despite having passed through so many hands, and being one hundred and forty years old. 25

The Engineer of Roads wrote a letter in response and an approximate transcription follows:

To: The Secretary for Land and Works Brisbane From: Engineer of Roads Office 21 October 1865 Sir, I have the honour to submit the following report upon the road from the ‘Toowong Hotel’ to the farms on the ‘Six Mile Reach’ Brisbane River. This road about three miles in length is at present almost impassable and requires partial clearing throughout, some sides cutting, drainage and embanking and four six-feet culverts Clearing £60 – 0 - 0 Cutting £40 – 0 – 0 Drainage £35 – 0 – 0 Culverts £48 – 0 – 0 Total £183 – 0 - 0 The estimated cost of this improvement urgently required is one hundred and eighty three pounds and the expenditure of this sum upon the road in question is recommended for approval I have the honour to be Your most obedient Servant R W Austin Engineer of Roads26

The letter is overwritten ‘Approved (signature) The Engineer of Roads 1/11/65’

At the Spring Show of November 1865, the Government announced it would ‘open’ the track from the Toowong Hotel skirting Lang Farm (Mr Wm. Cribb), to the furthest farm (Mr R Jarrott).27 Note that this did not include Carmody Rd and Ryans Rd, which would have remained ‘roads (that) have been marked out’.

However two years later, 1867, problems had arisen again:

The road in some places is very bad…it well deserves looking into. There are two or three bad sidings on the town side of the tannery, which a present small outlay would do a great deal for, but which will be driven out of all form by the first heavy rain.28

(The tannery was operated by William Ewart in today’s Robertson Park.)

25 QSA, Lands & Works Dept Correspondence Received File LWO.A26 Doc 1816 18.8.1865. 26 QSA, Lands & Works Dept Correspondence Received File LWO.A26 Doc 2281 24.10.1865. 27 Brisbane Courier 4 November 1865 p4 sourced by John Kerr. 28 The Brisbane Courier 2 November 1867 p4 c6, Queenslander 2 November 1867 p 10 c 2 sourced by M England in Watt and Jarrott



By 1868 the new road had deteriorated such that Messrs Jarrott, Pitman and Ewart formed a deputation to the Minister of Works:

Urging on him the desirableness of repairing the road leading from Moggill Rd into their locality…can carry considerable traffic…presently is dangerous and has impracticable parts.

The Minister, Mr Palmer, stated he would instruct Mr Longland’s road overseer to examine the report with a view to having the road repaired.29

A letter appeared in The Queenslander of 18 April 1868 in connection with the road request:

We mostly have boats on the water. Number 1 boat which cost £25 is completely used up after five years’ service. Number 2 boat cost £26 and is not now worth £5 No. 3 boat cost £30 and after three months is badly eaten with cobra – repairs are necessary. Others come to grief by accident; conveyance of produce by river is no trifling expense and time consuming. We need roads and drays. We would rather that a tax was imposed on each one to make the bad places passable.30

The establishment of Road Trusts was seen by the Government as a manifestation by a local community, of its desire to provide its own infrastructure. 31 The function of trusts would be to advise Government on the roads needed, and administer the funds that the Government provided. No local levies were allowed.

The Indooroopilly Roads Trust Board was set up and the voluntary trustees elected were R Jarrott, W Spode, W Penman, and W Dart all local farmers, and W Pitman, slaughterman32. A week later the inaugural meeting was held at the school (now Ironside State School) on 21 February 1871.33 The trust covered 5 ¼ miles (8.4 klm),34 possibly from Burns Rd through to Indooroopilly Pocket and east along today’s Carmody Rd. The Government could not afford to provide all the roads needed and insisted that where funds were provided these must be supplemented by schemes of self-help. At the inaugural meeting the farmers agreed to supplement the expected grant by providing the cartage of road material. The Department recommended spending £20 per mile (1.6 klm).35 In fact the Department spent £101/16/2 in 1871 over what they referred to as ‘Indooroopilly Roads 6 miles Board. The work comprised:

Erected 5 culverts 20 ft long with waterways 3’x 1’3” and formed approaches and carted and spread 50 cy of filling stuff to widen embankment across swamp; cut 54 chains of catch drain 3’3”x 1’ 3”, constructed cross drain 3’x 1’3”; executed 4 chains of formation 20’ wide; and formed 5 chains of road 16’ wide. Fixed 50 feet of curbing in approaches to culvert and carted 20 loads of metal; extracted a number of trees and stumps and cleared off dead timber; cleared out side drains and filled in ruts, besides generally improving the road. Supervised by Trust Chairman R Jarrott. Report submitted by D F Longland 6/11/1871.36 [one chain is 20.12 m]

In April 1871 the Minister inspected a proposed road that was to run along the ridge of Prior’s land. The Trust favoured this as it would assist the carriage of crops from 300 acres (121 ha) of hay, green fodder, fruit and cotton. A sugar mill and a butchering establishment would be accessible. The road engineer pointed out to the Minister that compensation to Prior of £203 would be required. This road would appear from the description to be along the line of today’s Hawken Dr.

29 K Jarrott Aylesbury to Brisbane 1984 sourced by M England; Queenslander 21 March 1868 p 4. 30 The Queenslander 18 April 1868, sourced by M England. 31 W Ross Johnston The Call of the Land p 80 The Jacaranda Press. 32 Government Gazette 11 February 1871 p 436. 33 Government Gazette 11 February 1871 p 204. 34 Government Gazette 10/3/71 Vol. 12 p 436 provided by J Kerr, The State Library of Queensland. 35 K Jarrott Aylesbury to Brisbane 1984 sourced by M England. 36 Q V&P 1871-72 p. 785, 779.

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In 1878 and 1879 the Local Government Act and the Divisional Boards Act established a network of municipalities, shires and divisional boards, which took over from the Roads Trust Boards. The aim again was to encourage local initiative, with the local agency able to levy rates for the first time on the valuation of property, to pay part of the cost of roads and bridges.47 The Chairman of the new Indooroopilly Divisional Board was Mr Gailey between 1880 and 1882.

In July 1883 the Board received a petition from ‘the ratepayers of Dart’s pocket, requesting that a road be opened through Portions 28, 29, (7) 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12’. This was the same road proposed in the 1878 deputation to the Minister. The Board noted that not all affected land owners had signed the petition.48

In September and October the Board received a similar request from W A Wilson, a recent purchaser of land from Mr Dart. Again the Board noted that some of the affected landholders refused to give the required land.49 Despite this the Sales Lithograph for Wilson’s St Lucia Estate (Portion 11 part) was published in October 1883 and made provision for a ‘Toowong Rd’ in an appropriate position.

Two months later again in November 1883 Mr Gailey was requesting a decision of the Board on the opening of the section of proposed road that passed through his land (Lang Farm). Also another petition was presented from:

‘…ratepayers, Dart’s Pocket, requesting the board open a road through Lang Farm, by Mr Strong’s, and through the adjoining properties to a road leading to the St Lucia sugar mill’. 50

The matter was referred to a special meeting of the Board to be held a week later, the results of which are not known, however no road eventuated.

In April 1884 Mr Gailey requested permission from the Shire of Toowong Council to erect a substantial private bridge at his own expense across Toowong Creek at the end of Brisbane St Toowong, to enable him to reach his property; he noted that he already had a bridge there put in when he subdivided the adjacent estate on the Toowong side.51 The Shire approved Gailey’s proposal,52 but it would seem that he didn’t proceed with the construction.

Mr W A Wilson purchased several more farms along the proposed road and in May 1885, after failing to get elected two years earlier, was elected to the Indooroopilly Divisional Board.53 In October 1885 James Carmody and others raised the matter of the road yet again.54

Wilson had partially solved the problem in April 1885 by buying out Mr Strong completely and the part of Mr Depper’s land north of the proposed road, to permit the establishment of Ironside Estate on most of Portion 9. Wilson and colleagues had by this time also subdivided Portions 11 to 14 and offered them for sale. Each subdivision made provision for an interconnecting road approximately along the line of the earlier private track, but with varying names.

In May 1886 Mr Gailey formally offered part of his land for a road through Lang Farm to Dart’s Pocket, with it being extended through different properties ‘till it came out at Indooroopilly station’.55 The Board responded at their next meeting:

47 W Ross Johnston The Call of the Land p 81 op cit. 48 The Brisbane Courier 5 July 1883 p5. 49 The Brisbane Courier 12 September 1883, p.5, and 4 October 1883 p5 c3. 50 The Brisbane Courier 7 November 1883 p3. 51 The Brisbane Courier 8 May 1884 p4 c7. 52 ‘The Toowong Creek Bridge’ 2006, England M. St Lucia History Group. 53 The Brisbane Courier 14 August 1883 p5; A Darbyshire Paper. 54 The Brisbane Courier 8 October 1885 p3. 55 The Brisbane Courier 14 May 1886 p.6.



That Mr Gailey’s letter be acknowledged, and that in terms thereof, Messrs Corbett, McKinnon Anderson, Leslie, and Hart be communicated with, and requested to advise the board on what terms they are prepared to give the necessary lands for the opening of a new road as suggested by Mr Gailey; also that the various property owners to be benefited by the new road be requested to state in writing what amounts they are prepared to subscribe towards the opening thereof. That the Shire of Toowong be communicated with the view to paying one-half the cost of the necessary bridge at Toowong Creek. …that Mr Gailey be requested to make alternative offer as to the new road, by having same to start from his present entrance on the boundary road between Toowong and Indooroopilly Districts to join the proposed new road near his residence and continue as first offered.56

A plan enclosed with the offer is not available, but from the names of the landowners Gailey’s proposal was possibly for the roads known today as Sir Fred Schonell Dr, what was Mill Rd, Hawken Drive, Swann Rd, Indooroopilly Rd, Harts Rd and Lambert Rd to the station. Four months later the Board asked Mr Gailey to modify his proposal omitting the road from St Lucia to the Railway station ‘as the Board consider the other portion is as much as they could entertain at present’.57 Mr Gailey duly agreed.58

The proposal by the Board is also unclear, but perhaps is today’s Heroes Avenue.

The Shire Council of Toowong acknowledged receipt of the bridge communication,59 and later declined to make any contribution.60

By August 1886 the only objector to the proposed St Lucia Rd was the owner of Portion 10 Mr Corbett, and the Board having inspected the site decided to notify him of its intention to resume the land required.61 In September he was formally notified:

…in conformity with the Public Works Land Resumption Act, to make a survey through such Portion with the ultimate intention of resuming same for road purposes…62

The chairman of the Board was authorised to:

…engage a competent engineer to inspect the proposed road…and to report…the cost of erecting the necessary bridges and culverts, of making the road passable for dray traffic, and ultimate cost of making a first-class road…63

A Mr Shields was engaged and at the next meeting Board member W A Wilson proposed and had accepted a motion:

That the principal ratepayers interested in the direct road to St Lucia [Estate] be advised that the Board are willing to accept Mr Gailey’s offer, and to undertake the construction of the road in accordance with Mr Shield’s report by proceeding to spend forthwith not less than £500 on the road, and thereafter not less than £250 per annum until the road is completed subject to the following conditions: (1) That Mr Martin Depper give the necessary land from his freehold for road purposes…(2) That the sum of £250 be subscribed and paid to the board before the fifth day of November next (3) That Mr Gailey give the Board permission to use and cut any timber on his land for the bridge and culverts through his freehold.64

Letters were sent to the principal ratepayers, and Depper and Gailey. Mr Depper and Gailey agreed to comply with conditions, as did Mr Ryan, the latter having purchased nine acres of

56 The Brisbane Courier 22 June 1886 p.6. 57 The Brisbane Courier 17 September 1886 p.6. 58 The Brisbane Courier 15 October 1886 p.6. 59 The Brisbane Courier 27 May 1886 p.5. 60 The Brisbane Courier 14 June 1887 p.3. 61 The Brisbane Courier 12 August 1886 p.6. 62 The Brisbane Courier 17 September 1886 p.6. 63 The Brisbane Courier 17 September 1886 p.6. 64 The Brisbane Courier 15 October 1886 p.6.



subdivision land within Ironside Estate. Mr Ryan actually forwarded a cheque for £200 as a guarantee of good faith. At its next meeting the Board agreed to call tenders for the Toowong Creek bridge.65

Nine tenders were received for the bridge and that of P Benson was accepted at £124.19s subject to the Shire of Toowong approving the plans. The tenders did not include the bridge approaches and the Board needed to arrange with the Shire to do the approach on their side. The Board also agreed to resume the required land for the road through Mr Corbett portion.66

Construction of the bridge proceeded in early 1887 although there were some difficulties in finding appropriate timber on Mr Gailey’s property, and large timbers had to be purchased – a one 30 ft and two 20 ft girders and a 21 ft headstock. Mr Gailey warned that the ants (termites) would get at the timbers as the sapwood had not been removed, but the Board said it could not undertake the extra expense involved. The bridge over Toowong Creek was completed by April 1887 at a total cost of about £180, although with approaches and other works the total cost was £331/15/5.67 The alignment of the bridge was not as we know it today; the single lane bridge was to the east of the current culvert and thus involved sharper approach angles.

Cost estimates for the construction of St Lucia Rd and the required bridges over creeks were received in the vicinity of £2,200.68 The Board was in some financial difficulty and was under legal challenge from the subscribers to the new road, for not commencing on the construction, despite taking their money.69 One of the problems was the non-payment of Rates, amounting to about £900, and the lack of engineering knowledge of the Board members. Two of the members attacked each other in the press over the financial situation.70 Interestingly Mr Ryan gave his address as ‘Rose Hill’ whilst living in Mr Strong’s old house, on what later became the corner of Ryans Rd and the proposed St Lucia Rd.

At the May meeting of the Board it was noted that the Boards solicitors basically told it to get on with St Lucia Rd, and the clerk noted that in fact £330 had already been spent.71 Mr Corbett was still negotiating the resumption of part of his land for St Lucia rd and claimed £350, an amount the Board felt was excessive;72 the negotiations were still continuing in the October with the Board offering £50,73 but an agreement for an unknown amount was reached at the November meeting.74 The terms seem to have included the Board providing a three rail fence at a cost of 6 shillings per rood.75

Mr Gailey was threatening legal action as he felt that part of his agreement to give some of his land to the Board was that they should fence the road, which the Board had said it couldn’t afford.76

By February 1888 much work had been done on St Lucia Rd but the budget had been overspent.77 Work continued through March and April and was basically complete by May, although improvements continued through the following years. 78

65 The Brisbane Courier 11 November 1886 p.3. 66 The Brisbane Courier 17 December 1886 p.6. 67 ‘The Toowong Creek Bridge’ 2006, England M. 68 The Brisbane Courier 1 March 1887 p.6. 69 The Brisbane Courier 13 April 1887 p.6. 70 The Brisbane Courier 15 April 1887 p.3; 18 April 1887 p.6. 71 The Brisbane Courier 10 May 1887 p.5. 72 The Brisbane Courier 14 June 1887 p.3. 73 The Brisbane Courier 11 October 1887 p.5. 74 The Brisbane Courier 15 November 1887 p.7. 75 The Brisbane Courier 13 December 1887 p. 6. 76 The Brisbane Courier 12 July 1887 p.6.



St Lucia Rd had taken ten years to come to fruition from the first meeting of landholders at the school-house. The only driving force, and providers of funding for the road and bridge, were local ratepayers and landholders; the largest contributor of land and funds over the whole period was R Gailey, with T A Ryan working hard in the latter years to get the road actually constructed. Mr Corbett had been the main stumbling block for all those years, but on completion sold his newly accessible land to the Land Bank of Queensland Ltd who subdivided it as Hyde Park Estate.

The following year Mr Gailey proposed to give land for another road and to fence it, and he offered the Board £100 as a contribution to ‘opening’ it if they wished; the Board accepted the offer and the road was trafficable probably late in 1889.79 This road is now known as Gailey Road

The bridge was affected by termites and was then badly damaged in the 1893 floods. When rebuilt it was still only one lane wide, and was again badly damaged in heavy rains in 1928, resulting in a long closure whilst repairs were carried out – traffic was diverted onto ‘a bad road over Hiron’s paddock’.80

4. FURTHER HISTORY OF STREETS

When residential estates began to be established they were registered with the Titles office, but the history behind the name was not recorded. Sometimes there was a specific reason for the name i.e. St Lucia Estate, other times the names were descriptive i.e. River Bend Estate.

Sometimes the roads in the various subdivisions were named by the developers and included in the sales lithographs, other times they were left unnamed. The developers of the St Lucia Estate of 1885 used mainly Christian names for their streets, whilst the developers of Toowong Reach Estate in 1899 used inspirational names – Prospect, Highview, Bellevue St etc. In 1922 the developers of St Lucia Heights Estate used numbers – First Ave etc, and in 1924 Coronation Park estate had a Coronation Dr, and an Empire Tce.

It is likely that streets in Hillstone Crescent Estate and River Bend Estate were named by their developers, but the original sales lithographs have not been found.

The new streets of the residential subdivisions weren’t streets, generally being just lines on a sales lithograph, with maybe a few pegs in the ground. This is clearly shown by the layout of the streets, which was basically the traditional north/south, east/west orientation –ignoring the topography.

77 The Brisbane Courier 14 February 1888 p.6. 78 The Brisbane Courier 13 March 1888 p.3; 29 March 1888 p.6; 15 May 1888 p.3; 15 August 1888 p.7; 18 April 1890 p3. 79 The Brisbane Courier 9 July 1889 p.3; 13 August 1889 p.6. 80 The Brisbane Courier 30 May 1928 p 14; 18 May 1928 p 10.

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part of Gailey Rd and the house had a ‘wide curving avenue’ coming off leading up to the house.83 The Post Office Directory confirms the existence of the road but not its location.

Ryans Rd was known as Ryania Tce until 1901 and five people lived on it, including Martin Depper in his house called Rheingan.

River Bend Estate had four people living in it, including a Mr Munro who was described as a ‘whitesmith’ and probably gave his name to today’s Munro St in that vicinity. In 1876 Mr Munro was the occupant of the Toowong Railway Hotel.84

Sisley St existed where it is today, off Ryania Tce and only had the Sisley family living there at No 1585 – Mr Sisley was a warehouseman – and his house remains today, certainly one of the oldest houses in St Lucia. Swan’s Rd (as it was spelt then) referred to James Swan who established The Moreton Bay Courier in 1846 and lived on the street. The St Lucia Estate was said to have ‘no (sic) sufficient topographical distinction’ and just listed 21 names including Carmody and McCaffrey. Today’s Gailey Rd and all the other estate roads don’t receive a mention presumably because nobody was living there.86

The fact that there were 36 names in total listed in the area in 1890, perhaps 40 in 1891 and 1892, and 43 in 1892 doesn’t necessarily mean that that was the total population; firstly some had large families (13 Depper children) and other itinerant people or tenant farmers may well not have been included. It does however give some indication of the growth of the suburb when one realises today’s population is approximately 11,000.

In Brisbane in the late 1880s Daniel McKellar, a lithographer and printer, began work on a large-scale street map of Brisbane and its rapidly expanding suburbs. The map was nine feet (2.73 m) square and was thus divided into twelve sheets. In 1889 McKellar asked Toowong Shire Council and others to supply details of their areas for the map, and he engaged a draftsman and a map compiler to draw up the map.87 He became insolvent in early 1890 and there was a legal dispute over ownership of the partially completed map, the lithographic stone, and various drawings and apparatus.88

Tenders were called by the Trustee in Insolvency in April 1891 for the purchase of the map etc.89 The Surveyor General acquired some rights to the map and in 1893 his Department asked the relevant Boards and Councils ‘to name permanently all unnamed streets, with a view to making the new map…as complete as possible’.90 Some Councils also took the opportunity to rename some streets with very common names, for instance St Lucia alone had two Queen Streets and two Durham Streets. The new names were shown for the first time on the official Government map, McKellar’s Official Map of Brisbane and Suburbs 1895, which remains known colloquially as ‘McKellar’s’.91

The Surveyor General’s Annual Report for 1895 noted:

83 The Queenslander 4 July 1891. The State Library of Queensland. 84 The Brisbane Directory and Squatters Guide for 1876 (G J Shaw), CD Archive Books, UQFL 85 RHSQ catalogue, photo P 4199A c.1888. 86 Post office Directory 1893 p 256, The State Library of Queensland. 87 The Brisbane Courier 1 August 1889 p 4; 18 July 1890 p 2. 88 The Brisbane Courier 18 July 1890 p2; 22 August 1890 p 2; Mr Bill Kitson Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying (DNRM) personnel file on A R McKellar. 89 The Brisbane Courier 24 April 1891 p 2. 90 The Brisbane Courier, 9 November 1893, p.6 Taringa Divisional Board; The Brisbane Courier 2 November 1893, p.6. Toowong Shire Council. 91 McKellar’s Official Map of Brisbane and Suburbs 1895.



McKellar’s map of the city and suburbs of Brisbane, in which the Department, through the Official Trustee in Insolvency, acquired a one-fifth proprietary interest, was revised and published. The map, consisting of twelve sheets, is on a scale of six chains to an inch…92

The map cost £10/10/- per copy. Interestingly the cartographer, whose name is signed on each of the twelve sheets, was A R McKellar, a long term cartographer with the Department. It has not been ascertained if he was related to Daniel McKellar.

New names selected by the Division of Taringa for St Lucia reflected either the destination i.e. St Lucia Rd (now Sir Fred Schonell Drive) and Indooroopilly Rd, or pioneer residents of their own or an adjacent street i.e. Carmody’s Rd, Depper St, Raven St, Bryce St, Hiron St, Sisley St, Carr St, Munro St, Gailey’s Rd and Ryan’s Rd. The Queen St in Hyde Park Estate was renamed Durham St as that name had previously applied to the adjacent stretch of the now St Lucia Rd, and the Durham St in Princess Bridge Estate was renamed Hood St. In the same estate Margaret St became Carr St and William St became Keith St after the pioneer residents in them; Hill St was renamed Rock St to reflect the quarry at the bottom of it. The Queen St in River Bend Estate was renamed Munro St after its pioneer resident.

Numa Joseph Sisley 1851-1924 courtesy Mrs D Kemp.

Today’s Indooroopilly Rd doesn’t make much sense today as it doesn’t lead to Indooroopilly. It is however a shortening of the original name Indooroopilly Pocket Rd, which did and still does lead to Indooroopilly Pocket (Long Pocket).

The roads in Long Pocket were named in a similar fashion – Long Pocket Road being that which lead to the end of the Pocket, with Harts Road and Meiers Road reflecting the names of local residents. Mrs Meiers pronounced her name ‘Myers’.93

Not all the name changes seem to have been readily accepted. Martin Depper lived on the corner of Depper St and Ryans Rd but the Post Office goes on for years referring to it by its earlier name – Ryania Tce.

Roads named after people sometimes included a possessive apostrophe, but this was dropped in later years, i.e. Ryan’s Rd became Ryans Rd, or the form was lost completely i.e. Gailey’s Rd had become Gailey Rd by 1899.94

By 1901 the bridge over Toowong Creek was in need of major repair or replacement and again in 1928.95 An undated sketch plan, probably for the 1928 repair, was drawn up by the Works Department showing an alternative route involving extending St Lucia road straight across Gailey Rd, to Hiron’s Paddock and across the creek at a narrower point, and joining Josling St.96 The Engineer noted that it would be necessary to resume land, and ‘not however in my opinion an urgent requirement’.97 It is possible a temporary bridge was built in this

92 Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings 1896, Dept of Public Lands, Vol 3 P 1081. 93 Personal communication with Ms Julie Ivison, D.E.R.M. May 2009 who knew Mrs Meiers well. 94 Toowong Reach sales lithograph 1899 The John Oxley Library. 95 The Brisbane Courier 30 May 1928 p 14. 96 Sketch Plan, Bridge over Toowong Creek, QSA SRS 1748/1 Item 21 sourced by A Darbyshire. 97 ‘The Toowong Creek Bridge’ 2006, England M.



location whilst repairs were carried out, as Ian Venables remembers a timber bridge remaining at that point in the 1940s but without any connecting roads.98 Possibly following on from the 1928 reconstruction a narrow pedestrian bridge was built alongside.99

In 1954 the bridge was replaced with a wide culvert on the upstream side of the bridge, and this allowed the approach angles to be smoothed to those we know today.100

Lloyd Rees described some of the streets around 1905:101

St Lucia Rd [Sir Fred Schonell Dr] from Ryans Rd was described as ‘a long dusty road that stretched across the flats like a yellow-white ribbon till it was lost in the low and distant hills. [now the University] … a ribbon of life for us, from our upper veranda we could see it from its source in the St Lucia hills [University] across the wide flats and up the long rise of hill to Guyatt’s store [Ryans Rd]…the artillery and Light Horse arrived for manoeuvres on the flats and the roar and rattle of swaying guns as great horses charged down the hill… Bryce St: ‘A laneway...which had no houses on it until you got to Mobolon.’ Hiron St: ‘a road completely grass-covered, which once served the riverside homes lost in the floods of 1893… with jagged ends of paths and concrete foundations jutting over a cliff where land and house had fallen into the rising river…On the strip of grass …we played cricket… was remarkably lush because of the loam deposits left by the flood’

In the late 1920s the area now occupied by the University of Queensland was resumed from farmers, developers and individual owners. Subsequently some of the earlier street names disappeared, and new ones were given to the internal roads – but these changed over time. The only remaining name reflecting any of the history is Mill Rd, which was once part of Jetty Rd. It reflects the sugar mill which used to be near where the University Rowing Club is today, at the northern end of Jetty Rd.

On 3 March 1925 the Greater Brisbane City Council was formally constituted, comprising many of the previous Councils surrounding the City Centre including Taringa (St Lucia), and the original Brisbane City Council.

Circa 1935 compulsory street numbering was introduced102 and residents were issued with a blue enamelled steel plaque with white house numbers on it, to be fixed to the front fence or mailbox.

At its meeting of 21 June 1938, Council considered a report from a Conference held between the Lord Mayor, the Town Clerk, and the Deputy Director of the Department of Post and Telegraph, with regard to street nomenclature:

It was agreed that no names shall be duplicated, and to recommend to the Council that it deal with all cases of duplication by giving other suitable names, these names to be as simple and euphonious as possible, and to be drawn from flora and fauna, pioneers, prominent public men [past and present] and aboriginal names; and that re-naming of streets, where duplication has occurred be carried out in a manner that will ensure as little inconvenience as possible to residents.103

Lists were made of hundreds of possible names including those of State and Local Government politicians, public servants, and by using ‘Nelson’s Biographical Dictionary of Public Men of the British Empire’.104

98 Pers Comm Ian Venables. 99 The Brisbane Courier 18 May 1928 p 10; Chamberlain L, Toowong, A Tram Ride from the Past, 2008,Toowong &District History Society .p. 48. 100 The Brisbane Courier 12 November 1954 p 6; 10 December 1954 p. 8; 3 March 1953 p 5. 101 Rees L Peaks and Valleys 1988 Collins 102 Pers Comm A Lloyd BCC Archivist March 2007. 103 Brisbane City Council meeting minutes 1937/38 p 1524, 1525 104 BCCA File Ref 1825 Street names.



At its meeting on 25 August 1938, Council decided that the Western Zone, which included Toowong, St Lucia, Long Pocket, Indooroopilly and others, should have its duplicated street names replaced with those of ‘Australian Pioneers’. Other zones were Central – British Monarchs and Empire Cities and Towns, Northern – Australian Public Men past and present, Southern – British Empire Leaders, Eastern - Aboriginal105

At its meeting on 29 November 1938, Council decided that in St Lucia, First Ave should be renamed Ironside Street (Aust. Artist), and Second Ave Guilfoyle Street (Queensland Sugar Pioneer); the descriptions in brackets were given alongside the name change.106 Adelaide Eliza Ironside (1831-1867) was a world renowned painter who, under the influence of J D Lang became the first Australian-born painter to study abroad.107

At its meeting on 7 February 1939, Council decided that in St Lucia, Third Ave should be renamed Baty Street (Queensland Mining Pioneer).108 A week later Council decided that Fourth Ave should be renamed Townley Street (Queensland Mining Pioneer), and that Main St should be renamed Walcott Street (Pioneer Knight).109

Ruth and (the late) John Kerr, and Peter Bell of the Australian Mining History Association, researched the history of Baty and Townley Streets. Baty St was most likely named after Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (who pronounced his name as Baty) 1875 - 1968, a pioneer of mining around the world and locally in the Central Queensland Great Fitzroy mine. Townley St was most likely named after Captain William Townley, 1836 – 1909, a career public servant who started as Gold Commissioner at Jimna, south west of Gympie and ended up as Chairman of the Queensland Public Service Board from 1893 to 1903.110

A Mr Wm Guilfoyle was curator of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens in the 1860s and ‘70s and supplied various seeds to the Queensland Acclimatisation Society. Another Guilfoyle, a ‘veteran horticulturalist and famous nurseryman’ took up land on the Tweed for sugar growing in 1869.111

Walcott St was possibly named after R H Walcott who was an assistant at and later well-known curator of the Industrial and Technology Museum in Melbourne from 1893 until 1935.112

The effective date for the implementation of the new names was 1 March 1939, by which time new name plates had been installed.113

In June 1939 the Department of Works, Water Supply and Sewerage reported to Council that 555 streets with duplicated names had been renamed, with the original name being kept for City streets.114 The Brisbane and Greater Brisbane Supplementary Street Directory was issued listing the old street names and the new, in two tables. There were 18 First Avenues, 17 Second Avenues, 13 Third Avenues, 12 Fourth Avenues, and presumably only one of Fifth to Twelfth Avenues – those being in St Lucia.115 The good intentions obviously didn’t last – today there are again about a dozen First Avenues, and even three Twelfth Avenues in Brisbane! 105 Brisbane City Council meeting minutes 1938/39 p 561 106 Brisbane City Council meeting minutes 1938/39 p 748, 749 107 Australian Dictionary of Biography 1991 John Richie Melbourne University Press p 4.461 108 Brisbane City Council meeting minutes 1938/39 p 919 109 Brisbane City Council meeting minutes 1938/39 p 925,927 110 Kerr R. Paper presented to SLHG October 2004 Two Streets of St Lucia, Baty & Townley. 111 The Queenslander 23 October 1869 p10. 112 Richie J. Australian Dictionary of Biography Supplement, 2008, Melbourne University Press. 113 Brisbane City Council meeting minutes 1938/39 p 820; BCCA File Ref 1825 Street names 114 Brisbane City Council meeting minutes 1938/39 Works report at rear p 30 115 Brisbane City Council Archives.

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5. ALPHABETICAL STREET SCHEDULE

PRESENT NAME DATE ORIGIN AND NOTES Aquinas Court Not on 1974 map. Redevelopment of St Aquinas school grounds

Armadale St 1899 Was Riverview Tce, west part included on plan of Toowong Reach Estate. Remainder appears on

1904 map136, name changed sometime around 1955 because same name used in Toowong. Shown on maps to go through to Gailey Rd up until at least 1974, but always blocked off to prevent use by vehicles

Austral St 1899 First named Pontilia St, later Ferry Lane because of vehicular ferry at end to West End, unnamed on 1895 and 1907 maps, appears as Austral St on 1926 Refidex

Baty Street 1922 In 1922 was Third Ave in St Lucia Heights Estate,137 name changed 1939 see text

Bellevue Terrace 1899 West part included on plan of Toowong Reach Estate, remainder appears on 1904 map

Bishop Street 1904 First appears on 1904 map. Map shows used to go through to Gailey Rd until at least 1950, but no actual vehicle access allowed

Blair Drive On the University, named Palm Ave until at least 1982. Sir J W Blair was Chief Justice, and 1927-44 Chancellor of the University

Bonvale Lane See Dengate Lane

Boomerang Rd East 1922 Part of Coronation Park estate138 now partly eliminated by the University (refer 1927 map)

136 Brisbane & Suburbs St Map, Fryer Library G9004.B67.S15.1904.B7.1904. 137 Sales Lithograph St Lucia Heights Estate Fryer Library University of Queensland. 138 Sales Lithograph Coronation Park Estate 1936 The John Oxley Library provided by M England.



Boomerang Rd West

1922 Part of Coronation Park estate139

Brisbane Street 1888 Included on plan of Hyde Park Estate

Bryce Street 1885 Part of Ironside Estate but unnamed 1885. Named on 1895 map after Mr Robert Lee Bryce who lived opposite the end of it, in Hiron St from c.1888 until the 1893 flood

Camira Street after 1943 (not on 1943 Refidex) but on 1949 Refidex

Campbell Road On the University, named Circular Rd until at least 1982. Possibly named after Chief Justice Campbell, who advised the University during student disturbances connected with the Vietnam War

Carawa Street after 1943 Not on 1943 but on 1949 Refidex, did not go through to Indooroopilly Rd until 1951 Refidex

Carmody Road 1857 One of first roads surveyed in 1857, used to go right to The Elbow, named on 1895 map after Carmody family who farmed at The Elbow from 1853 to about 1935. Eastern end named St Lucia Rd 1885 on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate. Considerable re-alignment has taken place, but old sections remain

Carr Street 1883 Included on plan of St Lucia Estate (renamed Princess Bridge Estate) as Margaret St but renamed by 1895 map. George Carr was a pioneer farmer in St Lucia in the 1860s before buying land at Long Pocket. He sent his children to the now Ironside School. He was an Indooroopilly Divisional Board Member from 1887 until 1903, and was on the Board when it named Carr St

Cave St 1885 See Coldridge St below

Central Ave 1922 Included on plan of St Lucia Heights Estate London Bank Section but stopped 150 metres short of Hawken Dr, this section was part of Coronation Park estate

Chancellors Pl On the University, fronting the J D Story administrative headquarters building

139 Sales Lithograph Coronation Park Estate 1936 The John Oxley Library provided by M England.



Coldridge St 1974 Originally southern half existed as Cave St, part of River Bend Estate, appears on 1889 map. New road formed about 1974 when Mill Rd (Jetty Rd) was closed as a through road past the Great Court. A map dated 1975 shows the road named as Munro St. 140 In 1980 Alderman Beanland was requesting a name change because of confusion between the new road and the existing parallel Munro St.141 Newspaper article in 1981,142 noted the name change to Coleridge, which was the name of Mr Darts Plantation 1860s, and his birthplace in Devon UK. The spelling of the street name was incorrect until changed at the request of the St Lucia History Group in 2004. Cave, Smith, and Skein Streets were removed upon creation of the new street

College Road On the University, part named Carmody Creek Rd until at least 1982

Cooper Rd On the University possibly named after Sir Pope Cooper, Chancellor 1915-22 and Chief Justice

Coronation Dr See Hawken Drive

Degalia St 1891 See Sir Fred Schonell Drive

Dell Rd 1922 Part of Coronation Park Estate

Dengate Lane 1899 First shown on plan of Toowong Reach Estate 1899 but unnamed, first named on 1950 map. Shown extending through to Swann Rd up to 1974 map, but because of topography vehicle access was never possible;, now split by stairs and south section called Bonvale Lane. Used to go almost through to St Lucia Rd.143

Depper St 1885 Part of Ironside Estate but unnamed 1885. Referred to by name in Indooroopilly Divisional Board meeting June 1889. Named on 1895 map after Martin Depper, local farmer, only extended about 30 metres east of Raven St.144 It was extended through to Brisbane St probably around 1922 when the land was subdivided. See additional notes at end of this Paper

140 St Lucia Gazette October 1975 Fryer Library University of Queensland. 141 St Lucia Gazette October 1980 p 12 Fryer Library University of Queensland. 142 West Side News 5/9/81 researched by A Darbyshire. 143 Venables Ian notes February 2005. 144 Ironside Estate sales lithograph 1888 The John Oxley Library.



Douglas St 1898 Western face included on plan of Toowong Reach Estate, remainder appears on 1904 map but not extending through to St Lucia Rd until 1927 map, which was also the first time the name was used. Not used for vehicle access to St Lucia Rd until after 1950s. Possibly named after Thomas Douglas, member of Indooroopilly Divisional Board from 1885

Durham St 1888 Originally included on plan of Hyde Park Estate as Queen St, with Durham name used for that section of Sir Fred Schonell Dr, renamed on 1895 map

Eighth Ave 1922 Included on plan of St Lucia Heights Estate London Bank Section

Eleventh Ave 1922 Included on plan of St Lucia Heights Estate London Bank Section

Evadnia St 1891 Refer Sir Fred Schonell Drive

Fifth Ave 1922 Included on plan of St Lucia Heights Estate London Bank Section

First Ave 1922 Included on plan of St Lucia Heights Estate London Bank Section

Fiveways crossroads area

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The Fiveways appears on the Electoral Roll for 1923145 and on the 1927 map as a generic name for the crossroads area

Fourth Ave See Townley Street

Gailey Rd 1887 Named after Richard Gailey, Architect, who owned this land when it was split into two parts by Gailey St in 1889. Name originally applied in 1887 to the present day Gailey Rd / Sir Fred Schonell Dr from Toowong Creek up to only the Ryans Rd junction. By 1895 the name had changed to ‘Gailey’s Rd’. Refer also to special section on Sir Fred Schonell Dr

Glasshouse Rd 1883 Included on plan of St Lucia Estate (renamed Princess Bridge Estate) as Underhill St

145 Electoral Rolls 1923 The State Library researched by A Darbyshire.



Glenolive Lane 1921 Named after Glenolive House, Richard Gailey’s mansion which may well have used this as an entry street from 1893 or even earlier as an access to Lang Farm. Formally created in 1921 when the grounds of the mansion were partially subdivided, and it became a leg of Glenolive Drive 146 Named Lane by 1956 Refidex although had appeared unnamed on 1943 Refidex. See also Sandford St

Guilfoyle St 1922 In 1922 was Second Ave in St Lucia Heights Estate, name changed 1939, see text

Harts Rd 1894 Long Pocket, up to old Long Pocket Road junction; named after Mr Graham Hart, resident of Greylands (1876) Dennis St, solicitor Hart & Flower, Brisbane

Hawken Dr 1922 Was Coronation Dr in Coronation Park estate 1922. Prof. Roger Hawken was head of the Engineering Faculty 1919-1947, and from 1920 a member of the University Senate. He was closely involved in the early layout of the building and grounds of the new University during the 1920s and 1930s.147 He also headed a cross-river strategy study for Brisbane City Council. Name changed after the death of Prof. Hawken when proper road built from Ironside to the University at a cost of £9,800148 in 1951149. (Coronation Dr Milton was renamed from River Rd to commemorate the coronation of King George VI in 1937)

Highland Tce 1922 Part of Coronation Park Estate

Highview Tce 1899 West part north side only included on plan of Toowong Reach Estate remainder appears on 1904 map

Hillside Tce 1922 Part of Coronation Park estate, see also Vale St

Hiron St 1885 Part of Ironside Estate but unnamed 1885, but possibly referred to in Post Office Directories c1893 as Jesmond Rd after Jesmond owned by Mr Robinson (not Isodor Robinson). Renamed Hiron St on

146 St Lucia History Group Reasearch Paper Vol. 1 No.2 Lang Farm and Glenolive House. 147 Gregory, H, Vivant Professors Fryer Library University of Queensland. 148 Brisbane City Council Minutes 1949-50 p 93 BCC Archives. 149 Refidex 1951 The State Library of Queensland.



1895 map. Mr G Hiron was one of the first residents of the street, was a well known Toowong biscuit and confectionery manufacturer, and was a Taringa Divisional Board Member. Mr J Hiron was Mayor of Toowong in 1918 at the end of WW I

Hood St 1885 Included on plan of Princess Bridge Estate as Durham St, renamed on 1895 map

Hutton Lane 1904 First appears on 1904 map Brisbane & Suburbs unnamed. Name given in 2004 after a local resident

Indooroopilly Rd 1857 Originally known as Indooroopilly Pocket Rd, the only link between Moggill Rd Toowong and the farms of Long Pocket and St Lucia. The word Pocket had been dropped by 1895

Ironside St 1922 In 1922 was First Ave in St Lucia Heights Estate, name changed 1939 see text

Jerdanefield Rd c1937 Jerdanefield House occupied part of this large block from about 1890 until about 1970150. The street was dedicated in 1937 when the area was subdivided.151

Jetty Rd 1857 One of first roads surveyed in 1857, ran right across the peninsular to give public access to river at both ends. Named on 1895 map. When Coronation Park Estate was laid out in 1924, the southern end disappeared and the northern end was renamed Mill Rd (Refidex 1926), although this name was used in 1903 Post Office Directory. See also Sir W MacGregor Dr and Mill R

Jocks Rd On the University. Jock Macpherson was a long-time University Caretaker and lived in a cottage here.152

Keith St 1883 Included on plan of St Lucia Estate (renamed Princess Bridge Estate) as William St, possibly after William Dart the developer. Renamed by 1895 map. John C Keith lived in this locale during the 1893 floods, was a member of the Taringa Divisional Board, and on the School Committee in 1893

Keyhole Rd On the University

150 St Lucia History Group Research Paper Vol. 1 No.4 Residential Subdivisions of St Lucia 1880s. 151 Brisbane City Council Heritage Register citation 2001; BCCA file Ref 1825 Street names. 152 Brisbane Heritage Group University Campus History Tour.



Lamont St 1904 First appears on 1904 map Brisbane & Suburbs, but unnamed; formally named in 1928.153 Mr S Lamont lived in Depper St Lucia, was a Taringa Shire Councillor and a keen participant in community activities in Toowong/St Lucia in the early 1900s

Laurence St 1928154 Land donated by owner Frank West to provide access to new ferry, street named after his 5 year old son. Wrongly spelt with a ‘w’ until 1936

Long Pocket Rd extension

1894 Went down the centre of the pocket from initial survey. Removed c.1980 replaced by Meiers Rd extension

Macquarie St 1888 First used on plan of Hyde Park Estate between Sir Fred Schonell Dr and along Portion 10 only, extended through on 1895 map. Was River Tce on St Lucia Estate 1883 plan, Portion 12. Macquarie was Governor of New South Wales 1810-1821

Mansfield Pl On the University, named after Sir Alan Mansfield, Chancellor 1966 –

Mavis St 1922 Part of Coronation Park estate but not named at that time. Named on 1943 Refidex

Meiers Rd 1862 Long Pocket, originally much shorter than today. Named possibly after resident farmer Alfred J Meirs (1915 POD) begins at old Long Pocket Road junction heading east, extended c.1980 as replacement for Long Pocket

Mervyn Grove 1922 Part of Coronation Park Estate

Microbiology Lane On the University

Mill Rd 1858 See Jetty Rd for origin. Sir W MacGregor Dr for further changes. A short stretch still exists

Mitre St 1888 Included on plan of Hyde Park Estate. Only a short stretch back from St Lucia Rd was actually a road until after 1930

153 BCCA file Ref 1825 Street names 154 BCCA file Ref 1825 Street names, Correspondence file 31 March 1928.



Munro St 1885 Part of River Bend Estate, named Queen St on 1889 Official map (as was Durham St!) renamed on 1895 map. R E Munro lived on the street in 1893 and was a member of the Taringa Divisional Board, and in 1893 on the School committee. See also Coldridge St

Napier St 1890 Part of Hillstone Crescent Estate

Ninth Ave 1922 Included on plan of St Lucia Heights Estate London Bank Section

Orchard Tce 1890 Part of Hillstone Crescent Estate

Picardy St 1922 An access lane in Coronation Park estate but not named then, name first appears on Refidex 1955/56

Pontilia St 1893 Refer Austral Street

Prospect Tce 1899 West part included on plan of Toowong Reach Estate remainder appears on 1904 map

Raglan St 1890 Part of Hillstone Crescent Estate

Raven St 1885 Part of Ironside Estate but unnamed 1885. Named on 1895 map. A Mr Raven, bootmaker lived in Sisley St at the time on the corner of Raven St

Research Road On the University

Riverview Tce See Armadale Street

Rock St 1885 Included on plan of St Lucia Estate and later Princess Bridge Estate, as Hill St, renamed Rock St on 1895 map. Used to go right through to Underhill St until at least 1955

Ryans Road 1857 One of first roads surveyed in 1857, in 1893 called Ryania Rd, and then in 1895 Ryan’s Rd. Named after T A Ryan, Auctioneer for Arthur Martin & Co. who lived where 40 Ryans Rd is today, from about 1885 to 1898, Ryan was also a member of the Indooroopilly and then the Taringa Divisional Board



Sandford St 1924 Western end originally named Glen Olive Dr in subdivision 1924 including today’s Glenolive Lane, and still appears in 1940 Post Office index. Unnamed on 1926 Refidex but formally renamed in 1928155 after Dr Sandford Jackson, Medical Superintendent who lived at Glenolive House for twenty years and subdivided the estate in 1921 and 1924. See also Glenolive Lane

Second Ave See Guilfoyle Street

Services Rd On the University

Seventh Ave 1922 Included on plan of St Lucia Heights Estate London Bank Section, and also Coronation Park estate

Sir Fred Schonell Dr

1870s Was probably first a private farm access track with rough bridges across the creeks adjacent Guyatt Park, and near The Manors Apartments. First originally established by Council in 1887 with the building of the first bridge over Toowong Creek, the resumption of land across ‘Lang Farm’ and the subsequent formalisation of various part streets through the new residential estates; 156part was Toowong Rd on St Lucia Estate (renamed Princess Bridge Estate) 1883; part was May St in St Lucia Estate 1885 see also Durham St; the west part was probably called progressively Gailey St, Cross St, and Toowong Rd from 1887 until at least 1892157, and then called both Evadnia St and Degailia Rd 1893- 1895158; St Lucia Rd on maps from 1895, but St Lucia Bridge Rd was used on the official 1927 map, before reverting back to St Lucia Rd. The joining together of previously independent estate roads accounts for the somewhat tortuous nature of the current alignment. It was given its current name circa 1970 despite formal petition to Council objecting to name change.159 Sir Fred Schonell was Professor and Head of the Education Faculty from 1950, and Vice Chancellor of the University from 1960 until his death in 1969, a man of international reputation, a benefactor of humanity at large, especially in the field of (remedial) education…knighted in 1962, his wife Eleanor was closely associated with his humanitarian work.160

155 BCCA file Ref 1825 Street names 156 Brisbane & Suburbs map G9004 B67G45 S6 1914 p 6 Fryer Library. 157 Post Office Directory for D. Guyatt 1892 The State Library researched by A Darbyshire. Brisbane & Suburbs map (1889) Hollander Wright The John Oxley Library RBM 841.17/19 158 Post Office Directory for D. Guyatt 1893, 1895/6 The State Library. 159 Brisbane City Council Minutes 1969-70 p 1137 BCC Archives. The Courier-Mail 7 May 1970; The Courier-Mail 27 May 1970. 160 Thomis M A Pl of Light and Learning 1985 University of Queensland Press p 252-3.



Sir William MacGregor Dr

State Governor 1909-1914, also first Chancellor of the University 1910-1914. Western leg was first surveyed 1857 and known as part of Jetty Rd until renamed Mill Rd by 1903,161 Northern leg Mill Rd to Carmody Creek, was named Victoria Parade on sales lithograph for St Lucia Estate 1885. Southern end was part of The Esplanade on 1927 map. Remainder was put in about 1950 and given current name then

Sisley St 1885 Part of Ironside Estate but unnamed 1885. Noted in Indooroopilly Divisional Board minutes in 1888.162 Post Office Directory 1893, after a local resident, but only extended east as far as about 30 metres east of Raven St.163 It was not extended through to Brisbane St until 1951.164 Numa Joseph Sisley purchased Lots 73 and 74 in September 1887, and Lots 62 and 63 in 1888. He built a house there which possibly still exists today

Sixth Ave 1922 Included on plan of St Lucia Heights Estate London Bank Section

Skein St 1883 Part of St Lucia Estate, then named St Lucia St, renamed 1895 map . Deleted by 1950 map, now part of Oval Number 7

Slip Rd On the University

Smith St 1885 Part of River Bend Estate. Removed about 1970 see Coldridge St

St Lucia Rd 1883 See Sir Fred Schonell Dr

Staff House Rd On the University, part named Circular Dr until at least 1982

Swann Rd 1857 Surveyed 1857 as Government Rd, extended south-east down to the edge of Sandy Creek. Named initially after James Swan, founder of The Moreton Bay Courier who lived at the Taringa end. Maps to 1910 show Swan’s Rd, but according to the Post Office Directory 1893 a Robert Swann also lived on Swan’s Rd. By the 1926 Refidex the spelling had changed to today’s Swann Rd; he was an

161 Post Office Directory 1901 The State Library researched by A Darbyshire. 162 The Brisbane Courier 12 July 1888 p.6 163 Ironside Estate Sales Lithograph 1888 The John Oxley Library. 164 Brisbane and Suburbs St map 1950 The State Library of Queensland; Refidex 1951 The State Library of Queensland



officer in the Post Office,165 but the correct spelling is Swan after James Swan a Civic Pioneer.166

Tarcoola St 1922 Part of Coronation Dr on Coronation Park estate, proper road made 1949 cost £3,316,167 not named separately until, 1951 Refidex

Tenth Ave 1922 Included on plan of St Lucia Heights Estate London Bank Section from Ninth north, southern part added on 1943 Refidex

The Esplanade 1922 Part of Coronation Park estate, originally extended east along the river front, past where Emmanuel College is today. Proper road made 1949, cost £4,750 168

Therapies Rd On the University

Third Ave See Baty Street

Thynne Rd On the University. Andrew Thynne was Vice Chancellor 1916-1925 and Chancellor 1925-1927

Townley St 1922 Was Fourth Ave in St Lucia Heights Estate, name changed 1939 see text

Twelfth Ave 1922 Included on plan of St Lucia Heights Estate London Bank Section. Still a swampy track 1949169

Underhill Rd 1883 Included on plan of St Lucia Estate (renamed Princess Bridge Estate) now called Glasshouse Rd.

Union Rd On the University

University Dr On the University, named Front Dr until at least 1982

Uplands Rd 1922 Part of Coronation Park Estate

165 England M, Toowong 1863-2011, 2012, Toowong History Group, p 5. 166 BCCA file Ref 1825 Street names 167 Brisbane City Council Minutes 1949-50 p 93 BCC Archives. 168 Brisbane City Council Minutes 1949-50 p 93 BCC Archives. 169 Brisbane City Council Minutes 1949-50 p 936 BCC Archives.



Vale St 1922 Part of Coronation Park estate, in 1950 renamed as the western extension of Hillside Tce

Walcott St 1883 Included on plan of St Lucia Estate as William St but when estate renamed Princess Bridge Estate, changed to Main St; ignored topography, now terminates in a flight of steps despite legal action by residents.170 Present name given in 1939, see text

Warren St 1885 Part of River Bend Estate, named King St on 1889 map re named on 1895 map

The following streets were eliminated by the University when establishing its grounds:

Adelaide St 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate

Alice St 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate

Broadway Crescent Part of Coronation Park estate refer 1927 map

Ethel St 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate

Eva St 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate

Goswell Rd 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate. A Mr Goswell is on the Post Office records for 1923, possibly a long term resident living in the 1885 existing house on the corner of Mable St,171 about where the Great Court is today. The name Goswell does not appear as an owner on the Title Deed of the era

Knoll St Part of Coronation Park estate refer 1927 map

Mabel St 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate

170 The Courier-Mail 18 September 1970 171 Post Office Directory 1923 The State Library researched by A Darbyshire.



May St 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate

Park Lane Part of Coronation Park estate refer 1927 map

Park Rd Part of Coronation Park estate refer 1927 map

Park St 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate

Rotunda St Part of Coronation Park estate refer 1927 map

Sackville St 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate

Smith St 1885 Part of River Bend Estate but may not have been named until 1895 map, deleted after 1950 map

St Lucia St 1883 Included on plan of St Lucia Estate (renamed Princess Bridge Estate) renamed Skein St on 1895 map

St Lucia Rd 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate, previously unnamed Carmody Track

St John’s Road 1885 Included on sales lithograph of St Lucia Estate


PGB/History/St Names 43 of Paper 7 Printed August 18, 2017

The following were shown on the 1924 street directory in the area of Golf Links,172and possibly part of Coronation Park Estate, since lost: Empire Terrace, Prior St, Swann Road southern leg from Hillside Tce to creek and The Esplanade southern leg from Hillside Tce to creek.

6. DEPPER STREET

William Werry purchased Portion 9A (Guyatt Park and Brisbane St area) in 1864 and operated it as a general farm. Seven years later Werry died and his boarder Martin Depper married the widowed Mrs Werry and took on nine children.

Depper took over the farm and was the only farmer along St Lucia Rd not to sell all of his farm to developers in the 1880s, probably continuing to farm until his death in 1914. The first family house was probably on the rise just back from the corner of Brisbane St and Sir Fred Schonell Dr overlooking Guyatt Park.

When St Lucia Rd went through he sold the Guyatt Park section of his land for incorporation on the Ironside Estate, and subsequently purchased a Lot in the new estate on the corner of Ryans Rd and Depper St in 1888. During the process of naming/renaming streets in 1895 the name Depper Street was given as Mr Depper, a pioneer, who lived actually on Ryans Road but on the corner of the newly named street.

The following is a note from Kev Seeney, a descendent; the comment about the Depper house still remaining and in the ownership of the Wilson family is incorrect, both houses existed side by side.173 Title records show the house referred to is on the Lot adjacent to the Depper house and has been in the ownership of the Wilson’s forefathers from 1901 to 2003. They purchased Depper’s house on the corner in 1913 when he died and turned it into a croquet lawn, which remains today.

172 Refidex 1924 John Oxley Library Q 927.59 REE C1 173 Post Office Directory 1907 p. 109.


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7. POST CODES

The Post Office introduced ‘postal numbers’ in 1936, with St Lucia, Taringa and Toowong codes being SW1, Indooroopilly and Long Pocket SW2, West End S1, Yeronga S3 etc.174 By 1955 St Lucia had its own postal area code, SW6. 175

The four-digit postcode system was introduced across Australia in 1967 based on delivery rounds, with St Lucia allocated its own number of 4067, although in later years the University was allocated a separate number – 4072. Toowong was allocated 4066; Long Pocket was considered part of Indooroopilly/Taringa both of whom were given the number 4068.176

Ian Venables tells us that the same day that the postcode changed from letters and numbers to just numbers, telephone letters and numbers also changed to six digit numbers only. At the same time car registrations changed from just numbers to letters and numbers.177

174 The Courier-Mail 22 June 1936 p 19 175 BCCA, Brisbane map 1943; Refidex for 1943 – 1955. 176 Burke K, The Stamp of Australia, 2009, Allen and Unwin. 177 I Venables speaking at SLHG meeting 22 October 2011

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