.A Street Walker’s Guide to

West End

Beyondthe Boundary

A walk through West End’s Aboriginal, Greek and Activist history.

West End is brimming with history. It seeps through the pores of the locals and it resides in every street.

The West End Making History Group emerged in 2010 as a group of like-minded local people who love their community and who are intent on treasuring it and sharing it. There are others who also do this in many different ways. We salute them all.

This is the second in this series of walking guides and focuses on the area east of Boundary Street towards Musgrave Park. The first covers the area west from Boundary Street towards Montague Road.

This walk does not pretend to tell the definitive story of West End. It is merely an introduction to the rich history of this suburb.

(1890), all provided work for the largely English and Irish immigrants.

By the 1930s many Greek and Russian migrants had settled here. They were drawn by its proximity to the city, to employment opportunities, to cheap accommodation and many arrived at South Brisbane Railway Station. In the 1950s, post war European migrants and refugees flocked to Queensland. Later came the Vietnamese. All these influences survive in West End. However, no migrant community has had a stronger influence on the area than the Greek Australians.

Early social action was led by the churches, political parties and social activist members of left leaning movements. Later, the explosion of contemporary activism coincided with the advent of the student political movements of the 1960s.

This walk explores the changing face of the suburb from the time of first contact between Europeans and Aborigines, through waves of migration, to the more recent impact of Expo 88 and planning guidelines which will change the community in ways yet to be understood. The occupants of this peninsula have always had a strong sense of their own destiny - a community with a reputation for pushing beyond the boundaries.

OVERVIEW Of THE WALk

South Brisbane, West End, and Highgate Hill are together referred to as kurilpa Peninsula. The original inhabitants, the Jagera people, might have watched the early white explorer, John Oxley, sail up the river past kurilpa Point in September 1823. This is Aboriginal land - kurilpa “Place of the Water Rat”.

Early European settlement was centred on the present CBD, to the north of the river. The land on this side of the river was eyed off by early settlers for clearing and cropping but not without resistance from Aborigines. from the early years this was a working area. The fish markets and maritime wharves in South Brisbane, Dixons Boot factory (1878), South Brisbane Gasworks (1885) and West End Brewery

TIPS TO KEEP IN MIND

• distance approx 2.6 kilometres

• allow 1.5 to 2 hours

• wear comfortable shoes

• wear a hat and sunscreen

• take some drinking water

• respect people’s privacy

• do not enter private property without permission

• refer to the map on the back page for directions.

Boundary and Vulture Street - “flare”. Photo Cara Gartland.

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kEy DATES

Kurilpa home to the Jagera people

1823 Oxley sails up the Brisbane River as far as what is now Goodna 1846 Brisbane town boundary established

1855 Aborigines barred from the town after 4pm and on Sundays

1859 Self-governing colony of Queensland comes into existence

1863 first subdivision for development - West End Estate

1865 South Brisbane Recreation Reserve (Musgrave Park) gazetted

1885 West End Methodist Church (Wesleyan) - Sussex Street

1888 Municipality of South Brisbane created

1903 City of South Brisbane declared

1919 Red flag riots South Brisbane, anti-Russian/anti socialist

1932 Sydney to South Brisbane standard gauge rail line completed

1939/45 African/American troops confined to the south side after dark

1949 Post war migration brings large numbers of migrants from Europe

1982 Commonwealth Games Brisbane, Aboriginal land rights protests

1988 Bicentenary and Expo 88, South Bank, South Brisbane

1994 South Brisbane and West End Demolition Control Precincts created to protect character housing and heritage places listed in the Town Plan

2011 South Brisbane Riverside Neighbourhood Plan allows significantly increased height for buildings around central West End

1. Boundary and Vulture Streets

you are in the heart of West End. This is the south western corner of the original Brisbane Town. In 1846 the town limits were Boundary Street, Spring Hill and Boundary Street, West End; Vulture Street, South Brisbane and Wellington Road, East Brisbane. A near perfect 3 square miles from which Aborigines were excluded after 4pm.

West End might lay claim to be Brisbane’s Greenwich Village. It has spawned ideas, creativity and activists since its earliest days. Aboriginal, political and ideological activists, the churches, Christian anarchists, Christian idealists, cultural and multicultural organizations all co-exist and campaign for freedom, democracy and community

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rights. Over a period of more than one hundred years they have worked to maintain and strengthen a sense of local community.

SuSSEx STREET

Imagine a dirt road, horse drawn carts, men in hats, women with parasols and, ignoring a few anachronisms, this could be a prosperous streetscape from the late 19th century. The block bounded by Sussex, Boundary and Vulture Streets was the cultural hub of West End in the early 20th century boasting a picture theatre, School of Arts, Gospel Hall and the first purpose built municipal library in Queensland.

Boundary Street, “kurilpa Derby”. Photo Cara Gartland.

“A Head for Heights”. Photo Cara Gartland.

Head one block east along Vulture Street

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EXPO 88

In 1987/88 the newly established West End Community House, under the auspices of the uniting Church, employed its first funded community worker. The work was dominated by the plight of boarding house residents affected by the looming Expo 88. Expo was an initiative of the Bjelke-Petersen government. The location was a 17 hectare site along a 1 km river frontage. The $625 million fair was to be the largest event of the 1988 Bicentennial. Expo 88 attracted more than 15,760,000 visitors who bought tickets worth $175 million.

Local landlords and developers saw the opportunity to make some quick cash during the event and foresaw that, post Expo, real estate in West End would increase in value.

In the lead up to this World fair, many boarding house tenants were evicted or threatened with eviction. Concern grew in West End about the impact of Expo on this tight-knit multicultural community.

This was one of the first churches built in West End. Victorian Gothic in style with an arched entry door and arched windows, it was originally a Methodist/Wesleyan Mission Church. It is topped by a stone bell tower.

2. Sussex Street Uniting Church (1885)

In 1953 the Blue Nursing Service (the colour of the first uniform) began from this site when Sister Olive Crombie travelled by tram to tend to a patient. Blue Care now has 10,000 staff.

Sussex Street uniting Church bell tower. Photo Judith Parrott.

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3. 14 –16 Sussex Street

Norwich and Carnoch (c.1878) were privately owned middle class residences on large allotments. Here you would have found the well-dressed church-going leaders of the community – accountants and government clerks. This street is broad, in stark contrast to the narrow streets lined with small workers’ cottages in the gully on the western side of Boundary St, one block away – the original West End Estate.

4. Brighton Terrace 1889 & 1894

Verona, Glenore, Istria, Lyndor, collectively ‘Brighton Terrace’, are identical semi-detached houses. Built for investment purposes in the boom period of the late 1880s, they were among the first multi-dwelling constructions in Brisbane. Subsequently converted into twelve flats, they were renovated in 1990. The ornate frontage is largely original.

Brighton Terrace detail. Photo Judith Parrott.

Left hand side 26 - 32 Sussex Street

EXPO 88 Protests

Brighton Terrace was the site of one of the significant battles of the Expo 88 campaign. The landlord had given eviction notices to tenants and it was rumoured that it was proposed to demolish the houses for redevelopment. The Activists occupied the buildings and refused to leave until their issues were heard. It became the marshaling point for resistance. Present were members of the House of freedom, The Waiters union, The West End Socialist/Anarchists, The Greens, Catholic Workers (Anarchists), West End Community House and a network of community members.

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In Brighton Road, around the corner, Expo protesters set up camp on the footpath outside landlords’ private residences to protest the treatment of their tenants. In one protest on Christmas Eve 1987, a group of protesters dressed as Joseph and Mary, with a donkey in tow, walked the streets of the suburb knocking on the doors of landlords asking for ‘a room at the inn’. A team of Courier-Mail and Quest photographers followed and reported on the event.

6. Franklin Villa – 35 Brighton Road

BRIGHTON ROAD

This is one of the ridges of West End with sought-after views north towards the river and the city. Once a street of grand houses, it now contains a wide range of housing from all eras, including some post Expo public housing. There were approximately twelve public housing developments built in West End between 1989 and 1995. Labor Housing Minister Tom Burns is credited with driving these initiatives.

5. Morrowville

This is one of a few buildings in West End of Art Deco style – linear, minimalist, stylised. The McWhirter’s building in fortitude Valley is the best known in Brisbane of this style.

Brighton Terrace eviction 1988. Photo Mark Allen.

Built by Ellen Grenier in 1891 and named after her late husband, it was built as an upmarket rental complete with a ballroom. The first tenant was Archibald Meston, the “Official Protector of Aborigines” and

the architect of the Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act in 1897 which regulated every element of Aboriginal lives. Ironically he chose to

live only a short walk away from Musgrave Park, the gathering place for many of Brisbane’s Aboriginal people.

The house was converted to flats and neglected for many years but recent restoration has retained many of the original features of this imposing Victoriandwelling. The large metal gates were once the entrance to the Mess Hall at Boggo Road Gaol.

franklin Villa c1928 Photo SLQ Neg 16454.

Housing

from the workers cottages in the original West End Estate, the six-pack apartment blocks of the 1960s, the mansions on the slopes and ridges, to Torbreck, the first high rise residential building in Brisbane (1959), South Brisbane/West End has been home to them all. In the 1970s the Council zoned almost all of the area for apartment buildings. Many blocks of brick

franklin Villa entrance. Photo Judith Parrott.

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Left hand side

Turn left from Sussex Street

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Corner Sussex Street and Brighton Road

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Archibald Meston. Photo SLQ Neg 17065.

flats followed, replacing old ‘Queenslanders’ which had been demolished. from the early 1980s, and accelerated by Expo 88, the inner southside has again been seen as a desirable place to live. This renewed appreciation of old houses has meant that the character of the suburb has largely been retained, but it has also meant that many flats and boarding houses have been lost as they return to single dwellings.

In 1995 Council created protection for character housing. for the first time approval was required to demolish or remove any house in the middle and inner suburbs built before 1946. Post Expo88 the State Government built more public and cooperative housing to cater for the needs of low income families and individuals. The 2011 South Brisbane Riverside Neighbourhood Plan allows new multi-storey developments potentially doubling the population of the peninsula in the next twenty years. How this will change the socio economic diversity at the core of its local identity is yet to be seen.

fRANkLIN STREET

Land in this precinct was originally purchased in 1855 by Thomas Grenier, who died soon after. In 1883 his brother franklin began selling allotments, but died in 1889. His wife, Ellen, a businesswoman on a mission, married his cousin, Thomas Leichhardt Grenier, six months later and continued the planned subdivision.

7. 11,17,21 Franklin Street (1888)

Merkara, Allawah, Eversly - These three grand and identical houses grace the western side of this street. Built as investment rental properties as part of franklin Estate, each sports a ‘mansard roof” - a steep sided french-style roofline allowing for an attic. All three are in excellent condition. Merkara (no.11) is the most original.

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federation style (1890–1915) was the Australian equivalent of Edwardian style. Verandahs were a feature, as were images of the rising sun and Australian wildlife, circular windows, turrets and towers with conical or pyramid-shaped roofs.

This building dates from 1904 and has a long association with the medical profession. Built by a dental surgeon, Charles Collins, it remained a doctor’s residence and surgery until 1970 when, as a rental property, it fell into disrepair. In the past fifteen years it has been lovingly restored by a local owner.

Torlano detail. Photo Judith Parrott.

VuLTuRE STREETOriginally the southern boundary of Brisbane Town it follows the ridge and then climbs towards kangaroo Point above the old South Brisbane dry dock and coal terminal. It continues past the Aboriginal tribal grounds at Woolloongabba, finally dropping down to Norman Creek at Stanley Street East, a distance of about 5km. It has been a key thoroughfare from earliest days and probably followed an Aboriginal pathway. Vulture and nearby Leopard Streets were named after two famous British warships from the 1850s.

Coal Terminal and South Brisbane wharves c1889. Photo SLQ Neg 100753.

Return to Franklin Street

Turn right into Vulture Street. Cross to the other side with care

Corner Browning and Vulture Street

8. Tolarno

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Browning Street boarding house. Photo Cara Gartland.

The Churches and Christian Activists

Ten churches existed in West End by the 1940s, which may say something about the saints and sinners of the area. Many of these have a long history of service to the community. In the modern era a range of Christian activist groups have based themselves in West End. The oldest of these is the House of freedom, a Christian community of up to twenty households which emerged in the mid 1970s. Brisbane’s West End Catholic Worker community was founded in 1982 to oppose injustice and engage homeless Aboriginal youth. The Waiters union, begun in 1984, is a network of spiritually inspired members working to create a sense of community with people of all beliefs.

CORDELIA STREET

One of the most significant streets in early South Brisbane. It contains two early churches (St Andrews, 1882 and Park Presbyterian Church, 1884) and the first primary and secondary schools for the area and a major public space in Musgrave Park.

9. Carmel Court

Opposite Tolarno, Carmel Court is among the first purpose-built apartment buildings in the area. This rather elegant Art Deco building dates from the 1930s. It is still owned by the original family.

10. Dell Dee, Musgrave Court

At various times these were private residences, rooming houses, houses of ill-repute and twin boarding houses. Early owner of both buildings, James Peel, migrated to Australia from Cumberland (uk) in 1883 and established an engineering business in South Brisbane. That company is best known as the builder of Brisbane’s first Model-T ford which is now part of the Queensland Museum collection.

11. St Andrew’s Anglican Church

Once clearly visible from the city this is one of the earliest churches constructed on the south side. Built on a rise above the chain of waterholes which once followed Stanley Street, it was safe from The Great flood of 1893 when the river broke its banks three times in one month.

The project ran out of money shortly after construction commenced. It was completed in three stages and took almost ten years to complete. The church has stained glass features and an original 1884 organ which is undergoing restoration. Designed by Italian sculptor, inventor, stone mason and publican, Andrea Stombuco, the church was not fully completed to his design. The steeple and belltower were never built. Stombuco also designed around 20 surviving buildings in South East

Carmel Court. Photo Cara Gartland.

Queensland including All Hallows Catholic School and Petrie Mansions on Petrie Terrace. He died in the fremantle Asylum in 1907. Can you identify which wing is an addition to the original?

Popular with fashionable wedding parties it also acts as the hub of the social activist group, the Waiters union.

St. Andrew’s Church.

Corner Vulture Street and Hampstead Road

187 & 189 Vulture Street

Cross to the St Andrew’s Church side of Cordelia Street at the lights

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The Great flood, South Brisbane 1893. Photo SLQ Neg 101664

On the left is BSHS (Brisbane State High School) which has been on this site since 1925. It was one of the first purpose-built high schools in Brisbane and is one of the largest secondary schools in the state.

On the right, as Cordelia Street starts to rise you will see, close to the fence, two original 1877 timber pavilions. These were

South Brisbane and West End are home to the Jagera people. A complex network of clans and family groups lived along the Brisbane River from the source to the mouth. The area is etched with walking tracks and punctuated by common crossings.

In 1825 the lower reaches of the Brisbane River were described as a ‘veritable garden of Eden.’ Primeval forests clothed the ridges, and the flats. fish, reptiles, birdlife and mammals abounded. Ducks and swans in their hundreds trawled the waterways. kangaroos abounded on the southern bank later named after them. This peninsular was a cross roads for the Aborigines of the area. Woolloongabba, in particular, was a place where large gatherings took place.

By the end of the 1840s the local people had been driven to the very fringes of their territory. Over the period 1823 to 1880 the impact of the white man became more and more disruptive. Land was cleared, crops planted, houses and businesses established, an exclusion zone created and ultimately the Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897, was passed effectively controlling all aspects of Aboriginal life with devastating effect.

The South Brisbane Recreation Reserve (Musgrave Park) has been a natural gathering place for those who remained or who visited. As the only large piece of open land retained it was common for it to be the first port of call for Aborigines visiting the city from the country. Here they made contact with relatives and were informed about the whereabouts of other family members.

On the western side of the road you will see a large and sadly fading community mural attesting to the importance of Aboriginal history and the place of community arts in West End. It was a community effort in the mid 1980s led by artist Maria fillipow with local Aboriginal artists Vanessa and Cathy fisher. It depicts the many nationalities of the area linked together by a giant rainbow serpent figure.

teachers’ ‘retiring’ (staff) rooms. These survive from the original Brisbane South Boys School and Brisbane South Girls and Infants Schools, built in 1865 on what was originally a swamp.

These, and a two storey block accessed from Merivale Street, are the oldest surviving school buildings in Brisbane.

Teachers ‘retiring’ rooms c1877. Photo Judith Parrott.

12. Schools

13. Mural

Community Mural c1985. Photo Judith Parrott.

Aboriginal presence on the Kurilpa Peninsula

Junior Wakka Wakka Dancers, Musgrave Park 1988. Photo Michael Aird.

Follow Cordelia Street down the hill, staying on the right

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14. Musgrave Park

As you enter the park, the low-lying area to your right was originally a series of waterholes and was set aside in 1865 as a Reserve for Public Recreation. It was named after Sir Anthony Musgrave, the Governor of Queensland. By 1906 it housed eleven different sporting clubs boasting two cricket pitches, two croquet club lawns, ten tennis courts and a lawn bowls club. The public swimming pool came later. It was formally designed to represent the Saint Andrew’s Cross of Scotland, the oldest continuously used

The Greek Community in West End

The first Committee of the Greek Community of Brisbane was formed in 1921. In 1944 a newly constituted body, The Greek Orthodox Community of St George Brisbane, was formed replacing the previous Committee.

It is the oldest established Greek community in south-east Queensland, where the Greek descendant population numbers more than 25,000. Many pre WWII Greeks migrated from small island communities of Ithaca, kastellorizo, Rhodes and kythera.

As one of the smaller Greek communities of any capital city, it has remained close-knit.At the 1933 census there were a total of 420 Greeks in Brisbane. The 1950s saw a rapid increase in the number of Greek migrants to Australia (200,000) and to Brisbane.

sovereign flag in the world. This is the central open space for the West End community, only two blocks from the main shopping strip. The Aboriginal community regard it as their ancestral homeland and the Jagera Arts Centre (formerly the South Brisbane Bowls Club) at the southern end is home to the Brisbane Council of Elders. To put things into perspective, the St Andrew’s flag has an 1100 year history which, alongside the estimated 40,000 year history of Aboriginal presence in Australia and the 200 year presence of white people in this country, tells a story in itself!

Recent Aboriginal History

Aborigines were tolerated in Musgrave Park but some were isolated and dispossessed, and found themselves in the pubs and at the mercy of whitefella grog. In response, English-born community worker, Joyce Wilding, opened the doors of her West End family boarding house in nearby Russell Street to the homeless in the early fifties. She later helped establish OPAL (One People of Australia League) in South Brisbane (1961) which opened a hostel offering support to both black and white.

In 1964, Palm Island-born Pastor Don Brady was appointed a lay missionary at the West End Methodist Mission. He worked alongside Don Davidson, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (poet and activist kath Walker) and many others in leading campaigns for Aboriginal rights. kath Walker was a founding member of the Brisbane Tribal Council, a seminal organisation

Musgrave Park Sovereign Embassy 2012. Photo Cara Gartland.

in contemporary Brisbane Aboriginal history. In 1969 the Born free Club and Hostel was established nearby to cater to the homeless. In the 1980s Musgrave Park became the focus of Aboriginal activism including the 1982 Commonwealth Games Land Rights protests. Again in 1988 Aboriginal people defiantly gathered in Musgrave Park to protest during the Australian Bicentenary, despite legislation of the time limiting public protest. The annual NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration) is held here.

West End is also home to a number of Aboriginal housing developments and a range of service organisations.

In recognition of the special significance of Musgrave Park to Aboriginal people, the State Government and Brisbane City Council agreed to set aside a piece of land within Musgrave Park for the construction of an Aboriginal Cultural Centre. In 2001 a thirty year lease was signed. The Centre is still in the planning stage.

Cross at the traffic lights opposite Glenelg Street and follow sealed path east to west

Continue to Edmondstone Street

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Paniyiri, Musgrave Park.

15. Zapeion

This is an example of 1930s Greek-Australian architecture. Designed by owner George freeleagus and built as a new home, it is a combination of a Mediterranean stucco façade with a traditional Queenslander behind.

16. Greek Orthodox Church of Saint George

Many found their way here, attracted by cheap accommodation, the opportunity to work and to be close to those of their own cultural background. These were refugees both from WWII and from the Greek Civil War (1946 to 1949) in which over 100,000 people died. In 1975 approximately 80% of the Brisbane Greek community lived in West End.

The suburb is suffused with Greek influence including AHEPA Hall (Australian Hellenic Educational Progress Association), G.O.y.A. House (Greek Orthodox youth of Australia), Colossus Hall and function Centre, The Greek Club, Hellenic House, Cyprus House, St Nicholas’ Nursing Home, ten Greek restaurants (at last count) and dozens of Greek businesses.

EDMONDSTONE STREET

This street sits grandly above Musgrave Park, creating an almost European feel. It is lined with impressive heritage buildings. Many will recognise the name as the title of author David Malouf’s 1985 memoir 12 Edmondstone Street. Malouf described the street of his childhood as ‘the most fashionable area south of the river’. It was an apt description until the decline of South Brisbane as a prime residential area in the 1920s, when the north side of the river reclaimed its role as the home of the wealthy.

17. The Greek Community Centre (Greek Club) est 1975

The Greek Community Centre holds the central position in the community. Every village has its meeting place (kafeneio), where the locals gather to eat, drink and socialise.

The kafeneio was traditionally a men’s place, but the Greek Club of today serves as the focal point for many key community processes and is synonomous with the annual Greek festival, Paniyiri, held in Musgrave Park.

Zapeion. Photo Mark Allen.

every wall and the domed ceiling is adorned with frescoes and biblical images. The abiding feeling is of golden light streaming into the church from all corners.

for the Greek community this church is central to their identity. It hosts weddings, baptisms, funerals and is the hub of Greek community initiatives for youth, the elderly and for Hellenic culture. In 1922, Archimandrite David Maravelis, the first Parish Priest, arrived in Brisbane. In the same year a property was purchased in Russell Street, South Brisbane with the vision of building a church. However, an influential group wanted the church to be built adjacent to the existing Hellenic Club in Charlotte Street, City instead.

By the mid-fifties the Greek community had outgrown the Charlotte Street centre and in 1956 decided to purchase land at Edmondstone Street for a new church. The church was consecrated in April 1960.A simple octagon on the outside, inside

Saint George Church interior.

Before you cross Edmondstone Street look diagonally to your left

Corner Edmondstone Street and Besant Street

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37 Edmondstone Street

19. Kempton/Brighton (17/19); Parkstone (13/15)

These two buildings are among a small number of terrace housing developments in Brisbane. Built in 1882 as upper middle class rental properties for wealthy entrepreneur George Booth, the terraces were unable to be sold as separate dwellings following the passing of the undue Subdivision of Land Act of 1885. They remained as rentals and by the mid 1920s both had been converted into flats. In recent years these old homes have been restored to their original grandeur.

RuSSELL STREET

While unremarkable as a street, it has housed many boarding and rooming houses over a long period. As you turn left at the corner of Russell Street, cross to the other side for the best view.

HOuSES Of EDMONSTONE STREET

20. Hellenic House (1965)

Many Greek people in West End will have a connection to this building and its columns.

The land was purchased by the community in 1922 for the purpose of building a Church and later became the Greek School. When the school moved to a new location in the late 1960s, this building became the kafeneio for the local community. for many years it was the gathering place for Greek families from across the city.

for over forty years, the clack of backgammon tiles has stuttered throughout the day, accompanied by strong Greek coffee, gossip, political debate and ouzo.

18. Belvedere

Two blocks of land were bought in 1880 for 210 pounds by Ebenezer Hooker.

In 1888 John Lawry, purchased the property, and built the house and called it “Bandarra”, then “Belvedere” and in 1901 sold it to the klinger family, who named it “Carlner”. for 20 years it was one of Brisbane’s most distinguished homes. The timber work inside, which has never been painted, consists of a range of rare Queensland timbers.

In the 1930s and 1940s it was converted to flats. It is identified on the Brisbane City Council Heritage Register as a building of significance. The name “Belvedere” still appears above the lower-level windows.

Stencil Art ‘Boost your Spirits!’ Photo Cara Gartland.

Hellenic House. Photo Judith Parrott. Parthenon, Athens.

21. Browning Street As you cross Browning Street you will see to the right a row of cottages, most, at one time, boarding houses. Only one remains as a boarding house. The story of No. 17, “Ashville”, is told in a book, “17 Browning Street”, by Elizabeth Jeffs.

22. Finale. The view from the Goanna

This is the end of the walk. you are back on Boundary Street a few hundred metres from where you commenced. To your right, the Boundary Hotel, built in 1884 on the site of an 1864 hotel, is one of approximately 20 hotels which once existed in the South Brisbane/West End area, including a brewery.

27 Edmonstone Street

32 Hellenic Street

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Belvedere in decay. Photo Judith Parrott.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the many people who generously assisted with information and research

George kassos, Dave Andrews, Gerard Dowling, Helen Wallace, Peter Stewart, ken Butler, kristine Olsson,

Joe Hurley, Sam Watson, Brisbane City Council Heritage unit, Mark Allen, Chris kazonis, Carla Mendoza.

West End Making History Group

Tim Quinn, Pam Bourke, Phil Vanderzeil, Helen Abrahams, fiona Stager, Steve Capelin.

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