Boundary Street has a long and fascinating history. It has been central to West End's growth from an outstation of a penal colony to the bustling commercial and community centre it is today.
The Boundary Street Project explores this history - it's people, its buildings and its businesses spanning over one hundred and seventy five years.
If you have a story to share please contact:
Steve Capelin - capelin1@live.com.au or
Tim Quinn - kot_quinn@hotmail.com
The Boundary Street Project explores this history - it's people, its buildings and its businesses spanning over one hundred and seventy five years.
If you have a story to share please contact:
Steve Capelin - capelin1@live.com.au or
Tim Quinn - kot_quinn@hotmail.com
BOUNDARY STREET TIME LINE
Pre European – Indigenous people live here for millennia
1824 – First official European contact (John Oxley)
1842 – Brisbane town boundaries surveyed (Wade)
1846 – Town boundaries proclaimed
1856 – “Aboriginal people and other nuisances” formally excluded from town boundary after 4pm and on Sundays
1884 – Boundary Hotel (original Boundary Hotel 1865)
– West End Police Station
1885 – J P Davies Pharmacy Boundary & Vulture St
1888 – City of South Brisbane declared 1st Mayor-W Stephens
1886 – Line of shops (Tanos Pharmacy) 197 Boundary St
1890 – Pearson’s Building 173 Boundary St
1890 – Horse drawn tram service introduced
1897 – “Aboriginal and Islanders Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act”Formal beginning of the ‘Reserve System’
1898 – West End - New Farm electric tram service begins
1910 – West End Gospel Hall 225 Boundary St
– West End Picture Gardens (open air theatre) later Lyric Picture Theatre until 1960. Boundary & Vulture St
1925 – South Brisbane amalgamated into City of Brisbane
1927 – Samios Hardware (now 7/11) 201 Boundary St
1928 – Kurilpa Library - 1st purpose-built municipal library in Qld
– Peters Arctic Delicacy Company Boundary & Manning St
– Tristrams Soft Drink Factory Boundary Street fiveways
1939 – Westella Building Boundary & Jane St
1941 – Dornoch Terrace over-bridge completed
1969 – Tram lines removed
1985 – Inaugural Boundary Street Festival
1970s – Traffic Lights installed Boundary & Vulture St
1995 – Goanna Public Art (S Holman/H Broadhurst) Russell St
1998 – Varitimos Building (architect Russell Hall) aka Nando’s
1978 - Melbourne and Boundary St fiveways redesigned
2003 - “UFO” Public Art installation – Luke Roberts
2005 – West End/Woolloongabba District Local Plan
2008 – Inaugural Kurilpa Derby
2011 – South Brisbane Riverside Neighbourhood Plan
Pre European – Indigenous people live here for millennia
1824 – First official European contact (John Oxley)
1842 – Brisbane town boundaries surveyed (Wade)
1846 – Town boundaries proclaimed
1856 – “Aboriginal people and other nuisances” formally excluded from town boundary after 4pm and on Sundays
1884 – Boundary Hotel (original Boundary Hotel 1865)
– West End Police Station
1885 – J P Davies Pharmacy Boundary & Vulture St
1888 – City of South Brisbane declared 1st Mayor-W Stephens
1886 – Line of shops (Tanos Pharmacy) 197 Boundary St
1890 – Pearson’s Building 173 Boundary St
1890 – Horse drawn tram service introduced
1897 – “Aboriginal and Islanders Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act”Formal beginning of the ‘Reserve System’
1898 – West End - New Farm electric tram service begins
- – School of Arts adjacent Kurilpa Library
1910 – West End Gospel Hall 225 Boundary St
– West End Picture Gardens (open air theatre) later Lyric Picture Theatre until 1960. Boundary & Vulture St
1925 – South Brisbane amalgamated into City of Brisbane
1927 – Samios Hardware (now 7/11) 201 Boundary St
1928 – Kurilpa Library - 1st purpose-built municipal library in Qld
– Peters Arctic Delicacy Company Boundary & Manning St
– Tristrams Soft Drink Factory Boundary Street fiveways
1939 – Westella Building Boundary & Jane St
1941 – Dornoch Terrace over-bridge completed
1969 – Tram lines removed
1985 – Inaugural Boundary Street Festival
1970s – Traffic Lights installed Boundary & Vulture St
1995 – Goanna Public Art (S Holman/H Broadhurst) Russell St
1998 – Varitimos Building (architect Russell Hall) aka Nando’s
1978 - Melbourne and Boundary St fiveways redesigned
2003 - “UFO” Public Art installation – Luke Roberts
2005 – West End/Woolloongabba District Local Plan
2008 – Inaugural Kurilpa Derby
2011 – South Brisbane Riverside Neighbourhood Plan
In the Beginning
(Poem by Steve Capelin) click here to listen
Boundary Street - My Story
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(Poem by Steve Capelin) click here to listen
Boundary Street - My Story
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1828 - 1928
The first one hundred years.
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The first one hundred years.
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Stories.
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