Preparation of cricket oval, St Lucia, 1937. This photograph appeared in the annual report of the Queensland Bureau of Industry 1937 and shows preparations for the university cricket field. Located to the south-west of the St Lucia site, the grounds were one of the few areas to have trees which Bradfield and others so admired and considered integral to a landscape of knowledge. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937

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Sports oval under construction, Southport, c1960. Slide by Gayle Ahearn, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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