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

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

A probe into the façade of the university, 1978. In 1978 the University of Queensland-run newspaper the Semper ran an article into the university system in Queensland. On the cover of the issue was this caricature image of the Forgan Smith Building at the University of Queensland St Lucia campus. The Semper, 15 February 1978, Collection of the Fryer Library

Fryer Library

Indooroopilly and St Lucia estate, 1895

St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
1 January 1895
29 April 2011
29 April 2011

Location

St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
Brisbane
Survey Office

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Six chains to an inch

Indooroopilly and St Lucia estate, 1895.  This map, sheet 11 of ‘McKellar’s Official Map of Brisbane and Suburbs’, depicted the St Lucia estate and undeveloped land where the University of Queensland would be later built. Brisbane city council resumed 976 land parcels for the project. The cottages of the 284 people that were living at St Lucia were also sold off to raise money. Where the carefully sculpted UQ lakes now lie, the left bank of Carmody Creek was lined with land parcels. Later converted into sports fields, the vacant land on the other side was used for the farm school for young men during the Depression. Street names such as Ethel, May and Alice disappeared from the map as the streetscape was replaced with sweeping thoroughfares which curved around new buildings, accentuating the University’s prominence in the newly created landscape. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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