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The Boland’s Centre has direct associations with Michael Boland and his family, who built it and managed it for many years. Michael Boland was an early and important entrepreneur who established a large, long-lived commercial empire in Cairns and became one of the community's leading citizens. The Boland’s Centre is a rare surviving Far North Queensland example of a large, pre-World War I department store. Department stores were established in Brisbane and the main provincial centres of Queensland, including Cairns, but the Boland’s Centre is the only example in Far North Queensland. Although remodelled on its lower floors, its facade remains intact, elements of the original ceilings survive, and the top floor, with associated elevator machinery, has remained undeveloped. It is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of large department stores of the pre-World War I period. Its size and ornate detailing reflect the social aspirations and entrepreneurial strategies of the business elite who built such stores, while the surviving internal elements, particularly the undeveloped top floor and elevator, demonstrate the layout, design principles and technology employed. The Boland’s Centre is also associated with work of Edward Gregory Waters, a prominent Cairns architect who designed the building and was responsible for several important structures within the city. The building has aesthetic value due to the height, scale, and the detailing of the facade, which is largely intact. The facade is of cast concrete executed in an ornate style, based an eclectic mix of Classical and other design elements, which projects an imposing, elegant presence on the streetscape. The place has social significance as an iconic landmark due to its size, aesthetic appeal, and longevity within the streetscape of Cairns, and the role it has played in the business life of Far North Queensland. Source: lgaqld.applynow.net.au/jobs/PEAK380-manager-boland-s-centre

Scanlan and Verling there in 1911 Census

I'd have loved to live in that time!

There's only one of those four shop/houses extant.
maps.google.ie/maps?q=baggot+street&hl=en&ll=53.3...

Marco Buccelli With no telly, no internet, no dishwasher, no front loading washing machine and no penicillin? I think not.

According to the 25", there should be trees all down the right hand side of the street, with the first one in front of Verling's: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,716879,732961,7,9. They're not on the 6" though: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,716879,732961,7,7

Interesting symbolic aspects of humour here....... Findlater - I wonder if that was that a detective agency.

That telephone number was a big hit at the time being so easy to remember. They were known as "The Sixes" and indeed they were a good company to call. Great to see the old cars on display, the Ford Zodiac just out of shot and I can't remember the model of the Vauxhall your driver is leaning on

Swordscookie And they were still called The Sixes or All the Sixes long after the 7 got added at the start of the number in the 1970s, Sean, I think.

In the background you can see the big MH for the Mater Hospital Pools which is very appropriate given the court case at the moment on the Govt. cutting off funding to the private lotteries wiped out by the National Lottery. There was a lot of work going on at the bank on Parnell St./Cavendish Row which has featured in some great discussions on here.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons that's right Carol, right up to deregulation I'd say:-)