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Townsville Central State School is a heritage-listed state school and former prison at 4-6 Warburton Street, North Ward, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built from 1877 to 1880 by J Rooney. It is also known as the former Townsville Gaol and Residence of the Police Inspector. In March 1869, four years after the settlement of Townsville, the first recognized school, the National School, was opened in a building that had been used as the Burdekin and Flinders Hospital on The Strand. The school began with 48 students with an average attendance for the year of 53. The school expanded in 1873 to include a girls' school for which a new building was erected in 1874 and an infant school was established in 1876 with its new building erected in 1879. In 1878 over 200 girls were attending the school. The school is located on Warburton Street at North Ward on a 3.405 ha flat site facing east at the foot of Castle Hill. The brick fence with iron balustrade to Warburton street is covered by a hedge and lined with mature shade trees. The gardens contain a variety of equipment, mature and ornamental trees, garden beds and seating areas. The site is bound to the south by a residential unit development on Gregory Street. A car park with entrance from Gregory Street, to the Dental Clinic adjacent to the west side of the quadrangle wall is fenced off from the school and sit adjacent to the hospital reserve. The Botanical Gardens form the western boundary and a day care centre and a preschool are located along the northern boundary to Kennedy Street. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsville_Central_State_School

I love those deep ruts in that old wagon road!

I wish I could see this in high resolution, as this is more than likely Kean Ave or the Cal Sag Road.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Radnorshire, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Thanks for all of the additions. Fantastic to see the area in a bygone era.

Hi, I'm glad that you like our images. The John Thomas collection contains photographs of landscapes, individuals and groups of people from across Wales and I'm glad that you have found these images suitable to add to your group.

You're welcome. I love old photos, seeing how people used to dress, how places used to look or, in the case of this particular shot it raises the question - do people still collect wimberries. As a 'townie', I will wait for someone else to answer that.

I'm sure that they do. When I was growing up in Clocaenog, Denbighshire, we used to collect Whimberries (or 'Llus' as we'd call them in Welsh) on high lands towards the end of the summer.