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Named after the road which led to it, which became a boggy quagmire after rain, “Boggo Road Gaol” was officially known as the Brisbane Prison. For 109 years it dominated the skyline of the capital of Queensland. Its stark red brick walls and imposing guard tower on Annerley Road have become iconic for all the wrong reasons. Boggo Road Gaol opened in 1883 as the Brisbane Gaol. Used mainly as a holding prison for those serving short sentences or on remand, its initial infamy came from it being a place of execution. In 1903, a new purpose-built separate women’s gaol was created. After nearly 20 years of use, HM Gaol for Women was closed, its female occupants shifted to another part of the prison site. In the 1920s, the men of the St Helena Island prison in Moreton Bay were moved into the former women’s gaol. Renamed Number Two Division, this section became home to those serving the longest sentences – killers, murderers, and violent offenders. Three cellblocks became the homes of “Lifers”. Soon Boggo Road became notorious. Boggo Road was the home, and the place of death, of some of the nation‟s most infamous inmates including: James Richard Finch and John Andrew Stuart – the Whiskey Au Go Go bombers; “Slim” Halliday – the “Houdini of Boggo Road”, who escaped twice becoming one of Australia’s most famous escapologists; Ernest Austin – a child-killer who was to become the last man to be executed in the state of Queensland; Florence MacDonald – the stepmother of the “Longreach Cinderella”; Patrick Kenniff – Australia’s last bushranger. For every infamous inmate, there were thousands of ordinary people whose crimes made the newspapers – prostitutes, burglars, thieves, charlatans, frauds, drunks, political protesters, wife-deserters and fine evaders – every story is fascinating. Number Two Division was finally closed in 1989. In the 1980s Number Two Division became the focal point of intense national media scrutiny following a series of dramatic escapes, hunger strikes, riots and roof-top protests over the primitive conditions in which inmates were being held. Number Two Division was closed in 1989. The entire prison complex shut its doors forever in 2002, after 119 years in operation when the last section of Boggo Road – the Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre – was closed. Number Two Division is today the only remaining section of Boggo Road Gaol. Heritage-listed, it will never be demolished. In December 2012 it has been reopened and will now become a tourist attraction for Queensland. Source: boggoroadgaol.com/history/

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It's the Mary Poppins' author's father's bank ... !!

Streetview (see Mary Poppins statue) - goo.gl/maps/zKUdjhUAKvN2

P. L. Travers -
"Helen Lyndon Goff, known within her family as Lyndon, was born on 9 August 1899 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. Her mother, Margaret Agnes Goff (née Morehead), was Australian and the sister of Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Premier of Queensland from 1888 to 1890. Her father, Travers Robert Goff, was of Irish descent and born in 1864 at Queens Road, New Cross in the Borough of Deptford, south-east London, England[2]. He was unsuccessful as a bank manager due to his chronic alcoholism, and was eventually demoted to the position of bank clerk.[3] The family lived in a large home with servants in Maryborough until Lyndon was five years old, when they relocated to Allora in 1905. Two years later, Travers Goff died at home at the age of 43.[4]

Following her father's death, Goff, along with her mother and sisters, moved to Bowral, New South Wales, in 1907, living there until 1917.[5] She boarded at Loreto Girls School in Normanhurst, a suburb of Sydney, during World War I.[6]... "
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._L._Travers

It was Travers' birthplace in 1899 - www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/birthplace-o...

In 2005 via Sophie18

beachcomber australia It's been a long time since I've played the Mary Poppins spotting game!
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/pellethepoet/galleries/72157626871570111/]

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A United Methodist Free church opened on Sunday 11 August 1878 on the corner of Gympie Road and Banfield Street, (then Church Street, approx 27.3818°S 153.0230°E).[8][9] In 1926 a more central site was purchased on the southeast corner of Gympie Road and Hamilton Road and the church building was relocated to the new site and renovated.[10][11][12] It was replaced by a brick church that opened on 30 September 1950.[13] It became part of the Uniting Church in 1977. This brick church was demolished in 2004,[14] probably because the current Chermside-Kedron Community Church (a Uniting Church) in Chermside on the north-western corner of Gympie Road and Rode Road had opened on 23 September 2001. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chermside,_Queensland

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

Simply stunning to see these shots hundred years after the fact. They seem so fresh and clear and considering the conditions and equipment there and then, I think they are humbling for today's photographers.

@J e n s - considering the conditions, the equipment and the downright enormous gloves I have to agree - they're almost miraculous. -- Courtney

Incredible.

great proportion. I didn't realize how big it actually looked until i saw the ant-sized people on the bottom. Took my breath away.