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Brisbane in 1880, looking west from the Observatory

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Old days city view.

Experiments at Wickham Terrace Observatory

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Brisbane continued to grow, in 1876 the town’s first railway station opened: Roma Street Station. This was followed by the rollout of horse-drawn and then electric trams in 1880 and 90s. The 1880s ushered in considerable changes for Brisbane, large landholdings were opened up to new landowners and speculators by the government. There are over 1,000 digitised land auction posters in the State Library’s collection, hundreds of which are from the 1880s. The population grew in response to these changes, from approximately 6,000 people in 1861 to 88,000 by the 1891 census, mainly due to migration from Britain. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/mappingfuturebrisbane/old-windmill-tower
  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Many faces of the Old Windmill Tower. From convict punishment to the observatory.

View of Brisbane from the Old Windmill Observatory in Brisbane

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Brisbane’s oldest building has many facets to its sometimes dark and brutal history - built by convicts in the late 1820s, it is not just the longest surviving convict building but also the oldest windmill in existence in Australia. Source: www.mustdobrisbane.com/visitor-info-arts-culture-history/...

Observatory, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, Queensland, ca. 1908

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    The secret of the Old Windmill.