H I S T O R Y

Floods 1931
Old photos
Toowong Cemetery Photos

Sir Robert Philp
Tree Report
History of a Street Name
Opening of Toowong Library
Railway Station c.1900
Sisters of Mercy
Poster - Sale of the Glen Olive Garden Estate from 1924
Significant Toowong Tree Report
Latest Newsletter
Local Area Plan
19th century map-West Toowong
HISTORY UNDER THREAT

Map of Toowong West - late 19th century

Map of Toowong West - late 19th century

Note how the names of the streets are now different. Clower is now Gower, Grosvenor is now Bywong. The "market reserve" is still at the corner of Market Street and Duke Street, but in the form of a park and children's playground.

 

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History Links

Excerpts from Oral History Interviews

Mrs Rose McLelland

Late 19th Century map of West Toowong

Mt Coot-tha Memories by Barbara Lovelock

History of a Street Name Project

Extract from 1930 Souvenir Booklet on St Ignatius Church, Toowong

History of Mount St Mary's Convent (Goldicott)

Memories by Sister Ursula Markham

Ballantyne home in Soudan Street

Memories of Toowong by John Bray, President Bardon Community Association

Toowong Railway Station c.1900

Sisters of Mercy as remembered by Sister M Hedwige Schlecht

JB Fewings daughter moved to Eumundi after her marriage. See a photo of their original farmhouse.

Contents of Toowong Library Local History Folder

Mt Coot-tha, 1927. Foreground: Duke and Duchess of York.

Tram - Woodstock Street, Toowong

The Tramway Terminus

1939 Aerial View of West Toowong

Volunteer Toowong Firemen?

TOOWONG - THE QLD HERITAGE REGISTER, EXTRACTED FROM THEIR WEBSITE

Middenbury
BBC
Caskey Monument
Mount St Mary's (Goldicott)
Regatta Hotel
St Thomas' Church
Toowong Library
Fulton Residence
Moorlands (Mayne)
Pilot Geoffrey Wells
Warrawee
Toowong Cemetery
Temple of Peace