Stage Number: MBSH.03.01.52
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: West End-South Brisbane-North Woolloongabba
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Street Address: 615 Stanley St. Woolloongabba
Latitude & Longitude: -27.48578333,153.02950278
Time Link: 1866
Map Link: 1865
Image Time Point: 1865
Built circa1866. George Hillyard bought the land in 1865 and soon had a masonary shop/house built there. The bricks used in constuction possibly came from the nearby quarry and brickworks established on marshland behind the site. His building contained ‘Hillyard’s Jewelers’ shop on the ground floor and his residence atop. He operated his business in the area, then known as One Mile Swamp, for nearly 20 years. The area’s name changed to Wooloongabba in the 1890s. Originally, this buliding feature a rooftop, clocktower used for advertising Hillyard’s trade as a watchmaker. It marks the first stage of Wooloongabba’s retail development.
Brisbane City Council, Exploring the City of South Brisbane: Heritage Trail Series No.11, (Brisbane, BCC, c1999)
QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 1 chain to the inch. Plan of subdivision of section 30 City of Brisbane. 1 chain to an inch. Surveyor General’s Office, Brisbane.(quarter-size). 634488
