Limbless Sailors and Soldiers Association Bowling Club

Stage Number: MBNH.09.03.25

Group: Old Town & River

Local Study Area: Fortitude Valley-New Farm-Newstead

Epoch: Late 20th Century

Street Address: 54-68 Oxlade Dve, New Farm

Latitude & Longitude: -27.47347222,153.04930556

Time Link: 1948

Map Link: 1950

Image Time Point: 1950

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Limbless Sailors and Soldiers Association Bowling Club was opened in 1949. The green was laid for he Returned Limbless Sailors and Soldiers Association by the R.S.S.A.I.L., in 1948, with a small greenkeper’s shed. In the early 1950’s, two ex-U.S. Army huts from the former Netherlands East Indies government-in-exile’s ‘Camp Columbia’ were relocated to this site, for a clubhouse.

Citations

Brisbane City Council, Heritage Register Summary, http://bit.ly/2lqRNpz

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Map References

QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 20 chains to the inch. Brisbane and suburbs. 20 chains to the inch. Survey Office, Brisbane. (coloured). 634603