Stage Number: MBSH.04.02.01
Group: Eastern & Bay
Local Study Area: Wynnum-Wynnum West-Manly-Lota-Manly West
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: 52 Alexander Street, Lota
Latitude & Longitude: -27.46733333,153.18952778
Time Link: 1927
Map Link: 1936
Image Time Point: 1936
The Lota community came together through 1926 to help construct this hall. It opened in March 1927 and soon became a social hub of the small suburb, hosting such activities as weddings, a library, church services, community meetings, movie nights and dances (the timber dancing floor was made of crow’s ash). The Boomerang Youth Club also used the club for a few years from 1952. The hall Trustees donated the building and 40 perches of land to the Police Citizen Youth Club in 1966, and in 1973 it was demolished and replaced with a modern building for the PCYC, which still stands today.
The Telegraph, 8 March 1927; Lota State School, ‘History’ (https://lotass.eq.edu.au/Ourschool/History/Pages/History.aspx), sighted 26 July 2017.
Stump capping ceremony, Lota School of Arts, 1926. Lota State School (http://resources.lotass.eq.edu.au/lotahistory/index.htm).
Qimagery. Brisbane 1936. Scale: 1:11,000.
