Stage Number: MBSH.03.03.15
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Bulimba-Balmoral-Hawthorne-Morningside
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: 580 Wynnum Rd (cnr Thynne Rd), Morningside
Latitude & Longitude: -27.46911667,153.07029167
Time Link: 1942
Map Link: 1946
Image Time Point: 1946
Built 1942, Outbreak of Pacific War (8 December 1941) led the Queensland Government to order the Brisbane City Council to build 200 concrete, pillbox public shelters. On 23 March 1942, the state instructed Council to build an extra 50 shelters in or near the City plus 25 suburban shelters. Council’s City Architect Frank Costello designed all shelters, for reuse afteer the war. He designed three types of public shelters – standard pillbox, bus waiting shed or park shelter. The 44 park shelters had a double cantilever roof supported by central columns emplaced on a concrete floor. They had all of their exterior walls removed to convert them, post-war, into open, picnic shelters. This shelter was completed by June 1942 to serve the Morningside Shops and the Wynnum Road tramline. Brisbane air raid shelter construction ceased in 1943. It is still used as a picnic shelter
Discover Queensland at war, www.ww2places.qld.gov.au
Qimagery. Brisbane City Council Series 1946. Scale: 1:15,900.