Stage Number: MBSH.02.01.14
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Dutton Park-South Woolloongabba-Buranda
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Street Address: Quarry Street, Woolloongabba
Latitude & Longitude: -27.49272222,153.03058333
Time Link: 1885
Map Link: 1885
Image Time Point: 1885
The two blocks of land on either side of what is now called Quarry Street were reserved in the 1880s as a quarry for road metal, a vital material in the days of dirt roads. This was a private quarry, owned by John Mullins. It was the scene of a tragedy in 1886 when 5-year-old James Hansen and a friend went to look at the quarry, which had been filled to form a waterhole by recent rains. James slipped into the water and drowned. The quarry itself was filled in and the land contained housing by the turn of the 20th century.
The Queenslander, 23 October 1886.
The road metal quarry is marked in the top left corner of this extract from an 1884 map.
QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 12 chains to the inch. Pugh’s Almanac street map of Brisbane. 12 chains to the inch.. 634507
