Stage Number: MBSH.05.01.19
Group: Western
Local Study Area: Chelmer-Graceville-Sherwood
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: Brisbane River off Ferry Road, Sherwood
Latitude & Longitude: -27.52830556,152.97258333
Time Link: 1923
Map Link: 1923
Image Time Point: 1923
This was one of a series of swimming enclosures situated along the Brisbane River during the 1920s and ’30s. While initially popular, all these baths suffered occasional flooding, vandalism, neglect, and problems with the deteriorating quality of the Brisbane River waters. When the medical officer of the Brisbane City Council visited the river baths at Sherwood in September 1934, he found a dead calf and a dead pig floating in the water, and unsurprisingly the baths were closed shortly afterwards.
Brisbane Courier, 17 December 1923; Courier-Mail, 1 October 1934.
The Brisbane River at Sherwood, looking across to Fig Tree Pocket, 1931. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Record number: 131979.
QSA. QSA Series ID 2058 Moreton District Maps – A Series. 6 miles to the inch. Moreton District. 6 miles to the inch. Survey Office, Brisbane.. 634900
