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The Woolloongabba Divisional Board in the early 1880s acquired a section of Thomas Stephens’ Lot 105 property for a manure depot. On 14 October 1886 the depot is taken over by the Stephens Divisional Board. By the time the Divisional Board becomes the Stephens Shire Council, the manure depot closed down and the Council land was used for various purposes. A portion of the land was sold for the Stephens Police Station (see entry). The land on the corner of the Waldheim Laneway and Ipswich Road was a vacant reserve, and the Junction Park State School (see entry) had for many decades had hoped that it would be given over to the school reserve as an entry-point at the Annerley Junction. That was never to be, as was a plan to establish a School of Arts on the site. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the land was used as a Council Depot, until the Annerley Library was constructed (see entry).

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Erica Ferroff (Edited). A Century of Achievement. The Centenary Committee of the Junction Park State School, 1988. p 10.

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QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 40 chains to 1 inch. Brisbane area including the Brisbane River and tributaries, Pine River, and creeks showing entrances to Moreton Bay, adjacent islands, land subdivisions with names of owners and lessees, railways, roads. 40 chains to the inch. Brisbane, Survey Office.. 634763