Stage Number: MBSH.02.01.05
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Dutton Park-South Woolloongabba-Buranda
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Street Address: 151 Annerley Road
Latitude & Longitude: -27.4935,153.02886111
Time Link: 1888
Map Link: 1889
Image Time Point: 1889
Bakeries were an important part of this local area for many years. David Webster owned one of the earliest, a cake and biscuit factory that opened here in 1888. His grand house, named ‘Beulah’, was on the corner of Gladstone and James Street. Webster was born in Ipswich, Queensland, in 1864, and after learning the bakery business he traded as a master baker in Brisbane for 54 years before his death in 1937. His thriving business was able to support and service a number of his own tea rooms in the city. The bakery remained open for decades after he died, and the company was eventually bought by Weston’s. Today only the remnant of one bakery wall remains, and the site was recently developed for new housing.
The Truth, 11 July 1937; Telegraph, 3 July 1937; Queensland Post Office Directory 1888, p.22.
David Webster’s Bakery at Dutton Park, Brisbane, ca. 1890-1900. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Record number. 53448.
QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 8 chains to the inch. Plan of the City of Brisbane and suburbs according to the original Crown Grants. 8 chains to the inch. Survey Office, Brisbane.. 634511
