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Built 1925-26. The area’s farming community saw the need for a Progress Association Hall, as the 1901 School was becoming over-used, due to increasing enrolments from Sunnybank, which had no school. The two areas rivaled to see which would built a community hall first. It was a tie. Runcorn chose a Progress Association Hall, rather than a School of Arts. It peformed the same role, except without a library. The newly-formed Runcorn Progress Association fundraised to buy one acre from the fertilizer bonemill of Clazy, Main, Smith and Co. Th Hall became the center of many community activities including dances, commemorative celebrations and lectures.
Citations
Beryl Roberts, Runcorn Heritage Trail, (Brisbane: Runcorn State School, 1990); Brisbane City Council, HERITAGE REGISTER SUMMARY, https://heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au/heritage_register/placeDetail.do?action=readandplaceId=1714andfullDetail=trueandnavParam=startBasic
Image Citations
Runcorn Progress Association Hall. Brisbane City Archives. BCC-B120-81163
Map References
Qimagery. Brisbane 1936. Scale: 1:11,000.