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The balustrading of the Petrie Bight retaining wall is visible to the left of Queen Street, 1926. This retaining wall was built in 1881–1882 for the Brisbane Municipal Council. The contractor for the project was Henry Patten and the cast-iron balustrading was manufactured locally by Smith Forrester & Co. [1]
Coronation Drive Retaining Wall is a heritage-listed embankment at Coronation Drive, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was formerly known as the North Quay retaining wall. It was designed by Thomas Kirk and built from 1887 to 1887 by George Charles Willcocks. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 ...
Retaining walls, fencing, a double staircase down to the river and nearby earth closets were also constructed. [2] The completed building in the Victorian Free Classical style incorporated pedimented gables and a massive colonnade. The copper-sheathed dome was constructed by sub-contracted coppersmith and brass founder, William Smith Henderson ...
William Street retaining wall is a heritage-listed embankment at William Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1889 to 1970s. It is also known as William Street & Queens Wharf Road retaining walls and North Quay porphry wall. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. [1]
The gaol reserve was enclosed by a wooden fence, which was replaced in 1862 by a 20-foot (6.1 m) high stone wall, constructed by contractor Joshua Jeays of Brisbane. Stone for the gaol wall was obtained from the Woogaroo Quarry. [1] Almost from its inception, the Brisbane Gaol on Petrie Terrace was overcrowded.
[36] [37] A timber embankment was erected in 1887–1889 (above and about 1.5 metres away from the earlier retaining wall) and fill was used to even out the land surface. [38] In 1890 the timber embankment was replaced by a concrete retaining wall that cut through the existing land fill. [39] [1]
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A plan of Campbell's Wharf New Farm, thought to date to 1904, shows lime kiln ruins with an adjoining iron shed, a retaining wall at the high water mark with a short wharf, and remnants of the Langshaw Sawmill. In 1914 title passed to James Green, a Brisbane timber merchant, who had moved his Wickham Street business to the New Farm site by 1916.