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Brunswick Street is a main thoroughfare within the suburbs of New Farm and Fortitude Valley (known locally as the Valley) in Brisbane, Australia. The street is not entirely roadway but is a pedestrian mall for a hundred metres near its centre.
The station opened on 1 November 1890 as Brunswick Street with the completion of the railway from Brisbane Central. [2] [3]In July 2007, an upgrade on the station commenced but being a busy station, only two platforms were able to be upgraded at any one time.
An advertisement in the Brisbane Centenary Official Historical Souvenir (1924) proclaims the Royal George as "One of Brisbane's Oldest Establishments" (evidenced by a photograph dated 1854 to 1886 showing the early brick hotel) but also as "A First-class New and Up-to-date Modern Hotel" (illustrated by a contemporary photograph of the three ...
The Brunswick Street church became the centre of Primitive Methodism in Brisbane. [ 1 ] One of the most successful of the church's activities was the establishment of the Fortitude Valley Penny Savings Bank, which operated from the church premises from 1886 until 1982, and then from a private residence until wound up in 1993.
1891 saw the train line extended from the Brisbane central business district (the area around Queen Street) into Fortitude Valley, [17] and Thomas Beirne opened a business on Brunswick Street. His business thrived and, after extension, he travelled to England in 1896, leaving his manager of two years, James McWhirter , in charge.
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Within a few years of the purchase of the Brunswick Street property, Beirne acquired adjoining properties in Duncan Street. The company was eventually to boast a Brunswick Street frontage of 146 feet (45 m), a Duncan Street frontage of 311 feet (95 m), and an Ann Street frontage of 62 feet (19 m). The shop floor areas fronted Brunswick Street ...