This white wall is part of Naldham House on Eagle Street, home to the Australasian United Steam Company, now known more commonly as The Polo Club. It was opened in 1889 and so has first-hand experience of Brisbane's three great floods... with markers on the wall to prove it: from the bottom up: 1896, 1974 and way up there is 1893. Accounts of the 1893 flood are biblical in proportion. All sorts of debris floated down the river. Houses, lifted off their stumps and furniture crashed loudly into the Victoria Bridge causing half of it to be washed away. The Indooroopilly Railway bridge was carried away too.
So what's this all got to do with feet?
Well in 1893, Edward Street in the city was under 8 feet of water and the official level in the city was 23 feet and 9 inches above the mean spring tide. This marker here at the Polo Club looks like it's about 17 feet but I didn't have my tape measure with me.
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Posting magically continues despite me being on me hols. Back in late June.
Sorry I just can't help myself.
I've featured this shop before - it's the Libertine purfumery on Hardgrave Road in West End. At night, when all is quiet, they leave the lights on for you so you can press your nose up against the window.
The artist, Alicia Lane, writes:
This one is from the archives but it still gracing the corner of Merivale and Melbourne Streets by artist Simon Degroot who seems to have painted the most signal boxes in Brisbane by far. Here, we have two for the price of one. Splendid.
Taken from Riparian Plaza on a lazy Saturday...
Here are the dancers that the accordian players from the last few posts were accompanying.
When I was at the Brookfield Show I came across a bunch of Morris Dancers in the weirdest outfits. I thought it was all supposed to be white shirts, white faces and a few coloured ribbons... but I'm no expert. Anyway... the musicians were just as good to look at as the dancers.
You see these trees in parks all over Brisbane.
One of the most prolific flowers in Brisbane is bougainvillea. This particularly fine example was taken back in January and looks like it is beating the wall into submission.
Lovely Queenslander houses.
West End.
This white wall is part of Naldham House on Eagle Street, home to the Australasian United Steam Company, now known more commonly as The Polo Club. It was opened in 1889 and so has first-hand experience of Brisbane's three great floods... with markers on the wall to prove it: from the bottom up: 1896, 1974 and way up there is 1893. Accounts of the 1893 flood are biblical in proportion. All sorts of debris floated down the river. Houses, lifted off their stumps and furniture crashed loudly into the Victoria Bridge causing half of it to be washed away. The Indooroopilly Railway bridge was carried away too.
