Posties, Cops and Ferrymen Part One of a paper covering the provision of government services in the early days of the suburb of St Lucia Andrew Darbyshire St Lucia History Group Research Paper No 7 St Lucia History Group CONTENTS Introduction and Authors Notes, References 2 Postal Services Brief History Post & Telegraph Services in Queensland 5 West Milton 8 Dart’s Sugar mill, Indooroopilly 9 St Lucia Ferry 10 Guyatt’s Store 10 Brisbane University 11 St Lucia 11 Taringa East 12 Toowong 19 Indooroopilly 22 Witton Park 27 Taringa 28 Police Stations Introduction to Research Notes 33 Toowong 34 Indooroopilly 38 Taringa 44 Ferries West End Ferries 50 Indooroopilly Ferry 67 Andrew Darbyshire March 2017 Private Study Paper – not for general publication Issue No 1 (Draft for Comment) - February 2004 Issue No 2 (Supplementary Info) – November 2004 Issue No 3 (Supplementary Info) – March 2005 Issue No 4 (Supplementary Info) – May 2005 Issue No 5 (Supplementary Info) – September 2005 Issue No 6 (Supplementary Info/Images added) – February 2007 Formatting and minor edits, WE Ferries updated – January 2010 Re-shuffle of Post Office notes – March 2017 St Lucia History Group PO Box 4343 St Lucia South QLD 4067
[email protected] brisbanehistorywest.wordpress.com ad/history/posties cops and ferrymen Page 1 of 69 St Lucia History Group INTRODUCTION AND AUTHORS NOTES Considering its closeness to the city the current day area of the suburb of St Lucia must have been a government administrators dream when it came to spending on public works and services. Primarily a semi rural/small farming community until the 1920’s the suburban building boom largely by-passed most of St Lucia until the 1940’s when construction of the new campus and relocation of the University created the impetus for residential development.