Title

Brisbane Gas Works near Petrie Bight, Brisbane, c1868. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Brisbane Gas Works near Petrie Bight, Brisbane, c1868. View from Bowen Terrace towards Petrie Bight. On the right are James Barkers Wharves and we are standing above his quarry on Bowen Terrace whose stone went to all parts of the world as ballast for the many ships who unloaded their goods into his warehouses just out of sight to the right. As well as ballast you can see his polished stone in the columns of Blackall's monument in Toowong Cemetery along with Jeay's sandstone. That is Andrew Petrie's building with the chimney stack and the white building is a closed in swimming baths.The Windmill on Wickham Tce in Spring Hill and All Saints Anglican church is at the lower end of Wickham Terrace, Brisbane.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM25A52_295

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

46,9Mo (3,4Mo) / 42,0cm x 28,0cm / 4960 x 3307 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors river water building library historical landscape Australia Australian industry country housing still view British Queensland geography industrial distance photography wharf docks dock gas rooftop rooftops roof location century Colonial distant empire vista Britain Brisbane photograph concept photo water surface B&W Day 19th century black & white black and white B W housing development british colony Circular Quay 1860s Brisbane River nineteenth century history historic British Empire colonialism gas works gasworks geographical feature TGN outside street building exterior photograph landscape Unknown view to land Andrew 1868 Heritage Art 19th-century Petrie Crown colony National Library of Australia Petrie Bight Wickham Terrace Andrew Petrie