What is this structure across the Brisbane River?
These two photographs from the John Oxley Library’s collection show a structure crossing the Brisbane River between Auchenflower and West End.
Is it the preliminary work for a bridge that never progressed to completion, or the laying of cross-river cables, or something else?
These images will be featured on an upcoming segment of Channel Seven’s Great South East program, where the identity of this cross-river structure is briefly discussed.
If anyone knows what this structure is, we’d love to know, so please blog back.
Do you have any idea of about when the photos were taken?
Comment by Margaret — 21 November, 2008 @ 11:38 am
We think the images date to the 1880s
Comment by JOL Admin — 24 November, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
Is the Landscape in the background West End or Auchenflower?
Comment by Chris — 28 February, 2009 @ 4:08 pm
I think it is the Brisbane connection of the undersea cable from Sanfrancisco which joined Australia it Narrowneck ,Gold Coast . This happened around 1918.
There must have been cable run from Narrowneck to Brisbane crossing all the creeks…
Comment by Randell — 4 March, 2009 @ 9:02 am
Thanks for this information.
Comment by JOL Admin — 4 March, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
hey all, I have been tracking down information about this structure for the past 3 weeks when I found a similar photo on ourbrisbane. I live in Toowong and I walked down around this area to check out if I could find anything.. what I found was 4 concrete pillars 30-50cm in diameter, 1m each apart from each other..
If anybody is looking for more information or have found more information about this structure, please contact me!
Comment by Julian — 22 March, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
Thanks for this great information, it’s interesting to see the discussion generated.
Comment by John Oxley Library — 23 March, 2009 @ 9:04 am