Tag: survey plans
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The broken lands of Toowong
In an earlier post called The Waters of Milton, I explored a survey plan of Milton drawn in 1850. Survey plans are valuable historical artifacts because they generally represent the first efforts to capture the landscape on paper. They reveal natural features that have long since vanished, such as creeks, swamps and even hills. They…
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Detail Plans on Google Earth
Having recently Google-Earthified several historical maps of the Milton Reach and surrounding suburbs, I thought I’d apply the same technique to some of the City Council’s ‘Detail Plans’. These plans were produced prior to sewerage being installed in Brisbane, and they depict the built environment at a much finer spatial scale than the maps I…
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The Waters of Milton
I’ve expressed previously my enthusiasm for old maps. The older they are, the more they tend to reveal about the original landscape. Until recently, the oldest map that I had found of the Milton area dated back to 1859. That map (‘Plan of Portions 203 to 257 in the Environs of Brisbane, Parish of Enoggera,…