Month: September 2012
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Once upon a time in the west
I’ve finally finished a new page about the early estates of Milton. This page focuses on the early land divisions in the Milton area, and the houses and farms built on them by the early landowners. It also goes back a bit further, touching on Brisbane’s beginnings as a penal settlement, and further still, revisiting…
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Milton: Brisbane’s western frontier
The transformation of the Western Creek catchment began with the westward expansion of Brisbane into the area that became known as Milton. On this page we take a trip back to these early days of Brisbane to see how this development unfolded. Along the way, we learn about some of the first residents of Milton,…
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Fun with maps
The icon at the top of this page, and the fuller version on the homepage, features a depiction of Western Creek from A.R. McKellar’s 1895 map of Brisbane overlaid onto the modern landscape. For me, this fusion captured the essence of what the site is about: gaining a deeper understanding the modern landscape though an…
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The lost creeks rise again
There’s nothing like a flood to make you realise where the high and low points of the landscape really are. If someone had asked me, before the floodwaters rose in January 2011, to guess which parts of which streets in Milton, Rosalie and Auchenflower would go under, I would have been doing just that —…
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Let’s talk about the weather
A new page is coming soon, I promise! But while that is still in the wings, I thought this would be as good time as any to talk about the weather. Can anyone remember when it last rained? I can’t either, but according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s records, it was the 19th of July.…