Heritage Walk Bulimba

Wednesday 21 September 

A 7 am start saw us all meeting at Hawthorne Park. A leafy park with a lovely English feel, with its white picket fence around the cricket field.

Our route

Heritage Hawthorne Ferry Terminal - 1925

The nearby Bulimba Ferry Terminal - 2014.

The native Bottle Brush and Grevilleas were looking sensational with their spring blossoms.

Bulimba is a very 'green' suburb to walk through.

Unusual street lights on busy Oxford Street, a popular dining destination. The 'Hungry Hikers' did stop for a coffee towards the end of our walk.

The Bauhinia trees are in full, glorious blossom at present.

It seems to be becoming a trend to make fairy gardens around trees. We must have seen more than five on this walk.

Brisbane was proclaimed a municipality in 1857 and was gazetted as a city in 1901.

By the 1860s the suburb of Bulimba was a farming settlement with a school and a church; the main town was reached by river, the McConnel family having a rowing-boat service. A post office was opened in 1871. The Bulimba cemetery, well south of the present suburb, was established.

Bulimba Uniting Church, 1866 and built by the 'Primitive Methodist Church.

St John the Baptist Anglican Church, 1888.

From its rural beginnings, Bulimba became a working man's suburb. Industrial workers, waterside workers, shipbuilders, fishermen and farmers lived side by side in not-so-genteel housing, although the Queenslander style architecture was very evident. In recent years it has become a very desirable suburb to live in with the "Queenslanders" getting a facelift. 

We had a lovely morning wandering the quiet streets and commenting on what we liked and disliked about so many of them. 9 kilometres were walked.

A more modern home, but so lovely to see it softened by growing sweet peas along the fence line. 

A very large modern replica.

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