Wednesday 21 September 2022

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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18 comments:

  1. Some very nice houses, Helen. Town walks can be good too.

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    1. Yes, Bill, towns can be quite wonderful to walk through. So much history, parks and gardens.

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  2. Such an interesting post, Helen! It's lovely to see how homes look in different parts of the world. (I probably wouldn't have guessed that these houses are located in Australia, had I seen them without any information. :)) Such lush gardens around them and what beautiful flowers!
    The churches are beautiful too.
    Stay well!!

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    1. Sara, in the southern states the early homes were of brick for warmth. This area was settled in the 1800s and the homes were built with verandahs and on high stumps for cooling airflow.

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  3. I enjoyed your walk. It feels like a country area but in the city. The fairy gardens are cute and the blossoming tree is gorgeous. I hadn’t heard of it before. The houses look to be designed for shade and with so much white against the heat. Thank you for sharing!

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    1. The Bauhinia is a tropical tree ad I have just discovered the national flower of Hong Kong.

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  4. You are lucky to have a bunch of good friends to go walking with. Another lovely journey!

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    1. So very true, Linda. Sometimes I wish they would walk a little slower so I could take a few more photos. I know you will understand that thought.

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  5. It looks like a nice walk, the fairy gardens are cute, and I love the blooming trees.

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    1. Thank you Margi. It is our spring and all our trees and shrubs are looking their best in many years.

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  6. Oh those wonderful Queenslander homes.

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  7. That's a pretty neighbourhood! The "Hungary Hikers" stopped for only a coffee!!!

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    1. I think the 'hungriest hiker' was absent! We did have a light breakfast as we met at 7 am. The traffic was bad so I had to set off at 6am.

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  8. I love how you find something interesting wherever you go.

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    1. I don't have your majestic mountains and trails to explore so we make the most on our doorstep. My choice would be out in nature.

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  9. I marvel at your access to water views. I've never heard of Bauhinia trees, but they are certainly beautiful! I agree with some of the other readers: It was interesting to see the different homes in this community.

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  10. I am very fortunate to live where I do, Kim. Mountains, sea, rivers, countryside, and city perks. I'm not sure I could live with endless flat and great distances.

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