Based in West End, we service all of the suburbs below and the areas around them.
West End is part of a river peninsula with South Brisbane and Highgate Hill, and Boundary Street, now its main shopping strip, once formed part of the original boundary of the Town of Brisbane. Davies Park hosts a large farmers market every Saturday.
View Area →The name Highgate Hill first appears in an 1864 land sale advertisement for the Highgate Hill Estate, and it is thought to come from Highgate Hill in London. Torbreck on Dornoch Terrace was Brisbane's first apartment tower, built in 1962.
View Area →South Brisbane is part of the area the local Indigenous people call Kurilpa, meaning water rat, and it takes its name from its position on the south side of the river from what is now the Brisbane CBD. Musgrave Park was reserved in 1856, and South Brisbane became an independent municipality in 1888.
View Area →Kangaroo Point is one of Brisbane's oldest suburbs. John Oxley described it in 1823 as jungle fringed with mangroves, with higher land of open forest covered with grass. The Story Bridge and Kangaroo Point Cliffs are its two best-known features.
View Area →Dutton Park takes its name from Dutton's Park, named in 1884 after Charles Boydell Dutton, and the name became the suburb's name around 1910. Boggo Road Gaol opened in 1883, and the Eleanor Schonell Bridge links the suburb to the University of Queensland.
View Area →The name Woolloongabba comes from an Aboriginal expression that experts read as either whirling waters or fight talk place, and the low-lying area was known as One Mile Swamp until the early 1890s. The suburb contains the Brisbane Cricket Ground, known as the Gabba, and the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
View Area →Fairfield takes its name from an arrowroot farm called Fairfield, set up by Samuel Grimes and his brother George in 1857. The suburb borders the Brisbane River, has many parks, and has no schools of its own.
View Area →The name Yeronga is thought to come from an Aboriginal word meaning sandy or gravelly, or possibly from a house called Yerong-lea, and settlement grew once the railway opened in 1884. Yeronga State School and Yeronga State High School are both in the suburb.
View Area →St Lucia hosts the main campus of the University of Queensland, and the suburb is bounded on the north, east and south by a bend in the Brisbane River. It was named when William Alexander Wilson, born in St Lucia in the West Indies, renamed his plantation the St Lucia Sugar Plantation after buying it in 1882.
View Area →Toowong started developing with the arrival of the Ipswich railway line in 1875, and its first residents were an upper-middle class who worked in the city. Toowong Village sits at the centre of the suburb, and Toowong Cemetery is the largest in Queensland.
View Area →Milton takes its name from Milton Farm, used from the late 1840s by chemist Ambrose Eldridge, who named it after the poet John Milton. Milton House on McDougall Street is heritage listed, and Suncorp Stadium and the XXXX Brewery are both in the suburb.
View Area →Auchenflower is a Gaelic word meaning field of flowers, and an estate in the area was named Auchenflower by Thomas McIlwraith around 1880. The Wesley Hospital on Coronation Drive extends through to Auchenflower railway station, and there are no schools in the suburb.
View Area →Spring Hill was originally called Spring Hollow because natural springs supplemented Brisbane's early water supply, and the name Spring Hill came into use once prominent citizens began living on the ridge. The Old Windmill on Wickham Terrace was built in 1828, and Spring Hill Baths are the oldest public baths in Queensland.
View Area →Fortitude Valley is named after the ship Fortitude, which brought Scottish immigrants to Brisbane in 1849. The suburb is a hub of Brisbane's nightlife, with the Brunswick Street Mall, Chinatown Mall and the James Street shopping and dining precinct.
View Area →Commandant Patrick Logan established a new farm in the area in 1827 as part of the Moreton Bay penal colony. The historic New Farm Park sits at the south-eastern end of the peninsula, with the former tramway power station beside it now the Brisbane Powerhouse arts venue.
View Area →Teneriffe is named after the property James Gibbon called Teneriffe because it reminded him of Mount Teide, and he built Teneriffe House there in 1865. The first wool store was built in 1909, and the old wool stores have since been converted to apartments.
View Area →Newstead takes its name from Newstead House, built and named in 1846 and Brisbane's oldest existing home, which is named after Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, England. The suburb is bounded by Breakfast Creek and the Brisbane River.
View Area →Bowen Hills was named after Queensland Governor Sir George Ferguson Bowen. The Ekka, the Royal Queensland Show, is held each year at the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds in the suburb, and both Bowen Hills railway station and Exhibition station serve it.
View Area →Petrie Terrace takes its name from the road of the same name, which was named after the Petrie family, headed by Andrew Petrie. The former Petrie Terrace Police Depot is on the Queensland Heritage Register and is now a retail precinct called The Barracks.
View Area →Paddington is named after a farm whose owner, a Mr Clay, named it after his London birthplace. The suburb is best known for boutique shopping, cafes, galleries and dining along Given Terrace and Latrobe Terrace, and its water tower, completed in 1927, is heritage listed.
View Area →Red Hill is named after its steep hills with red soil and rocks, and it is one of the oldest suburbs in Brisbane, established in 1887. St Bridget's Church, built in 1914, is a landmark visible from all directions, and there are shops on Musgrave Road and Waterworks Road.
View Area →Herston takes its name from the house that Sir Robert Herbert, Queensland's first premier, shared with John Bramston, and the name combines their surnames. The Herston Health Precinct includes the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
View Area →Kelvin Grove takes its name from the residence Dr Joseph Bancroft built in the area in 1865 and called Kelvin Grove after Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow. The suburb is home to the Queensland University of Technology Kelvin Grove campus, and the Kelvin Grove Urban Village opened in 2003.
View Area →The Shire of Windsor was formed in 1887, Queen Victoria's golden jubilee year, and was named after Windsor Castle in England. Windsor railway station is on Eildon Road, and the heritage-listed Windsor War Memorial Park is on Lutwyche Road.
View Area →Wilston is named after Wilston House, built around 1876 by the Honourable William Wilson and named after his birthplace home in County Fermanagh, Ireland. Wilston Village on Kedron Brook Road is the main retail area, and there are no government schools in the suburb.
View Area →The Albion Hotel on Sandgate Road got its name from Thomas Hayseldon's reaction to the white wall of Petrie's quarry, which opened in 1860 and reminded him of England's white cliffs. Sandgate Road runs through the middle of the suburb, and Albion railway station serves it.
View Area →Hawthorne started as a farming district in the 1860s and was gradually subdivided as Brisbane grew. One theory is that it was named after Hawthorn in Melbourne, and another is that William Baynes planted many hawthorn bushes there. There are no government schools in the suburb.
View Area →Morningside is said to be named for the sight of the morning sun catching the banks of the river, or for its location on the eastern side of Brisbane. It was a rural area of small dairy and tobacco farms before becoming a popular residential area after the war, and Wynnum Road is its main road.
View Area →Norman Park is likely named after an early estate in the area, whose name is thought to come from Norman Creek and Governor Henry Wylie Norman in the 1890s. The suburb borders East Brisbane, Coorparoo, Camp Hill, Morningside and Hawthorne, and Norman Park State School opened in 1900.
View Area →East Brisbane's significant housing areas were founded during Brisbane's property boom of the 1880s, including the Heathfield Estate released in 1886. East Brisbane State School opened in 1899, and Mowbray Park, established in 1904, sits beside the Brisbane River.
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