Based in Capalaba, we service the whole West End, South Brisbane, Highgate Hill and Fortitude Valley corridor.
West End forms a river peninsula alongside South Brisbane and Highgate Hill, and Boundary Street here once marked the original edge of the Town of Brisbane.
View Area →Highgate Hill is named for its undulating terrain, echoing London's Highgate, and is home to the Torbreck building on Dornoch Terrace - Queensland's first residential high-rise apartment, built in 1960.
View Area →South Brisbane was known as Kurilpa to the local Aboriginal people, and takes its European name from its position on the south bank of the river, directly opposite what is now the Brisbane CBD.
View Area →Kangaroo Point is one of Brisbane's oldest suburbs, described by explorer John Oxley in 1823 as jungle fringed with mangroves, with the higher land covered in open grassy forest.
View Area →Dutton Park takes its name from its railway station, which opened in 1891, and is home to the heritage-listed Dutton Park State School, established back in 1884.
View Area →Woolloongabba's name comes from an Aboriginal expression variously interpreted as whirling waters or a fighting place, and the suburb was once known as One Mile Swamp before becoming home to the Gabba cricket ground.
View Area →Fairfield sits within the historic Stephens Shire district, with its own railway station opening in 1896 to serve the growing riverside community.
View Area →Yeronga's name likely comes from the Aboriginal word for sandy or gravelly ground, and the suburb's popularity took off after Yeronga railway station opened in 1885.
View Area →St Lucia sits within the historic Parish of Indooroopilly and is best known today as home to the University of Queensland's main campus, established on land bounded by a bend in the Brisbane River.
View Area →Toowong was one of the original stops when the railway line opened in 1875, and grew alongside Milton and Indooroopilly as one of Brisbane's earliest riverside commuter suburbs.
View Area →Milton is named after Milton House, a substantial dwelling built in 1854 by early landowner Ambrose Eldridge on the northern riverbank, which still stands today in an upgraded form.
View Area →Auchenflower takes its name from the home of Sir Thomas McIlwraith, three-time Queensland Premier, who renamed his property in 1880 after his uncle's Ayrshire estate in Scotland - 'Auchenflower' meaning field of flowers.
View Area →Spring Hill takes its name from the natural spring water once found on the rising land, and Wickham Terrace - the suburb's main thoroughfare - has marked the boundary with the Brisbane CBD since land sales began there in 1856.
View Area →Fortitude Valley is named after the ship Fortitude, which brought a group of Scottish immigrants to Brisbane in January 1849; they set up a temporary village nearby before the suburb grew into the city's entertainment and retail hub.
View Area →New Farm was the site of Brisbane's second farm area from around 1839, and was subdivided into suburban allotments around Brunswick Street and Merthyr Road by 1843.
View Area →Teneriffe was likely named after Mount Teide in the Canary Islands in the 1850s, and the suburb's old woolstores and wharves have since become one of Brisbane's most sought-after riverside precincts.
View Area →Newstead takes its name from Newstead House, built in 1846 and recognised as Brisbane's oldest surviving residence, named by its builder Patrick Leslie after Newstead Abbey in England.
View Area →Bowen Hills was named after Sir George Bowen, Queensland's first governor from 1859 to 1868, with some of its earliest houses built in the late 1850s on what became known as Bowen Hills Crest.
View Area →Petrie Terrace takes its name from the road of the same name, itself named after the pioneering Petrie family headed by early Brisbane settler Andrew Petrie.
View Area →Paddington is believed to be named after the London locality of the same name, and the area was once known locally as being at the back of the jail, referring to Brisbane's main gaol which stood nearby on Petrie Terrace.
View Area →Red Hill is named after its steep hills of red soil and rocks, and remains one of Brisbane's oldest suburbs, with its main shops still centred along Musgrave and Waterworks Roads.
View Area →Herston takes its name from Queensland's first Premier, Sir Robert Herbert, who built a farm on the site now occupied by the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.
View Area →Kelvin Grove was named in 1865 by Dr Joseph Bancroft, who called his new residence after Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow, a place he remembered fondly from home.
View Area →Windsor was declared a shire in 1887, Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee year, and was named in her honour after the royal residence of Windsor Castle.
View Area →Wilston takes its name from the residence of early settler William Wilson, who built his home in 1876 and named it after his birthplace in Ireland.
View Area →Albion was named in 1864 by the proprietor of a new hotel on Sandgate Road, who chose the Latin word for white after the pale sandstone quarried locally by pioneer John Petrie.
View Area →Hawthorne was a farming district in the 1860s, named after the hawthorn bushes planted throughout the area by original settler William Baynes.
View Area →Morningside is thought to be named for the sight of the morning sun striking the nearby hills, or for being on the 'morning' (eastern) side of Brisbane. It grew up around the 1889 Bulimba railway station, now Morningside station.
View Area →Norman Park is a small, leafy inner-bayside suburb bordering Coorparoo and Morningside, believed to be named after an 1890s estate in the area.
View Area →East Brisbane's significant housing areas were developed during Brisbane's 1880s property boom, including the Heathfield Estate released in 1886, and the suburb's state school opened in 1899.
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