Grammar School (Boys’), Gregory Terrace, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 1886
By Remembering the Past Australia / August 16, 2020 / Australia / 0 Comments
Place:
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date:
1886
Historical Information:
This image is part of the Colonial Office photographic collection held at The National Archives UK.
Brisbane Grammar School was founded in 1868 under the Grammar Schools Act, which had been passed by the Queensland Government in 1860. It was the second school established under this act in Queensland, with the first being Ipswich Grammar School.
The original school, designed by Benjamin Backhouse, was on a site in Roma Street in Brisbane City, approximately opposite modern Herschel Street. HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844–1900), second son of Queen Victoria, laid the foundation stone at the site on 21 February 1868. The school opened in February 1869, with ninety-four students and four masters, under the leadership of headmaster Thomas Harlin. In 1881, the school was moved a few hundred metres away to its current site on Gregory Terrace in Spring Hill to make way for the Roma Street Railway Station, which still stands today. [Wikipedia]
Description:
Showing the Grammar School (Boys’), Gregory Terrace, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Original photo published 1886.
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