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230  QUEENSLAND

8Customs House qSt John’s
Anglican Cathedral
399 Queen St. Tel (07) 3365 8999.
£ Brisbane Central. @ Free Loop. 373 Ann St. Tel (07) 3835 2231.
g Riverside. Open from 9am daily. £ Brisbane Central. @ Free Loop.
Closed public hols. 7 8 Sun. 0 g Riverside Centre. Open 9:30am–
∑ customshouse.com.au 4:30pm daily for visits (see website
for worship times). 7 8
Restored by the University of ∑ stjohnscathedral.com.au
Queensland in 1994, Customs
House, with its landmark copper Designed along French Gothic
dome and stately Corinthian lines in 1888, with the foundation
columns, is now open to the stone laid in 1901, St John’s
public. Commissioned in 1886, Anglican Cathedral is regarded
this is one of Brisbane’s oldest as one of the most splendid
buildings, predating both City churches in the southern
Hall (see p229) and the Treasury. hemisphere. The interior is of
Early renovations removed the Helidon sandstone. On display
hall and staircase, but these are numerous examples of local
have now been carefully needlework, wood, glass and
reconstructed from the original stone craft. Over 400 cushions
plans. Today, the building is The distinctive Old Windmill depicting Queensland’s flora and
primarily a function centre and fauna attract a lot of interest.
restaurant. Limited public areas 0Old Windmill Queensland was made a
are open to visitors. Wickham Terrace. £ Brisbane Central. separate colony at the adjacent
@ Free Loop, 30. Closed to public. Deanery in 1859. The Deanery
9Anzac Square Built in 1828, the Old Windmill was the temporary residence of
Queenland’s first governor.
is one of two buildings still
Ann & Adelaide sts. £ Brisbane
Central. @ Free Loop. g Waterfront standing in Brisbane from convict
Place, Eagle St Pier. days, the old Commissariat
Stores being the other survivor
All Australian cities com­ (see p228). Originally the
memorate those who have colony’s first industrial building,
given their life for their it proved unworkable without
country. Brisbane’s war the availability of trained
memorial is centred on Anzac operators, so it was equipped
Square, an attractive park with treadmills to punish
planted with, among other flora, recalcitrant convicts. It later
rare boab (baobab) trees. The served as a time signal, with a
Eternal Flame burns in a Greek gun fired and a ball dropped
Revival cenotaph at the Ann each day at exactly 1pm.
Street entrance to the park. The mill was chosen as the
Beneath the cenotaph is the first television image in Australia
Shrine of Memories, containing in the 1920s. It is now a weather
various tributes and wall observatory. The windmill is not
plaques to those who gave open to the public, but it makes Nave and altar of St John’s
their lives in war. a striking photograph. Anglican Cathedral
wFortitude Valley
and Chinatown
Ann and Wickham sts, Fortitude Valley.
£ Brunswick St. @ Buses to cnr
Wickham & Brunswick sts, Bribane
Explorer.
The ship Fortitude sailed from
England and up the Brisbane
River in 1859 with 250 settlers on
board, and the name stuck to the
valley where they disembarked.
For a time the area was the
trading centre of the city and
Greek cenotaph in Anzac Square some impressive buildings were
For hotels and restaurants in this area see p486 and pp512–14