Shorncliffe Seaside Heritage Trail

In 1824, the founding of the Moreton Bay penal settlement heralded the beginning of the European presence in Queensland and the displacement of the Aboriginal people in the area.

The first penal settlement at Moreton Bay was established at Redcliffe but moved in 1825 to the present Central Business District where there was a better water supply, fewer mosquitoes, and safer anchorage. The convict settlement was closed in 1839 and in 1842 Moreton Bay was officially opened for free settlement as part of the colony of New South Wales.

The first land sales in the Sandgate area occurred during the 1850s. By 1852, Shorncliffe had become an area, named after an English coastal town in Kent where the military Shorncliffe Camp had been established in 1794. It had been situated on the clifftops with a vantage point to the sea, and within the vicinity of Sandgate.

Although grand bayside residences and some hotels were established along the area overlooking the Shorncliffe foreshore in the 1860s, it was from the 1880s that Shorncliffe was truly popularised as a seaside resort town. By this time there were at least five hotels in Shorncliffe, including the Seaview Hotel. The opening of the rail line to Sandgate (the station known as Sandgate Central) in 1882, and the extension to Shorncliffe in 1897, provided a quick and efficient service for holidaymakers and day trippers, spurring tourism to both areas.

Catering for visitors became a priority for local businesses and facilities and included providing bathing areas and dressing sheds close to the established Sandgate Pier, as well as cafes, restaurants and refreshment rooms. The popularity of Shorncliffe as a holiday destination continued into the 1920s with numerous boarding and holiday accommodation available. Newspapers routinely reported the comings and goings of notable people.

By the 1930s, the Shorncliffe foreshore boasted a shark proof swimming enclosure that was lit at night, and several tourist attractions including sand garden competitions, rides on camels, donkeys, goats, horse and buggy rides, canoe hire and a miniature railway.

Following improvements to roads and bridges from the late 1930s, Sandgate and Shorncliffe became less popular as holiday destinations. Although the completion of the Hornibrook Highway Bridge in 1935 saw more passing trade in the area, it also allowed people to travel further north for their holidays to the Redcliffe Peninsula. The area lost further favour as a holiday destination after the Second World War as car ownership improved, opening up holiday possibilities beyond the Brisbane city limits.

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Stanley’s commission also included the design of bathing houses, swimming bath fencing and a caretaker’s cottage. Segregated swimming baths were established along the shoreline of the pier with a small office and turnstiles to collect money from the paying customers and tourists. The swimming area for women was located on the northern side of the pier, with another swimming area for men on the southern side.

Although it was not a financial success, Shorncliffe Pier proved popular in recreational terms, particularly on weekends and public holidays. In 1923, the Brisbane Courier reported that while the pier was quite inadequate and largely patronised by pedestrians and amateur fishermen, it was one of the main attractions of the area.

A shark-proof swimming enclosure was added alongside the pier in the 1930s. It included night lighting for those who wished to swim in the cool of the evenings, and more than earned its keep when it was reported a seven foot long (2.13 metre) ‘shovelnose shark’ was caught off the pier in 1948. Understandably, bathers hurriedly left the baths when the shark was hooked. A local newspaper reported that hundreds of people on the pier watched the fishermen battling with the shark for two hours.

In mid-autumn 1955, a new Shorncliffe tradition was started at the pier when people gathered on the foreshore to witness yachts sailing off on the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race, which first sailed from Woody Point in 1949. The Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race is still enjoyed by spectators every year and celebrated its 75th year in 2023.

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Designed by Brisbane architect Hubert Thomas and constructed in 1897, the centrepiece of Moora Park was its octagonal, two-storey kiosk with unique covered band rotunda. The Sandgate Town Band was a favourite attraction on public holidays and special occasions. The promise of musical entertainment increased the popularity of Moora Park, and it became the place to see, and be seen. In 1899, Moora Park had become so popular that the Brisbane Courier reported Boxing Day crowds of more than 5000 people had inconveniently crowded Moora Park with buggies and horses, and the kiosk proprietress had faced tremendous demand for refreshments.

At its height in popularity, Moora Park also boasted swimming baths and an open-air cinema. The original kiosk was supplemented in 1932 with a new large two-storey Spanish Mission-style brick and stucco kiosk designed by City Architect A. H. Foster and was situated in the parkland overlooking the Shorncliffe Pier. While both kiosks have since been demolished, the upper-level bandstand of the smaller kiosk was retained and later restored as the only remnant of Shorncliffe’s seaside entertainment precinct.

To this day, Moora Park remains a popular place for both residents and visitors.

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Like many grand houses in Shorncliffe at the time, Saltwood was also a boarding house. In 1896, social pages reported Dowager Lady Lamington, from Lanarkshire, Scotland, was one of Saltwood’s more prestigious guests. Lady Lamington’s son, Lord Lamington, was the Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901.

A Mrs J. Deazeley is noted as running a fashionable boarding house in the early 1900s. She had installed a tennis court on the southern side of the house in 1899, and hosted tennis parties, al-fresco concerts, fund raising events such as fetes, and ‘recherche’ (well-sought) afternoon teas. In 1904 as Saltwood’s popularity increased, she opened a croquet court in the grounds of Saltwood. By 1909, Mrs Rowlands was running Saltwood, touted as a favourite resort for many of Brisbane’s residents, and having an unequalled situation with the most magnificent outlook over Moreton Bay.

Throughout much of the 20th Century, Saltwood was owned by the McMenamin family. Part of the house was also used as a doctor’s surgery and locum’s room during the 1960s. Renovations carried out in the 1980s saw the addition of rear verandahs, and new landscaping and gardens were also planted during this period.

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Postal records indicate that Kelso was never occupied by the Lovelock family, so it is possible it was built purely as a commercial enterprise. Demand for holiday homes and boarding houses in Sandgate and Shorncliffe had escalated, primarily catering to those with money and leisure time who wished for sun, sand and swimming.

In 1914, the house was bought by David Christison, a tailor in Petrie Bight (Ann Street, City). Christison was listed as the contact for several advertisements for rental accommodation in newspapers at the time, suggesting he was either a landlord or property agent, as well as a tailor.

Known as Kelso Flats from at least 1932, the place was advertised for auction as a block of four flats. The following year, the newly renovated and furnished Kelso Flats was advertised as operated by Mrs E. Wilson. By this date the boarding house was considered respectable enough for country people to advertise their presence there during their holidays, as did siblings Ruth and Thomas Lester of Gatton, who stayed at Kelso Flats in 1938.

Kelso Flats continued to provide holiday accommodation into the 1940s with a Mrs Henney suggesting prospective clients book early for the holiday period in her 1946 advertisement.

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Caversham was constructed for Under Colonial Secretary Robert John Gray, who later became the railways commissioner. But it was soon sold to Herbert Hunter, a grazier who kept Caversham as a holiday home.

Subsequent owners included middle-class spinsters and families, and a magistrate. Among the new owners was Una Mulholland, the only woman member of the Literature Board of Review.

Mrs Mulholland was well known in Brisbane’s social circles. She had studied speech, drama, and speech therapy in Europe under Lionel Logue, who was famous for successfully treating King George VI for stutter. Her husband, Jack Mulholland, was a consulting engineer who spent much of his time in America whilst Mrs Mulholland and her four children, each with their own library, filled Caversham with hundreds of books. The Sunday Mail reported in 1954, that Mrs Mulholland allowed her children to read comics. But, as a literary-minded person, she allowed only English comics, as she despaired the “sensational American style publications” her children were so keen to trade.

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It was built around 1880 as a timber structure near the mouth of Cabbage Tree Creek, and is associated with John Baxter, one of the earliest landowners in Shorncliffe. He was a fisherman and oyster vendor, whose Baxter’s Oyster Saloon in nearby Jetty Street had operated since the 1860s. Baxter’s Jetty was primarily for the use of the local fishermen on whom Baxter’s Oyster Saloon relied for business, but it was also popular with local boat owners and residents.

Tragically, Mr Baxter drowned at the jetty in the early morning of 2 April 1897. Found by two men, Mr Robinson and Mr Kent, the newspaper reported that Mr Baxter had likely slipped on the jetty and, while underwater, his foot became stuck between two steps, causing him to drown. The loss of Mr Baxter, who was well known for his long association with the area’s fishing industry, was said to have cast a gloom over the neighbourhood.

In 1920, Mayoress Bowser opened a new Baxter’s Jetty, described in The Telegraph in 1920 as a 105-foot-long reinforced concrete jetty with a distinct fantail head. The public opening was a festive affair with the Mayoress using a pair of gold scissors for the ribbon cutting. At the time, the old jetty remained just a few yards downstream.

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After Mr Baxter’s death in 1897 his widow, Sarah, took over the saloon and changed its name to Rouse’s Oyster Saloon when she remarried. Although it was not the only oyster saloon on Allpass Parade, the business grew in the first part of 20th Century into the shop on the corner of Allpass Parade and Jetty Street.

In 1927, the premises, again known as Baxter’s Oyster Saloon was owned by shopkeeper James Alexander Bearkley, who made the news for selling alcohol without a licence. Police searched the oyster saloon and discovered quite a stash, including 47 bottles of Foster’s Lager, three large bottles of English stout, three medium bottles of stout, one nip bottle of stout, a large and small bottle of hock, and a bottle of Dewar’s whisky.

With such a weight of evidence against him, Mr Bearkley changed his plea to guilty in court but remarked that he was providing customers with what they wanted. He steadfastly refused to reveal the names of his customers who ordered alcohol with their meals, and justified the sales by claiming that people ‘ordering crab suppers were often desirous of having lager with the food’.

As oysters became less popular, the saloon became a tobacco company office in the late 1930s before being converted to a private residence in 1940s.

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Accordingly, Gailey’s design included deep verandahs with wide eaves, single skin timber walls, fanlights over doors, and ventilators to the roof, the remnants of which remain. The relatively plain yet attractive building features arched timber valances to the front verandah, and windows to the side verandah include multi-paned coloured glass.

While the building itself was completed by 1884, delays in funding meant that the sanatorium did not formally open until 1888. Its financial position improved when Lady Musgrave, wife of the then Governor of Queensland, fully furnished one of the wards. Several other society women also contributed to the supply of furniture and bedding that enabled the sanatorium to open.

The place was described at the opening as being a handsome structure with fireplaces in the wards and was arranged to provide the utmost comfort to the little patients. The sanatorium was well supported by the local community, with regular fundraising activities arranged to help support its ongoing role within the community.

In addition to accommodating children, the sanatorium had rest and training spaces for nurses and respite for families caring for sick children. Christmas celebrations for children were also held on the grounds, described in 1927 as being decorated with cables of bon-bons, balloons and streamers, and having a gaily decorated Christmas tree erected by the Children’s Ministering League.

In the late 1920s, a change in administration saw the closure of the sanatorium and the building remained vacant for several years. It was auctioned in 1940 and re-opened as a home for older men. It was later used by local stationmaster William Fitzgerald as housing for railway workers.

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Holland House was close to the beach and railway station and was initially popular with newlyweds for its romantic atmosphere and amenities, including a tennis court.

By 1911, the property was owned and occupied by Mr and Mrs Hoskins, who held a lavish 21st birthday party for their daughter, Edith. The event described by a local newspaper noted the large verandahs being gaily decorated with bunting, Chinese lanterns and wattle blossoms, with games and dancing indulged over the course of the night. When the Hoskins’ only son, William, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F) during the First World War, they held another large party to celebrate the local young men offering to ‘do their bit’ for the war effort.

Holland House was then converted to a boarding house where proprietress, Mrs English, advertised it as superior accommodation close to the pier. She also offered ‘every attention’ and ‘all home comforts’, as well as milk and poultry from the house yard.

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In 1897, Mr Milne died and the property was offered for sale. In 1898, it was purchased by David and Margaret Burns and was likely named Ardovie at this time.

Advertisements to let Ardovie appear in 1898 and promote the residence as being close to the railway station and beach, having ‘five good rooms, kitchen, servant’s room, stables, coachhouse and man’s room’, all for the tidy sum of £1 10s per week (approximately $250 today). The Burns also appear to have used the property occasionally and are noted as spending a couple of months at Ardovie in 1901.

By the late 1920s, Mr and Mrs H.H. Antcliffe owned Ardovie and from this time the house was a lively venue. Mrs Antcliffe hosted an array of social and charitable functions to raise money for the Sandgate Church of England. Her functions included card games, musicales (musical gatherings) and singing and dancing competitions, all of which were well attended.

Ardovie was altered during the early post war 1950s and entered a new phase of life as a tenement dwelling. Subsequent owners have returned the house to its original single dwelling design.

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On 1 May 1897, the extension of the Sandgate line to Shorncliffe was opened without formality or fanfare. The station at Shorncliffe was called Sandgate, and the new site of the Sandgate railway station renamed Sandgate Central. This confusing naming arrangement continued until 1938 when the station name was formally changed to Shorncliffe.

The opening of the line to Shorncliffe saw thousands of passengers using the station, particularly at holiday time. In 1899, a newspaper described the Boxing Day scene at Shorncliffe as ‘having trains crowded with passengers coming in quick succession until noon, when more than 5000 passengers had arrived’.

Designed by Henrik Hansen, the Shorncliffe Railway Station was a unique variation of the standard timber station design used by Queensland Railways at the time. As a station catering for the resort-style atmosphere, it included extra island bench seating in the waiting area. Much of its original timber and joinery, including the bench seating, survives today. Over time, the platform was extended to accommodate changes in rolling stock and the need to accommodate ever-greater numbers of passengers to the seaside resort.

During the Second World War, an air raid shelter was built at Shorncliffe Railway Station. It is now the only surviving railway station air raid shelter in Brisbane. In the post war period, car ownership increased and the era of day tripping by rail as part of the holiday experience was left behind.

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Mrs Tempest was a local businesswoman who established the Ladies and Children’s Outfitting Warehouse in Brisbane around 1870, and later operated from ‘Yundah House’ in Sandgate. She had acquired Adelaide House from Margaret Wakefield, wife of Sandgate Alderman Hiram Wakefield, who had owned the property from 1870.

Throughout the late 1880s, Adelaide House was described as a place of superior board and residence for gentlemen and families. Among its range of tenants was resident minister for the Sandgate Wesleyan Church, Reverend. J. C. Warner in 1883, and former British Army Captain and Beenleigh plantation owner, Thomas Smales and his wife Anne Smales (nee Maclean) in 1887.

Captain Smales died at Adelaide House in 1888 and Mrs Smales acquired the property from Mrs Tempest the following year. While she may have continued to reside there, newspaper advertisements in 1892 offered the house as a ‘quiet comfortable home offered in private family; lady or gentleman’ and ‘quiet comfortable board and residence for two gentlemen and married couple; 21s per week’.

From 1894 the property was owned by Mrs Tempest’s niece, Clara Hunt and, later, Mrs Hunt’s married daughter Mabel Jessen. It remained in the family until 1973.

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In 1921, the Post Office Directory indicated the shop was operated by Mr Friend Dyer Yerbury under the name Palm Avenue Grocery & F. D. Yerbury Provision Merchant. Around this time, the ground floor was used as the store and the upper level as accommodation.

A year later in 1922, aged 72, Mr Yerbury had a fall and subsequently died. In 1924, the property and general store business was taken up by W. McCullough, who continued to operate the shop until at least the 1930s.

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David England, a well-known farmer and draught horse breeder from South Pine, decided to retire with his wife, Jane, to the popular seaside area of Sandgate and Shorncliffe. As early as 1895 he had purchased several blocks of land along Rainbow Street, eventually building and finishing a house by 1900. The simple, low set timber home within walking distance of the beach at Shorncliffe was known as Carrick.

After seven years of retirement in this idyllic location, Mr England died at his home on 25 February 1907, and the property passed to his wife. Mrs England remained active in the community, recorded as attending the opening of the new Sandgate Town Hall in 1912, and lived at Carrick until her own death in 1933. The property passed to the England’s daughter, Emma Harris, and remained in the family.

Carrick was originally built in the middle of three lots facing Rainbow Street but, as the area’s population grew, the land was further subdivided. This eventually necessitated the moving of Carrick in 1950, owned then by the Lischelds, to its current location.

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The ground floor was generally used as a bakery and store, known for a period as Webster’s Bakery. From 1889, storekeeper John Dow leased the place for five years. It formed part of a small cluster of shops along Eagle Terrace that provided essential goods and services to the small seaside community.

Over time, the shop lease changed hands several times with Charles George Price leasing the place in 1912 for one year. Some years later, a Mrs Beeston operated refreshment rooms there to cater for the booming holiday and tourist market.

In 1920, the building was purchased by the Sandgate Masonic Hall Company. The upper storey residence was converted into the Sandgate Masonic Lodge meeting rooms and hall, but the ground floor cafe and refreshment rooms were retained.

The company made the hall available for hire to other community organisations, including the Sandgate Yacht Club and the Sandgate Amateur Swimming Club. In the early 1930s a ‘festive’ dining hall for the Masonic Lodge members and their families was added to the rear of the property.

The ground floor continued as a cafe or restaurant with proprietors experiencing varying levels of success over time. For example, Eric Smith’s New Grand Restaurant went bankrupt in 1977, but Raphael’s Restaurant was more successful in the 1980s.

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Surviving features of this era include Sandgate Pier (also known as Shorncliffe Pier) built in 1882, Baxter’s Jetty built in the 1880s and replaced in 1923, and the Brisbane Tuff stone sea walls and groyne near the jetty that create a shark-proof enclosure.

In 1913, police investigated the mysterious disappearance of a young bather’s clothes, removed from the Shorncliffe foreshore as he swam. The Ipswich boy was forced to travel home in his bathing suit - quite an affront at the time. When he returned to collect his belongings that were handed into police, he learned the clothes were removed as a joke.

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From 1910, Edward Blumeowned Morven, which had become known for the social events held in its large grounds, including a 1916 fundraising fete by Mr Blume’s mother-in-law, Caroline Craven. The event boasted refreshment booths, games and amusements. Morven was well-known and frequented by Brisbane’s social elite and substantial enough to allow for visitors to ‘take rooms’ and holiday at the residence.

Morven continued as Mr Blume’s guest house, managed by Mrs Craven and her daughters throughout the 1920s and 1930s. It was frequently advertised as having large rooms, a tennis court and garage. Mr Blume died in 1943, and ownership transferred to the Craven-Blumes family in 1949.

Morven was reportedlyvacant for some time until it was purchased in 1951 for £12,500 (equates to approximately $600,000 today) by Father T. J. O’Rourke on behalf of Sandgate parishioners as the centrepiece of a Christian Brothers’ college. Later that year, the proposed site development for St Patrick’s College was approved, which opened there in January 1952.

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It was built in anticipation of a boom from completion of the rail link between Brisbane and Sandgate and opened in 1882 after building additions by notable architect John Richard Hall. When the rail line extended to Shorncliffe, the Seaview Hotel was perfectly positioned to benefit from thousands of visitors to the area during holiday time. It was a quintessential seaside hotel with breezy balconies and magnificent views of Moreton Bay.

By 1901 it was noted as having 100 rooms with bath, and reading and billiard rooms. Reportedly, its proprietor also rented the nearby seawater baths and the promenade on the pier for the use of guests. Due to the forward-thinking host, Mr A. W. Lingley, the local telephone and telegraph office were also located in the hotel. Frequented by affluent middle-class holidaymakers and known for its vibrant atmosphere, the Seaview Hotel was one of Shorncliffe’s leading hotels in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

The late 1930s heralded the Seaview Hotel’s decline as day trippers and holidaymakers were lured further north following road improvements, and completion of the Hornibrook Highway in 1935. Over the following decades, nearby Sandgate declined in status as the go-to seaside resort town and visitors to neighbouring Shorncliffe waned.

The original Seaview Hotel was altered as ownership changed frequently throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It was partially restored in the early 2010s to resemble more closely its original design but it was permanently closed in 2014. The building is now owned by St Patrick’s College.

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In 1919 Alfred Walsh took over as trustee following the death of Mr Wade Brown. However, records show that it was firmly back in the family’s ownership by 1963 with Gladys Wade Brown listed as the owner.

A brave and capable woman, Miss Wade Brown made the news in April 1950 when she arrived home to find an intruder in her house. She calmly locked the drunken burglar in the house and called the police from her neighbour’s phone.

Regardless of ownership over the years, Wade Brown family members were recorded as residing at Haddington by the mid-1930s. Dr Guilford Davidson, a well-known member of the Wade Brown family, is noted as dying at the home in 1934. Dr Davidson had practiced medicine in Sandgate continuously for 45 years.

During the heyday of early tourism in the area, newspaper reports reveal that Haddington had also provided accommodation to visitors and permanent boarders. It was not unusual at the time for owners of large homes to offer rooms for rent to holidaymakers and boarders.

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Described as having 11 rooms, ‘gas and every convenience’, Howrah was offered fully furnished for rent in 1896 before reportedly being sold two years later very cheap and on easyterms to ironmonger, George Bond. Although Howrah was already a large home, Mr Bond made extensive additions, designed and managed by architect Hubert G. O. Thomas.

By 1912, Howrah was owned by William and Adeline Quinn. Held in high esteem by the local community, the Quinn family were involved in several social clubs. Mrs Quinn served as president of the Sandgate Croquet Club, Mr Quinn was president of the Sandgate Bowling Club, and their daughter, Adeline Ida, was a generous supporter of the Queensland Country Women’s Association.

Following the death of Mr Quinn in 1923 and Mrs Quinn in 1942, the house was sold and was renamed Blue Waters by later owners.

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A shrewd businesswoman, Mrs Hall capitalised on the opening of the railway line to Sandgate (1882) and its extension to Shorncliffe (1897). Touting unsurpassed views of the bay, islands and Pacific Ocean, Villa Marina was perfectly positioned to service the growing tourist trade.

In 1902, a lawn tennis court was laid and the Villa Marina Tennis Club formed. Its popularity saw a second court laid in 1905. By 1910, the property was advertised as having 40 spacious, lofty bedrooms, wide verandas and balconies, stabling and garage facilities, tennis lawnsand a beautiful croquet lawn. Mrs Hall acquired the adjoining residences, Bellair and Capri and these buildings were used as annexes to her accommodation centre.

Mrs Hall sold the property in the late 1920s and it continued to operate as a first-class boarding house under the management of Miss O. Harper and Mrs G. Ebenstoh. Over the next decades, Villa Marina’s owners included Mrs A. E. Costello (1936), Mrs M. Beasley (1941), and Mrs E. Mullins (1946).

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