Boggo Scrub. The Boggo Road/ Fairfield area had another set, on the borders of the former ‘Boggo Scrub’ (vine forest that was presumably an importanttowrie). The Boggo Road camp was towards the Boggo Road jail site (ridge), near Boggo Road School. [41]

2020年8月18日 · Over the last 200 years the clearing of the Boggo Scrub for farming, the draining of the wetlands, the creation of suburbia, and finally the “greening” of parks and backyards has changed the habitats available for birds.

H.M. Prison Brisbane, commonly known as Boggo Road Gaol, was Queensland's main prison from the 1880s to the 1980s. By the time it closed, it had become notorious for poor conditions and rioting.

The Boggo Road/Fairfield area had another set of camps, marking the edges of the former ‘Boggo or Bloggo Scrub’ (a vine forest area). The Boggo Road camp was the northern entry, towards the Boggo Road jail site (ridge), near Boggo Road School.

Aboriginal Camp on the ridge now occupied by Boggo Road Jail and its surrounds. This was used into the 1870s. The area was one end of the former ‘Boggo Scrub’ that was a valued resource.

Fruits, parrots, snakes, possums, bandicoots, flying foxes and other game are known to have been hunted in nearby rainforest pockets.29 The closest camps to Buranda Village (1.5 kms away) lay on the northern and southern edges of ‘Boggo Scrub’ at what is today the ridge of Boggo Road Gaol, and Fairfield Figure 13: hoop pine Railway Station.

The main weapons were the long spears of brigalow (Boonooro) and ironbark (Tanderoo), traded from the tribe in the Rosewood scrub through an exchange of shell ornaments and reed necklaces known as Calgirrpin.

Boggo Road With settlers started to arrive in the early 1850s, at the Boggo Scrub (Fairfield and Yeronga) the Boggo track started to emerge (now Annerley Road). It formed, most probably upon an Indigenous track, and linked the One Mile Swamp with a pathway up to the top of the Boggo (Annerley) ridge; connecting it with the convict road (soon to ...

We can get an insight if we imagine a scene from the centre-point of the Brisbane Southside, at the strategically important Boggo (Annerley) Junction. Directly to the south were pastoral plains, scrub-land, and the country coach roads to Ipswich and Beaudesert; and to the west, the Fairfield farmland and the unmarked Brisbane River.

2020年8月18日 · The Boggo Road/Fairfield area had another set (of campsites), on the borders of the former ‘Boggo Scrub’ (vine forest that was presumably important towrie (1) ) … On the other side of the Boggo Scrub lay a camp in the vicinity of Fairfield Railway Station, not too far from the ‘Fairfield’ axe grinding grooves (at 153 Venner Road).”