This is an excellent video. The lagoon on the corner of Wembly Rd and Kingston Rd makes sense to me. The estate on the NW corner and up that hill from the intersection weeps water constantly. I was there for some of the redevelopment and the water issues were serious with springs leaking down under many houses there.
I remember reading about Cowpers plains in school, was a huge area!, basically the branch point between going Brisbane- Beaudesert and those going Brisbane-Ipswich although after a year or two I may be mistaken. I'm curious , do you mean the school on Orange Grove road? Opened as Orange Grove State School on 21 January 1931, It was renamed Coopers plains state school 1965, I started there in grade 1 in 1970 prior to1931 there was a school called coopers plains state school on Beaudesert rd that later got renamed Acacia Ridge ( and possibly moved as well) I remember playing ( rugby league) against acacia ridge state school on Nyngam Street , would have been 75-76, not sure if I played there 74 as that school site would have come close to going under 74 floods.
When the monsoonal flooding rains came the Bris-Ipswich Rd was cut for weeks at Oxley Creek. The bullock drays had to detour south and come through to what is now Archerfield near the airfield. They had to negotiate Blunder Creek nearby. Cattle were headed for Canon Hill. They often bogged at Blunder Creek .hence the name "Blunder".
@@paulwatson8304 Thanks Paul, always good to learn more local history, I'll admit my knowledge of flooding was a little about the 1974 and 1893 floods, but it stands to reason there were others.
Very interesting. Have you tried overlaying the old maps on modern aerials? It can be very illuminating. If you don’t know how, I’d be happy to show you.
……remember as a kid in the ‘50’s, & ‘60’s, going in car with my parents’ to our house at Palm Beach. We journeyed onto Logan Rd, Mt Gravatt from our home at Highgate Hill. Next we were at Cooper’s Plains, near old Army establishment, then Beenleigh, crossing over railway track there, then on road to Gold Coast which came to T-junction, after passing the Crab Farm. I know some of the road we travelled on was an ‘old road’, I think before, or after, Beenleigh.
6:30 An interesting point is that the bulk of this area in 1948 appears to be undeveloped Crown Land, and I always thought that the convict-built road came from the Woolloongabba direction like Highway One did via Stones Corner and not the Stable Swamp Creek area at Rocklea/Coopers Plains area using the present Beenleigh Road corridor following the South Coast railway line.
If one was an escaped convict you could make it to Mount Stapylton to get your bearings and from there you can see where Moreton Bay empties into the Pacific Ocean at the tidal shoal right in front of what is now Southport. No such thing as the Spit back then with Sea World and Marina Mirage et al, just clean and salty slightly turbulent water but not exactly what would be classified as surf. Of course the mouth of the Nerang River was at Broadbeach in those days with a tidal swamp connection following the course of the present river to Southport behind Surfers Paradise beach which probably felt like an island in those days. Cattle was reared in the Slacks Creek area and taken up the Creek Road corridor to the Cannon Hill holding yard area but it is still unclear if there were commissariat farms in the Beenleigh/Slacks Creek district during the closing years of Moreton Bay Penal settlement era.
Crestmead Industrial Estate was originally the Stjernqvist farm. They were Swedish immigrants who bought the land in the 1880s. Drought forced them out in 1903.
This is an excellent video. The lagoon on the corner of Wembly Rd and Kingston Rd makes sense to me. The estate on the NW corner and up that hill from the intersection weeps water constantly. I was there for some of the redevelopment and the water issues were serious with springs leaking down under many houses there.
Thank you so much for this video, Rob. It's a valuable record. Coopers Plains History Group.
Fabulous! Cowpers Plains later renamed Coopers Plains. I went to Coopers Plains State school in the early fifties, later renamed Acacia Ridge.
I remember reading about Cowpers plains in school, was a huge area!, basically the branch point between going Brisbane- Beaudesert and those going Brisbane-Ipswich although after a year or two I may be mistaken.
I'm curious , do you mean the school on Orange Grove road? Opened as Orange Grove State School on 21 January 1931, It was renamed Coopers plains state school 1965, I started there in grade 1 in 1970
prior to1931 there was a school called coopers plains state school on Beaudesert rd that later got renamed Acacia Ridge ( and possibly moved as well)
I remember playing ( rugby league) against acacia ridge state school on Nyngam Street , would have been 75-76, not sure if I played there 74 as that school site would have come close to going under 74 floods.
When the monsoonal flooding rains came the Bris-Ipswich Rd was cut for weeks at Oxley Creek. The bullock drays had to detour south and come through to what is now Archerfield near the airfield. They had to negotiate Blunder Creek nearby. Cattle were headed for Canon Hill. They often bogged at Blunder Creek .hence the name "Blunder".
@@paulwatson8304 Thanks Paul, always good to learn more local history, I'll admit my knowledge of flooding was a little about the 1974 and 1893 floods, but it stands to reason there were others.
Cowper was pronounced Cooper. Hence the eventual change of spelling. Ref poet William Cowper. Trivial ? Yes. Thanks for another interesting video.
Very interesting. Have you tried overlaying the old maps on modern aerials? It can be very illuminating. If you don’t know how, I’d be happy to show you.
fascinating, I love this kind of history... cheers..
……remember as a kid in the ‘50’s, & ‘60’s, going in car with my parents’ to our house at Palm Beach. We journeyed onto Logan Rd, Mt Gravatt from our home at Highgate Hill. Next we were at Cooper’s Plains, near old Army establishment, then Beenleigh, crossing over railway track there, then on road to Gold Coast which came to T-junction, after passing the Crab Farm. I know some of the road we travelled on was an ‘old road’, I think before, or after, Beenleigh.
Was Old Logan Road in Camira/Gailes part of this road?
Really interesting video 👍
6:30 An interesting point is that the bulk of this area in 1948 appears to be undeveloped Crown Land, and I always thought that the convict-built road came from the Woolloongabba direction like Highway One did via Stones Corner and not the Stable Swamp Creek area at Rocklea/Coopers Plains area using the present Beenleigh Road corridor following the South Coast railway line.
If one was an escaped convict you could make it to Mount Stapylton to get your bearings and from there you can see where Moreton Bay empties into the Pacific Ocean at the tidal shoal right in front of what is now Southport. No such thing as the Spit back then with Sea World and Marina Mirage et al, just clean and salty slightly turbulent water but not exactly what would be classified as surf. Of course the mouth of the Nerang River was at Broadbeach in those days with a tidal swamp connection following the course of the present river to Southport behind Surfers Paradise beach which probably felt like an island in those days. Cattle was reared in the Slacks Creek area and taken up the Creek Road corridor to the Cannon Hill holding yard area but it is still unclear if there were commissariat farms in the Beenleigh/Slacks Creek district during the closing years of Moreton Bay Penal settlement era.
Very interesting
Crestmead Industrial Estate was originally the Stjernqvist farm. They were Swedish immigrants who bought the land in the 1880s. Drought forced them out in 1903.
@Angelika Higgs most interesting, thanks!
👍🏻 very good documentary
Glad you enjoyed it!