Inner city living.
Spring Hill is an immediate inner city suburb to Brisbane's Central Business District and sprawls across the hill that overlooks the city. A lot of it is high rise buildings, hotels, accommodation etc but quite a bit is still an area of close knit heritage houses.
This shot is taken in Victoria Street, a location with which I had great familiarity around the time I turned 18 as a neighbouring house to this was my very good chiropractor** at the time. These people knew how to work on my back and I wish that they were still practising - as it's nearly 50 years on, not very likely, right?
Back then much of the heritage landscape was under threat of massive redevelopment, secret home and building demolishers who would move in at 3.00am to avoid conflict with protestors. Thankfully, we live in a much enlightened world and there are now more protections, by no means guaranteed, against the unscrupulous to ensure scenes like this prevail.
**In fact, this may have been my Chiropractor's premises. I can't tell for sure as many of the homes then had enclosed verandahs done in horrible style which have subsequently removed as homes have been restored to their original design including restoration of the wrought iron railings. They look quite different. If not, it was right next door to the left.
Inner city living.
Spring Hill is an immediate inner city suburb to Brisbane's Central Business District and sprawls across the hill that overlooks the city. A lot of it is high rise buildings, hotels, accommodation etc but quite a bit is still an area of close knit heritage houses.
This shot is taken in Victoria Street, a location with which I had great familiarity around the time I turned 18 as a neighbouring house to this was my very good chiropractor** at the time. These people knew how to work on my back and I wish that they were still practising - as it's nearly 50 years on, not very likely, right?
Back then much of the heritage landscape was under threat of massive redevelopment, secret home and building demolishers who would move in at 3.00am to avoid conflict with protestors. Thankfully, we live in a much enlightened world and there are now more protections, by no means guaranteed, against the unscrupulous to ensure scenes like this prevail.
**In fact, this may have been my Chiropractor's premises. I can't tell for sure as many of the homes then had enclosed verandahs done in horrible style which have subsequently removed as homes have been restored to their original design including restoration of the wrought iron railings. They look quite different. If not, it was right next door to the left.