After coffee we walked through the Kelvin Grove Campus of Queensland University of Technology. Margot is the only one if us who completed her teacher training here and she has fond memories of being able to buy a crumbed sausage for lunch in the canteen.
The main building you see below was constructed in 1930 to be a teachers' training college, but as a result of the Depression it was initially used as a school (Brisbane North Intermediate School). In 1942 it achieved its primary objective as the Queensland Teachers' Training College and then became: Senior Teachers' Training College (1944), the Queensland Teachers' College (1950), Kelvin Grove Teachers' College (1961), Kelvin Grove College of Teacher Education (1974), Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education (1976), Kelvin Grove Campus of the Brisbane College of Advanced Education (1982), and Kelvin Grove Campus of the Queensland University of Technology (1990).
On to a change in environment - leaving QUT we followed Scott Road down to Enoggera Creek and discovered some very interesting things among which were the Bowen Bridge heritage Track and the Northey Street City Farm. |
Leaving the Bowen Bridge trail we entered the Northey Street City Farm, a three hectare permaculture community garden in Windsor. It includes an organic market garden and kitchen garden, fruit orchards, chicken runs, a nursery, a weekend farmers' market and a cafe. | |