Another walk around my suburb....

Last March I wrote a post about the part of my suburb that is a few minutes walk from my back gate. I posted photos of what was the remnants of a dairy farm and on which now the present owner fattens a few beef cattle ready for market.
Paddocks at the end of the back street...

 The old farmhouse...

In this post I'll post some photos of the part of my suburb which is on the other side of the main road which runs through here. I took these photos last May when DH and I walked home from the protest meeting at the local high school. The state government planned to close the local high school so many, many people came together to protest this action...(and the school eventually was saved from closure)

DH was given a sign to carry....



The next photo shows part of the group of concerned citizens at the meeting in the school hall...







Now for the photos taken on the walk home...
Making our way to the gate...

 Now we are walking down Stafford Rd and here is this swathe of bushland, just down from the school gates

The poor old front fence has both star pickets and very old wooden posts that would have been there for years!

Looking back towards the school, showing the wonky fence...I think this swathe of land is owned by the state government...it has been kept mown and tidy...

But now we move on to some not so well kept property

A surveyor's peg amongst the undergrowth???

 Not looking good eh?

 Some water can be seen in the next photo. Many years ago a little stream flowed through the area from the other side of Stafford Rd where Coles etc are now. When the shopping centre was built, the stream was piped underground and also under the road...

Pipe bringing the stream's water across/under  the road....

Now we can see large brick buildings through those trees and the grass is mowed...

And then we come to a padlocked big gate and you can see a little booth...

 Behind the booth we can see big buildings...

I think you have guessed that these buildings are empty. This is the old Woolworths ( a large supermarket chain here in Australia; this was one of their giant warehouses) Bulk store which employed so many locals in its heyday, but this large site has sat empty, unloved and as an eyesore for many many years. A number of plans for redevelopment have been submitted but as yet nothing has really happened. Plans for the site range from retail, entertainment and residential precincts, and the latest rumour is that the giant hardware chain Masters, is going to use one of the huge buildings. 

Many people drive down Stafford Rd past this site not realising that a low set building in front of the bulk store was actually a Woolworths supermarket...one of the very early ones! The local graffitists have mistaken it for a large canvas...it's covered in 'tags'.

 Another view of this vintage supermarket...sad really...

 The end of one of the large brick buildings that make up the bulk store.

So there you have it; another view of my suburb. We are just over 8 kilometres from  the Brisbane CBD and any eventual developments of this large site will probably tend towards a fair bit of residential I would guess.