Addresses

At 253 Moray Street, New farm, Queensland 4005

Type of place

Shop/s

Period

Interwar 1919-1939

Style

Queenslander

Corner Shop

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Addresses

At 253 Moray Street, New farm, Queensland 4005

Type of place

Shop/s

Period

Interwar 1919-1939

Style

Queenslander

This interwar store, which included living quarters, has served the local community from the 1920s through to the postwar years. Edward Arthur Victor Smalley was operating ‘Smalley’s Stores’ on the site by 1923. He transferred the property in November 1925 to Winifred Gwendoline Coe, wife of John Coe. In February 1925 J.T. MacMinn (United Party candidate for Merthyr) addressed a meeting at ‘Coe’s store’, indicating that John Coe was renting the premises prior to purchasing the property and the role of the store in community activities.This store and the one at 129 Oxlade Drive, are the only two remaining interwar timber stores on the south-western section of New Farm between Brunswick Street and the river. The growth of these interwar, neighbourhood stores as a result of closer settlement, provided the local community with day-to-day household provisions before the proliferation of chain stores in the postwar years.

Also known as

Smalley's Stores (former)

Lot plan

L1_RP8782

Key dates

Local Heritage Place Since —

Date of Citation —

Construction

Roof: Corrugated iron;
 Walls: Timber

Criterion for listing

(A) Historical; (B) Rarity

Interactive mapping

City Plan Interactive Mapping

Also known as

Smalley's Stores (former)

Lot plan

L1_RP8782

Key dates

Local Heritage Place Since —

Date of Citation —

Construction

Roof: Corrugated iron;
 Walls: Timber

Criterion for listing

(A) Historical; (B) Rarity

Interactive mapping

City Plan Interactive Mapping

Statement of significance

Relevant assessment criteria

This is a place of local heritage significance and meets one or more of the local heritage criteria under the Heritage planning scheme policy of the Brisbane City Plan 2014. It is significant because:

Historical

Criterion A

The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of the city's or local area’s history

as an interwar purpose-built store that has operated from the 1920s through to the postwar era.

Rarity

Criterion B

The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of the city’s or local area’s cultural heritage

as a rare, surviving example of a timber, interwar store, once common throughout New Farm before the advent of chain stores in the postwar years.

References

  1. Brisbane City Council Properties on the Web

  2. Brisbane City Council, 1946 aerial photographs.

  3. Catholic Advocate, 15 August 1918 & 9 April 1925.

  4. Brisbane City Council, Sewerage Maps, Detail Plan No 170, 18 June 1925 

  5. Brisbane City Council, New Farm and Teneriffe Hill Heritage and Character Study, Oct 1995, pg 49

  6. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Certificates of Title.

  7. Queensland Post Office Directory, 1923-24; 1924-25

  8. Queensland Electoral Rolls, Electoral District of Brisbane, Subdivision of Merthyr, 1925; 1936

  9. Matthews, B., ‘Report in Response to the Burra Charter: for works on land at 253 Moray St, New Farm’, August 2006

  10. Bennett, H, ‘New Farm from quality street to mixed assortment’, Brisbane Houses, Gardens, Suburbs and Congregations, Papers No 22 Brisbane History Group, 2010 pg 170-175

  11. Benjamin, G. & Grant, G. Reflections on New Farm, New Farm & Districts Historical Society Inc, New Farm, 2008, pg 27

  12. Brisbane Courier, 26 Jan 1923, pg 12

  13. Brisbane Courier, 12 Feb 1925, pg 10

Citation prepared by — Brisbane City Council (page revised June 2022)

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Interwar 1919-1939
Queenslander
Shop/s
At 253 Moray Street, New farm, Queensland 4005
At 253 Moray Street, New farm, Queensland 4005 L1_RP8782
Historical, Rarity