Addresses
Type of place
Shop/s
Period
Interwar 1919-1939
Style
Art Deco
This is an image of the local heritage place known as Corner Shop and original baker's oven
Corner Shop and original baker's oven
Addresses
Type of place
Shop/s
Period
Interwar 1919-1939
Style
Art Deco
This interwar corner shop, along with a workshop and residence were built when Sandgate Road, Albion was becoming a popular commercial area. It is an excellent example of a type of development that was popular when residential and commercial functions commonly co-existed and remains as one of few corner shops with an original oven on the site.
Lot plan
Geolocation
-27.42886 153.042509
Key dates
Local Heritage Place Since —
Date of Citation —
People/associations
John Reginald Cyril Blanche (Architect)Criterion for listing
(A) Historical; (D) Representative; (D) RepresentativeInteractive mapping
Lot plan
Geolocation
-27.42886 153.042509
Key dates
Local Heritage Place Since —
Date of Citation —
People/associations
John Reginald Cyril Blanche (Architect)Criterion for listing
(A) Historical; (D) Representative; (D) RepresentativeInteractive mapping
History
In the 1920s and 1930s Albion experienced a significant growth period as the surrounding suburbs and those to the north expanded. Urban improvements were proceeding apace and in 1927-28 the Abbotsford Road Bridge replaced the inadequate bridge over Breakfast Creek at the Albion Fiveways to accommodate the increased road traffic arising from the suburban expansion to the north. The interwar years also saw the expansion or renovation of many of the commercial buildings in Albion, and the construction of a number of new blocks housing multiple shops.
In June 1933, Mrs Sarah Bock applied to Brisbane City Council to build a ‘shop, dwelling and bakehouse’ at the corner of old Sandgate Road and Birkbeck Street, Albion. Council approved her application as this section of Sandgate Road was developing as a shopping district.
The residential and commercial development was designed by John Reginald Cyril Blanche and cost £750. Blanche commenced his architectural profession in Melbourne and worked as the Chief Architect for the War Service Homes Commission, Queensland Branch from 1926-29. He practised privately in Queensland from 1931 and is known to have built two other houses in Brisbane.
It is likely that the buildings were completed in 1935/6 as Sarah Bock and her husband Herman moved from Paddington to Albion in 1936. In addition to the shop and residence, an oven was constructed at the rear of the premises, on the Birkbeck Street frontage of the property. They operated their pastry cooking business from these premises until 1944. The bakehouse and shop were then leased to other pastry cooks until 1949. Kenneth William Bock inherited the property in 1950 and sold it in 1952. The complex is still registered as a dwelling and shop.
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:
References
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Brisbane City Council, Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Town of Windsor, Detail Plan no. 277, 1923
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Brisbane City Council Register of New Buildings, 1933
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Brisbane City Council Minutes 1933
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Brisbane City Council, 1946 aerial photographs.
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Queensland Post Office Directories, 1897-1949
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Certificates of Title, Department of Natural Resources and Water
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McKellar's Map of Brisbane and Suburbs. Brisbane: Surveyor-General’s Office, 1895
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Watson, Donald and Judith McKay. A Directory of Queensland Architects to 1940. (St. Lucia: U of Q Press, 1984)
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Kennedy, Michael Owen, Domestic Architecture in Queensland Between the Wars, (UNSW. Master of Built Environment graduate report, January 1989)
Citation prepared by — Brisbane City Council (page revised June 2022)