Ep 14 + how Annerley got named, docs for dating your house + a bootmaker's house at Fortitude Valley

🏠🔎 DETECTIVE DIARIES: EPISODE 14 🔎🏠

In this episode, I delve into Brisbane's history and my recent house history research and discuss the widow's houses that were funded by a lottery, apprentices with THE COOLEST middle name, the many early names of Annerley, where you can find some great resources to date your house and finally, I share part 1 of the history of a Fortitude Valley house!

00:00 Intro
00:45 The houses funded by gambling
03:22 Danger is not my middle name, but this patriotic one is way cooler
06:10 Before it was "Annerley"
10:58 Building Application Registers
16:16 A Fortitude Valley house that vanished overnight
19:15 Outro

I'm an architectural historian called The House Detective. I research houses and find out amazing things about their history all the time, so I thought I would share some of them with you all!

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Pretty much all the old photos shown were from the State Library of Queensland.

You can search the Quensland State Archives collection here: https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au

You can read Dr Carmel Black's paper on the Anzac and TB Cottages here: https://static1.squarespace.com/stati...

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