Everything about Newstead Queensland totally explained
Newstead is a riverside suburb of the city of
Brisbane,
Queensland,
Australia. It is situated 3km north of the
Brisbane central business district. The north-west portion of the suburb, centred on Breakfast Creek Road, is predominantly commercial, with the remainder of the suburb now mainly residential.
At the last census, over 67% of the households in Newstead consisted of couples without children and a further 20% were single person households. Over 82% of dwellings in the area are units and 15% are stand-alone houses. Newstead is known for trendy cafes and restaurants, upmarket studio apartments and renovated older homes with well-established gardens. It is one of the more expensive suburbs in which to purchase a property in Brisbane, with the mean house price for the 2004 calendar year reaching $640,000.
The suburb's present role as an up-market residential suburb belies its industrial past. Timber yards, asbestos works, a major gas works (which produced
town gas from
coal) and several tall
gasometers, wharves and
woolstores once dominated the eastern side of the suburb.
The suburb was served by first horse drawn
trams from
1885. From
1897 electric trams ran along Commercial Road (until December 1962) and along Ann and Wickham Streets until April
1969. Light Street tram and bus depot was located in the suburb. It opened as a tram depot in
1885, saw its last trams in December
1968 and finally closed as a bus depot in the mid
1990s, making it one of
Queensland's longest continually operating industrial sites. All traces of the depot and its heritage have been obliterated and the site redeveloped, although a remnant of its trackwork - a unique three way set of
points - has been preserved at the
Brisbane Tramway Museum.
Brisbane Transport continues to serve the suburb by bus. A cross river ferry, also operated by Brisbane Transport, links the suburb to
Bulimba. The suburb is also linked to the city by "City Cat"
catamaran ferry service.
The suburb was also served by a
Queensland railways train line, which branched off the main north coast line at
Bowen Hills and descended towards the river and Breakfast Creek Road, crossing it to reach the industry, wool stores and wharves along the river. The line closed in the early
1990s. Some remnants of the rail line have been preserved in the wool stores precinct.
Pride of the suburb is
Newstead House,
Brisbane’s oldest existing home, built for
pioneer Darling Downs squatter
Patrick Leslie in
1845. It is set in superb grounds overlooking the mouth of the creek and is within easy walking distance of the famed
Breakfast Creek Hotel - a flamboyant
Victorian structure which has been described as 'the very soul of
Brisbane'. Newstead House’s glory days came during the time of the residence of Captain
John Clements Wickham, the
official resident and
magistrate of the Moreton Bay settlement and a noted and gracious host. Wickham had previously been Commander of the
HMS Beagle, made famous by its association with
Charles Darwin.
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