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Balmoral, Queensland
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
Balmoral is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 4 km east of the CBD. Balmoral is Gaelic for ‘beautiful residence’ or ‘majestic castle’ and is the name of one of the Queen’s castles in Scotland. It has been said that it was John Watson, whose career varied from builder to State Member, who gave the area the name Balmoral, after the town of his birth in Scotland. In 1888 the Bulimba Divisional Board was broken down into several bodies and the Balmoral Divisional Board was created. The first chairman of the area was Councilor Edward Griffith. In 1901 the Local Authorities Act changed this to the Balmoral Shire. Balmoral remained as the name of the shire, but not a suburb, until 1927, when trams came to Bulimba. The pioneers came to Balmoral for farming. Small crops, cotton and bananas were grown, and later sugar was cultivated. Until the construction of the bridge over Norman Creek in 1856, the only way to get to Balmoral was by ferry across the river, or by travelling from Kangaroo Point to Stone’s Corner where it was possible to cross Norman Creek, and then to go along Bennetts Road to the cemetery and out to Balmoral. This trip could take a whole day and this isolation slowed development in the area. Most of the subdivisions in this area took place during the land boom of the 1880s. Several subdivisions took place over the next few years, but then development slowed until the next century. In 1927 the Balmoral trams began and in 1935 they extended to Oxford Street. This improvement in transport, and the opening of Storey Bridge in 1940, greatly increased the number of people settling in Balmoral, as did the increased availability of electricity when Bulimba A Power Station was built at Bulimba Creek in 1926. In 1929 a newspaper report said that Balmoral had ‘become closely settled in the last few years’ and if the ‘proposed reservoir on Bulimba Heights’ was constructed an adequate supply of water would result. This reservoir was opened in 1940, and with transportation, electricity and water Balmoral became truly suburban. To the aborigines Balmoral was part of the area they called ‘Tugulawa’, which meant ‘heart’- probably a reference to the heart shaped piece of land which constitutes Bulimba and Balmoral. Aborigines camped at the end of Apollo Road.