1929 Taringa - Dean's Highlands Estate - 92 years old today
Happy 92nd Birthday Deans Highland Estate in Taringa!
On this day, 25th May in 1929, the Deans Highlands Estate land was available for sale on the ground.
Compare the 1936 Aerial Photo of the Deans Highlands Estate with the present day Google Maps
Newspaper Advertisement
The Brisbane Courier - Saturday, 25 May 1929 - Page 30
THIS AFTERNOON
Sale by Auction, on the Ground, at 3 o'clock
DEANS HIGHLANDS ESTATE,
Stanley Terrace and Union Street
Between Toowong and Taringa.
14 Magnificent Sites, close to the Toowong Sports Ground and within two minutes of the site purchased for the Brisbane Boys College, where rate are very low and all conveniences available. Nine sites from Stanley Terrace, an elevated position with panoramic views. Stanley Terrace is a street that has just been remade.
The other 5 blocks each have 65 feet and over frontage to Union Street, and are all well above the street level on a gentle slope.
TERMS: £20 per block deposit, thence £5 quarterly, balance end of third year; interest 6 percent.
NO PROHIBITIVE RESERVES.
THORPE & SHARP,
Auctioneers, 241 Adelaide Street.
Loved it. We lived at Kaieta,25 Union St. for 20 yrs.
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