Mowbray Park, Brisbane
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Memorial in 2015
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| Location | 33, 60 & 78 Lytton Road, East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°28′43″S 153°02′39″E / 27.4785°S 153.0442°ECoordinates: 27°28′43″S 153°02′39″E / 27.4785°S 153.0442°E |
| Design period | 1900 – 1914 (early 20th century) |
| Built | 1904–1974 |
| Official name: Mowbray Park and East Brisbane War Memorial, Riversdale | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600189 |
| Significant period | 1850s–1976 (historical) 1904– (social) 1904–1936 (fabric) |
| Significant components | park / green space, lawn/s, gate – entrance, memorial – soldier statue, pathway/walkway, flagpole/flagstaff, swimming pool |
 Location of Mowbray Park and East Brisbane War Memorial in Queensland
Location of Mowbray Park and East Brisbane War Memorial in Queensland
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Mowbray Park in East Brisbane
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| Location | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Area | 32,000m² |
| Created | 1904 |
| Operated by | Brisbane City Council |
| Designation | State Heritage Place (Queensland Heritage Register) |
Mowbray Park and East Brisbane War Memorial are a heritage-listed park and monument within the park on Lytton Road, East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1904 to 1974. It is also known as East Brisbane War Memorial and Riversdale. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
In 1903–04, the South Brisbane City Council acquired the riverfront property known as Mowbray's Paddock, alienated by Rev. Thomas Mowbray in the 1850s, for public park purposes. The new reserve was named officially as Mowbray Park in September 1904.
Rev. Thomas Mowbray had arrived in Moreton Bay in 1847, and although he was never inducted into a charge during his twenty years at Moreton Bay, he was instrumental in establishing the Presbyterian Church in Brisbane in the 1850s. In December 1850, he purchased approximately 12 acres of land along the southern bank of the Brisbane River at what was then referred to as Kangaroo Point, downstream from Rev. Robert Creyke's purchase, Ravenscott (later Shafston House), overlooking New Farm. Title was transferred to him in November 1851. In the 1850s, Mowbray built his family home, Riversdale, on this site. Thomas Mowbray died in 1867, but the family retained the property until its sale to the South Brisbane City Council in 1904.
In a report presented to the full Council on 14 December 1903, the advantages of the site for a public park were enumerated:
"Mowbray's property is in every way suitable for a public Park or garden having suitable soil, and undulating land reaching to the water's edge, and in addition it will also provide the necessary accommodation for bowling greens, Tennis Courts, and Croquet lawns. The property has a North Easterly aspect, and has an extended view of two reaches of the river, is above flood level, and is situated on the East Brisbane Tramway route. There is no public park or reserve in this locality, and no other piece of land in the neighbourhood so suitable for this purpose."
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