Windsor Town Quarry Park
| Windsor Town Quarry Park and Tramways Substation No. 6 | |
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Substation building, 2015
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| Location | 356 Lutwyche Road, Windsor, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°25′42″S 153°01′57″E / 27.4282°S 153.0324°ECoordinates: 27°25′42″S 153°01′57″E / 27.4282°S 153.0324°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | c. 1926 - c. 1928 |
| Architect | Roy Rusden Ogg |
| Architectural style(s) | Classicism |
| Official name: BCC Tramways Substation No. 6 and Windsor Town Quarry Park (former) | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 31 May 2005 |
| Reference no. | 602492 |
| Significant period | c. 1926-1948 (historical, fabric) |
| Significant components | substation - tramway, machinery/plant/equipment - transport - rail, views to, park / green space, quarry, crane / gantry, platform |
 Location of Windsor Town Quarry Park and Tramways Substation No. 6 in Queensland
Windsor Town Quarry Park and Tramways Substation No. 6 (Australia)
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Windsor Town Quarry Park and Tramways Substation No. 6 is a heritage-listed former quarry with electrical substation at 356 Lutwyche Road, Windsor in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1926 to c. 1928. The park and substation were added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 31 May 2005. There is another, larger substation building, Tramways Substation No. 13 which was designed by Frank Gibson Costello and became operational in June 1949.
A seam of Brisbane tuff, known locally as "porphyry", forms part of the Enoggera fault line and was formed by being deposited on the shore and in the shallow waters of small Triassic lakes. This stone was found to be suitable for building in the early stages of European settlement in Queensland. The original hill of the Windsor quarry sloped across Lutwyche Road and down to Albion Road. Nehemiah Bartley acquired the land in the first land sales in 1859, though he sold it in the mid 1860s. Stone was probably removed first in the 1860s as the hill was lowered to allow development of a road, though in the 1870s it still formed a hump in the road and vehicles tended to drive around it.
The Ithaca Divisional Board was formed in 1879 and quarried stone from the hill. In 1887 Windsor became a Shire and the quarry was transferred to it in 1888. The local tuff provided an excellent source of building material for the new Shire and districts beyond and was worked by both private enterprise and the town council. In 1897, the Windsor Town Council Chambers was constructed from the stone, as were a number of local buildings, roadside kerbing and drains. The stonemason's office stood near the corner of Haddock Street at the base of the hill.
In 1904 Windsor became a municipality comprising Albion, Wooloowin, Wilston, Lutwyche, Newmarket, Swan Hill and part of Eagle Junction and Kedron. A stone crushing plant was constructed at the quarry in 1914 and the road metal produced greatly facilitated road development in the area. By the 1920s the quarry is thought to have been largely worked out and quarrying may not have continued beyond the establishment of the substation in 1927.
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