When I met my now husband – all the way back in 2003 – I was living on Rainey Street, Chermside; a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Today I found a cool real estate map from 1925 on the State Library of Queensland website of what was then named ‘Raineys Hill Top Park’ in Kedron.
75 years later, I rented a flat built on Plot 30.
Although I can’t remember if it was ‘free from dust, and delightfully cool’ as advertised in newspapers at the time, it did have ‘water and electric light’. Unfortunately, I was too late to utilise the tram system which appears to have run along Gympie Road a few blocks away. (All Brisbane trams had stopped running by 1969.)
It was a lovely place to live and we have fond memories of our time there.
