READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few samples of interesting out of print books. This edition of readersvoice.com features Historical Sketches of Brisbane by John H.C. McClurg, published 1975. It tells about many of the now vanished features of Brisbane.

Not many would have heard about the Brisbane suburb of Thorroldtown, which had its own railway station.  It was an early Brisbane suburb around present day Wooloowin, named after Robert L. Thorrold. He was connected with the Supreme Court of Queensland, soon after the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859.  In 1863 when the Supreme Court Library was established, he became Librarian, and from 1872 he was associate to Judge Lutwyche until the death of Lutwyche.

The author says of the now largely forgotten Thorroldtown: The area of land owned by Robert L. Thorrold comprised 48 acres, the boundaries of which in present day identification [1975] would be the northern end of Bonney Avenue [Wooloowin], the streets named Stafford and Inwood (which are immediately north of Wooloowin Railway Station) Kedron Park Road to Rose Street, Eagle Junction. The railway line to Sandgate via Eagle Junction runs almost exactly through the centre of Robert Thorrold’s early estate.