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Eulalia in McIlwraith was the home of Mr Justice Real. Worley and Whitehead of Ipswich built the house in 1889 of thirty-five-centimetre-thick brick covered in plaster. The roof was imported reddish slate. The house had a double-bayed verandah, curved carriage drive, tennis court, and croquet lawn. The house stood vacant for ten years, until Stanley Hancock, a retired sawmiller, and his wife bought it, restored it, and created Early Street Historical Village in its grounds.

Real estate agent R. G. Oates named the Seven Hills region after the Seven Hills of Rome. He bought a large piece of land in the 1920s and invested time and money in development, but the depression intervened and the development was not completed until after World War II. In 1945 the Housing Commission took it on as one of their first developments, and by 1948 it had built 189 houses on the seven hills, each of which have Roman names and Roman street names.

Galloways Hill was originally called Norman Hill. In 1865 the name was changed to honour John James Galloway, a surveyor, who owned much land on the top of the hill. Originally covered in thick vine scrub, this was cleared for dairy farming. Galloways Hill was one of the first areas of Norman Park to be settled.

Norman Park State School opened on 9 July 1900 with fifty-two pupils, a principal, and three other teachers. The first principal was Mr James Keys.

Before it was bridged, Norman Creek was a serious problem for transport. People had to travel all the way inland to Stones Corner and then back out along Bennetts Road. There have been four bridges over the mouth of Norman Creek. Captain Taylor Winship erected the first one in 1856. The second was built slightly inland in 1870, the third was opened by Governor Chermside in 1902, and the current bridge was built in 1956.

The Brisbane River rises in the Brisbane Ranges and travels 355 kilometres to the sea. It began to develop its course about ten million years ago when the climate was wetter than today's. Within the last million years the river eroded deeply into its sandstone bed when the sea level dropped. The river mouth was then at Tangalooma. When the sea rose again, Moreton and Stradbroke islands were formed and the present watercourse developed. Since then the river and creeks have formed flood plain deposits, rich with mangroves and some wallum. A shallow river, it needed considerable dredging before it could be used as a shipping passage.

Early visitors reported the river's beauty. In 1823 John Oxley said 'the Scenery was peculiarly beautiful; the country on the banks alternately hilly and level, but not flooded; the Soil of the finest description of Brushwood land, on which grew Timber of great magnitude, and of various Species'. Murray wrote in 1830 of 'a beautiful river, full of graceful windings and lined on each side with trees of luxuriant foliage to the very water's edge'.

Originally closer to Brisbane, what is now Wynnum Road was called Bulimba Road, and further out it was called Wynnum Road or Lytton Road. When the bridge was built over the mouth of Norman Creek in 1856, Wynnum Road became a faster route to Cleveland and so became known as the Cleveland Road. In 1863, a Parliamentary report declared the road was impassable and people had to travel by private land. Wynnum Road was known as Cleveland Road until the 1950s.

In 1959 commemorative palms were planted along New Cleveland Road at Cannon Hill. Each had a plaque with the name of a soldier from the district. Children swinging from them destroyed the palms on the south of the road. Those on the north were removed in the 1960s when the road was widened.

Norman Creek is an important part of the south-eastern Brisbane suburbs. The catchment has an area of 29.8 square kilometres and runs from Mount Gravatt to the Brisbane River. The derivation for the name Norman Creek is unknown. It appears unnamed on Oxley's map of 1823, but Lockyer names it as 'Norman's Creek' in 1825. Cunningham's map in 1829 shows it as 'Norman's Creek'. Baker's Australian Atlas (1846) shows Gorman Creek, but this is almost certainly an error. The identity of Norman is not known. In 1839 James Warner surveyed Norman Creek from its confluence to its mouth.

By the 1860s the waterholes became polluted and gradually the swamps were drained. Near the end of the nineteenth century it was affected by sewage discharge and there has been a continuing problem with rubbish being dumped and erosion, due to cutting down the mangroves.

The first bridge across Norman Creek was built at the mouth in 1856, greatly reducing the distance people had to travel to get to Bulimba and neighbouring suburbs. Three subsequent bridges followed, the last built in 1956. In 1886, the Stanley Street Bridge was opened, creating important access to Coorparoo and Norman Park. Extensive reclamation, concreting, and piping of the swamp and creek has modified it dramatically. In the 1990s the Council and community groups began to restore and revegetate large sections of the creek. The native river mangroves are growing back. Mud crabs, mullet, and prawns can still be found in the lower reaches and an important flying fox colony lives in the trees between Coorparoo Secondary College and Churchie.

Remax United Vision has property for sale and for rent in this Brisbane suburb of Norman Park

The Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) is the State's peak real estate industry professional association.

Location

4km east of the Brisbane CBD.

Features

Proximity to Brisbane City, Norman Park rail station, CP Bottomley Park.

Median Price

REIQ research shows that the median house price in the suburb for the calendar year 2006 was $444,500.

Median Weekly Rent

The median weekly rent paid for a 3-bedroom house in this area in the June 2007 quarter was $330. The median weekly rent paid for a 2-bedroom unit in this area for the same period was $290.

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Only 4km from the heart of Brisbane, Norman Park offers residents numerous parks and recreational areas close to the central business district.

Bordered by East Brisbane, Coorparoo, Camp Hill, Morningside and Hawthorne, Norman Park offers limited housing along the Brisbane River.

Buyers will find a diverse range of properties available and some excellent examples of renovated Queenslanders and post-war workers cottages.

The neighbouring suburbs service the needs of school-aged residents and also offer a variety of larger supermarket and retail outlets to complement Norman Park’s local stores. The Coorparoo retail precinct in particular offers easy access to Coles, Myer Mega Mart, banking and some smaller street stores.

Students are also in close proximity to the Morningside campus of Griffith University while sports lovers are in close proximity to The Gabba.

For those commuters opting to leave the car at home, the Norman Park railway station is available as are regular bus services to both the City and Carindale Shopping Centre.

CP Bottomley Park and other parkland reserves offer residents a variety of walk and bikeways, barbeque and picnic spots. The scouts also meet in Norman Park at the reserve situated alongside the Norman Park Bowls Club.

Norman Park has benefited from the continuing trend towards inner city living. Coupled with its good public transport and local facilities Norman Park has experienced strong growth over the last five years.

According to the 2001 Census there were 6,307 people living in the suburb with a median age of 33. The median individual income was between $500 and $599 per week. Of all occupied private dwellings 62% were either fully owned or being purchased; 31% were being rented.

Source: REIQ

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RE/MAX Vision was purchased by Ron and Lenore Sieber to cover the suburbs of Carina, Carina Heights, Carindale, Mt Gravatt East, Wishart, Belmont, Tingalpa, Cannon Hill, Norman Park, Camp Hill.

RE/MAX United Vision offices of Holland Park and Coorparoo and this has expanded our business to include the surrounding suburbs of Tarragindi, Coorparoo, Holland Park, Coorparoo Heights, Holland Park West, Mt Gravette, Mt Gravette East, East Brisbane, Ekibin. We have a large property management portfolio of 600 properties managed by 6 property managers. Overall we have some 45 people working in RE/MAX United Vision servicing all areas of Brisbane.