Turbot Street

It is a major thoroughfare, linking as a three-to-five lane one-way street with the Riverside Expressway in the southwest to the suburb of Fortitude Valley in the northeast; address numbers run the same direction.

[13] A ladies seminary, or 'school for young girls', was opened on the street in 1866, and was to include the teaching of English, French, and music.

[18] In December 1877, Alderman Pettigrew made a motion before the town council,[19] The year 1886 also saw the asphalting of footpaths on both sides of Turbot Street being undertaken.

[20] The looseness of soil and presence of rock resulted in the death of two workers, Patrick Gleeson and Thomas McCullough, at the Turbot Street railway cutting in late 1888.

[27] Never explained was the serious explosions of five postal department electric utility hole covers on Monday, 28 July 1913.

[29] This was introduced due to traffic congestion in that area, as well as issues created by earlier colonial land divisions.

After leaving the fruit markets following a hard fall against a truck, an unsteady Birrell appearing inebriated, went across to a pie cart.

A newspaper sensation occurred the following year at one of the street's boarding houses when on 16 February 1923 a male tried to use a .32 calibre revolver to unlawfully kill a female, after she indicated she would not leave her allegedly-violent husband.

[34] During World War II, a tunnel and large underground air raid shelter were proposed on the northern side of Turbot Street.

[36] Stock including £65,000 of emergency food supplies was destroyed, and large building valued at £25,000 was ruined; impacting 200 employees.

[37] The 'Arcade Murder' of 19-year-old typist Bronia Mary Armstrong occurred near the BAFS Institute rooms on 10 January 1947, where a 49-year-old accountant was charged.

[42] The poem 'The Tears of Turbot-street' by E. N. MacCulloch was penned in 1927 with reference to the Trades Hall and Labour Day.

[72] A move of the headquarters was proposed in 1943 to Kemp Place and Ivory Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, although this was not achieved until 1964.

[73] A plaque on the site notes the change from 'a volunteer bucket brigade to horse-drawn steam pumps, to a motorised permanent fire-fighting force'.

Within the park beside Turbot Street is the statute 'El emigrante' unveiled in February 2000 to honour the early Lebanese settlers who from about 1860 established a presence in Australia, 'sewing the bonds of loyalty, friendship and hard work'.

BAFS Building, George Street facade, 2018
Fruit and produce market building in Turbot Street, circa 1910
Roma Street Police Station, 1883