[3] The site was formerly a public golf course that opened in November 1931, before it was converted back to a park in June 2021 as part of redevelopment works.

[4][5] Prior to colonisation, Victoria Park was a traditional meeting place of local groups and the site of cultural gatherings with approximately 400 people residing on the land.

[1] The area of Victoria Park closest to the site of the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and the Mayne Railway Yard at Bowen Hills was likely known more specifically as "Walan".

[2] It was traditionally a meeting and gathering place for Indigenous groups travelling through the area, as well as a cultural site for corroboree, dance, hunting and fishing.

[1] Traditional spearing challenges between Indigenous families would also be held at the site, near the RNA showgrounds, which attracted white spectators after settlement of the surrounding areas.

Dr Ray Kerkhove of the University of Queensland described the sharing of resources between Indigenous camps and the York's Hollow settlement on the site.

[6] There were a large number of creeks that snaked through Barrambin, serving as de facto borders between Aboriginal families camping on the site.

[1][2] Victoria Park covers an area of 64 hectares of undulating land in Brisbane city, in the suburb of Herston and Bowen Hills.

[3] Victoria Park provides recreational facilities such as cricket pitches, swimming pool and golf course (redesigned with a new clubhouse in 1974).

Housing developments, schools, hospitals, golf courses and show grounds were permitted to be built on the park land.

[citation needed] In 1846, police led by Constable Peter Murphy dispersed a major Aboriginal campsite, killing at least 3 people and burning camps.

As a result, areas of York's Hollow (the name prior to Victoria Park) provided a settling point for various immigrant camps.

[12] The arrival of John Dunmore Lang's pioneering emigrant ship Fortitude in Brisbane in early 1849 is recognised as one of the landmark events of Queensland's history, and York's Hollow on the edge of the new township was put to good use for their accommodation.

According to the Moreton Bay Courier, 253 immigrants were permitted "to form a temporary village on some of the slopes running parallel to the chains and waterholes in the neighbourhood of York's Hollow".

At the start of the 1900s a site in the north-west of the park was considered for a new Government House; however Fernberg in Rosalie was leased for that purpose and later purchased in 1910.

[3] In 1913, Victoria Park played host to a globally significant scientific experiment carried out by the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

The Victoria Park station (a small tent) was placed on the slope below the former Children's Hospital and on the northern side of the existing busway corridor.

The first Victoria Park Golf Clubhouse was designed in the Spanish Mission style by Alfred Herbert Foster and was built in 1931; it is now listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.

In 1936, the entrance at the corner of Bowen Bridge Road and Gregory Terrace was improved with stone piers constructed of Brisbane Tuff.

[3] During the Second World War, a number of fibrolite military buildings were constructed at various points in Victoria Park by the forces of the United States of America.

While most of the accommodation was canvas tents, a number of huts of fibrolite on timber stumps were constructed south of Herston Road and Gregory Terrace.

[3] The post-war reconstruction process heralded an era of rapid population growth in Queensland, leading to an acute shortage in housing.

Named "The Gundoo Memorial Grove", this large area of planting was accomplished by the students of The Brisbane Girls' Grammar School as their contribution to the celebrations.

This area of Victoria Park was in need of beautification as it had previously been the site of some of the Housing Commission buildings, recently demolished.

Community engagement for the Victoria Park Vision included over 2,000 submissions, and identified a number of key themes including environmental restoration, Aboriginal engagement and co-design, delivering small-scale experiences, diverse types of parkland spaces, safety and accessibility, access to transport options, and collaboration with local residents.

[3] The Substation building is rectangular in plan with a timber-framed tiled hip roof behind a rendered brick parapet with a moulded cornice.

The front elevation is symmetrical about a projecting central entrance porch in which a decorative crest bearing the lettering BCC sits within an arched doorway.

[3] A random course quarry-face ashlar wall of Brisbane Tuff runs to the front of the Substation from the Gregory Terrace corner and around into Bowen Bridge Road terminating in a tall capped pier.

A small flight of stone stairs flanked by low piers within the wall defines an entrance from Bowen Bridge Road.

The northern section of the park contains several sheltered barbeque and picnic areas amid large expanses of lawn and playing fields.