Based in Capalaba, we service the whole Coorparoo, Norman Park, Camp Hill and Carina corridor.
Coorparoo was chosen as the name of the suburb at a public meeting on 22 March 1875, before which it was known as Four Mile Camp. The name is likely derived from an Aboriginal name for Norman Creek.
View Area →Norman Park is likely named after an early 1890s estate, itself thought to take its name from nearby Norman Creek and the contemporary Governor of Queensland, Henry Wylie Norman.
View Area →Camp Hill was originally known as Schick's Hill, named for early settler Peter Schick, and bordered the area once called Four-Mile Camp, where drovers rested their teams on the journey to Cleveland.
View Area →Carina takes its name from Ebenezer Thorne's 1850s estate on Creek Road, named after his daughter Kate Carina, and was the main place of settlement in the old Belmont Shire.
View Area →Carina Heights is both a hill and a suburb, rising to 36 metres in its north-east corner, and borders Camp Hill, Carina, Carindale, Mansfield, Mount Gravatt East and Holland Park.
View Area →Greenslopes was named after a 19-hectare estate acquired by Frederick Wecker in 1857 on Old Cleveland Road, named for the area's green pastures.
View Area →Holland Park owes its name to merchant Julius Holland, who for many years owned a large area of scrub land in the district that he had bought on speculation.
View Area →Holland Park West was split from Holland Park in 1967, having previously been known as Lower Mount Gravatt, where soldier settlement farms of 8 to 16 acres were established in the 1920s.
View Area →Woolloongabba's name is derived from an Aboriginal expression variously interpreted as whirling waters, a fighting place, or a wallaby, and the suburb is home to the Brisbane Cricket Ground, known as the Gabba.
View Area →East Brisbane grew substantially during the property boom of the 1880s, and the suburb still contains many original Queenslander homes from that era.
View Area →Morningside is said to be named after a local estate belonging to David Longlands, with the name itself likely referring to the sight of nearby hills catching the rising sun on the eastern side of Brisbane.
View Area →Balmoral takes its name from Baile Mhoireil, Scottish Gaelic for beautiful residence, an anglicisation of the name of Queen Victoria's country residence in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
View Area →Hawthorne is thought to be named after butcher William Baynes, who purchased land here in 1875 and named the area after the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn, where he had lived before arriving in Queensland.
View Area →Seven Hills takes its name from seven low rises within the suburb, each named after the Seven Hills of Rome - Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline and Viminal.
View Area →Cannon Hill most likely takes its name from Cannon Hill House, built in 1867 by the Weedon family on Wynnum Road, opposite the site of the present primary school.
View Area →Murarrie was formerly known as Mooraree, taking its name from Mooraree House, built around 1861 by architect and sugar plantation owner Christopher Porter.
View Area →Tingalpa most likely takes its name from Tingalpa Creek, surveyed and named Tingulpa in 1841, probably derived from an Aboriginal expression referring to a fat kangaroo.
View Area →Belmont takes its name from an estate established in 1876 by August Charles Frederick Bernecker, set in fertile country along Bulimba Creek.
View Area →Carindale takes its name from neighbouring Carina, and today is home to Westfield Carindale, one of Brisbane's largest shopping centres.
View Area →Mount Gravatt East is one of three suburbs carved from the original, much larger Mount Gravatt district, and takes in Mount Thompson, which rises to 190 metres above sea level.
View Area →Mount Gravatt takes its name from the hill itself, named in 1840 by surveyor Robert Dixon after Lieutenant George Gravatt, briefly commandant of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in 1839.
View Area →Upper Mount Gravatt was officially gazetted as a place name in 1969, though it came into existence when a local primary school opened here in 1929 to serve the area's soldier settlement farms.
View Area →Wishart was originally known as Mount Gravatt South before being renamed in 1967 after an early European settler in the district.
View Area →MacGregor was named in 1967 after Sir William MacGregor, Governor of Queensland from 1909 to 1914, who had earlier served as Administrator of British New Guinea.
View Area →Yeronga's name is thought to derive from an Aboriginal word, yerongpa, describing a sandy place, reflecting the suburb's riverside flats along the Brisbane River.
View Area →Annerley is thought to be named after the town of Annerley in Surrey, England, and grew up around the Junction Hotel, licensed in 1866 at the corner of Boggo and Ipswich Roads.
View Area →Fairfield was probably named after a property settled around 1850 by W.D. Grimes, much of which consisted of wetland and lagoons used for dairying.
View Area →Kangaroo Point sits on a peninsula of hard rhyolite rock formed by a bend in the Brisbane River, quarried during Brisbane's convict era for building stone used across the settlement.
View Area →Dutton Park takes its name from Charles Boydell Dutton, Queensland's Minister for Lands from 1883 to 1887, after whom the recreational parkland was named when it was reserved in 1884.
View Area →Highgate Hill is thought to be named by early resident George Wilson, whose house stood at the top of Bellevue Street, possibly after the London district of the same name.
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