Yeronga Park, Heritage listed recreational park in Brisbane, Australia.
Yeronga Park is a heritage-listed recreational space in Brisbane with mature trees including weeping figs and flame trees scattered along its pathways. The grounds feature heated swimming pools, tennis courts, croquet lawns, rugby fields, and cricket grounds positioned throughout the site.
The Yeerongpilly Divisional Board declared 41.9 hectares off Ipswich Road a public park in 1882, and in 1888 the Stephens Divisional Board made 41.74 hectares a permanent reserve. Between 1917 and 1921 the park gained its World War I memorial role: Honour Avenue was built and planted with 96 weeping figs and flame trees, and a memorial pavilion and two sets of gates were added in 1921. The park was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 2 December 2005.
The 1921 memorial gates stand at each end of Honour Avenue, and the southern inner pier of the Ipswich Road gates carries a dedication to the women workers of Stephens Shire, an unusual tribute in Queensland. A palm-lined footpath runs diagonally from the avenue to Ipswich Road, linking the domed pavilion to the gates.
The park is bounded by Ipswich Road to the east, Villa Street to the north, Park Road to the west and School Road to the south, with Honour Avenue running from Park Road to Ipswich Road. The gates stand at each end of that avenue, and a palm-lined footpath runs diagonally from it to Ipswich Road.
Each tree on Honour Avenue was originally paired with a timber post topped by a metal shield bearing the name of a Stephens Shire soldier killed in the war. A named avenue of memorial trees inside a park is uncommon in Queensland, and this one ranks among Australia's earliest, contemporaneous with Victoria's 1917 avenues.
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