Air Raid Shelter (at former Bulimba Brewery)

McDonald Printing Group Pty Ltd

A concrete air raid shelter survives off Mort Street, Toowoomba, south of the former Bulimba Brewery which is now a printing business. An entrance towards the street has been bricked up, but the size and shape of the structure is typical of the public air raid shelters built in early 1942. Ventilation holes are still visible at intervals along the top of the wall facing the street.

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Location

93-99 Mort Street

Toowoomba, QLD 4350

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Place type

Civil defence facility

History

In the Protection of Persons and Property Order No.1, gazetted 23 December 1941, Queensland’s Premier William Forgan Smith, with powers conferred by Regulation 35a, ordered the Brisbane City Council to construct 200 public surface shelters in the city area (235 were built). Another 24 local governments in Queensland’s coastal areas were ordered to produce surface or trench shelters for the public (135 non-trench shelters were built).

A large number of businesses also built air raid shelters, as the owners of any building in the coastal areas where over 30 people would normally be present at any one time were required to...

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