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HMAS Moreton Wardroom and Officers’ Mess

City Botanical Gardens Café

From 1943 to 1946, this building, the former City Botanical Gardens’ Curator’s Residence, was used by the Royal Australian Navy. The Navy enlarged the residence so that it could be used the Wardroom and Officers’ Mess for HMAS Moreton. This was the name given to the shore establishment operated by the Navy in Brisbane. Members of the Women’s Royal Australian Navy service were permanently stationed at the HMAS Moreton Wardroom and Officers’ Mess.

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147 Alice Street

Brisbane, QLD 4000

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History

The kiosk was built in 1909 as the on-site residence of the curator of the Brisbane Botanical Gardens. Curator Ernest Walter Bick retired in 1940 and in March, the administration of the Gardens was handed to the Queensland Government’s Department of Public Works for the duration of the war. Thus the Curator’s Residence remained vacant during 1941–42. As a civil defence measure, Public Works built air raid shelters within the Gardens site in 1941

As the wharves and buildings of the Queensland Naval Depot were situated nearby at 1 Alice Street (opposite Queensland Parliament House), the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) decided...

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