Background narrative to the 2019 replacement Avenue of Honours

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Peter Ashley Rasey

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Walter Harding a Wool Street residence and leading Brisbane city solicitor, personally planted from 1916 to 1924, Avenue after Avenue of Honour (trees) within Anzac Park. Drought and a change of city governance with the establishment of the Greater Brisbane City Council in 1924, saw his work slowly die away. However, it was the establishment of a WWII Camp in Anzac Park that saw the last of all but the original trees clear felled.

In 2019 the Brisbane City Council lead by the Local Councillor James MacKay, planted in the internal Streets of the Park Five new Avenues of Flame Streets to honour the original Five Avenues lost in mists of time.

1/ Dean Street entrance, 2/ Parallel to Wool Street, 3/ Up the hill to the Canon Garland Tree, 4/ along the ridge, down and 5/ending with the Anzac Day Bottletree. Pictures attached

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