Based in Oxley, we service all of the suburbs below and the areas around them.
Algester was detached from Acacia Ridge and named in 1972 after Algester Road, a corruption of Alcester Road, which subdivider F. S. Brecknell named in the 1920s after the main street of his home village of Moseley, near Birmingham, England.
View Area →Calamvale takes its name from James Calam, an early settler whose family built their homestead on a hill near Beaudesert Road, the site where the Calamvale Hotel was later built.
View Area →Chelmer sits in a bend of the Brisbane River and was originally known as Boyland's Pocket, before the railway station gave the suburb its name, probably after the River Chelmer in Essex, England.
View Area →Corinda grew around its railway station, with a small commercial district on Oxley Road gradually developing nearby, and Corinda State School opened on 1 June 1927.
View Area →Darra takes its name from its railway station, named in mid-1876 by the Queensland Railways Department from an Aboriginal word for stones, and the Queensland Cement and Lime Company ran a cement manufacturing plant in the suburb until 1998.
View Area →Doolandella's name is a Yuggera word referring to the geebung tree, a shrub with yellow fruit, and the suburb was declared an official suburb in 1976.
View Area →Durack was named in 1976 following a local newspaper naming competition, after Michael Durack, a landholder of the Archerfield pastoral station.
View Area →Ellen Grove became known as Ellen's Grove after Ellen Dabing, daughter of landowner R.P. Spinks, who often played with local Aboriginal people in a grove of trees along Bullockhead Creek, and the area was subdivided for housing around 1959.
View Area →Forest Lake is a master planned community, with construction by Delfin commencing in 1990 and the estate launching in 1991, built around a man-made recreational lake.
View Area →Graceville railway station was named on 4 February 1875, and Graceville State School opened on 13 August 1928.
View Area →Heathwood was declared a suburb in 1970 when it was separated from Acacia Ridge, and it was named after an early settler in the district.
View Area →Inala started as the suburb of Serviceton, founded by ex-servicemen after a 1946 meeting, and the Queensland Housing Commission bought it around 1949 to 1950 before the name changed to Inala in 1953.
View Area →Jindalee is an Aboriginal word meaning bare hills, and development began in 1960 under the Hooker Centenary Project after planning started in 1959.
View Area →Karawatha's name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning a place with pine trees, the suburb was formerly known as Berrinba, and most of its land is undeveloped park land known as Karawatha Forest.
View Area →Larapinta means flowing water and was named for Oxley Creek, which bounds the suburb to the north and west, while the Glider Forest Conservation Area in the south protects a large tract of bushland.
View Area →Middle Park is one of the six Centenary Suburbs, was released by L.J. Hooker Real Estate in July 1976, and Middle Park State School opened on 27 January 1987.
View Area →Mount Ommaney takes its name from the mountain, which was named after John Mansell Ommaney, and the suburb was developed as part of the Hooker Centenary Project in 1959.
View Area →Oxley takes its name from Oxley Creek, named in honour of explorer John Oxley, had its first land sale in 1851, and Oxley railway station opened in 1874.
View Area →Pallara is relatively undeveloped, with electricity supply only reaching the suburb in 1961, and the Pallara Parklands were opened in 1997 on a remediated dump.
View Area →Parkinson was named on 12 June 1972 by the Queensland Place Names Board after railway engineer Henry Parkinson, and urban development began in the mid 1990s on what had been mostly bushland.
View Area →Richlands takes its name from the Richland Estate, a subdivision of small farms, and it officially became a suburb in 1975.
View Area →Riverhills was developed in 1959 as part of the Hooker Centenary Project and sits 19.5 kilometres by road south-west of the Brisbane CBD.
View Area →Rocklea's name is derived from the Rocky Waterholes in the area, the suburb is predominately zoned for industrial land uses, and it is home to the Brisbane Markets.
View Area →Seventeen Mile Rocks is named after a collection of rocks that ran diagonally across the Brisbane River, all of which were removed between 1960 and 1966 to widen the river.
View Area →Sherwood Division was created in 1891 when parts of Yeerongpilly Division were excised, becoming a Shire in 1903, and the suburb is home to the Sherwood Arboretum.
View Area →Stretton joins Karawatha Forest to the south-east and the Calamvale Creek wetlands to the south-west, and the land flattens out towards the south.
View Area →Sumner was officially named by the Queensland Government in 1969 after Sumner Road, which took its name from a lawyer called Sumner who visited his property at the end of the road.
View Area →Wacol is home to Wolston Park, where Wolston House was opened in 1852, and the suburb is served by Wacol railway station.
View Area →Willawong is an Aboriginal word meaning the junction of two creeks, and the suburb was officially created and named by the Queensland Place Names Board in 1970.
View Area →Yeerongpilly's name is linked to Aboriginal words for rain and for sandy or gravelly ground, and the Brisbane Golf Club was established in the suburb in 1896.
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