Based in Capalaba, we service the whole Oxley, Sherwood, Corinda and Darra corridor.
Oxley was established in 1851 and named after explorer John Oxley. Bounded by the Brisbane River to the north and Oxley Creek along its eastern edge, the suburb is traversed by the Ipswich Motorway, connecting it to Rocklea in the east and Darra in the west.
View Area →Sherwood's history is defined by its agricultural beginnings, particularly dairy farming, before it gave its name to the Sherwood Shire in 1879 and later transformed into a desirable residential area.
View Area →Corinda was part of the historic Sherwood Shire, established in 1879, which also took in Graceville and Chelmer along the Brisbane River's southwestern bend.
View Area →Chelmer sits in a bend of the Brisbane River and was originally known as Boyland's Pocket, before being renamed after the River Chelmer in Essex, England.
View Area →Graceville was farmed from 1859 as part of Boyland's Pocket before the Ipswich railway crossed the river from Chelmer to Indooroopilly in 1875, with Graceville railway station opening in 1886.
View Area →Seventeen Mile Rocks takes its name from a rock escarpment along the Brisbane River, and today includes the heritage-listed Sinnamon Farm precinct, dating back to the 1860s.
View Area →Sumner was named in 1969 after the long-established Sumners Road, itself named after Richard Sumner, a local MP whose land sat at the end of the road when it needed a name in 1934.
View Area →Wacol's name comes from Woogaroo, adopted by Queensland's first Lands Commissioner Dr Stephen Simpson for the Border Police Station he established on Woogaroo Creek in early 1843.
View Area →Darra was named by the Railways Department when the Brisbane-Ipswich line reached the area in 1876, with the name most likely linked to the Scottish shire of Aberdeen.
View Area →Riverhills is one of the Centenary Suburbs planned in the 1960s, with a natural cave once important to local Aboriginal groups still preserved in its bushland reserve.
View Area →Middle Park is one of the seven original Centenary Suburbs, master-planned from 1960 onward by the Hooker Corporation as part of a 1,416-hectare residential development.
View Area →Jindalee is an Aboriginal word meaning 'bare hills', formally named in 1964 as the flagship suburb of the Hooker Corporation's Centenary Estates development.
View Area →Mount Ommaney was discovered, climbed and named 'Green Hills' by explorer John Oxley in 1823, long before it became one of the master-planned Centenary Suburbs developed from 1960.
View Area →Doolandella was originally part of Inala to its north, and its name is thought to derive from an Aboriginal expression describing the geebung tree and its fruit.
View Area →Forest Lake was developed from 1991 as a Delfin housing estate on former Doolandella farmland, built around a central artificial lake formed from the headwaters of Blunder Creek.
View Area →Ellen Grove takes its name from Ellen Dabing, daughter of original landowner R.P. Spinks, who often played with local Aboriginal families in a grove of trees along Bullockhead Creek.
View Area →Inala was originally called Serviceton, an ex-servicemen's resettlement estate from the 1940s that struggled financially before the Queensland Housing Commission took over in the 1950s and gave it the more appealing name Inala.
View Area →Richlands takes its name from the area's productive horticulture, with local grape growers forming a district association as late as 1960, before industrialisation transformed much of the suburb.
View Area →Durack was named in 1976 following a local newspaper naming competition, chosen in memory of the Durack family's 1882 Archerfield pastoral station which once covered the district.
View Area →Willawong is an Aboriginal word meaning the junction of two creeks, officially named in 1970 at the point where Oxley Creek meets Blunder Creek.
View Area →Heathwood was declared its own suburb in 1970 when it was separated from Acacia Ridge, and every street in the suburb is named after native Australian flora.
View Area →Larapinta is bounded by Oxley Creek to the north and west, and is home to the Glider Forest Conservation Area, protecting a large tract of bushland in the suburb's south.
View Area →Parkinson was named in 1972 after railway engineer Henry Parkinson, and remained largely untouched bushland until urban development finally began in the mid-1990s.
View Area →Calamvale takes its name from the Calam family, early settlers whose homestead once stood on a hill near Beaudesert Road - the same site now home to the Calamvale Hotel.
View Area →Stretton borders the Karawatha Forest and Calamvale Creek wetlands, with its hillier northern section gradually flattening out toward the bushland in the suburb's south.
View Area →Algester was detached from Acacia Ridge and named in 1972 after Algester Road, itself a corruption of Alcester Road, named by a 1920s subdivider after his home village near Birmingham, England.
View Area →Pallara's history stretches back to the Moreton Bay penal colony era, when it served as an outpost at Cowper's Plains supplying stock, while lying within the settlement's restricted 50-mile limit.
View Area →Karawatha's name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning a place with pine trees, and the suburb today protects the Karawatha Forest, one of Brisbane's largest bushland reserves.
View Area →Rocklea's name comes from the Rocky Water Holes once found in the area, and the suburb is now home to the Brisbane Markets, one of the largest produce markets in the country.
View Area →Yeerongpilly's name dates back to 1843 and is linked to Aboriginal words referring to water and sand, and the suburb forms part of the historic Stephens Shire district.
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