Based in Capalaba, we service the whole Indooroopilly, St Lucia, Taringa and Toowong corridor.
Indooroopilly's name is believed to come from the Aboriginal word yindurupilly, meaning 'gully of running water'. The railway arrived in 1875, and today the suburb is home to Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, the largest shopping centre in Brisbane's western suburbs.
View Area →St Lucia sits within the historic Parish of Indooroopilly and is best known today as home to the University of Queensland's main campus, established on land bounded by a bend in the Brisbane River.
View Area →Taringa was anchored by the opening of the railway in 1875, with a station serving the area alongside Toowong and Indooroopilly, and later gave its name to the Taringa Shire that once governed the wider district.
View Area →Toowong was one of the original stops when the railway line opened in 1875, and grew alongside Milton and Indooroopilly as one of Brisbane's earliest riverside commuter suburbs.
View Area →Auchenflower takes its name from the home of Sir Thomas McIlwraith, three-time Queensland Premier, who renamed his property in 1880 after his uncle's Ayrshire estate in Scotland - 'Auchenflower' meaning field of flowers.
View Area →Milton is named after Milton House, a substantial dwelling built in 1854 by early landowner Ambrose Eldridge on the northern riverbank, which still stands today in an upgraded form.
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 →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 →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 →Fig Tree Pocket is named after a huge Moreton Bay fig tree that once grew here, said to be large enough to shelter 400 people, and is now home to the world's oldest and largest koala sanctuary, Lone Pine.
View Area →Kenmore takes its name from an 1880s farm property, Kenmore Park, and was for a time the administrative centre of the old Moggill Shire, which governed much of Brisbane's western fringe.
View Area →Kenmore Hills was originally part of Kenmore and Brookfield, gazetted as its own suburb in 1969, and was a timber-cutting area through the 1860s on the foothills of Mount Coot-tha.
View Area →Chapel Hill takes its name from a Methodist chapel built on the hill in 1874, though the suburb itself didn't really develop until closer subdivision took place in the 1950s and 1960s.
View Area →Brookfield was part of the historic Moggill Shire, with the Brimblecombe family among the pioneering settlers who took up land in the area from 1912.
View Area →Pullenvale takes its name from Pullen Pullen Creek and was a key timber-cutting district through the 1850s and 1860s, with logs rafted down to Brisbane's sawmills.
View Area →Pinjarra Hills is named after Pinjarra Road, and much of its rural land was once owned by the Mayne family before passing to the University of Queensland for agricultural paddocks.
View Area →Anstead is named after John Anstead, a timber merchant and quarry master active in the area during the 1860s, with the suburb formally detached from Moggill in 1975.
View Area →Moggill's first post office opened in 1861, and the area's only river crossing for decades was a vehicular ferry, keeping it relatively rural even as coal mining operated here from as early as 1848.
View Area →Bellbowrie was formally named at a ceremony in 1973, with the name thought to be an Aboriginal expression meaning 'Place of the Flowering Gums'.
View Area →Karana Downs was named in 1975 at the suggestion of a real estate developer, and only became part of Brisbane in 2000 after residents lobbied to leave the City of Ipswich.
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 →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 →Westlake was named by its developers in 1973 for the nine-hectare freshwater lake at its centre, designed so most homesites would enjoy a water view.
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 →Sinnamon Park is named after the Sinnamon family, who farmed the area for over 100 years before it was detached from Seventeen Mile Rocks and formally named in 1989.
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 →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 →Oxley is named after explorer John Oxley, who mapped the creek here in 1823 - originally calling it Canoe Creek before it was renamed in his honour.
View Area →Yeronga's name likely comes from the Aboriginal word for sandy or gravelly ground, and the suburb's popularity took off after Yeronga railway station opened in 1885.
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