Bulimba

About this audio guide

This guide to Bulimba, a riverside Brisbane suburb, follows a Brisbane cyclist swinging onto a strange new machine in eighteen eighty-five, built just up the street by a local engineer named Reginald Blunt. It traces what made his invention different from every penny-farthing then racing around the colony, and asks how a workshop this far from the centres of industry could be part of a much bigger story unfolding that same year. Best heard standing on Bulimba's older streets, once lined with paddocks being carved into new house blocks.