Plaza
King George Square
Formal civic plaza fronting a Renaissance-style city hall crowned by Australia's largest clock tower.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to King George Square in Brisbane follows the electric master clock inside Brisbane City Hall's tower, and the Jackson family engineer who wired it into life in nineteen thirty. It traces the idea back to a London horologist named Frank Hope-Jones, whose invention let one small pulse of current drive any number of clocks in sync, rather than each keeping its own time. You will also hear how the tower's chimes and dials divided opinion in the years after they went up. Best heard standing back far enough to take in all four faces at once.
This audio guide was created using AI.