This is the Story about a bridge

Across the Brisbane River.

The bridge my friends is a Story in itself

Designed and built by men so clever!

A 1939 engineering feat so famed

Connected North and South of our town.

The Story Bridge is what it’s named

And is now an icon of some renown!!!

Some scale the structure on the Story Bridge Climb.

Whilst a City Cat cruises below.

They’re seeking a view that is so sublime.

Thundering traffic rumbles over her road.

Before the Bridge life was somewhat rough

On this part of the river, Kangaroo Point.

In 1826 Captain Logan quarried stone Brisbane Tuff

To build his Naval stores on the North Bank point.

Back in 1890 a tunnel down to the stream

Drained a chain of waterholes.

In 1890 another planned engineering dream

A railway yard for supplies would unfold.

So many other things to see

The Shelter Bar amongst them.

Cricket and Aussie Rules at the ‘Gabba

Come with a local to hear all about ‘em

Poem by Gaill Macciocca