(Photo: State Library of Queensland and John Oxley Library; #91372)
Some of the projects that the company participated in over the years are: many of the buildings at the University of Queensland; the Story Bridge; the William Jolly Bridge; the Hornibrook Highway (actually a bridge) that connects Redcliffe to Brisbane; and the Sydney Opera House. MR Hornibrook was knighted in 1960. The company later became Baulderstone Hornibrook and is now known as Baulderstone. The brick building that once was the company's headquarters can still be seen at Breakfast Creek Road, just before you reach the bridge over Breakfast Creek travelling outbound.

The building is now called Campbell House (soup? soap? I don't know!), and although there are now many trees and shrubs to separate the building from the busy street, it seems otherwise unchanged. If memory serves me correctly, I believe that at one time this building was also the home of the Queensland Principal Club, which apparently has something to do with horse racing, and not (as I perhaps imagined) a club that trumped the Queensland Club, Tattersalls and the Brisbane Club for prestige.
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