(Photo: State Library of Queensland and John Oxley Library; #APE-045-0001-0003)
Even though the caption under the picture refers to Bulimba, the factory was in Vernon Terrace near the Teneriffe wharves - at that time Bulimba referred to both sides of the river. You can see the railway track in the foreground, which served not only the canning factory, but also the New Farm Powerhouse, the sugar refinery, and the wool stores. Along with the rest of the Teneriffe area, the State Canning factory has also undergone a metamorphosis. To satisfy Brisbane's apparently insatiable appetite for accommodation, it has been transformed into a range of over 200 one-bedroom to three-bedroom apartments. The complex is simply called "The Cannery", and this is the way it looks now.

The main building, on the corner of Vernon Terrace and Dath St, has been retained, and an additional apartment block has been constructed behind it. You can compare the transport of the early twentieth century in the original photo with that of the early twenty-first in the later one. And, for people who live in apartments on this site, it should be mandatory to have tinned beetroot on their burgers.
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