page_title: St Johns Wood, Queensland
section_title: A house crosses Enoggera Creek to become a hospital
hierarchical_section_title: St Johns Wood, Queensland / A house crosses Enoggera Creek to become a hospital
caption_attribution_description: English: This house was moved from St Johns Wood, Ashgrove, across the banks of Enogerra Creek and up to Waterworks Rd, where it became a hospital.
context_page_description: St Johns Wood is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Ashgrove in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
  A small residential pocket at the base of Taylor Range, it is embraced by a loop of Enoggera Creek and by the Ashgrove Golf Club, Brisbane City Council Reserve and the Enoggera Barracks. The locality was originally inhabited by the Indigenous Turrbal people before it opened up to European settlement during the second land-sales of the district in 1858, with the homestead called St John's Wood House founded in 1864. It remains and occupies a small parcel of land within the locality, with the remainder being subdivided into housing allotments. Additionally, it is home to St Johns Wood Scout Group and The Woods Early Education Centre & Pre-school. The neighbourhood is accessed by either vehicular bridge, bikepath or footbridge. A prominent controversy for St Johns Wood surrounds the question of whether Princes Albert and George visited St Johns Wood on their visit to Brisbane in 1881.
context_section_description: Dr Thomas Brooke-Kelly was one of the earliest residents of St Johns Wood from 1931 to 1934.  He and his wife Lavinia and only son Noel lived down the bottom of St Johns Avenue, not far from the current pedestrian "banana" bridge.
  Dr Brooke-Kelly, a surgeon, had an ambition to have his own hospital.  With the extension of the tram line from Oleander Drive to what was called The Terminus, near Ashgrove State School, he decided to shift his home in St Johns Wood to a block of land at 438 Waterworks Road, Ashgrove, and convert it into a hospital.  He would add two bedrooms underneath.
  He employed the McKenzie Brothers, from Station Terrace Dutton Park, for a price of 600 pounds.  The removal, in March 1934, became part of the folk law in the McKenzie family business.  It was recalled as the most difficult job they ever did – down and across the Enoggera Creek bed, roads terrible, hill steep, and house too large.  It took one month and two days to move it. "It was fascinating to watch...they lowered the house, in one piece, on to large timber slides, dragged the house to the creek bank and then slid and pulled it across the creek on substantial hardwood bearers. It was hard tough work and required a lot of muscle. Once across the creek the contractor raised the house on to a large wooden wheeled jinker."
  It became Brookwell Private Hospital at 438 Waterworks Road until 1937. Dr Brooke-Kelly moved many times in his career as a doctor and died, aged 93 in Clayfield.  He is buried at Toowong Cemetery (with the Robinson family).
caption: A House Crosses the Creek
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