The Chermside area was first settled by Europeans in the late 19th century.

Brisbane's tramway network finally reached the suburb on the 29 March 1947, and Chermside remained the northernmost point on the system until the line to Chermside was closed on 2 December 1968.

Originally named Downfall Creek, the suburb's name was change to Chermside in 1903 after the Governor of Queensland, Major-General Sir Herbert Chermside

Chermside State School ( then called Downfall Creek State School ) was opened on the 9 July 1900 and closed on 13 December 1996.

The early 1970s saw the opening of Queensland's first Kmart store in Chermside, which was situated next to a Coles supermarket.

A history of Chermside was published by a local teacher and part time historian Mr David R Teague in 1973.

Morgan briefly lost control of the Legislative Assembly in 1904 and Philp was called upon by Governor Sir Herbert Chermside to form a ministry, but could not secure sufficient support from among his colleagues.

Prior to December 1968 the eastern side of the suburb was served by frequent tram services along Bowen Bridge Road, with routes converging from Chermside, Kalinga ( until 1962 ), Stafford, and Grange.

In 1899, Murray was posted to South Africa as aide-de-camp to General Sir H. C. Chermside in South Africa.

Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Charles Chermside GCMG, CB ( 31 July 1850 – 24 September 1929 ) was a British soldier who served as Governor of Queensland in Australia from 1902 to 1904.

In 1876, Chermside was sent to Turkey to work with the Turkish forces after Serbia and Montenegro declared war on the country in July.

In 1882, Chermside was promoted to Captain, and appointed to the British Army's intelligence staff in Egypt.

Although still a captain in the Royal Engineers, Chermside was brevetted major ( 1883 ), lieutenant-colonel ( 1884 ) and colonel ( 1887 ).

Herbert Chermside was the second son of the rector of Wilton, Reverend Richard Seymour Conway Chermside, and his wife, Emily Dawson.

His paternal grandfather was the military surgeon Sir Robert Chermside.

Chermside was married twice: to Geraldine Katherine Webb whom he married in 1899, although she died in 1910 ; and to Clementine Maria Reuter ( daughter of Paul Reuter ) from 1920.

Chermside was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1886.

Prior to December 1968 the suburb was served by frequent tram services which converged along Lutwyche Road, from Chermside, Kalinga ( until 1962 ) and Stafford, with the Stafford line branching off at Bradshaw Street, Lutwyche.

Prior to December 1968 the suburb was served by frequent Brisbane City Council tram services along Lutwyche Road, with routes converging from Chermside, Kalinga ( until 1962 ), Stafford, and Grange the latter tram line branching off Lutwyche Road at Maygar street, on the border of Lutwyche and Windsor.

His only daughter, Clementine Maria, married Count Otto Stenbock, and after his death, Sir Herbert Chermside, a governor of Queensland.

He married Louisa, daughter of Sir RA Chermside, in 1846.

Chermside Drive-In Shopping Centre started trading to the public in 1957, in Brisbane, Australia.

However, David Jones replaced the Myer store in Westfield Burwood in May 2007 and opened a new store at Westfield Chermside in August 2007 and a new store at QueensPlaza, Brisbane in February 2008.

Brisbane's tram network originally terminated just south of Aspley on Gympie Road at Chermside.

The expressway would travel along the eastern side of Lutwyche Road to Park Road at Kedron, take a northerly route to Chermside and through the eastern side of Aspley, before heading north-westerly through Carseldine to connect with the Bruce Highway north of Bald Hills.

This shopping centre services the residents of Aspley, as well as surrounding suburbs of Carseldine, Zillmere, Chermside West, Taigum, Bridgeman Downs and Albany Creek.

* Geebung Story: The Next Fifty Years-Being the history of Geebung ( with other name for three years ) and surrounding north side suburbs including Nundah, Albion, Zillmere, Virginia, Chermside and Sandgate.

Embracing Brisbane to the Pine River and beyond and to the bayside areas with an enormous amount of WW2 years of both Australian and American, including a previously unrecorded Chermside Camp map with story and photographs.

Chermside is a suburb on the north side of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Chermside is a key destination along Queensland Transport's future Northern Busway.

Chermside is home to Queensland's largest shopping centre which contains a 3 story Myer and a 16 screen cinema complex.

In November 1868 Cobb & Co. stagecoaches began to travel through Chermside on the way to the goldfields at Gympie.

Another feature of the Chermside tram line were the rose gardens which bordered the reserved track portion of the line.

A picture of the Chermside tram line can be viewed at.

Bus terminal at Drive-In Shopping Centre, Chermside, ca.

Westfield Chermside first opened in May 1957 as The Chermside Drive-in Shopping Centre with an Allan & Stark's department store and a small arcade of a dozen shops, before becoming a Myer department store.

Both Kmart and Coles have been relocated in Westfield Chermside.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.