Delve into Drayton
The district Drayton of in Toowoomba (Queensland) is a subburb in Australia about 557 mi north of Canberra, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 27°C / 81 °F
Morning Temperature | 15°C / 59 °F |
Evening Temperature | 24°C / 75 °F |
Night Temperature | 17°C / 63 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 43% |
Air Pressure | 1014 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 9 km/h (6 mph) from West |
Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 1% of sky |
General Conditions | Sky is clear |
Thursday, 28th of November 2024
28°C (83 °F)
18°C (64 °F)
Sky is clear, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Friday, 29th of November 2024
24°C (76 °F)
18°C (64 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Saturday, 30th of November 2024
24°C (76 °F)
19°C (66 °F)
Moderate rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
KIMS BEACH HIDEAWAY
RIVIERA ON RUTHVEN MOTEL
MAS COUNTRY PLATINUM INTERNATI
Apartments 725 Ruthven
Laguna Apartments
ALTITUDE MOTEL APARTMENTS
Potters Toowoomba Boutique Hotel
City Golf Club Motel
Comfort Inn Glenfield
BW PLUS AMBASSADOR RUTHVEN
Videos from this area
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FLASHMOB!!! By Breathe Health Club Toowoomba 19/05/2012 (HD)
Flashmob filmed in HD at Grand Central Shopping Centre Toowoomba with Team Breathe!!!
Rex J Andrews heavy haulage climbing Toowoomba Range at 450T gross
Rex J Andrews heavy haulage climbing Toowoomba Range at 450T gross. Some sections of Toowoomba range are at 12% grade. The five prime movers are hauling a 250T Transformer for high ...
Toowoomba Floods 10 JAN 2011 - Bell Street
Advised that I should move my car from the Chalk Drive Car Park as "the water was coming up a bit" I stepped out onto Bell Street to be greeted with these scenes. Not much chance of crossing...
Heritage Community Award - Toowoomba Open House
Toowoomba Open House is a unique event celebrating Toowoomba's built environment. It provides residents and visitors with the chance to discover Toowoomba's hidden wealth of architecture,...
Dance for Kindness 'Revolution of Love' Flash Mob Toowoomba
Flash mob at KMart Plaza Toowoomba Sunday 9th November 2014 Centenary Heights State High School Students. You can be the change you want to see.
Toowoomba's best Hairdressser See the reviews
http://www.EnzHair.info Enz Hair 241 Margaret Street Toowoomba Queensland 4350 (07) 4638 2227 With reviews like this it can clearly be seen that Enz Hair is the best Toowoomba Hairdresser....
Customer service improvements for customers when visiting the Toowoomba Customer Service Centre
Council Connections Series 8, episode 9. 2014 In this episode, Darren demonstrates the Q-flow management system at the Customer Service Centre at 4 Little Street. Council connections is broadcast...
BIG4 Toowoomba - Park Cabins presented by Peter Bellingham Photography
BIG4 Toowoomba - Park Cabins.
My LAP-BAND Journey....... Week 1 Post-Op
Had my surgery on the 16th of March 2011 at Greenslopes Private Hospital. Spent just over a week at mum's whilst I recovered. Have lost 10.6kgs so far!!! **Note Well: Any negative or...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
University of Southern Queensland
The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) is based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, with campuses also in Springfield and Fraser Coast. The institution was established in 1967 as the Queensland Institute of Technology (Darling Downs). In 1971, it became the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, then the University College of Southern Queensland in 1990 and finally the University of Southern Queensland in 1992.
Drayton, Queensland
Drayton is an outer southwestern suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Toowoomba Region. The first substantial settlement on the Darling Downs in c.1842. The nearby township of Toowoomba expanded more rapidly than Drayton, and in the 1860s the centre of population shifted to Toowoomba, leaving Drayton as a southwestern suburb. One of the oldest buildings in the Drayton area is the Royal Bull's Head Inn.
Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education
The Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (DDIAE) was a tertiary education facility offering undergraduate (Bachelor level and below) degrees and certificates in Toowoomba, Queensland Australia, from the 1967 until it was elevated to University College status (1990) and later University status (1992) as the University of Southern Queensland. DDIAE was originally a campus of the Queensland Institute of Technology.
University College of Southern Queensland
A transition phase between the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education and the University of Southern Queensland, tertiary education facilities based at Darling Heights, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The UCSQ existed between 1990 and 1992.
Glenvale, Queensland
Glenvale is a district in Queensland, Australia, that comprises part of greater Toowoomba's western suburbs. During the 1990s and 2000s it was a hive of new construction, with new housing estates (developments) opening almost monthly.
Toowoomba South State School
Toowoomba South State School is a primary school located on the southern edge of the Toowoomba CBD in Queensland, Australia. Toowoomaba South is one of the oldest primary schools in Queensland. It is the oldest State School in Toowoomba proper (Drayton State School is older). It was first opened in 1865, as school number 112. Initially the school was co-educational.
Electoral district of Toowoomba West
The Electoral district of Toowoomba West was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1960 redistribution and removed by the 1972 redistribution. The seat was based in the City of Toowoomba. The member for North Toowoomba, John Duggan successfully stood for election in Toowoomba West in 1960 after his previous seat was lost in the redistribution.
Electoral district of Toowoomba
Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into Toowoomba, East Toowoomba and Drayton. Toowoomba was abolished in the 1960 redistribution. The seat was based on the City of Toowoomba. The member for Drayton & Toowoomba, James Tolmie, successfully stood for election in Toowoomba in 1912 after the split.
Electoral district of Drayton and Toowoomba
Electoral District of Drayton and Toowoomba was the original seat for the urban settlement on the eastern Darling Downs. In 1912, it was redistributed into Drayton (1912–1927), Toowoomba (1912–1960) and East Toowoomba (1912–1950). The district elected one member from 1860 to 1878 and two members from 1878 to 1888. The seat is notable for Member and perennial Toowoomba Mayor William Henry Groom who went on to be the region's representative at the first Commonwealth Parliament in 1901.
Darling Heights, Queensland
Darling Heights is an outer southern suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland. Its Local Government Area is the Toowoomba Region. It lies on the southern edge of the city, on the west ridge. The land falls away steeply to the west toward Drayton, the slope being occupied by detached bungalow housing with an admixture of larger homes, duplexes and small blocks of units. Most of these dwellings are less than 10 years old, the area having previously been mostly horse paddocks, of which few remain.
Grand Central Shopping Centre
Grand Central Shopping Centre is a retail shopping centre in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. It is the largest shopping centre in the Darling Downs area and includes the area's only full-line department store: a three floor Myer. It also features a Target, Coles, Birch, Carroll and Coyle 6-screen cinema, and over 180 specialty stores over two levels.
St. Mary's College, Toowoomba
St. Mary's College, Toowoomba is an all-boys Roman Catholic college in Queensland, Australia. The College was established by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in 1898, and currently has an enrolment of approximately 640 students from years 5 to 12.
Harristown State High School
Harristown State High School is a public High School located in Toowoomba, Queensland. It was officially opened in 1955. The school currently has approximately 1500 students and is the largest on the Darling downs.
Concordia Lutheran College
Concordia Lutheran College is an independent, co-educational, day and boarding school of the Lutheran Church of Australia, located in Toowoomba on the Darling Downs of Queensland, Australia. Concordia Memorial College was renamed Concordia College and later renamed Concordia Lutheran College, after merging with Martin Luther Primary School and Concordia Primary School.
St Ursula's College, Toowoomba
St. Ursula's College is an independent, private secondary girls' school in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The current principal is Mrs Pawsey. The school is Catholic and was established in 1931 by Ursuline nuns. The school is heavily influenced by the teachings of Saint Angela Merici. Many of the school's buildings are named after Italian cities and places such as Brescia and Lake Garda that were part of Merici's life.
Toowoomba Region
The Toowoomba Region is a local government area located in the Darling Downs part of Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by several previous local government areas with histories extending back to the early 1900s and beyond. It has an estimated operating budget of A$162 million.
4DDB
4DDB (pronounced "Four Dee Dee Bee" or simply "Dee Dee Bee") is a community radio station operating in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, transmitting in the FM band at a frequency of 102.7 MHz.
ABC Southern Queensland
ABC Southern Queensland is an ABC Local Radio station based in Toowoomba broadcasting to the Darling Downs region of Queensland. This includes the towns of Warwick, Dalby, Kingaroy and Goondiwindi. The station began broadcasting as 4QS in 1939. As well as a number of low power FM transmitters, the station broadcasts through the following main FM and AM transmitters: 4QS 747 AM 4QS/T 104.9 FM
Toowoomba City Hall
The Toowoomba City Hall is the seat of the City Council of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. It is located on the 153 Herries Street and on 543 Ruthven Street. The building is the location for the proclamation that Toowoomba was a city and was the first purpose built city hall ever constructed in Queensland.
Toowoomba City, Queensland
Toowoomba City is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, containing its central business district.
Harristown, Queensland
Harristown is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located to the southwest of the city centre. The suburb was officially named in 1981, and is believed to honour George Harris (1831–1891), a Brisbane businessman. Originally in the Shire of Drayton, the suburb was first opened as the Harristown Estate in 1902, and in 1911, Harristown State School opened. From 1915 until 1993, the suburb had a functioning railway station on the Toowoomba–Wyreema line. After World War II, the area boomed.
Kearneys Spring, Queensland
Kearneys Spring is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 5 kilometres south of the city centre via New England Highway. The suburb was named for a family who had a dairy farm in the area. An early irrigation scheme consisting of wooden pipes transported water from the springs, providing Tooowoomba's water supply. Kearneys Spring is divided into western and eastern portions by the wetlands formed by West Creek.
Newtown, Queensland (Toowoomba)
Newtown is an inner suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, located directly west of the city centre. The area was the first outside the city centre to be subdivided for residential purposes, in 1865. It was officially named and bounded in 1981.
South Toowoomba, Queensland
South Toowoomba is an inner suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located directly south of the city centre. The suburb is home to City Golf Course, the Downs Shopping Centre, St Saviour's College and Toowoomba South State School.
Royal Bull's Head Inn
The Royal Bull's Head Inn is a historical property located in Drayton, Queensland, Australia. It is currently managed as a trust property by the National Trust of Queensland.