Edgar Harley Move
Article reprinted courtesy of Bayside Bulletin 2008.
The historic Edgar Harley Pavilion will soon enter a new phase at the Cleveland Showgrounds.
Workers last week moved the top storey of the iconic building from its former location near Long Street to a new site closer to the Cleveland Community Hall on Smith Street.
It is not the first time the building has been relocated and refurbished under new plans for the showgrounds.
Council history records show the former Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Association Hall was moved from a site on Shore Street opposite the Grand View Hotel to the showgrounds in the 1950s.
Historian Tracy Ryan said the agricultural show had outgrown the site in Shore Street and the hall was relocated to the new showgrounds site and converted into a two-story building.
In 1952 the building was named after Edgar Horace Harley, a former Cleveland Shire councillor and long-time secretary of the Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Association.
Under the latest plans, the top-level of the building has been relocated. It will be refurbished and extended to incorporate toilets, kitchen facilities and provide disability access.
Work will soon begin on a new Site Entry, Plaza Roof and Trail project at the Smith Street site where the building had been located until now.
The Edgar Harley Pavilion work is expected to cost almost $630,000. The council has obtained $50,000 in funding from Arts Queensland for the refurbishment.
