Background
Alison Eavis Harding Frew was born in 1883 in Roma, Queensland, the son of Robert Dickson Alison Frew (a civil engineer) and his wife Elizabeth Constance (née Harding).
Alison Eavis Harding Frew was born in 1883 in Roma, Queensland, the son of Robert Dickson Alison Frew (a civil engineer) and his wife Elizabeth Constance (née Harding).
He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and University of Sydney.
Harding Frew began his career in the Queensland Railways Department in 1908. In 1911, he established a private practice where he focussed on municipal projects such as:
wharves
bridges
electricity supplies
water and sewerage services
He consulted to over 100 local government authorities in Queensland in addition to work in New South Wales and Victoria. Harding Frew built over 80 bridges throughout Queensland, including:
, Brisbane
Julibee Bridge, Innisfail
Granville Bridge, Maryborough
Caboolture Bridge
Hornibrook Highway Project
Sandgate-Redcliffe Bridge
Redcliffe Jetty
Innisfail City Plan
Outside of Queensland, he was involved in the construction of:
Pyrmount Power House, Sydney
Armidale Electricity System
He was responsible for water supply projects in:
Atherton
Emerald
Mitchell
Mackay
This is his most notable project
Erected as a series of bow-string sections it was either the fourth or sixth crossing of the river in Brisbane.
Built of concrete sprayed steel, (gunite), a Swiss system, and completed in 1932, it was renamed from the Grey Street Bridge to the, in 1955, after an erstwhile Lord Mayor of Brisbane. Harding Frew died at his home in Adamson Street, Eagle Junction on 4 July 1952.
He was 69 years old.