Basin Pocket

Basin Pocket, bounded on three sides by the Bremer River, is adjacent to the Basin, an enlarged natural widening used by river steamers to turn before or after berthing at Ipswich. The explorer Allan Cunningham noted the Basin in 1828, and the Rev. Dr. John Dunmore Lang suggested that Basin Pocket or Booval might have been a better site for the main settlement. A ferry service between Basin Pocket and North Ipswich was established by William Isaac Lawrence sometime after his family settled there in the 1860s.