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Ebbw Vale
Description
Place TypeSuburbsHistory
Called St Helens when the railway station opened in 1909. The name was changed the following year after a Glamorganshire town in Wales. This is a Welsh name the ‘w’ is pronounced ‘oo’.
Formerly part of the Moreton Shire area, it became a suburb of Ipswich in 1949. Ebbw Vale Memorial Park is uncommon as a 19th century soccer ground in Queensland, which has been continuously in use for this purpose. The ground at Ebbw Vale was made available as a venue for football and cricket games for employees of the Whitwood Colliery in the late 19th century. Soccer became an important sporting activity in Ipswich through the city's coal mining industry and its links with Yorkshire and Wales, where pit football teams were common.
References (offline)Ipswich Heritage Study (1992)Images
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Location
Suburb Postcode4304
Connections
Buildings & StructuresEbbw Vale Railway StationParksEbbw Vale Memorial ParkCurated CollectionsSuburbs & Localities
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