Description‘The Palms’ is believed to have been built in about 1885 for stationer and bookseller, William Tatham. The rising waters of the 1893 flood were watched from ‘The Palms’, where flood victims sought shelter. Tatham moved to ‘Gwennap’, now St Michaels on Chermside Road, after selling the house. It was bought in 1902 by Sidney Hooper, son of former Ipswich mayor Harry Hooper who planted the palms. A builder named Frost bought the house in 1909. He planted the cocos palms which are now an important landmark. Between 1912 and 1960, the house belonged to the Dalton family. Mr Dalton had a store at the corner of Nicholas and Union Streets and his wife, Anne, came from Ipswich’s prominent Pettigrew family.
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