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Ipswich Municipal Centenary

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Ipswich
Municipal
Centenary
Ipswich
Municipal
Centenary
By LesHe E. Slaught[...]LANO




Published for the Council of the City of Ipswich
by
Leslie E. Slaugh[...]
[...]holic Church 70
Ipswich First Survey 6 Anglican 72
Ipswich Named 6 Me[...]21 Governor Bowen in Ipswich 85
First Counci I Meeting[...]of Edinburgh's Visit 37 Ipswich Hospital 88
Shipping[...]s' Grammar School 91
Ipswich a Customs Port 43 Ipswich Newspapers 92
Law[...]Australian Jockey Club 47 Ipswich Gas Company 94
Firs[...]Hall 55 Ipswich City Proclaimed l Ol
Wate[...]works Opening 61 Ipswich 1960 104[...]." way, three miles east to Ipswich. In the l 880's the·
Page 73. In the capt[...]
[...]in the centre of the present City of Ipswich and
settlement of Brisbane.[...]errors of direction corrected. That "road"
became Ipswich. was m[...]te of their First Survey of Ipswich Land
arrival is not known; but it is certain that[...]" he was allotments" are now in Little Ipswich. On his map
succeeded, on July 19, 1839, by John[...]Ipswich Named
appointment as superintendent of the "estab[...]ide through adopt the name of the town Ipswich on the River
Brisbane to Limestone Station, where[...]nor's reason for choosing the name Ipswich.[...]
[...]lo, I
1842.
The name of the site is now
Little Ipswich.[...].,..._......· -s.;,;---- -,;.::; -
now Ipswich. The "Basin" is at ,,�'[...]
[...]oining allotments side by side along the lane
"Ipswich." we[...]otments
stone," as often as it was referred to as Ipswich. were £2/1/0 to £5/19/0 and the other are-as
In the course of years the name "Ipswich" became of varying amounts.
general.[...]at a site had been fixed for a town­
ship named "Ipswich on the plateau at Limestone,
Moreton Bay in the C[...]Street, opposite the original site of Cribb and
Ipswich allotments was made on August 24, 1843.[...]Streets. IPSWICH IN 1846
The first purchaser was George Thorn,[...]Ipswich had a population of l 03.
of East and Brisbane St[...]Another early business in Ipswich in that
ed the latter street. The total cost was[...]Patrick's Tavern near the bridge at Little Ipswich.
purchased by Robert Edmund Dix. The adjoining[...]ring as partners. The adjoining Ipswich was the nearest and largest township
allotment in[...]s all the land which was sold in to Ipswich that the squatters and the bullock
Ipswich township at the first sale. The owners[...]n (spirits and wines were
what is now the City of Ipswich. merely incidental). Th[...]N ALLOTMENTS chased in Ipswich.
At the same sale in Sydney, "Garden Allot­[...]rt E. Dix sold the Golden
ments in the suburbs of Ipswich" were auctioned. Fleece Inn to George F[...]and comfort of an English
now has the name Little Ipswich. roadside inn an[...]
IPSWICH
"Proposed Plan of the Town of Limestone.
By[...]eeks later, these words were added-"To
be called Ipswich."
The plan extending from this page to[...]
[...]otm,nt
1. SuNI.BY, IB., One acre, parish of Ipswich, No. 13 of sectiou 2. Upset price £8[...]llot­
4. STANLEY, la., One acre, parish of Ipswich, ment No. 16 of aection 2. Upset price £ 8 per a[...]I\o. 14. Upset price £4 per acre. 11. IPSWicH, 32p., Thirty-two percbea, al�
5. SH NLt:Y, la., One a.ere, par.iBh of Ipswich, ment No. 17 of ,ectlon 2. Upeet price £8 per ac[...]9. STANLEY, la., Half an acre, parish of Ipswich, Colony, a1 Government Hcnue[...]l0. STANLEY, ta., Half an a.ere, parish of Ipswich, Lord[...]lPPS.
12. STANLEY, la., One acre, parish of Ipswich, By Hi, 8:J8cellmey', Co[...]"Ipswich is still going ahead-it will yet be the
Wi[...]
[...]failure which was almost tragic.
IPSWICH PROGRESS There wa[...]in the vicinity of Ipswich. That probably influ­
It was recorded, on A[...]umber of comfortable cottages." Ipswich was then described as a "flourishing
Ipswich had by then "a�sumed the char�cteris_tics[...]ery Secondary industry began in Ipswich on March
with widely extended open ridges" and fl[...]salting and boiling down of cattle and sheep.
Ipswich gained a tailor on January 9, 1847. T[...]inspector of slaughter houses and cattle.
Little Ipswich and fronting Moore's Lane was also[...]s At that time the little township of Ipswich
at 25/- a week."[...]
[...]Ipswich. The tribes which met were from Bris­
table. The[...]On September 18, 1847 the Town of Ipswich
and Irish Whisky (real Mountain Dew).[...]were allowed Criticism was expressed in Ipswich of the
in the paddock. Other cattle had no suitable government sales of Ipswich land being held in
grazing.[...]eral storekeepers
that time, had to be brought to Ipswich from and agents began business in Bremer[...]The former St. Patrick's Inn, at Little Ipswich
formerly of Brisbane. George Thorn, the retiring[...]buiIding would
retail store. It was expected that Ipswich would be suitable for a general store, becau[...]gar, tobacco, slops (ready made,
Tavern at Little Ipswich. He had intended trans­ cheap working cloth[...]the outskirts of the town.
no policeman at Little Ipswich. They were the Bunya Bunya[...]ribes.
exorbitant prices of allotments of land in Ipswich. Thomas Moore who was one of the first peo[...]Ipswich in 1892. On[...]
*
Brisbane Street, Ipswich, in 1889.[...]legal power to control it.
to come to Ipswich, retired from his Caledonian Chri[...]alian Hotel.
St. Patrick's Tavern, at Little Ipswich which James Cook, in September1 opened the Ipswich
had been vacant for some time, was re-opened[...]Arthur Morrison's Store.
In Ipswich in August, 1848, it was possible to
obtain a suit[...]Street, moved his business, the Ipswich Coffee
Several buildings were being rapidly[...]In addi­
Business had never been so dull in Ipswich as tion II a refreshing cup of cof[...]
[...]By June 7, 1850 Smith had erected a new
Ipswich. However, each young man was allowed to[...]It w2s with much satisfaction that Ipswich
The club was conducted strictly according t[...]future, all sales of Ipswich lands would take place
ment was thought to counte[...]of such sales was held in Ipswich on the 31st. of
conducted the Australian Store at[...]y store. In peared for the first time in Ipswich on August 15.
October, he moved to more suitable[...]an. There were Order of Oddfellows in Ipswich some time before
70 people present, including som[...]dge was the Loyal
At that time the road from Ipswich to Brisbane
Ipswich Lodge No. 281 of the Grand United
was circuitous,[...]In the same month the Government had made
Ipswich had made quick progress during the[...]over the Bremer River at Little Ipswich.
buildings had been erected. Industrious trades­[...]hood, up to May 31, 1850 was the des- Ipswich was 931.[...]
*
Wool was brought
into Ipswich by
bullock teams in
the 1840's.




*
THE ROAD TO IPSWICH new line, for the making[...]dray track now in use
road from South Brisbane to Ipswich. To obtain is notoriously the worst th[...]e horse coach began a service between Ipswich
over Canoe Creek (now Oxley Creek), between and Drayton. It left Ipswich on Tuesdays and
the then existing crossing and th[...]her bridge was required over road from Ipswich was made useable.
Woogaroo Creek, in the district[...]business in Bell Street, Ipswich, early in the same
The committee interested[...]ng 30 tons First Coal Mine in Ipswich
in the middle. The work of erection was in
progre[...]ernment mately l-} miles downstream from Ipswich. The
for more money for the im9rovement of the ro[...]river bank, which site was convenient for the
and Ipswich, although a coach runs between steamboats to load coal and other cargo.
Ipswich and Drayton."[...]only a few feet from
A statement was made in Ipswich on March the side of a nearby hill. A[...]ighbour­
should be surveyed between Brisbane and Ipswich. ing gully, as well as on the sid[...]
[...]Being unsuccessful, the party returned to Ipswich.
1846. But those places were not then in the Panton & Co., Storekeepers, on November,
Ipswich area. notified the people of Ipswich that they "sold
The Prince of Wales Hotel,[...]uded was
The first insurance company in the Ipswich "What are the Wild Waves Saying," price[...]chanic and mill wright
At the end of l 851, Ipswich having become had been in business for[...]been vacated by F. A. Forbes.
IPSWICH SADDENED
A daughter was born to Wi 11 iam Tho[...]n, who had come from families of Ipswich."
England to be with him.[...]t. Early in There was a lock-up i!1 Ipswich and by a pro­
December, she decided to enlarge t[...]the town.
In August 1852, the Ipswich Gold Committee Tenders for the le[...]rospectors, Mr. Hall from the and South Ipswich closed at the Police Office,[...]
*
One Mile Hotel,
Litt I e Ipswich.
Estab I i s h e d in
1866.



*
Jpswich[...]as the only member and served
ment poundkeeper of Ipswich on July 27, 1860. both the other uni[...]appointed as surgeon to the Ipswich Troop of
Queensland's First Defence Force[...]11
was Established in Ipswich A "dress committee[...]ee Qecided on
created Colony of Queensland was in Ipswich on certain uniforms, which were much[...]or's Crown Hotel on July 21, with
They were "The Ipswich Troop of the Queensland Captain Brough[...]They rejected
Mounted Rifles" and "The First, or Ipswich, Com­ the chosen uniforms. Instead,[...]lities in the colony of New stated that Ipswich had a population exceeding
.South Wales.[...]549 people resident in the town.
,district was in Ipswich on December 8, 1858. It The boundar[...], there was something respectable in the
ment in Ipswich, was a young man, Charles name."[...]11
of a Municipality of Ipswich would not affect important.[...]
[...]of such self-seeking the defeat of the Ipswich Municipality.
people being appointed in lpsw'ich.[...]not the proclaimed a municipality before Ipswich. The
government would control the wharves and fer[...]council, chairman or Municipality of Ipswich until after the arrival of
president. The committ[...]control poration of the Municipality of Ipswich.
of the wharves and ferries and had received a[...]there were 807 houses in East Street, Ipswich. There was a large number
in Ipswich and a population' of 3732. o[...]ON circulated and signed by 91
residents of Ipswich, was received by the
Governor of New South[...]G. Robinson, George O'Rourke, George
last census, Ipswich contained a population of Holt, Thoma[...]orge Rose, J.
Council, will be pleased to declare Ipswich to be Parkes, David McBay, Charistopher C. Meyers,
a Municipal Town, under the name of Ipswich." James McIntosh, John Kent,[...]
[...]Donigard, Patrick Quirk, Daniel Mann, Daniel
Ipswich. Such is the same with the names on[...]Robert McGrory, Arthur McGrory, Bernard
of Ipswich and was published in the New South[...]ick Horan, Thomas Gorman,
poration of the Town of Ipswich at the present Thomas Laffy, Patrick[...]Maxwell.



Municipality of Ipswich Proclaimed
T HE Municipality of Ipswich was proclaimed
on March 2, 1860 and publish[...]nded a poll,
men." It nominated Henry Buckley, of Ipswich, as so Buckley declared one to be held[...]at noon., at the that date., also at North Ipswich and Little Ipswich.
Court House, at Ipswich, on Thursday the Twelfth At the Court[...]at North Ipswich, where there were 4 l votes and
The boundari[...]were pro­ William Henderson at Little Ipswich where there
claimed on March l 6, 1860. Those bou[...]ere 25 candidates. Those elected were
district of Ipswich in 1959. John Murp[...]e defeated were Henry Montague Cock­
aldermen of Ipswich. bu[...]
IPSWICH IN 1863
The photographs on this and the next pa[...]nd make a panorama. The 1. Hospital. 2. Denmark Hill. 3. - - - -
picture at th[...]ncil met in a room in the Court House on
Mayor of Ipswich, on the motion of Alderman May 1.[...]nsideration of the tenders for the
meeting of the Ipswich Municipal Council. position of t[...]ange for applications for Municipality of Ipswich.
the position of town clerk.[...]
[...]). 13. Brisbane Limestone Street. 19. North Ipswich.
[...]cipality
of Brisbane were temporarily adopted for Ipswich.
A tender of Charles Whaler, to survey the
to[...]John Murphy, first mayor of Ipswich, 1860.[...]against the rate levy. Such happened in Ipswich,
division" of the money was settled by the Cor­[...]August 2. The council decided to
Municipality of Ipswich, on September 17, 1860. reply to the[...]tructions for the because the streets of Ipswich were in a bad state
conducting council meetings a[...]ty from the govern­
Although the streets of Ipswich had been sur­ ment, the governme[...]
Although Ipswich streets had been surveyed 23, were-M.[...]nformed. By 1860, homes £8/ 18/0; Ipswich Herald newspaper £4/19 /3.
and shops had been e[...]ain of Thorn
few weeks before the request of the Ipswich Street to construct a culvert in[...]The project of a toll gate at Little Ipswich
the respective streets. The motion was with­[...]15 to erect a toll gate
on that street at Little Ipswich. A committee
was appointed to mak_e specif[...]
[...]Bigried by n greater nu�b0r cf hon:·;eholders: Ipswich.''
"81dent a.1 aforesaid, shouhl be rec€[...]
[...]election of the mayor, to which position John
the Ipswich Herald, the names of the people who[...]against the appointment on such terms. He
House, Ipswich, Alderman John Johnstone at[...]idered that the appointment should be made
Little Ipswich and W. M. Smith at North Ipswich. unconditionally.
Those el[...]vernment



".REVRNVE AND EXPBNDITURE OF TUE IPSWICH HUNICIPALITY FOR THE
HA[...]
[...]Ipswich"
MANY WORKS[...]and continued its refusal to fence hospital land.
The neglect of the New South Wales Gove[...]the vicinity of Ipswich.[...]and for the common right of all to pasture
of the Ipswich hospital grounds. The request stock.
was ref[...]as notified that the counciI had no
Crown land in Ipswich, to the council. Neverthe­ funds for t[...]ed to him to follow the
a meeting of residents of Ipswich to discuss the example of other[...]
[...]Joint Stock Bank, for the payment of a loan of
Ipswich.[...]important parts in the early history of Ipswich.
handle and rope.[...]Thorn, Arthur Macalister, Benjamin
industries of Ipswich, with a symbol (the church) Cribb, Mich[...]voting was by the "showing of hands,"
the City of Ipswich. It recognises also the toil of wh[...]
[...]ose Martin Byrne, Samuel Shenton and
tised in the Ipswich newspaper the Queensland John Johnsto[...]uorum, there was when, on June l 0, the Ipswich Municipal Council
not a meeting.[...]tenders were invited
reserve in Brisbane Street, Ipswich. for the work and one was su[...]ceived by the council MAYORS OF IPSWICH, 1860-1896.
to instal kerosene lamps in the stree[...]Thorr..as Pryde 1873-4.
at Little Ipswich However, it was agreed that Th[...]
[...]northern entrance to St. Paul's Anglican Church.
Ipswich, so demands were made to the council[...]roaches to the Wesleyan
In the early years of Ipswich there was much Methodist Church: on th[...]and Limestone Streets.
subsequent years, the Ipswich Municipal Council Messrs.[...]
@




IPSWICH IN 1870
The four p[...]foreground. 17. St. Mary's Catholic
tween 1 and 3 Hospital. 4. Court House an Church[...]rmerly John Panton's) Note the grass Ipswich.



of the counciI on the next day. That w[...]
No. 2 Not only South Ipswich; but also in North
Ipswich there was much progress. A railway[...]
[...]rkes, Watkins, Pettigrew and
similar bye-laws for Ipswich. With minor amend­ McDonald decided[...]he council to
The number of men unemployed in Ipswich consider the reduction of cleric[...]r municipal year.
labourers living in Ipswich. When the Joi[...]t of the counciI's cheque in July, it also
men of Ipswich on May 15, l 866, when it was dem[...]draft and continued to do so in subsequent
Ipswich and West Moreton, to notify the same[...]Parkes resigned on January
the labouring class in Ipswich and to request that
£2.000 should be made available to the Ipswich 9, 1867 and Alderman James Foote li[...]sition, so left the service of the council
men of Ipswich to make a road from the town on[...]retiring Aldermen James Foote, Martin Byrne and
Ipswich Municipal Council, to enable the council[...]
[...]�,f.y<�
An artist's sketch in "Ipswich Punch," There was ia[...]
[...]council recording its "high
The Duke came to Ipswich by steamboat estimation of the long and faithful services to
and arrived in Ipswich on February 26, the corporation by[...]ge and enthusiastic crowd Anderson."
of Ipswich and district residents present to[...]ruary 9, 1869,
The mayor and the aldermen of Ipswich were[...]the Municipality of office.
Ipswich most cordially welcome Your
Royal Highne[...]
*
Th e River
Bank Sawmill,
North Ipswich,
between the
bridge and the
woollen mills.
Joh[...]her Gerry
flag" should be made for the council in Ipswich. retired and Samuel Shenton, Robert Fall[...]aldermen were
separated from the Municipality of Ipswich. The Hugh Shanks, John Ventus Jenkins a[...]Shipping
I N 1845 Ipswich was growing in importance. In
the early part o[...]a barge had begun
to ply between Brisbane and Ipswich to bring[...]ing Downs The growing importance of Ipswich caused
and Ipswich districts continued to send their som[...]g bush Point, would indeed advance Ipswich to the most
track.[...]il 31, 1845,
there were conveyed to Brisbane from Ipswich 615 '[...]
[...]Regular journeys from Brisbane to Ipswich[...]Thomas Horsman had the Ipswich Stores,[...]"Experiment," bought the Ipswich Stores from[...]ed that the freight
Rivers, from Brisbane to Ipswich. The "Experi­ charges for all cargo must be p[...]and Mr. Smith. and Ipswich, was launched at South Brisbane on
In th[...]t beam, with a capacity to carry l00 bales
to Ipswich. At Woogaroo (now Goodna) the of wool.[...]Ann" and was built
light of the next morning. Ipswich was reached for John Boyland and James[...]
[...]r, 1959. byy the vessel. Some Ipswich residents each had[...]goods waiting
The "Mary Ann" began plying to Ipswich on for conveyance by their two river p[...]st had revived in making Cleveland a to Ipswich from Brisbane. The weather cleared
port. Ipswich people urged the squatters to have enough[...]k in three
"Experiment," sold his interest in the Ipswich fathoms of water. The crew escaped. Car[...]eamboat.
An offer to sell a new steamboat for Ipswich The "Experiment" was raised by its n[...]capacity was 150 bales of Brisbane and Ipswich on April 20.
wool.[...]m a company to one punt plying between Ipswich and Brisbane. It[...]
[...]FIRST PUBLIC WHARF Ipswich on October 22. On arrival at 2 p.m. all
The[...]0 tons, was launched
similar donations would give Ipswich a wharf as on the Brisbane River in mi[...]well as providing a began plying to Ipswich on the 31st of that
force pump, which could lift[...]s a public meeting in the Queen's
Lind" plying to Ipswich was on September 3. Arms Ho[...]
[...]"RAVEN 11"
between Ipswich and Brisbane. It was the opinion Ano[...]with the name "Raven"
of several storekeepers in Ipswich, that such a was purchased in Sydney in[...]plying between Brisbane and Ipswich early in
A prospectus was issued on June 6. I[...]be worked by a cockswain and two men, Ipswich, was built by Taylor Winship, at South
who were obliged to be residents of Ipswich. Brisbane. The vessel was 110 feet l[...]ne 15; Thomas Bowse began to ply to Ipswich on January 28, 1851.
4; Caffery (shipowner) 4; na[...]e plying of
The "Experiment" ceased plying to Ipswich the "Hawk."
on September 22, 1849 and[...]their punt "Model" from Ipswich to Brisbane in
70 tons. It was built for John B[...]and Co., Ipswich, were the agents.
"Hawk."[...]the launching. Ipswich a Customs Port
A successful launching took pl[...]eople on the next Brisbane River to Ipswich on October l, 1860.
day. Miss Winship named the v[...]could then be warehoused there.
It plied between Ipswich and Brisbane and on in accord[...]
[...]1
Messrs. Gray and Co s premises in Ipswich, received many applications for wh[...]irms in Brisbane
housing of dutiable goods. So Ipswich had its were among the applicants.[...]ce G. Harris.
of goods under bond to Ipswich. Those arrange­ THE[...]rnment Works Department, to deepen
immediately to Ipswich. the Basin.[...]me before claiming it right, according Ipswich and Brisbane during 1866.
to the Municipalities A[...]legal its original agreement, so that the Ipswich
July 4 and sent to the government for approval.[...]ed by the council on which were in the Ipswich-Brisbane service
September l l, stating that the[...]he "Breadal­
willing to place all the wharves in Ipswich in the bane," "Ipswich," ' 1 Bremer," "Kate," "Emu,"
control of the coun[...]s premises had then recently become Ipswich to Brisbane in 187 4 which took away the
the Cust[...]ed
William Mactaggart Dorsey to be magistrate of,
Ipswich on September 30, 1846. On the same
date Hen[...]nd of cattle
to be slaughtered in the township of Ipswich and
its vicinity.
On January 5, 1847, Sidney Smith was
appointed to be clerk of petty sessions at Ipswich
The cases in the Police Court in the early
d[...]- first police magistrate in Ipswich.[...]
[...]ber of the up" (6 feet by 7 feet) in Ipswich, which was then
Golden Fleece Inn, was dismissed[...]nd Peter Nichol obtained a con­ Ipswich was then in New South Wales and
fectioner's licen[...]northern districts from New South Wales.
House, Ipswich on April 28, appointed William T[...]e magistrates in May were Constable of Ipswich. Most of the duties in the
chiefly from the outsi[...]he obliged to ride a long distance to Ipswich every
prisoner had rendered an ac<::ount of it, to his court day. All the Justices of Peace in Ipswich
emolover. on hie; arrival r\t lnswich.[...]vice, when he was on his way to the "Ipswich in the County of Stanley" was pro­
pastoral stat[...]o settle out of court, instead of being Ipswich on July 4, 1847, by Dr. Simpson and
senten[...]
[...]s in the police behalf of the residents of Ipswich and in apprecia­
paddock, at the rear of the pol[...]y of Queensland on
Because most of the men of Ipswich were at July 7, 1860, were a number for Ipswich and
a land sale in Brisbane_. of lpswich land, th[...]e had been no organised
sport of any kind in Ipswich. There had
been race meetings occasional[...]iefly the squatters of other horse.
the Ipswich district who with their horses, took
part in the[...]meeting of l848 did not become an
annual races in Ipswich, so a committee was[...]Walter Gray, George Thorn, W. O'G. Haly, R. J.
in Ipswich, from outside districts. There was[...]
[...]e R. J. Smith; treasurer George Thorn;
history of Ipswich. The large crowd was intensely clerk of[...]h entrance fees were expected to
race was for the Ipswich Cup, valued at 30 amount to £40[...]A meeting was held in Ipswich on June 11,
At a committee meeting at the Quee[...]Club." Francis Bigge M.L.C. was
Northern Races in Ipswich on May 7, 8 and 9, the chai[...]
[...]annual races on the second
recently appointed to Ipswich Tuesday and the two[...]N OUTSTANDING historical event happened
in Ipswich in 1861. It was the most import­
ant horse r[...]ian Colonies. The idea was created "Ipswich" the "Breadalbane" the "Nimrod" the
by a few Ipswich sportsmen and was the Firs.t "Settl[...]The Gove·rnor came on the "Ipswich," on[...]rived in Ipswich at 3 p.m. There were 700[...]of the· Ipswich Volunteer Rifles.[...]the combined Ipswich and Brisbane Volunteer[...]The first cricket club formed in Ipswich had[...]Eleven and the Ipswich Cricket Club played.[...]
[...]RST MATCH Edwin Campbell. Ipswich had as members also
The Ipswich Cricket Club members were A. D. Brough[...]elwell and Walker The scores were Ipswich, first innings 99,
who scored 69 in the first i[...]44 for the second innings. Therefore Ipswich
Another club was formed in Ipswich in 1857. won by 23.
ft was known as the North Australian Cricket Coulsen of Ipswich was "an awful bowler." It
Club. At that time, to[...]bowled out
Wales and the Bank of Australasia in Ipswich, eight. Several were for nil and one. Als[...]·staff members, on stump."
arrival in Ipswich, promptly formed a club and A return m[...]re on the 7th, 8th and 9th. Some Ipswich players were unable to be
The Ipswich team was George Maughan (cap­ present, bu[...]d
T HERE was an urgent need of a bank for
Ipswich and districts. The absence of pay­
ment by[...]lists of signatures in Ipswich, Brisbane and Dray­[...]lson 20; Colin McKenzie
A meeting was held in Ipswich on February 20; G. Moccatta 20;[...]
[...]Bank of New South Wales in Ipswich
Another effort for the establishing of a bank[...]ss and commerce had increased so much
was made in Ipswich, in February 1850, when a in Ipswich, that a branch of the Bank of
petition was signed[...]on Bay The first account with the Ipswich branch
District, was realised on November 14, 185[...]suitable building in Brisbane Street, almost op­
Ipswich, when the small 1.O.U's disappeared in[...]first town clerk of Ipswich.[...]tokens was John Pettigrew, of Ipswich.[...]
[...]a opened its first branch by the town clerk of Ipswich and was on the left
in the Moreton Bay District, in Ipswich on October hand side of the entrance to the b[...]risbane. The date of the established in Ipswich in 1921.
opening of a branch of that bank in Ipswich is The Bank of Australasia and the Un[...]Australia Limited amalgamated in 1951 and
was the Ipswich branch manager in 1858. became the[...]a Limited, a branch of which operates in Ipswich
tenancy of an office in the School of Arts[...]
[...]861. English cotton was appointed for Ipswich. He was A. M.
mills then readily paid the high[...]ibb and order bonus was issued. No doubt the Ipswich
Foote ginned, baled and exported 7,000 bales of[...]land orders.
Early in 1861, the Ipswich Cotton Company The cotton growing i[...]any planned to use bonus was gained by the Ipswich Cotton Com­
two thirds of its capital to purchas[...]ion should
Street. By that time it had become the Ipswich be refused to allow the re-erectio[...]
[...]Began
T HE first move for a School of Arts in Ipswich
(or reading room and library., as it was[...]cupied. In that building were
The progress of Ipswich was emphasised by a 300 volumes.
spe[...]and Henry Challinor.
Ipswich Literary Institution[...]Foundation Stone
of the institution shall be the "Ipswich Literary
Institution," which would provide a news[...]ctures on local Ferguson Bowen, visited Ipswich and on February
politics; but none on religion. T[...]ed to prepare rules Bowen visited Ipswich again, to conduct the off-
and regulations. M[...]*
Wallace (Episcopalian) o-f Ipswich. The squatters Waterloo w[...]
A page from "Ipswich Punch," ,March, accomplished, and the[...]"IPSWICH PUNCH"
The "Ipswich Punch" was -an amateur monthly[...]or other sense, all men in January 15, 1866.
Ipswich are workingmen ..."[...]The committee "confidently anticipated, that Ipswich in the early days. Some of those sketches
within[...]A Town Hall was Wanted
The Ipswich Municipal Council was not satis­ stances were[...]ent for a town of a large room, whereas the Ipswich Municipality
hall was begun on August 20, 1860, w[...]ting place, it was decided, on March 14, Ipswich, was because such a building was properly
l 861,[...]etter room for a counciI chamber,
stated that the Ipswich Municipality's circum- because the r[...]
[...]and for the Ipswich Municipal Council to take
meeting.[...]affix the seal of the Corporation of Ipswich to the
have the walls of the building plastered a[...]documents relative to the mortgage and the
words "Ipswich Municipal Council" painted on the[...]meeting three times a week in
formed to meet the Ipswich Municipal Council, the hall an[...]
[...]e
years. It was not until April 24, 1894 that the
Ipswich Town Council became the legal owner. It[...]te that the certificate of title to Ipswich Town Hall, November, 1959.
the property was trans[...]counciI suggested to
turret clock to the town of Ipswich. The value the government to erect t[...]ay to all the town. If three dials in Ipswich.[...]
[...]site of the township of Limestone (named
Ipswich a few months later), he provided[...]carried.
PETITION FOR A RESERVOIR
Ipswich had no fresh water supply in July[...]ham arrived in Ipswich a few days later and met[...]method of obtaining a water supply for Ipswich.
cussed by the Ipswich Town Council and a de­[...]
[...]e town surveyor to visit the Bremer River Ipswich at the bend of the river near the railway
banks in Bremer Street, North Ipswich and Lime­ sheds.
stone Hill, so that[...]treasurer, to urge the passage of the Ipswich
The water supply committee on February 15,[...]tation of three
bathing reserve and one at Little Ipswich. The was then sent to see the treasur[...]o all the residents public bath.
of North Ipswich. He requested the council for By[...]lant were subsequently moved
was discussed by the Ipswich Municipal Council from the Nicholas S[...]ucted. So the
Arthur Macalister, M.L.A. an Ipswich solicitor. water reserve ceased to sup[...]eated. If it ends of Ferry Road, North Ipswich and East Street
was a private bill the council's[...]r to the
The source of water supply at North Ipswich eastern suburbs was approved in May, 18[...]ry 19 that
The government sent an official to Ipswich on the qovernment would not grant[...]
1893 flood in Ipswich. The photographs The committ[...], for
panorama, from Denmark Hill, with
North Ipswich and East Ipswich in the the purpose of levying a[...]addition it "would leave a hand­
some water" for Ipswich. some balance cr[...]isbane to discuss the
the Upper Brisbane River to Ipswich The pro­[...]also of being used by the residents of Ipswich
the pipe line from there to Mihi Creek. At[...]
1893 tlood in Ipswich. This photograph His report rec[...]inal project.
Nevertheless, a large number of Ipswich Waterworks Official Opening
r[...]reservoir," the Town of Ipswich gained its supply
There was a special[...]
[...]Ipswich Volunteer[...]was constructed
Board in Brisbane, to control the Ipswich water from Mt. Crosby to the old reservoir of Ipswich
supply.[...]e to the existing main pipe.
A referendum of Ipswich ratepayers was held When "Greater Brisbane" came into being,
on the 14th of that month. The Ipswich City[...]rman W. McAuliffe of
On November 18, 1920, the Ipswich City Brisbane, Mayor A. T. Ste[...]ater T. E. Woodford of the City of Ipswich.


Ipswich Fire Brig ade
Be[...]ring the first year of the
existence of the Ipswich Municiple Council.[...]council promised to erect
engine for the Town of Ipswich, the engine to be the shed, to purcha[...]engine and to form
manned by volunteers from the Ipswich Volunteer a fire brigade, provided t[...]re Mayor John companies' agents in Ipswich were notified accord­
Murphy, Aldermen John Pett[...]ethune and Hassel and Ogg, Ipswich agents for the Pacific
Francis North.[...]The council then asked the other insurance
Ipswich wrote to the council urging the purchase[...]d Globe Fire Insurance Company,
council, with the Ipswich agents of the various stated that th[...]a fire brigade, pro­ the first fireman in Ipswich, so when he heard of
vided that the insura[...]
[...]Ipswich Fire Bri­[...]
[...]After that fire, the Ipswich Town Council re­[...]e-laws were amended on



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Ipswich Post Office in November, 19·59 J[...]super­ was suggested.
intendent of the Ipswich Fire Brigade. In the mean[...]n the north-west corner of Nicholas
cussed by the Ipswich Council. Those bye-laws Street and th[...]The fire engine, so much discussed, was never
Ipswich Fire Brigade.[...]
[...]Benjamin Cribb became postmaster in Ipswich
N THE early days, the post office was always[...]at he "begs to inform the public that he
when Ipswich gained its first post office, that[...]Tenders for the carrying of the maiI between
Ipswich in the District of Moreton Bay. Residents Brisbane, Ipswich and Drayton were invited to be
were requested to[...]obliged to go to the post office for Ipswich in 1858.
it. When someone came in from the outs[...]ssume that Gill_ was the
The mail was sent to Ipswich by the "Experi­[...]mentioned in the records, as postmaster, in
Ipswich Postmaster Smith resigned and T. N. s[...]had been plying between Brisbane and Ipswich
There was a public me·eting at John Enson's[...]time and had left daily from McIntyre's
hotel in Ipswich on July 20, 1850 to discuss the Hotel,[...]journeys were reduced to three times a week.
Ipswich.[...]entirely, because
T. N. Brett, postmaster at Ipswich presented, of Collins' business failure.[...]ydney to tinued the mail delivery.
Ipswich. It was requested that the mail should[...]August 20, he auctioned the 13 horses
Brisbane to Ipswich, within on6 hour of arrival of[...]es, Booth
special messenger to convey the mail to Ipswich increased the passengers' fares.[...]electric telegraph line from Brisbane to Ipswich to
A committee was elected to ensure those[...]line to be erected in the new Colony of Queens­
Ipswich Post Office on July 28, 1852. In those[...]ect letters, did not concern them­ Ipswich were increased from £ l 00 to £300 a yea[...]
[...]In 1863, there were 171 money orders issued
to Ipswich from Brisbane, was on January 18, and paid at the IpswichIpswich. He received £1/18/0 for each journey. The first daily mail service between Ipswich
William John Cracknell was appointe·d, on[...]375 a year in
Department of Electric Telegraph at Ipswich. 1867. He had three on his staff. They were J.
An effort was made at the Ipswich Town Lewis, clerical assistant; J.[...]another at the corner of
the Churweh Hotel, North Ipswich. They were Richard Gill was y[...]as delivering letters. The motion failed. Ipswich.[...]er, the electric telegraph manager, three
bane to Ipswich to Warwick. The telegram telegr[...]ne repairer, three clerical
charges were, between Ipswich and Brisbane, 10 assistants, four sta[...]carriers and
words 2/-, each additional word 2d. Ipswich to one messenger.
Warwick 10 words 3/[...]A telephone exchange was opened in Ipswich
Tenders closed on August 3, 1861, for the[...]n Brisbane­
Government required to be erected in Ipswich. lpsw,ch-Toowoomba at the same time.[...]t and the During subsequent years, the Ipswich Post
telegraph office was at the rear in Limeston[...]sk and building.



Ipswich Churches
RESIDENT CLERGYMAN WAS WANTED[...]h in Sydney. He was the first Presbyterian
man in Ipswich. Nothing had been done by the clerg[...]establish a church When he was in Ipswich, the doctor discovered
or a school in the town. ([...]44 the Reverend Dr. John
Dunmore Lang visited Ipswich. In Scotland, he service at which[...]
[...]dent clergyman in
recorded of any, in what is now Ipswich. Unfor­ Ipswich, those present at that meeting would be
tunately[...]Subsequent to his visit, Dr. Lang wrote,­
u Ipswich is a rising thriving viIIage, and must
evidently,[...]IN IPSWICH[...]a church Church of Scotland).
building in Ipswich. A large proportion of
He visited Ipswich, for the second time on
the residents by that tim[...]were liberal
Charles Stewart. There was a hope in Ipswich and were given by members of all Pro[...]ected to visit the town. As a reside in Ipswich.[...]
[...]n Chapel in the even­
to a congregation of 70 in Ipswich in the morning ing. There were 150 peo[...]of the congregation to that date in Ipswich.
congregation, to request him to become the[...]RANTED
resident Presbyterian clergyman in Ipswich.
Several members volunteered to guarantee his[...]Scotland. 11
lish a Presbyterian Church in Ipswich. Several[...]in the Limestone Street.
Court House, Ipswich in the morning and after­
noon on Sunday May 5,[...]that clergyman to charge.
preach in Ipswich, before a decision be made.[...]
[...]first time, when William Turner,
"Scots Church in Ipswich. Walter Grieve and[...]erect a stone building Presbyterian Church, Ipswich."
60 feet by 3 feet, costing £1,073. However, on[...]Scotland) in Ipswich, the Reverend Samuel Wilson,
Although the na[...]h gate was erected in September of
income for the Ipswich church was the govern­ that yea[...]
[...]he rear of the church building residents of Ipswich, it would be possible to erect
and a pulpit bible[...]Stephen's became colonial When he visited Ipswich in December of the
secretaries (premiers). They[...]ct and arrived Before his departure from Ipswich in July
in Brisbane early in December 1843.[...]his congregation and
mqke intermittent visits to Ipswich in mid-1845. other Ipswich friends, who presented to him an
The earliest rec[...]of of the same year. He went immediately to Ipswich
a temporary school house and chapel. Unfor[...]practice of the Archbishop in Ipswich
church, he would have at least have given Holy[...]ents to Reverend John Bede Polding, visited Ipswich on
the members of his church.)[...]Reverend John Rigney and the Reverend Father
Ipswich and said Mass there on September 24, Will[...]he announced that the New the cemetery "near Ipswich." The congregation
South Wales Gover�men[...]
[...]DIOCESE OF IPSWICH
THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY[...]the erection of
copy of the current issue of the Ipswich news­ Ipswich into an Episcopal See, having for its
paper, the[...]er money and In a few months time Ipswich was forgotten
an engrossed decorated document wri[...]of the Son and of the Holy Ghost-Amen Ipswich was a rented cottage in East Street. The[...]old




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St. Mary's
Catholic Church,
Ipswich, in Nov­
ember, 1959.



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[...]congregation. The site of the foundation Ipswich. Father James Duhig served at Ipswich
stone was alongside the old building. After the
M[...]atrick Francis Cardinal Moran, of Sydney,
came to Ipswich for the official opening and
blessing of the new[...]to Ipswich during the subsequent years.[...]The first baptism by him, in Ipswich, was on
Lismore; Joseph Higgins D.D., Rockhampton[...]North Ipswich. On that visit the Reverend John
THE REVEREND[...]in Brisbane on July 6,
parish priest. He came to Ipswich on May 1, 1845 baptised Charles, son[...]e died in 1924. Ipswich. Charles was born on November 23, 1844 ..[...]
[...]Reverend Benjamin Glennie.
first visit to Ipswich was on Sunday, April 16, On the Mo[...]service in the afternoon. At the latter Ipswich. The amount was not sufficent to justify
service[...]the schoolmaster
The same clergyman visited Ipswich again on would read prayers. The bishop[...]e was in lpgwich Both clergymen left Ipswich on the Monday to
again on July 9, August 9 and 1[...]s there also on August They returned to Ipswich on the next Friday and
13 and September l 6 and[...]ervices
with small numbers present.
He was in Ipswich again on December 27,
1848, when he officiated at[...]riptions were poor.

Bishop of Newcastle in Ipswich
The Episcopalian Church in Moreton Bay
Distri[...]was separated from Sydney.
The bishop visited Ipswich on June 1848,
with the Reverend Benjamin G[...]
[...]from the Bishops of Sydney
Public opinion in Ipswich was adverse to the and Newcastle, the[...]
[...]where the lessons are vices in Ipswich. The exact date of his first
.delivered." service in Ipswich is not known.: but by March 15,
A statemen[...]an Church buildings. Wesleyans in Ipswich had
BUILDING ENLARGED[...]
[...]with 14 children. The Ipswich Church was in the
First Wesleyan Methodist chapel[...]more money to
was the usual condition of land in Ipswich, in pay for the remaining debt on the bui[...]ntertainment, favoured by Protestant Churches,
of Ipswich when the official opening occurred. in th[...]lkinson and N. Turner on




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1885. The Ipswich
Wesleyan Methodist
Church. Erected in[...]
[...]ee Methodists in Ips- Church pastor living in Ipswich. Two deacons were[...]became a member of the Union ·church.
In Ipswich there were members of the Baptist (In la[...]Gatton.)




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The enlarged and
renovated Ipswich
Methodist Church.
Photographed in
Novembe[...]
[...]gned as pastor. Scotland, Ipswich, was the preacher in the morn­
· A meeting of[...]Samuel Shenton, architect of Ipswich.
The Reverend Edward Griffith was a member[...]t 1856. (His son became Sir Samuel Grif­
came to Ipswich and preached on Sunday March ·fith[...]ed on April 30. became pastor at Ipswich. Within six months of
At a church meeting on[...]tional Church who were really Baptists, left to
Ipswich.[...]pastors at the
the name "Congregational Church of Ipswich." Congre·gational Church unt[...]
[...]First Congr egational Church, Ipswich, in 1855.
CHURCH FLOODED
There[...]PRESENT BUILDING in the Ipswich Baptist Church. The Reverend
Continued p[...]ation Formed
be a memorial to him and his work in Ipswich, Early in 1859, the ·Reverend Benjami[...]G. Stephens, on horseback, passed through Ipswich
Blackwell. to the Darling Downs. In Ipswich they visited[...]Thomas Blackett Stephens was a frequent
Ipswich, New South Wales. Immediately after visitor to Ipswich, because being a wool buyer,
his arrival, he bega[...]in Ipswich. Erect­[...]
[...]lay preacher.
J. Voller, in Sydney, had moved to Ipswich to Soon after that, the owner of the[...]So a bowling £42/5/ 6 were collected for the Ipswich chapel
alley was rented and "turned for the purpose and £14/10/11 were collected in Ipswich. Two
of vice to the service of God."[...]*
Congrega t i o n a I
Church in East
Street, Ipswich.
Erected in 1958.
Photographed No-
vemb[...]
Ipswich Baptist Church in its original[...]
[...]ear, several Welsh cle·rgymen of
be appointed to Ipswich. That resulted in Pastor various Protes[...]a week.



S OME Welsh immigrants came to the Ipswich
district on June l 0, 1883. With them were[...]Peter SECOND EISTEDDFOD IN IPSWICH
Davies became the secretary.•[...]irst service in the Welsh language was Ipswich and was also the second in that town. It
o[...]
[...]ch. Ipswich Corps.[...]ion Army day for the Ipswich Corps. In the evening Com­[...]missioner Howard, of Melbourne, visited Ipswich

T HE Salvation Army began in Queensland on[...]the band and corps paraded through Brisbane
Ipswich. Str[...]Howard conducted the cere­
ber 1885, he visited Ipswich, stood at the Blackall mony and was accompanied[...]In June 1886., the Ipswich Corps was "one of
The memorial in those days[...]h was prepared to be presented
Queen's Arms Hotel Ipswich. to Queen Victoria, for[...]by "residents of Ipswich and surrounding dis­
stations. They wante[...]
[...]orcibly on the subject.
were very angry.
Ipswich experienced some of that bad Joh[...]r. John Dunmore Lang's
held in the Court House, Ipswich on January 14,[...]of Dr. Lang's immigrants settled in Ipswich and
Because of townspeople and "labouring men"[...]in time became very prominent residents. Other
Ipswich and Brisbane being present, the meeting ve[...]of it at that Ipswich meeting. The meeting was
trict and held a meetin[...]rect this territory from
enthusiastic meeting at Ipswich. Those present the thirtieth parallel of[...]from Ipswich.
The result of the subscriptions in Ipswich was[...]those petitions went from Ipswich. In the same[...]
[...]om the new colony.
That caused the people of Ipswich to send
another petition to Queen Victoria. It wa[...]and
on January 8, 1857.
Some time later, the Ipswich people com­
plained that the petition had not be[...]ry would be
altered, so on February 28, 1858, the Ipswich a government. An additional petit[...]e land.
It is implicit that the residents of Ipswich
had sent another petition to the Queen. A des­
p[...]Visit to Ipswich
Ipswich that Her Majesty would cause the neces­
sary ste[...]ony of Government House (now St. John's
The Ipswich petitioners complained to Governor Deane[...]One was from "The People of Ipswich." It
should be informed that it has been laid at[...]'xcellency.
Therefore, a meeting was held in Ipswich on We, the inha,bitants of the Town of Ipswich[...]
[...]to assure your Excel­
lency that the people ol Ipswich will always
endeavour to strengthen your Excelle[...]se of his reply_. Governor Bowen
said, "Placed as Ipswich is, at the head of the
navigation of the Rivers B[...]In the same evening there was a ball at
Ipswich had the honour of being the first town,[...]y, to be visited "Many of the elite of Ipswich and neighbour­
by his Excellency.[...]arrival at Booval they stayed, for a Ipswich and its vicinity.
short while, at the home of Geo[...]way promise on December l 0, to visit Ipswich. He
between South and Roderick Streets.[...]
[...]orge Thorn's residence on the corner of Bris­
in Ipswich. However, in the long list of names[...]irst Election The Ipswich electors protested to the returning


A[...]made no effort to do so.
first in which Ipswich was to take part and
the second for the Moreton Bay District. The reply to the Ipswich electors was that
The qualifications were[...]Ipswich to discuss the two candidates for election,
Henry[...]ither were approved. Jones was
ever, only one Ipswich elector was able to vote.
He happened to be in Br[...]Ipswich should refrain from registering their votes[...]up in Ipswich, where, as they were non-resident,[...]votes were lodged by Ipswich electors - three[...]The four Ipswich v�ters. no doubt. were the four[...]Subsequently, 27 Ipswich residents signed a[...]colony. Among them were Ipswich and West[...]
Moreton. Ipswich and West Moreton were allotted Gill, Jo[...]son. Those elected
The polling day fixed for Ipswich was May were George Thorn, Alfred Delv[...]bie Nelson. The latter
only three nominations for Ipswich, so they were lost his seat at the next[...]'s Park
O N HIS PLAN of the survey of Ipswich in
1 842, Surveyor Henry Wade made a[...]Tennyson Streets was transferred to the counciI
Ipswich," were appointed by the government.[...]1890. On April 16,
On May 6, 1863, the Ipswich Town Council l 891, the government gr[...]For the land, the government appointed
people of Ipswich and that it should be controlled trustees[...]ery day to the public. The The Ipswich Town (now City) Council has
gates were locked fro[...]k (as it was then named) to Ipswich Hospital[...]HE IPSWICH HOSPITAL had its beginning
application on June 21, 1869 an[...]er of the Queen's Park Re­
serve was made to the Ipswich City Council, the By May 1 0, 1856[...]een the river: Torch Street, the Ipswich, from East Street westward.
railway line[...]
[...]1885. Ipswich Hos­[...]l858 a tender of £ l060, for
the erection of the hospital building was accepted. BOAR[...]ed on November 30, The first Ipswich Joint Hospital Board was
l 859. However, the cost was £2179/ l[...]rassall; Councillor Charles Christopher
HOSPITAL INCORPORATED Cameron,[...]omas E. Coulsen, Council of the Shire of
ated the Ipswich Hospital to enable it "to sue Rosewood; Counci[...]g of real During the years, the hospital has been
property belonging to such hospital." enlarged, by[...]the first and modern equipment and is a hospital befitting
patient to January 30, 1861, the number of a city such as Ipswich.
patients was 75.[...]uilding fund The management of the hospital is no,w by
were £414/ l / l O and that the expenditure was the Ipswich District Hospitals Board, which is
£3 l9/8/ l O.[...]School in Ipswich. National Schools were the[...]usden was the
In July 1847 the population of Ipswich was agent for establishing National Sc[...]l. All religious National School in Ipswich.
denominations were represented, which made it[...]han the catechism a National School in Ipswich as speedily as
and an unexplained chapter[...]
[...]in Ipswich, so an application was made to
instrument for evi[...]and were Dr. William M. Dorsey, of the Ipswich Town Council for the council to
chairman and Rich[...]piscopalian; endow a scholarship at the Ipswich Grammar
Martin Byrne and John O'Connor, Catholic;[...]school building. in Ipswich on Wednesday September 23, 1863,[...]the New South Wales home at North Ipswich and two miles from the
Government was made on Jun[...]Ipswich, in the opening ceremony and the visit
On Oct[...]yground when "a On that day, the Ipswich Volunteers and the
respectable building" was erec[...]and in Brisbane Street. cheering. The Ipswich Infantry Rifle Corps was
What type of buil[...]
[...]Ipswich Grammar[...]he school.


Ipswich Newspapers
F ROM 1846, Ipswich residents depended on
the "Moreton Bay Courie[...]Ipswich Herald
A new newspaper appeared in Ipswich on July
4, 1859. It was the "Ipswich Herald." The proprie­
the Moreton Bay District.[...]ublished in Ips­
wich was the "North Australian, Ipswich, and The Queensland Tim[...]Ipswich Herald and changed its name to "The
published twi[...]ng of display and small type, also
inhabitants of Ipswich,. and the Moreton Bay fast rotary[...]1 "The North Australian" "Ipswich Observer"
was sold to Bishop James O'Quinn. It continued A newspaper named the "Ipswich Observer"
to be pubIished in Ipswich untiI it moved to Bris­ appeared[...]
[...]Ipswich. One was "The Mercury." It had
Aust[...]alternate days, so Ipswich then had a newspaper
There were other newspa[...]lar immigrants, many
Beniamin Cribb Began in Ipswich of whom settled in the districts near Ipswich.
Benjamin Cribb had a grocery business in[...]irst week in July 1865, the
and went to reside in Ipswich. Soon after that old buiIding was dest[...]IN CRIBB'S DEATH
John Clarke Foote arrived in Ipswich in 1852 Benjamin Cribb was an ardent[...]business progressed so much that larger Ipswich Congregational Church,. on March 11,
premises wer[...]retcher. Soon after arrival,
Some of them went to Ipswich. There were he died. The[...]
[...]ing, it was decided to establish woollen
mills in Ipswich.
The next action was on September 16 of the Peter Brown who was Mayor of Ipswich in
same year when the company bought 7-l- acres[...]lication was granted, the rent being Ipswich Gas Company
4/- a week. The newly formed Ipswich Gas and Coke
Production of woollen tweed beg[...]0 yards of woollen tweed a year. Dividends the Ipswich Town Council to sanction the com­
paid then were[...]Ipswich. In the next month the Ipswich Town
The original building in Bell Stre[...]
[...]aughters. His descendants continued the cater-
in Ipswich and suburbs.[...]Shillito and Son
Samuel Shillito arrived in Ipswich in 1866. l.ONDON. 6TOU,F�, IPSWICH.
In Sheffield, England_, where he was born, and[...]nd iutitf's tht-ir
Soon after his arrival in Ipswich, he worked, �&ien k> his JiOH'(:tio[...]lt•br&t1·d olJ
palisading. Castings for the Ipswich gasworks !cA!ll Incl1a <Jo[...],r"sh rrmstf'd aancl grn.:.i\1J on thf!' lM ,t•
Ipswich Town Council water supply.[...]1, he came to prfncipl.-.
Ipswich and began his own business as a baker[...]
[...], in July 1863, parliament authorised the and Ipswich respectively were present with their
construction[...]Volunteer Artillery. The
way, to begin in Ipswich. Ipswich Mounted Rifles escorted the Governor
Abraham[...]an immense concourse" of
railway of 12 miles from Ipswich to the Little people present.
Liverpool Ran[...]In addition, there were the Mayor of Ipswich
way for a 3 feet 6 inches g.9uge single line. The[...]l Shen­
the Engineer-in-Chief of Railways, North Ipswich. ton, George Thorn, John Macdonald and P. P.[...]nor M.L.A. were present
his headquarters at North Ipswich. also.
Five tenders had be[...]been prepared by the Ipswich Town Council for[...]To His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
Ipswich. On that day every house was filled[...]Municipality of Ipswich beg ,to approach your[...]
[...]e citizens of men to convey to the Citizens of Ipswich of
the Corporate Town of Ipswich, We feel we whom you are the Represent[...]advocate for the institution of municipalitie�
Ipswich was the first town incorporated by[...]obert George Wyndham Herbert M.A.,
ical visits to Ipswich. On former occasions you D.C.L., Colonial Se[...]acy




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1885. Railway work­
shops, Ipswich.


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[...]1885. Ipswich rail­[...]of railway to carry of people from Brisbane to Ipswich on April 22,
200,000 tons of goods both ways per[...]es, railway waggons They were joined at Ipswich by Commissioner
and carriages arrived from Englan[...]h bank of the river. The work John Murphy of Ipswich and Stuart Hawthorne
was done in the open air. A permanent workshop M.A., Headmaster of the Ipswich Grammar
building was erected some time during the[...]ng at a temporary platform
trial run. That was at Ipswich on January 11, near the north bank of the[...]passengers were seated, the engine




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Ipswich railway
station in 1908.
The vehicles[...]
[...]rilly" and all arranged to leave Ipswich to Toowoomba on that
"with more or less startled[...], al­ no telephone between Brisbane, Ipswich and Too­
most unseating the rider; near the rail[...]money and labour, so the officials in Ipswich and
A passenger remarked, "It doesn't jolt m[...]the horse­ The four trains left Ipswich at the appointed
drawn buggies on the unmade rough roads of hour. In the first were the Ipswich Volunteer
those days.[...]anged hori­ Henry Brunn, both of Ipswich, Mayor James Hous­
zontally and facing each othe[...]he train passed over the last North Ipswich was erected by the Ipswich Town
culvert, the "eyes of the ladies ... were b[...]n of the bridge
when the train left to return to Ipswich, where it by Peto, Brassey and Betts,[...]ntrolled the
The line had been completed from Ipswich to roadway, the government[...]
[...]est, first by Oldest Building In Ipswich
an engine going over. On the engine were the[...]He came to Ipswich in 1851 and began business,
way Commissione[...]on September 18, 1878. He was
Ipswich-Brisbane Line the owner un[...]he home
other opposition for seve·ral years, the Ipswich- yet stands and is the oldest building in Ipswich.[...]
[...]the Legislative Council of the said
Ipswich, as elected for 1958-1961.[...]expedient to constitute the Town of Ipswich a


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bird.[...]hereby constitute the Town of Ipswich a City,
by the name of the "City of Ipswich."
City of Ipswich Proclaimed G[...]Government House, Brisbane,

T HE TOWN OF IPSWICH had progressed so t[...]S AVE T H E K I NG
to have the Town of Ipswich created a city. (It is co-incide[...]was successful was an early resident of Ipswich.)
and the City of Ipswich was proclaimed. Here Soon after that, the Ipswich City Council
is a copy of that proclamation-[...]t Honourable Privy Coun­ the City of Ipswich, with the title "The Right
cil, Knight Comm[...]Worshipful the Mayor of the City of Ipswich."
Distinguished Order of St. Michael[...]
[...]· '"




Brisbane Street, Ipswich to the of 1949, the area betw[...]boundary, was included in the City of Ipswich.[...]✓ater supply for Bundamba. It was not until
of Ipswich., there was a special meeting of the 1[...]ba and E. G. Wall of Purga. Ipswich, which the Town Council endeavoured to
Also p[...]iate. History was repeated in the l 930's,
men of Ipswich who were P. R. Macdonald, R. durin[...]the relief workers pre­
included in the City of Ipswich. In the early part sented a petition to the Ipswich City Council,[...]
[...]installed in 90 per cent. of the City of IpswichIpswich
work; additional 6/9 for an additional half d[...]maximum James Thomas Finimore, Mayor of Ipswich in
of £3/7 /6 for five days; skilled workers[...]at secondary schools that the present Mayor of Ipswich has served a
grounds and the tennis courts in Queen's Park. long term, at the time of the Ipswich Municipal
The city obtained from the work of[...]y. The stone terraces on each side of the Ipswich Boys' Grammar School.
road and the stone wall[...]rman Smith F.A.S.A., F.C. I.S.,
Ipswich Sewered F. I.M.A., Town Cl[...]bution to increased given long service to the Ipswich City Council.
progress of the City of Ipswich began when the He was educated at the Ipswich Boys' Gram­
government authorised the counci[...]edures of the office.
Nicholas Street, Ipswich to the The chief admini[...]
Ipswich City 1n 1960
In the beginning Ipswich was the "squatters'
headquarters." Some of the[...]nterior."
Gone are the squatters. The City of Ipswich
to-day is the largest industrial centre in Queens[...]not for
tallow1 but for meat.
The streets of Ipswich are now lined with
retail stores, which include d[...]of Ipswich, 1960.
From bullock drays, horseback and the[...]new railway line from Ipswich to Sandgate and[...]which bears his name. The population of Ipswich
Administrator, 1960.[...]

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