Identifying our history through Picture Ipswich
Picture Ipswich is an online database of images operated by the Ipswich Library and Information Service which captures the lifestyle and history of Ipswich. Many of the images in Picture Ipswich have been kindly provided by the community. This is a photograph of the jailhouse at West Ipswich. ...
George Brockwell Gill – Architect
George Brockwell Gill lived and worked in Ipswich for 55 years. He retired in 1943 and went to live in Coolangatta in a house he built and designed. But Mr Brockwell Gill left a lasting impression on the cityscape of Ipswich. A lot of the beautiful buildings in...
Once Upon a Time – Ipswich Life & Land
Robyn Buchanan, local historian and author, will talk about life on the land around Ipswich over the past 150 years. Snippets of history about farming, families and aspects of farming life will be covered. From the Living Library Series, Once Upon a Time – Ipswich Life & Land...
Ipswich Houses: Rockton
Rockton House was built in 1854 for Mr William Craies, lately arrived from Scotland and first manager of the Bank of N.S.W., Ipswich. It started life as a single storey Colonial style house of hand-made brick. Mr Craies named his new house Rockton after an area near his...
Picture Ipswich & More … Family History
It’s the 150th anniversary of Ipswich being proclaimed a municipality. To help celebrate this milestone, a free information session “Family History” will be held at the Barry Jones Auditorium, Ipswich Library on Tuesday 16 November from 10:00am to 11:30am. Do you have an ancestor who was a convict?...
Ipswich Houses
Ipswich is full of beautiful and varied house designs many of which are heritage listed. Garowie is one example of this: Garowie in Whitehill Rd was designed by Ipswich Architect, Samuel Shenton for James Cribb, the son of Benjamin Cribb, and his new wife Alice. It was built...
Bile Beans: the power behind the throne
I read with much amusement an advertisement from the Queensland Times dated the 30th June 1898, it reads as follows:- Woman’s Power – “The Power behind the Throne” The power of a beautiful woman over men is a thing often commented on, but the woman must be beautiful....
James Ivory
The Local History room holds in its microfilm collection, the diaries of James Ivory. These diaries have also been digitised and are available via Picture Ipswich. James Ivory was a pasturalist and diarist. He arrived in Australia from Scotland, in October 1840 at the ripe old age...
Identifying our history through Picture Ipswich
Picture Ipswich is an online database of images operated by the Ipswich Library and Information Service which captures the lifestyle and history of Ipswich. Many of the images in Picture Ipswich have been kindly provided by the community. This photograph is of a general store at Bundamba. We...