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Reverend paved the way to provide essential care for seniors

THIS is the story of how the Colthups family home became known as Colthup Home and of how the Baptist Churches made it an...

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22nd July 2018 9:07 AM

LOOKING BACK: Colthup Home as photographed in 1998.

Old makes way for new in CBD

THE City of Ipswich was to be revitalised by the development of the Kern Corporations Ltd Ipswich City Square project, its...

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15th July 2018 9:07 AM

NEW BEGINNING: Shoppers flock to the opening of the Ipswich City Square and Mall. INSET: The old Ipswich Railway Station.

Council older than State Parliament

Heritage City lived up to its name with first meeting back in 1859.

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10th June 2018 5:06 AM

E. B. Cullen. First town clerk of Ipswich, 1860.Photo: Contributed

Rich tradition of horse racing in city

A history of horses, places and people.

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03rd June 2018 5:06 AM

IDENTITIES: Foundation members of the Ipswich Amateur Turf Club - chairman John Canty, treasurer Jim Anderson, committee members Tom McIlwain and James Nolan. Mr Canty was the owner of a blacksmiths shop in early Ipswich and Mr Anderson was a principal of Dinmore School.

From silly school howlers to indecent acts

Life was never dull in Ipswich

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22nd April 2018 5:04 AM

LOOKING BACK: An Ipswich confectioner of the 1800s.

Church a part of the fabric of our rich and notable heritage

Into this unruly town Reverend William Moore was invited to preach.

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15th April 2018 5:04 AM

GRAND: First Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in 1849. Copied from an old sketch.

How a local ended up in the Antarctic

Dr Jones said he had a splendid time.

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08th April 2018 5:04 AM

ANTARCTIC ARRIVAL: Dr Jones of Ipswich was a member of Mawson's Antarctic expedition in 1911.

Early sporting greats who helped put city on the map

Competitive spirit untamed in the region.

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04th March 2018 5:03 AM

LOOKING BACK: Members of the Ipswich Cycling club in earlier times.

Indigenous people made the best of circumstances

Remembering mission life.

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25th Feb. 2018 5:02 AM

SPORTS STARS: Cricket Match at Deebing Creek Aboriginal Station.

Increasing prosperity brings new stores

Do you remember when prime rib roast was 45c a pound?

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18th Feb. 2018 5:02 AM

BYGONE ERA: The Reid family home on the corner Brisbane and Station Rds in Booval.

Rail workers honoured at ceremony

He said in its history no traitor would walk behind it.

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11th Feb. 2018 5:02 AM

PRESENTATION: Mr W.J. Ryott Maughan unveiled a banner for the Association Railway Workers of Australia.

Soccer and strikers dominate the era

"I could not help thinking of the many exciting contests I witnessed there.”

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21st Jan. 2018 5:01 AM

SUCCESS STORY: The original Bush Rats football team in 1890.

When the world of advertising took hold

Times Past with QT columnist Beryl Johnston.

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07th Jan. 2018 5:01 AM

BYGONE ERA: An old advertisement for Hyceno.

Early Ipswich leader's road to mayoralty

Tea merchant elected by unanimous vote.

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24th Dec. 2017 5:12 AM

MUSIC MASTERS: Ipswich competitors at the 1930 eisteddfod, Mr T. White, Miss T. Marsh, Nancy White and Mr G. Clark.

People power got gas going

Ipswich followed Brisbane's footsteps

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10th Dec. 2017 5:12 AM

WIND UP: The New Gasometer, as it was in 1910.

St Mary's grandeur thanks in part to parishioners and priest

Ipswich church one of finest in the state today.

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03rd Dec. 2017 5:12 AM

HISTORIC: The Christian Brothers school, St Mary's Catholic Church, The Christian Brothers Presbytery, The Convent (upper right) and the Ipswich Bath House.

When the city found its voice

A Juvenile Eisteddfod was to be held that year

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26th Nov. 2017 5:11 AM

TIMES PAST: In 1949, under the baton of Myfanwy Sullivan, with pianist Rhoda Cooney, the Silkstone State School Choir won the Choral Contest at the Ipswich Juvenile Eisteddfod.

Train driver's miracle escape

The roof on the paymasters carriage was telescoped by another.

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19th Nov. 2017 5:11 AM

TIMES PAST: Engine A12 Class, Built by Baldwin Engineering Co., Philadelphia.

Country town's link with famous poet, Lawson

Times Past

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12th Nov. 2017 5:11 AM

ICON: A park at Walloon in which is a bronze image of the Australian poet Henry Lawson, was named in his honour in 2007. Lawson wrote in 1891 a poem regarding two sisters who drowned in a Walloon waterhole. Standing beside the image of Henry Lawson is a grand-nephew, Peter Lawson.

The day royalty came to town

The Prince came by road from Brisbane and was received on the thoroughfare opposite Queens Park

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05th Nov. 2017 5:11 AM

WELL KNOWN: Staff in front of McMahon's soft drink factory in 1939, with a truck used for transporting stock.

Liberty Hall a city icon

He travelled by bullock wagon from Brisbane to Ipswich

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29th Oct. 2017 5:10 AM

BYGONE ERA: Liberty Hall in Limestone St, Ipswich, the home of the Campbell family, became the Country Women's Association Hostel for young women in 1942.

A time when rapid change swept through Ipswich

"We were not even informed that the demolition was imminent."

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15th Oct. 2017 5:10 AM

HISTORIC: The Ipswich Lands Office East St, erected 1877 and demolished in February 1980.

Hotel reinvents itself over the centuries

The first mention of the Prince Alfred Hotel is in 1874.

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08th Oct. 2017 5:10 AM

The Prince Alfred Hotel after its $1.5Million overhaul in 1989.

Women added to workforce

Public service permits females to test as switchboard attendants

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03rd Sept. 2017 5:09 AM

Queensland railway chief engineers.

Engineering marvels that changed face of industry

Both of these boilers were ultimately conveyed by rail to Bundamba.

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20th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Beryl Johnston, The Queensland Times history columnist, is photographed in front of a portrait of her late grandfather, John Livingston Auld, who was a mine owner in the late 1800's in Ipswich.