History
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‘Rosewood Unearthed’ YouTube Video competition (Get your ARTS into Gear)
The Rosewood History Group as part of the Australian Heritage Festival are hosting a YouTube Video Competition. The competition is open to all Australian YouTubers…
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Workshops rail staff who made the ultimate sacrifice
AROUND 3,000 Queensland Railway (QR) employees enlisted for World War I from 1914-18. And in Ipswich, hundreds of young men enlisted for the war effort,…
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OUR HISTORY – A most singular animal
IN A story reminiscent of ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not’ collection of the ‘bizarre and wonderful’ our South Ripley has its own special story of…
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Book launch for greatest of murder mysteries
ROSEWOOD crime writer Caroline Stevenson has spent the past 17 years getting to the bottom of two infamous crimes and says she has uncovered startling…
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Great Houses open doors to public
TICKETS are selling fast for one of the most awaited events on the events calendar – Great Houses of Ipswich. The doors will be opened…
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Remembering town’s best Chinese takeaway
THE history of Ipswich is chockfull of interesting characters, stunning buildings and ways of life that have been lost forever. From its coal mining and…
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Historic motorbike unveiled at Workshops
A NATIONALLY significant and historic Ipswich motorcycle was handed over at a special ceremony this week at The Workshops Rail Museum. The presentation came after…
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Call for massacre to be recognised
THE family at the centre of the story of a massacre at Deebing Creek has called on the State Government to recognise the dark history…
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Mission’s secrets unearthed
A LONE headstone at the Deebing Creek Aboriginal Cemetery is at the centre of local folklore for Ipswich Aboriginal families. It has the inscription “In…
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Ex-MP calls for heritage reforms
FORMER Member for Bundamba Jo-Ann Miller says the plan to demolish the historic 19th Century Woollen Mills chimney at Redbank highlights why Ipswich’s heritage laws…
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