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Eastern Heights, Queensland
Eastern Heights is a Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Eastern Heights had a population of 3,709 people. Geography Eastern Heights is bordered to the west by Queens Park, Ipswich, Queens Park and Limestone Park. History The origin of the suburb name is from a high ridge on the eastern side of the Ipswich CBD. To serve the growing settlement, the Newtown State School opened in 1882. In 1915 the old school buildings were put up for sale. One section found its way to Redbank Plains State School while the other became the property of W. Pysden a boot repairer in East Street, Ipswich. Many buildings in the Ipswich area have a similar history of migration. The Catholic Church of our Lady of the Miraculous Medal was opened in 1962 by Coadjutor Bishop Patrick O'Donnell (Australian bishop), Patrick O'Donnell in the presence of the ailing Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, Archbisho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipswich, Queensland
Ipswich () is a city in South East Queensland, Australia. Situated on the Bremer River, it is approximately west of the Brisbane central business district. The city is renowned for its architectural, natural and cultural heritage. Ipswich preserves and operates from many of its historical buildings, with more than 6000 heritage-listed sites and over 500 parks. Ipswich began in 1827 as a mining settlement. History Early history Ipswich according to The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld,: 1866-1939), Thursday 18 January 1934, Page 13 was tribally known as Coodjirar meaning place of the Red Stemmed Gum Tree in the Yugararpul language. Jagara (also known as Jagera, Yagara, and Yuggara) and Yugarabul (also known as Ugarapul and Yuggerabul) are Australian Aboriginal languages of South-East Queensland. There is some uncertainty over the status of Jagara as a language, dialect or perhaps a group or clan within the local government boundaries of Ipswich City Council, Lockyer Regional C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archbishop Of Brisbane
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Bremer State High School
, established = 1959 , principal = Ross Bailey , type = Public, co-educational, secondary, day school , city = Ipswich , state = Queensland , country = Australia , coordinates = , campus = Urban (Churchill) , enrolment = 2000 (2022) , colours = Yellow, royal blue and grey , website = , image = Bremer State High School (Bremer SHS) is a public, co-educational high school located in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Relocation Bremer State High School was originally built at 73 Blackstone Road, Silkstone () from 1959 until it was relocated in 2011. It was announced in March 2009 that Bremer State High School would be relocated. The new school was constructed on 133-135 Warwick Road next to the Ipswich campus of the University of Queensland (subsequently a campus of the University of Southern Queensland) at a cost of approximately $73 million which was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silkstone State School
Silkstone State School is a heritage-listed state school at Molloy Street, Silkstone, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by the Department of Public Works and built in 1915 by the Department of Public Works. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 29 March 2019. History Silkstone State School was established in 1915, originally on a site, east of the Ipswich CBD. More land was added to the school between 1946 and 1948, totalling the size of the school at . The school retains an excellent example of a suburban timber school building (Block A, built 1915) set in landscaped grounds with mature trees and playing fields. In continuous operation since its establishment, it has been a focus for the local community as a place for important social and cultural activities. The Ipswich area was the traditional land of the Jagara people. Free European settlement began in the area in 1842 and it developed as a mining town and river port for Darling Down ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garowie
Garowie is a heritage-listed villa at 59 Whitehill Road, Eastern Heights, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by architect Samuel Shenton and built by Robert Wilson and Co. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History ''Garowie'', a grand two-storey residence, was one of several mansions built on the Limestone Hill ridge. It was built by Mesrs Robt. Wilson and Co for James Clarke Cribb, the son of Benjamin Cribb who founded the Cribb and Foote business, and his wife Alice née Browne. The house was designed by Ipswich builder and architect, Samuel Shenton, and was completed in 1888. It is said to have been modelled on the Denmark Hill home of Benjamin Cribb, '' Gooloowan''. The architect Samuel Shenton, arrived in Ipswich in March 1851 and began work as a carpenter and building contractor. Among his early contracts were Dr Challinor's house and shop in Brisbane Street and fitting out the first Presbyterian Church (1853). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Knoll
Fairy Knoll is a heritage-listed villa at 2A Robertson Road, Eastern Heights, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Brockwell Gill and built from to 1952 by Worley & Whitehead. It was also known as Jefferis Turner Centre. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History The grand two storey brick residence, Fairy Knoll, was completed in 1901 by contractors Worley and Whitehead to the 1896 design of architect George Brockwell Gill. The residence was built for Thomas Hancock (Junior), a successful timber merchant, his wife Louisa Hayne and their ten children. Thomas Hancock came to Ipswich in 1863 with his parents and brothers and sister. His father Thomas Hancock (Senior) commenced sawing timber at Pine Mountain and later acquired a sawmill in Rosewood. In 1875, he acquired the lease over the North Ipswich timber mill and in October 1880 Thomas Hancock & Sons opened a new mill in Lowry Street, North Ipswich. By 1885 Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heritage-listed
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many instances the pages linked below have as their primary focus the registered assets rather than the registers themselves. Where a particular article or set of articles on a foreign-language Wikipedia provides fuller coverage, a link is provided. International *World Heritage Sites (see Lists of World Heritage Sites) – UNESCO, advised by the International Council on Monuments and Sites *Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO) *Memory of the World Programme (UNESCO) *Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) – Food and Agriculture Organization *UNESCO Biosphere Reserve * European Heritage Label (EHL) are European sites which are considered milestones in the creation of Europe. At th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Knoll, Eastern Heights, Queensland
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