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INSIDER #042: Iconic homes poster, trivia vault, and New Years Eve fun 🎁
Today we’re signing off 2025 with two keepers: an Ipswich Iconic Homes poster featuring the 34 character homes we’ve covered. And the Ipswich Trivia Vault with every 2025 question and answer on image cards. With New Year’s Eve celebrations tonight, we’ve rounded up local fireworks and ways to bring in 2026. All the details below. Catch ya round. 34 Homes, One Poster 🖼️ Thank you for reading Ipswich Insider this year. It’s such a blast to put together each week. Since March, the INSIDER...
INSIDER #041 – Best Christmas lights street in Ipswich
Today we’re doing a lap of Pommer Street in Brassall, fresh off its Best Street win in Ipswich’s Christmas Lights Competition, then sharing a holiday hours cheat sheet so you don’t get caught out by closures around town. All the details below. Merry Christmas, and thanks for reading and replying each week. 🎄 Peek behind the scenes of Ipswich’s “Best Street” winners in the Christmas Lights Comp: Pommer St Pommer St in Brassall (24, 26 and 32) won Best Street in Ipswich’s Christmas Lights Comp...
INSIDER #040 – Ipswich Then & Now (Historic Satellite Images)
Today we're having a look at Merton (1870s) on York Street, East Ipswich, then winding back time with a guide to historic satellite imagery of Ipswich. And it’s last-chance week for Christmas fun at Nicholas St Precinct. All the details below. Catch ya round. Merton (2 York Street): East Ipswich’s Near-Acre Victorian Queenslander Address + land. 2 York Street, East Ipswich QLD 4305 — Lot 10 on RP89539, 3,891 m². Build era. Built in the 1870s as a large timber Victorian-era Queenslander. Early...
INSIDER #039 – Ipswich’s 23 hilltop water tanks
Today we’re pulling up to Ipswich Club House on Gray Street, then diving into a complete guide to Ipswich’s hilltop water tanks. For events, you’re sorted: on Friday it’s the Rosewood Christmas Festival, then Sunday morning brings the 30th annual Ipswich Toy Run at Brassall Shopping Centre. All the details below. Catch ya round. Ipswich Club House: From Tydfil to Gray’s Restaurant Ipswich Club House is one of the city’s standout Federation Queenslanders — but do you know its real story? 1916:...
INSIDER #038 – 15 Steepest Streets in Ipswich
Today we're stopping in at Gwennap, the heritage-listed brick homestead that's been part of St Michael's Nursing Home on Chermside Rd since the 1950s. We've updated the Ipswich Incline Index with 5 new steep streets. Finally, we're diving into a jam-packed Saturday with 18 local events. All the details below. Catch ya round. Gwennap (St Michael’s Nursing Home) at a Glance Here’s Gwennap—the great brick house built by an Ipswich timber merchant. It sits opposite Queens Park tennis courts, you...
INSIDER #037 - Introducing SWOOP
Today we’re introducing SWOOP, our fortnightly-ish local reporting section, with a Goodna Street Life report. We’re also ranking Ipswich’s 22 biggest charities by revenue and stepping inside Colthup on Limestone Street. For events, catch the city Christmas tree lighting on Thursday, Watercress Creek open farm day on Saturday, and Salvos Riverview Farm carols with fireworks and a free BBQ on Sunday. All the details below. Catch ya round. Colthup in 60 seconds Where & what. Rare colonial brick...
INSIDER #036 – 52 residential sales over $2m
Today we're looking down at Penrhyn (c.1879) from Limestone Street, then unlocking Ipswich’s $2m+ residential property club—land, development blocks, houses and flats. On Saturday, choose your speed: loud and rowdy at the National Rodeo Finals at Ipswich Showgrounds, or free and laid-back at Cooneana’s Heritage Christmas Market. All the details below. Catch ya round. Penrhyn, 103 Limestone St: Slate-Roofed Brick Cottage with Wraparound Verandahs Penrhyn is a compact brick cottage with a steep...
INSIDER #035: TOP 30 SOLAR POWERHOUSES
Today we're powering up with Ipswich’s Top 30 solar sites, then winding back from kilowatts to coal at heritage-listed Oaklands in Tivoli, before Santa’s Arrival Parade lights up Riverlink Sat morning. All the details below. Catch ya round. Oaklands, Tivoli: Wright Family Federation Queenslander from Ipswich’s Coal Boom Oaklands matters because it anchors the Queensland Heritage Registered Wright Family Houses on Mt Crosby Rd, Tivoli. The Wrights were Tivoli’s coal family. They built 3 timber...
INSIDER #034: 22 IPSWICH RENDERS
Today we’re checking in at the City View Hotel (1908) - the brick corner landmark on Brisbane Street beside the Burnett Street Bridge. We put 22 Ipswich project renders on one scroll friendly page - new builds from $5b+ down to $18m - and noted what’s underway, proposed, paused or shelved. And for a bargain hunt: the Ultimate Indoor Garage Sale at the Ipswich Showgrounds on Sunday. Catch ya round. City View Hotel: Quick Facts You know the brick hotel with the octagonal corner tower on...
INSIDER #033 - TOP 18 TREE TYPES OF IPSWICH
Today we're branching out with an essential field guide to Ipswich's top 18 tree types. We stroll into Liberty Hall - Mary Tregear Hostel, a Queensland heritage-listed Georgian brick townhouse. And drifting onto the radar: free dragon boating at Cribb Park, Sunday 9am. Catch ya round. 84 Limestone St, Ipswich. Today we're looking at a heritage-listed Colonial Georgian brick townhouse (1850s), better known as Liberty Hall - Mary Tregear Hostel. Owned by the Queensland Country Women's...
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