Sunday 24 March - 10 am to 1.00 pm
Town marie and the Bremer mills presentation
An example of a boiling down works 1898 Charleville. From State Library of Queensland #2 40883
In 1848 Richard Joseph Smith developed an industrial community known as Town Marie in an area that is now part of Karalee and Barellan Point. Workers toiled in his boiling down works, sawmills and to mine coal from the land. Some of their descendants are still in Ipswich today. On the opposite side of the river Joseph Fleming set up his Bremer Mills in 1851. He processed timber, boiled down livestock and ran a flour mill on site.
Ken Grubb and David Trezise have both researched these historic sites and will be at Cooneana Heritage Centre to give you some fascinating insights into these pioneering Ipswich industrialists and their workers.
Are you descended from one of them?
We now have five presenters and the program has been expanded to include the Bremer Mills quarry and Joseph Fleming's vault that has recently been uncovered in the Ipswich Cemetary.
Program:
10 am Ken Grubb - Town Marie
10.40 am Hugh Taylor/John Rossiter - Bremer Mills
11.15 - 11.45 Morning Tea
11.45 am David Trezise - Building Our Future in Stone Joseph Fleming's quarry at Bremer Mills
12.15 pm Lawson Rennie - Joseph Fleming's vault at Ipswich Cemetary
1.00 pm Presentation close
Everyone welcome.
When: Sunday 24 March
Time: 10.00 am to 1.00 pm
Where: The former Rhondda Collieries Office Building, Cooneana Heritage Centre, 1041 Redbank Plains Road, New Chum, 4303.
Entry: $7.00 non-members - Children under 12 free - $5.00 members of IHSi
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We regret to inform you that the Cooneana Community Markets have been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Watch this space for other opportunities to join us.
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The Connecting Thread Exhibition
Our Spinners and Weavers will be holding an exhibition of their work at the Community Gallery, Darcy Doyle Place, Ipswich 4305 from 25 April to 7 May 2019. The exhibition is titled 'The Connecting Thread' and will be open from 10 am to 3 pm daily except on opening day, 25 April, when the time will be 3 pm to 6 pm. This is what our group has to say about it:
A common thread runs through the fibre arts.
There are connections in how spinning is achieved by fibres twisting together to make a yarn to
weave the warp and the weft, connections to nature as we collect nature’s offerings for dyeing and connections with each other as we weave community.
It connects us back though time to ancient peoples and every culture on this small planet, to each other, and our embodied yearning to create.
This exhibition draws on these threads that connect.
All welcome. No charge, just a donation to cover your cuppa, and raffles the proceeds of which will support Ipswich Hospice.
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Our Spinners and Weavers will be holding an exhibition of their work at the Community Gallery, Darcy Doyle Place, Ipswich 4305 from 25 April to 7 May 2019. The exhibition is titled 'The Connecting Thread' and will be open from 10 am to 3 pm daily except on opening day, 25 April, when the time will be 3 pm to 6 pm. This is what our group has to say about it:
A common thread runs through the fibre arts.
There are connections in how spinning is achieved by fibres twisting together to make a yarn to
weave the warp and the weft, connections to nature as we collect nature’s offerings for dyeing and connections with each other as we weave community.
It connects us back though time to ancient peoples and every culture on this small planet, to each other, and our embodied yearning to create.
This exhibition draws on these threads that connect.
All welcome. No charge, just a donation to cover your cuppa, and raffles the proceeds of which will support Ipswich Hospice.
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Calendar of Events
Cooneana Heritage Centre is open to visitors
every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10am to 2pm
Also open on 2nd and 4th Sunday each month.
Adults $5.00 Children under 12 years free. Events vary.
Ipswich Historical Society Spinners and Weavers
meet from 9am to 2pm on Mondays and Thursdays each week,
1st and 3rd Saturdays and 2nd and 4th Sundays each month.