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Thank you, I used this wonderful photo on my blog about Ipswich historicalaustraliantowns.blogspot.com/2018/09/ipswich.html

Excellent! We love it when people put our images to good use.

Benjamin Cribb started his London Store business in Ipswich in 1849. In 1854 Benjamin partnered with J.C. Foote, and Cribb & Foote were formed. The business grew to become an indelible part of Ipswich’s commercial history for 128 years. The Cribb & Foote Families familiar involvement with staff and the community ensured that they commemorated their 50th, 80th and 100th Anniversaries in grand style. In 1899 Cribb and Foote celebrated their Golden Jubilee Anniversary, (50 years In May 1929, Cribb & Foote celebrated 80 years of business with an “80th Birthday Bargain Sale’ formally opened by the Mayor. The advertisement in the Moreton Bay Courier read:- ‘May 2nd 1929 being the date that Mr Benjamin Cribb founded the business 80 years ago, 10% cash discount will apply at the sale excepting on groceries, proprietary lines and sale bargains’. It also went on to say that if any child under ten years could provide a ticket for the sale bearing the number 80, that child would receive a piece of the huge birthday cake, a Cribb & Foote anniversary candle and a silver coin. In 1949 Cribb & Foote celebrated 100 years of business in Ipswich. The Queensland Times 2nd May 1949 ran an editorial paying tribute to Cribb & Foote, ‘stressing the friendly co-operation between city and district and between trader and customer with an uplifting effect on community life’. Source: www.ipswichlibraries.com.au/cribb-foote-celebrations/

Marvelous, engineering, the Americans would like to think that they won the WWII single handedly. Well done mother ENGLAND.

That's fantastic! The tall steeple which can still be seen along Scotswood Road is in this photo. Of particular interest to me is the fact they appear to be on a sandy beach?! It certainly doesn't look like that now - all thick deep dirty mud..

That tall Steeple is St Stephens church and as you say, can still be seen today, and I believe they are on the sandy shoreline of what was once Kings Meadows Island, which a local tower block took its name from. This apparently is the only known picture of the island which had its own public house and horse racing track...all long since dredged away of course.

Many thanks for your comments - we've updated the entry to take account of them.

Fascinating. I'll have to go trawling through my old maps now!

Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada moored on the left of the photo, the first ship in the world to be sunk by a torpedo in 1891!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_ironclad_Blanco_Encalada