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Error: Albert Strong is actually Alvie Strong

Thank you for the correction!

This building is the former United Church in Northbrook.

Thanks, Cindy.

Back Row from Left
Phyllis Vaness (Mrs. Odey Snider), Geraldine Cox (Mrs. Art Reid) centre girls (unknown), dark haired girl with glasses second from right Gladys Northey (Spicer)
Middle Row from left:
Glenna Drysdale (Mrs. Gerry Tully)
Little dark haired girl with bangs Joyce Cox (Mrs. Percy Parks)

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Ipswich West State School (formerly Little Ipswich State School) is a heritage-listed state school at 12 Omar Street, West Ipswich (formerly Little Ipswich), City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1861 to 1919. It is also known as Ipswich West Special School. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The Ipswich West State School and Ipswich West Special School stand on a site that has been used as a primary school since 1861. Following the first Education Act of 1860, a government-based education system was commenced in Queensland and schools began to appear across the state. In 1861, seven National Schools were opened in Queensland which included the coeducational school at Little Ipswich on 5 August. Little Ipswich (now West Ipswich) was an area of early urban settlement in Ipswich and in 1862 there were 52 pupils enrolled at the school.[ Later agitation by the Ipswich National School Committee forced the establishment of a separate Boys' and Girls' Schools and a new Boys' School Building was erected in 1882 on the site of the present Special School. After the erection the Boys' School the girls continued to occupy the original 1861 school building. During the floods of 1893 the Girls' School was used for accommodating people who had lost their homes. Building of a new Girls' School began in 1907 and this involved construction of a brick wing by Harry Woodford at a cost of £613. In 1911 an additional brick wing was added by Wilson and Pickels contractors at a cost of £894/10/-. Work on the final section was commenced in 1919 at a cost £3,123 and was officially opened on 19 June 1920.[1 Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich_West_State_School