Ipswich
— — the verandah town the river kept.
Not only on a wall.
“A city of about 240,000 on the Bremer River, forty kilometres west of Brisbane in southeast Queensland. It was Queensland's first provisional municipality, gazetted in 1860, and grew on coal, wool, and rail. The older streets above the river hold one of the country's largest concentrations of pre-1900 timber houses, deep verandahs facing the afternoon sun.
Ipswich, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Ipswich is a city on the Bremer River in southeast Queensland, about forty kilometres west of central Brisbane and within the Brisbane metropolitan area. The City of Ipswich local government holds a population of around 240,000 and is one of the fastest-growing cities in Australia. It was gazetted as Queensland's first provisional municipality on 3 March 1860, predating the rest of the colony's local governments, and grew through the nineteenth century on coal from the West Moreton field, wool from the Darling Downs through its rail link, and the colony's first ironworks at North Ipswich.
The older parts of Ipswich hold one of Australia's largest surviving stocks of nineteenth-century domestic architecture, with several thousand pre-1946 timber-and-tin houses still in active use. The streets above the river carry deep verandahs, cast-iron lace, and the local Queenslander typology raised on stumps for air. Civic landmarks include the Italianate sandstone Ipswich Town Hall of 1861, St Paul's Anglican Church of 1859, and the Ipswich Railway Workshops, which opened in 1864 and now hold the Workshops Rail Museum under the Queensland Museum Network.
Ipswich Central is reached from central Brisbane in about forty-five minutes on the Queensland Rail Ipswich line, with frequent services through the day. The Workshops Rail Museum at North Ipswich is open daily and holds the working remains of Queensland's nineteenth-century rail engineering. The Queens Park complex includes the Ipswich Nature Centre and the original Ipswich Art Gallery building. The Ipswich Heritage Trails marks several walking circuits through the older inner suburbs of Denmark Hill, Brassall, and Woodend, each within walking distance of the central station.