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31E1A Walter Gray's Tramway
EARLY COAL MINES OF THE IPSWICH AREA Walter Gray's Tramway was somewhere within the indicated area. Locations of the Tivoli and Garden seams are taken from Cameron's 1899 maps. Coal in Qld The First Fifty Years Whitmore
TIVOLI CREEK AREA c1885 In foreground is the original road bridge. Behind it are the coal shoots for the Old Tivoli Pit Tramway. Walter Gray's mine would have been on the river bank behind the left-hand end of the road bridge. Picture Ipswich Reference ID qips-2013-07-17-0003p.jpg
AREA OF THE MINE IN FRONT OF ARCHIBALD'S FORMER HOUSE 2018 Directly below the fence are the embankment for the Old Tivoli Pit Tramway and below it a road track. Nothing remains of the mine or its tramway Photo: Alister J Cameron
LOOKING BACK THE OTHER WAY OVER THE SAME AREA 2019 Photo: Alister J Cameron
31E1P Town Marie Tramway
MAP OF TOWN MARIE AREA "Richard Joseph Smith and Town Marie" By Ken Grubb February 2018
"Richard Joseph Smith & Town Marie" Ken Grubb 2018
"Richard Joseph Smith & Town Marie" Ken Grubb 2018
Bremer Mills Tramway
The locations of Town Marie, Stanton Cross and Bremer Mills are superimposed in brown over this composite early map. Some modern suburb names are also marked. (Original maps coutersy DERM), p54 "The Bremer River" Robyn Buchanan copyright, SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership and Robyn Buchanan Published Ipswich City Council 2009
RACE OF STRUCTURES BASED ON AERIAL PHOTOS Source: Ipswich City Council. City of Ipswich topographic series. Amended to August 1990. Scale 1:10,000 Ipswich Heritage Study 1991 Inventory
BREMER MILLS AREA FROM ABOVE (A) Possible route of tramway (B) Water Treatment Works Overlay: QGIS Vectors (Alister J Cameron) Underlay: Qld Globe (Ausmap)
BREMER MILLS FROM ABOVE (CLOSEUP) (A) Inlet: possible wharf (B) Area of surface archaeology (C) Position of two piles on river edge Overlay: QGIS Vectors (Alister J Cameron) Underlay: Qld Globe (Ausmap)
POSSIBLE TRAMWAY ALLIGNMENT LOOKING EAST TOWARDS INLET 2021 Bremer River is on left. Archaeology remains are next to the short trees at top of bank. Orange flagged area is one of the dig sites undertaken by a group of archaeologists Photo: Alister J Cameron
APPROACHING THE INLET WHERE FLAT AREA COMES TO AN END 2021 Photo: Alister J Cameron
SITE OF POSSIBLE TRAMWAY WHARF 2021 If this was the case, it would have provided access to water vessels at a lower level than the main banks. Photo: Alister J Cameron
LOOKING BACK THE OTHER WAY 2021 Short trees on right mark location of main artefacts. Photo: Alister J Cameron
MASONRY AND BRICK FOUNDATION 2021 Facing directly towards inlet. Photo: Alister J Cameron
MASONRY BLOCK FOUNDATIONS NEARBY 2021 Photo: Alister J Cameron
EXCAVATION BY ARCHAEOLOGICAL GROUP IN PROCESS 2021 Shows thick layer of broken bricks just under the surface. Photo: Alister J Cameron
AN EXCAVATION OF BRICK AREA 2012 Has been excavated more than once and filled in again. Archaeological Survey 2012 Everick Heritage Consultants Pty Ltd
LOOKING ALONG BREMER RIVER 2021 From left to right: (1) inlet, (2) archaeological site on top edge of bank just to left of bushy area, (3) short metal or concrete piles on river's edge; origin unknown. Photo: Alister J Cameron
SAME STRETCH OF RIVER LOOKING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION 2021 The height of the banks is very evident. Photo: Alister J Cameron
WATER TREATMENT WORKS WHICH DOMINATES THE MILLS SITE 2021 Photo: Alister J Cameron
ONE OF THE VIEWS OF THE REST OF THE BREMER MILLS SITE 2021 Very little remains. Photo: Alister J Cameron