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
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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
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
