About the Exhibition

Welcome to this on-line exhibition of the history of the institutions occupying the site, known as "Sandy Gallop", which is now The University of Queensland's Ipswich Campus.

This place has had a long history supporting those with an intellectual disability, and we now expect that it will have an equally long history as a university campus.

This on-line exhibition is fascinating, and has drawn together resources from a very wide range of published and unpublished material. We hope that it will provide a further set of resources for the fascinating history of the City of Ipswich, and of this part of the city in particular.

My thanks to all those staff of the UQ Ipswich Library involved in bringing this to fruition. We hope that you find it both interesting and useful.

 

Special Thanks

The Library sincerely thanks the following people for their kind cooperation, information and assistance. Your input has been greatly appreciated.

Professor Alan Rix, Pro Vice Chancellor, UQ Ipswich

Ms Miranda Newell, Liaison Librarian, UQ Ipswich Library

Mrs Lenie van Wijk, former nurse and Matron at Sandy Gallop

Ms Carol Bemi, former Director of the Challinor Centre

Mr Tom Joyce, UQ Library Copyright Co-ordinator

The Staff of Fryer Library

A special vote of thanks is extended to the Project Team, Jill Maalsen and Linda Cross from the UQ Ipswich Campus Library. Their tireless efforts, great detective work and dedicated team approach have resulted in this comprehensive exhibition of an historic Ipswich site.

The Library is pleased to present UQ Ipswich Campus: Progression of an Institution in this 10th Anniversary year of the UQ Ipswich Campus.