Ipswich Salvation Army reborn

On 10 September 1885 Captain J.C. Head and Lieutenant Neate were appointed as The Salvation Army’s new corps officers in Ipswich. The Ipswich Corps still had some of Captain Cairns’ converts which quickly gave the corps the first Salvation Army brass band in Queensland. In 1889, the corps moved into a hall, previously the Albert Dance Hall in the main street. The corps later leased the Nicholas Street property from J.C. Foote. In 1911, a young people’s hall was built in South Street and later the property bequeathed to the corps by J.C. Foote was sold to help finance the current citadel (church) on South Street, opened on Saturday 20 May 1922.

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