Booval, Queensland

Booval contains both residential and commercial areas.

Booval straddles Brisbane Road, the main arterial link to the Ipswich Motorway. The Booval Fair shopping centre, located on Brisbane Road, contains a number of major chain stores, including Woolworths and Big W, while a number of smaller businesses line South Station Rd and Brisbane Rd.

The origin of the suburb name is the Ugarapul language word meaning frilled lizard.

The first large-scale cotton crops in Queensland were grown at Booval in the 1860s.{{Cite news |url=http://www.qt.com.au/news/cotton-an-important-crop-in-early-ipswich/2589009/ |title=Cotton an important crop in early Ipswich |author=Beryl Johnston |access-date=8 February 2016 |date=29 March 2015 |newspaper=Queensland Times |archive-date=21 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150821025707/http://www.qt.com.au/news/cotton-an-important-crop-in-early-ipswich/2589009/ |url-status=live }}

The settlement of Booval derived from a private estate and its strategic location on the road and railway between Ipswich and Brisbane.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/about_ipswich/history/suburb_place_names|title=Suburbs and Place Names|access-date=20 April 2018|archive-date=28 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828070119/https://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/about_ipswich/history/suburb_place_names|url-status=live}}

In December 1895, the Anglican Diocese's architect John Buckeridge called for tenders to erect the Church of All Saints in Bundanba (as Bundamba was then known){{cite news|date=21 December 1895|title=Advertising|volume=XXXVI|page=3|newspaper=Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser|issue=5376|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130390576|access-date=18 September 2020|via=National Library of Australia|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130081136/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130390576|url-status=live}} on land donated by Miss Ferrett and Mr. Harry Ferrett. Bishop William Webber laid the foundation stone on Friday, 24 January 1896.{{cite news|date=25 January 1896|title=Anglican Church of All Saints, Bundanba|volume=XXXVI|page=5|newspaper=Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser|issue=5390|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123368468|access-date=18 September 2020|via=National Library of Australia|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130081219/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/123368468|url-status=live}} Bishop Webber opened and dedicated the new church on Saturday, 16 May 1896.{{cite news|date=14 May 1896|title=Local and General News|volume=XXXVI|page=4|newspaper=Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser|issue=5437|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123364654|access-date=18 September 2020|via=National Library of Australia|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130081137/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/123364654|url-status=live}}{{cite news|date=19 May 1896|title=All Saints' (Anglican) Church, Bundanba|volume=XXXVI|page=4|newspaper=Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser|issue=5439|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123369799|access-date=18 September 2020|via=National Library of Australia|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130081137/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/123369799|url-status=live}} In April 1897, Harry Ferrett was married in the church.{{cite news|date=22 April 1897|title=MR. FERRETT—MISS MAUGHAN|volume=XXXVII|page=5|newspaper=Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser|issue=5583|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125046250|access-date=18 September 2020|via=National Library of Australia|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130081137/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/125046250|url-status=live}} In 1913, the church building was moved by rolling it on beer barrels to Silkstone. In 1930, it was moved again on a flat-top lorry to its current location in Booval.{{Cite web|date=16 May 2020|title=All Saints' Anglican Church Booval|url=https://www.facebook.com/allsaintsbooval/posts/2950714771679265|access-date=2020-09-18|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130081136/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fallsaintsbooval%2Fposts%2F2950714771679265|url-status=live}} A new church hall for All Saints' Anglican Church was opened on Sunday, 10 May 1930.{{cite news|date=12 May 1930|title=ALL SAINTS' HALL|volume=LXX|page=6|newspaper=Queensland Times|issue=13774|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115340028|access-date=18 September 2020|via=National Library of Australia|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130081226/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115340028|url-status=live}} The second All Saints' Anglican Church was dedicated in 1983.{{Cite web|date=2019|title=Year Book|url=https://anglicanchurchsq.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Year-Book-Volume-II-Feb-2020.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915033326/https://anglicanchurchsq.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Year-Book-Volume-II-Feb-2020.pdf|archive-date=15 September 2020|access-date=15 September 2020|publisher=Anglican Archdiocese of Brisbane|page=133|volume=2}}

Booval Primitive Methodist Church opened on Wednesday, 16 May 1900.{{cite news|date=22 May 1900|title=Primitive Methodist Church at Booval|volume=XL|page=4|newspaper=Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser|issue=6064|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123264334|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=26 February 2022|archive-date=26 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226080547/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/123264334|url-status=live}} It was established by a group of Primitive Methodist believers who disagreed with the plan to unite all the Methodist denominations into a single Methodist Church in Australia, choosing to break away and establish an ongoing Primitive Methodist congregation. Circa November 1905, the Primitive Methodist congregation sold the church building to the Congregational Church, which held its opening services on Sunday, 26 November 1905 with a celebratory tea-meeting on Saturday, 9 December 1905.{{cite news|date=10 November 1905|title=COUNTRY NEWS. IPSWICH AND WEST MORETON|volume=LXII|page=5|newspaper=The Brisbane Courier|issue=14,924|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19418923|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=26 February 2022|archive-date=26 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226080542/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19418923|url-status=live}}{{cite news|date=28 November 1905|title=COUNTRY NEWS. IPSWICH AND WEST MORETON|volume=LXII|page=5|newspaper=The Brisbane Courier|issue=14,939|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19421852|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=26 February 2022|archive-date=26 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226080548/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19421852|url-status=live}} The church building was at 148 Brisbane Road (north-western corner with South Station Road, {{Coord|-27.6140|152.7885|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=Booval Primitive Methodist / Congregational Church (former)}}).{{Cite web|last=Blake|first=Thom|title=Booval Primitive Methodist Church|url=https://www.thomblake.com.au/qc_new/view_p_n.php?id=6047|access-date=2022-02-26|website=Queensland religious places database|archive-date=26 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226080553/https://www.thomblake.com.au/qc_new/view_p_n.php?id=6047|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|date=1930|title=Queensland Twenty Chain series sheet 2521|url=https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-20chain-queensland-sh2521-1930.jpg|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=Queensland Government|type=Map|archive-date=26 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226080541/https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-20chain-queensland-sh2521-1930.jpg|url-status=live}} The Congregational Church held its last service in that church building in December 1969, selling the church building to fund the purchase of a new site on the corner of Sloman Street and South Station Road where they would build a new church to replace the house on the site at the time of purchase. However, the planned amalgamation of the Congregational Church into the Uniting Church in Australia disrupted the plan, and the Congregational members became members of the Trinity Uniting Church in North Booval. The church building on the corner of Brisbane Road and South Station Road is no longer extant (the site has a Kentucky Fried Chicken store as at February 2022).{{Google maps|url=https://goo.gl/maps/r86WmbPn2wAFd6MH8|title=148 Brisbane Road, Booval|access-date=26 February 2022}}

By the time of 1915, Booval was occupied largely by miners, many of which had Welsh origins.{{Cite web|last=Council|first=Ipswich City|title=Suburb and Place Names|url=http://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/about_ipswich/history/suburb_place_names|access-date=2017-09-20|website=www.ipswich.qld.gov.au|language=en|archive-date=20 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920141513/http://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/about_ipswich/history/suburb_place_names|url-status=live}}

Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School opened on 25 January 1931.{{Citation|author1=Queensland Family History Society|title=Queensland schools past and present|publication-date=2010|edition=Version 1.01|publisher=Queensland Family History Society|isbn=978-1-921171-26-0}}

In August 1947, the Glenville Hall in South Station Road was relocated to 185 Cascade Street, Raceview, to become the Raceview Public Hall.{{cite news|date=16 August 1947|title=PUBLIC HALL AT RACEVIEW|page=2 (DAILY)|newspaper=Queensland Times|issue=18,938|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118398995|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220065158/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118398995|archive-date=20 February 2022|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=20 February 2022}} As of 2022, the building is still extant but not in use as a public hall.{{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/@-27.6390978,152.7828968,3a,37.5y,223.42h,94.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKbvCGYnjQZIKEiLtJK3MnA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en|access-date=20 February 2022|title=Raceview Public Hall (former?)}}

Sacred Heart Catholic Secondary School opened in 1964 and closed in 1975.

Trinity Ipswich Uniting Church in North Booval was formed in July 1970 as an amalgamation of a number of Ipswich churches:{{Cite web|title=Local History – Trinity Ipswich Uniting Church|url=https://www.trinityipswichuc.org.au/?page_id=70|access-date=2021-08-28|language=en-AU|archive-date=17 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317082434/https://www.trinityipswichuc.org.au/?page_id=70|url-status=live}}

• Booval Congregational Church, originally located on the corner of Brisbane Road and South Station Road until December 1969, and then at a house on the corner of Sloman Street and South Station Road where it closed in July 1970
• North Booval Presbyterian Church on Bridge Street
• North Booval Methodist Church on Tuggerah Street

Vision Christian School opened on 25 January 1982 and closed in 1992.

In the {{CensusAU|2016}}, Booval had a population of 2,622 people.{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC30334|name=Booval (SSC)|accessdate=20 October 2018|quick=on}}

In the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Booval had a population of 2,723 people.{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL30332|name=Booval (SAL)|access-date=28 February 2023|quick=on}}

File:Booval War Memorial.jpg, 2015]]

Booval has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

• Green Street: Booval War Memorial{{cite QHR|15325|Booval War Memorial|600550|accessdate=9 July 2013}}
• 14 Cothill Road: Booval House{{cite QHR|15324|Booval House|600549|accessdate=9 July 2013}}{{Cite web |last=Randall |first=Brian |date=2013-01-03 |title=Queensland Places - Booval |url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/queensland-places-booval |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=State Library of Queensland |language=en}}

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File:Booval Railway Station, Queensland, Sep 2012.JPG

Booval railway station provides access to regular Queensland Rail City network services to Brisbane, Ipswich and Rosewood via Ipswich. It was opened in 1876.

Sacred Heart School is a Catholic primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 25 Cothill Road ({{coord|-27.6170|152.7929|type:edu_region:AU-QLD|name=Sacred Heart School}}).{{cite web|date=9 July 2018|title=State and non-state school details|url=https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/state-and-non-state-school-details/resource/5b39065c-df32-415c-994c-5ff12f8de997|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121065959/https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/state-and-non-state-school-details/resource/5b39065c-df32-415c-994c-5ff12f8de997|archive-date=21 November 2018|access-date=21 November 2018|publisher=Queensland Government}}{{cite web|title=Sacred Heart School|url=https://www.shbooval.qld.edu.au|access-date=21 November 2018|archive-date=19 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419012655/http://www.shbooval.qld.edu.au/|url-status=live}} In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 538 students with 35 teachers (31 full-time equivalent) and 21 non-teaching staff (15 full-time equivalent).{{cite web|title=ACARA School Profile 2018|url=https://www.acara.edu.au/docs/default-source/default-document-library/school-profile-2018.xlsx|access-date=28 January 2020|publisher=Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority|archive-date=27 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200827085246/https://www.acara.edu.au/docs/default-source/default-document-library/school-profile-2018.xlsx|url-status=live}}

The Ipswich City Council operates a fortnightly mobile library service which visits Cole Street.{{Cite web|url=http://www.library.ipswich.qld.gov.au/files/2018/01/mobile-library-calendar-jan-june-2018-A4.pdf|title=Ipswich Libraries: Mobile library schedule of stops - January to June 2018|website=Ipswich City Council|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130110326/http://www.library.ipswich.qld.gov.au/files/2018/01/mobile-library-calendar-jan-june-2018-A4.pdf|archive-date=30 January 2018|url-status=dead|access-date=30 January 2018}}

All Saints' Anglican Church is at 144 Brisbane Road ({{Coord|-27.6140|152.7881|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|display=|name=All Saints' Anglican Church}}).

• Cameron Park
• Basketball Ipswich
• Booval Bowls Club

The Booval Swifts rugby league football club bears the suburb's name. During the 1920s, two of Booval's players, Dan Dempsey and Arthur Henderson were selected to represent Australia. The club has also produced other such notable players as Des Morris and Kevin Walters.

• Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Cothill Rd
• Uniting Church, Glebe Rd
• Anglican Church, Brisbane Rd

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• [http://queenslandplaces.com.au/booval University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Booval]

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