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4 unusual facts about Ingham


Hinchinbrook Shire Library

It is located at 73-75 McIllwraith St in the town of Ingham.

Ingham, Lincolnshire

Ingham consisted of three grass runways, and three Polish Squadrons (including No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron) from 1st Polish Wing were based here, joined later by No. 199 Squadron RAF.

Steve Constanzo

Steve Costanzo (born January 22, 1988 in Ingham, Queensland) is an Australian professional basketball player who currently plays for the Townsville Heat in the Queensland Basketball League.

Thorp Perrow Arboretum

This is comparable to Bedale, as the Stapletons there held Ingham, Norfolk.


Alice Ingham

In 1878, Herbert Vaughan, then Bishop of Salford, suggested that Ingham's group take on domestic duties at St Joseph's Foreign Missionary College, in Mill Hill, London.

Baron Clitheroe

The Clitheroes' land agent, Michael Parkinson of Ingham & Yorke, continues to style himself "Steward of the Honor of Clitheroe".

Bryan Ingham

At this stage of his career, Ingham consciously rejected the prospect of pursuing a career as an establishment artist, although the RA was open to him, and he went to live in remote cottage on the west side of Predannack Airfield on The Lizard, a location yards from the cliffs and devoid of electricity and running water.

Christopher Ingham

Ingham was appointed as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 2002 in a special Honours list for individuals involved in the early stages of the War in Afghanistan.

Drummoyne Rowing Club

A.C Ingham, a Drummoyne Alderman and Quarton Deloitte Sydney Rowing Club President and Mr W.A Hence of the NSW Rowing Association presided over a public meeting at the Drummoyne Town Hall on 28 August 1919 which was called for the purpose of forming a rowing club at Drummoyne.

Ingham County Courthouse

1969: The notorious Algiers Motel Murder Trial of a Detroit police officer was moved to the Ingham County Courthouse from Wayne County because of adverse publicity from John Hersey's 1968 book The Algiers Motel Incident.

Nicholas Euclid

A rugby league player in his youth, he also tried his hand at coaching, guiding the likes of fellow Ingham-born Laurie Spina and Australian Test representative Greg Dowling.

Robert C Shapcott

In 1975 he joined Ingham’s Enterprises with New South Wales responsibilities at first, but eventually became Chief Veterinarian for Inghams, Australia and finally was Ingham’s New South Wales Southern Farming manager.

The Heights Observatory

In 1988-89, the Emanuel Papaelia Observatory (opened Nov'89) was built containing a 1963 vintage 12" Dall-Kirkham Cassegrain reflecting telescope belonging to the Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSA), and originally housed at Marryatville High School. In 1996, a second building (the Ingham Family Rooms) was constructed. This contained a 10" Meade LX-200 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, and has a roll-off roof.


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