Seven girls from Raceview were riding down a road in Ipswich when they were stopped by a newspaper photographer.

The road was Whitehill Road in Newtown, and they were heading down to the sporting fields at the corner of Chermside and Jacaranda streets to sign up to play softball.

The girls from Raceview State School formed a softball team they called the Rockets.

The year was 1954.

“That was the time the rockets started to go up in space and so we thought that would be a good name,” Glenda McGuire said.

A Queensland Times photographer stopped the girls and asked them to spread out across the road.

It published in the sports section of the QT on Monday, October 4, 63 years ago to the day next Wednesday.

Some of the ladies’ mums purchased the photo at the time and others had not seen the photo again until they checked their letterbox last month.

Picture Ipswich chose the photo to publish in the centre of the Ipswich City Council’s 2017 Ipswich in Spring guide.

Picture Ipswich is an online collection of images, documents and memorabilia of cultural and historical significance generally sent in by the public.

Libraries and Tourism Committee Chairman Cr David Pahlke said it was great to see these ladies reunited to take a trip down memory lane.

“Picture Ipswich has over 14,500 images, documents and oral histories of Ipswich and its residents. This important resource has bought these ladies together after almost 63 years,” he said.

“It’s great that the public go online or come into the Library to check out Picture Ipswich and discover some of the city’s proud history, and maybe spark some exciting memories along the way.”