Australia’s Largest Sawmillers
To remind us of the significance of the timber industry to this State I’m reproducing an article that appeared in…
Category: Yarloop Workshops
Meet our Machines – The Austral Otis
One of the main purposes of these articles is to remind people of the treasures that survived the 2016 Fire…
Timber Towns
My wife and I live in a unit that is surrounded by other units occupied by workers at Harvey Beef…
The Railways are Responsible
In my younger days it was people like Alan Bond and Laurie Connell who were the entrepreneurs. Today we might…
Meet the Lathes
Every object owned, or was owned, by the Yarloop Workshops has or had a story. Sadly most of these stories…
Timber Worker Soldiers
ANZAC day will have passed by the time you read this, and we will have commemorated at the Dawn Services…
The Moulders
In essence, Yarloop Workshops had its own foundry. The first stage in the production of metal castings is the design…
The Pattern Maker’s Shop
The most authentic part of the pre-Fire Workshops was the Pattern Makers’ Shop. It looked almost as it did when…
Richard Scott Brown (1877-1944)
By Ray Brown Introduction – Wellington Mills Primary School was the first of my postings as a teacher. The year…
Meet Clyde
You would think with a name like that he would have to come from Scotland but he’s Australian. He was…