Category: Potted Histories

By Heather Wade, 2022. Prior to the opening of the Harvey Cemetery in 1916, most people were buried at the…

By Heather Wade, 2021. The First Town Hall – opposite the War Memorial The first Town Hall which was a…

The timing of the first article is interesting. Harry Teesdale Smith had been the General Manager of Millars’ Karri and…

In just over a week after the declaration of the end of the Second World War, Royal Navy submariners docked…

This article, written in 1933, gives a quick history of the timber industry until that time. Companies, managers and politicians…

By Heather Wade, 2021. The current Harvey Memorial Library’s foundation stone was laid a century ago on 19 October 1921…

By Heather Wade, 2021. The rapidly growing population of the Australind area in the 1980s led to the need for…

By Heather Wade, 2020 In 1903, eight years after Millars first came to Yarloop, Charles Sommers a property developer from…

Sport played a very important role in Yarloop. The Yarloop Sports Demonstration conducted in January 1898 paints a picture of…

John Nunn (c1842 – 1887) Bunbury, April 21. An accident which terminated fatally happened at Parkfield, near Bunbury, on Thursday…