Category: Potted Histories

The article has a number of images of orchards at various stages of growth but they don’t reproduce well, so…

© Katrina Marston, July 2019. The Mirasole Farm land was bought in August 1928 by Ernie and Bell Marston and…

© Charlie Hayward, 2025. One of the great disadvantages of suburban life is the lack of the proliferation of jams,…

© Ian Archibald, 2025. My father John Archibald was a PWD (Public Works Department) engineer in charge of extending irrigation…

The Australind Pioneers’ Memorial Park is situated north of the Australind Shopping Centre and opposite the Australind Memorial on the…

By Heather Wade, 2021. Library at the Old Town Hall opposite the War Memorial The opening of the Yarloop Library…

By C Bishop, 2025. The name Australind does not just arise in the name of the Shire of Harvey place,…

By Heather Wade and Kerry Davis, 2022. Units on the corner of Hayward and Gibbs Street, March 2022. The first…

By Heather Wade, 2024. 1895 to 1900. A Post and Telegraph Office was opened in a Millars’ building at Waigerup…

The Wokalup Estate, consisting of a large acreage was originally taken up in the 1840s by Marshall Waller Clifton, Chief…