Category: Potted Histories

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…

By Heather Wade 2020 Since 1898 a public hall has stood on the corner of Young Street and Uduc Road,…

By Heather Wade, 2020 The Shire of Harvey administration building is prominent in the town as is the Harvey Hall…

By Irma Walter, 2019 Today walking sticks are rarely used as an aid for frail and elderly men and women,…

By Irma Walter, 2019. Part 1: COMMUNICATIONS AT THE TIME OF FIRST SETTLEMENT Introduction From the time of first settlement Western Australia experienced difficulty…

In 1882 a petition signed by all the families in the Harvey River Settlement was presented to the Governor asking…