Category: Potted Histories

This hymn was written by John Allnutt (Snr) on the important occasion of the opening of the Congregational Chapel at…

By Heather Wade, 2022 It was announced in the Bunbury Herald and Blackwood Express on 22 October 1919 that ‘A…

Mornington District Hospital was opened in July 1909. Although Millars had opened hospitals in the early days of their Denmark…

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…