Australind Progress Association
By Sharon Cousens, 2023. Progress Associations are not for profit organizations formed by a group of local residents with an…
Category: Potted Histories
Nos 11 and 13 Hayward Street, Harvey
By Kerry Davis and Heather Wade, 2023. Nos 11 & 13 Hayward Street, Harvey, March 2022. Therapeutic Massage is on…
27 Hayward Street, Harvey
LJ Hooker, March 2022. The land at 27 Hayward Street was vacant in the 1930s. (Source: Guy Palmer). Circa 1938…
Hymn Written for Opening of Congregational Chapel, Australind 1850
This hymn was written by John Allnutt (Snr) on the important occasion of the opening of the Congregational Chapel at…
Wokalup Hall
By Heather Wade, 2022 It was announced in the Bunbury Herald and Blackwood Express on 22 October 1919 that ‘A…
Mornington District Hospital 1909 – 1953
Mornington District Hospital was opened in July 1909. Although Millars had opened hospitals in the early days of their Denmark…
Old Harvey Cemetery, South Western Highway, Harvey
By Heather Wade, 2022. Prior to the opening of the Harvey Cemetery in 1916, most people were buried at the…
Yarloop Town Halls
By Heather Wade, 2021. The First Town Hall – opposite the War Memorial The first Town Hall which was a…
Banquet to Harry Teesdale Smith and Thomas Boyne, Millars’ Managers, 1902.
The timing of the first article is interesting. Harry Teesdale Smith had been the General Manager of Millars’ Karri and…
Submarines depart after brief but historic visit.
In just over a week after the declaration of the end of the Second World War, Royal Navy submariners docked…