Doctor Extraordinaire
By Geoff Fortune Doctor Knight was one of the best known, best loved, and highly respected Yarloop identities, over the…
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Early Days of Wagerup and Yarloop
By E. G. Davis, ‘Harvey-Murray Times’, 1956. According to information supplied by Mrs. M. A. [Mary Angela] Eastcott on the…
George Burrows & Henry Burrows of Harvey
By Denise Moore, 2014, great granddaughter of Henry Burrows. Cousins, George Burrows and Henry Burrows, settled in Harvey and became…
Official Opening of Stirling Dam
Irrigation in South-Western Australia The first irrigation water conservation scheme in Western Australia was the lower dam on the Harvey…
Roelands School
By Maidee Smith, c. 1980 The first correspondence to the Minister for the Education requesting that a school be built…
Shenfield, Benger
By Wendy Fry, 2007 Following the death of her husband Henry Partridge Fry in England in 1881, Edith Horatia corresponded…
The Church of St John Vianney
By GP Good, July 1989 The Church of St John Vianney is no longer part of the Australind landscape but…
Turkey Point
By Frann Meredith, 2005 Turkey Point, so called because of the wild turkeys that once roamed there, originally formed part…
Bundidup
By Heather Wade, revised 2016 Thomas Hayward (1832–1915) was born in Suffolk, England, the son of a gentleman farmer. He…
Commission on Agriculture 1887 – 91
This Commission was appointed to enquire into the existing condition of agriculture, together with the factors influencing it, and to…