Timber Towns
My wife and I live in a unit that is surrounded by other units occupied by workers at Harvey Beef…
Category: Yarloop Workshops
The Railways are Responsible
In my younger days it was people like Alan Bond and Laurie Connell who were the entrepreneurs. Today we might…
Meet the Lathes
Every object owned, or was owned, by the Yarloop Workshops has or had a story. Sadly most of these stories…
Timber Worker Soldiers
ANZAC day will have passed by the time you read this, and we will have commemorated at the Dawn Services…
The Moulders
In essence, Yarloop Workshops had its own foundry. The first stage in the production of metal castings is the design…
The Pattern Maker’s Shop
The most authentic part of the pre-Fire Workshops was the Pattern Makers’ Shop. It looked almost as it did when…
Richard Scott Brown (1877-1944)
By Ray Brown Introduction – Wellington Mills Primary School was the first of my postings as a teacher. The year…
Meet Clyde
You would think with a name like that he would have to come from Scotland but he’s Australian. He was…
The Saw Shop
Since writing the article on the pumps I have been told that the pumps we sent to Fremantle date from…
The Art of Pattern Making
By Don Jones. After the mining boom ended in Kalgoorlie in 1937 my parents moved to Yarloop. My father got…