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…
Category: Yarloop Workshops
New life for Old Pumps
Generally overlooked but next to each of our boilers are steam-driven water pumps. When one of the marine engineers came…
Old Boilers
Last month I mentioned our anvil family. This month it’s the boilers. We have at least 11 members of this…
Meet the Anvil Family
In this article I return to the objects on the site starting with an ‘A’ for Anvil. The Anvils The…
Meet the Davey Paxman
This month I’m introducing you to one of our stationary steam engines. The Davey Paxman This machine, built in Colchester,…
Meet the Loco
It has been my intention for some time to provide short stories of the objects in the museum that is…
The Vault and its Records
Surviving the Yarloop Fire and the clean-up the one building left standing was the Vault. This sturdy structure with its…
The Machines
Cataclysmic fire destroyed the Yarloop Workshops and other town buildings that dated back to the beginning of the 20th Century.…
A Memorial to the People
By Allan Ward, Hon. Curator, 2021. Five years since the Yarloop Fire destroyed half the town, including the historic precinct,…