Category: Potted Histories

COOKERNUP (80 mi. 32 ch / 128.6 km) : opened August 1893. Proposed name of Logue’s, but opened called COOKERNUP…

© Thelma Kemp nee Forrest, November 2025. It has often been said that we are all, in part, the sum…

© Heather Wade, 2026. These premises at 27 Ommaney Road (South Western Highway), Brunswick Junction were occupied by the last…

Edited by Heather Wade, 2026. Algernon Clifton presented the following early history of Australind and the surrounding district at the…

© Roy Scott, 2026. During the 1940s Don Campbell was elected as a Councillor for the Harvey Shire Council and…

By Heather Wade, 2025. Harvey’s first blacksmith was Thomas Hince Brown who arrived in Harvey in 1898. He was first…

The article has a number of images of orchards at various stages of growth but they don’t reproduce well, so…

© Katrina Marston, July 2019. The Mirasole Farm land was bought in August 1928 by Ernie and Bell Marston and…

© Charlie Hayward, 2025. One of the great disadvantages of suburban life is the lack of the proliferation of jams,…

© Ian Archibald, 2025. My father John Archibald was a PWD (Public Works Department) engineer in charge of extending irrigation…