WALTER THOMAS HERDSMAN was born in London in 1864. In 1871, his father William was a wardrobe dealer, living with wife Lucy in Portobello Road, Kensington with their five children. The family of William, Lucy, and children Alfred, Charlotte, Walter, Arthur and Henrietta arrived from London aboard the 637 tons barque “Helena Mena” in October 1880. In the early…
Pinjarra is situated approximately 84km’s south of Perth & was first settled in the early days of the colony. It was a very small town in the 1890’s & predominately a farming community with timber mills to the east and the fishing village of Mandurah to the west. There were two hotels in the town with the Premier Hotel…
The Maskiell family business began in Victoria c1882 where Robert and his wife Mary nee Murphy had a pickle, sauce, jam and wine factory in Cobden St, Melbourne. Their trade mark was Roberts initials, R M. By the mid 1880’s he had joined Walter Bland in Macauley St, Melbourne making jams, jellies etc and on 21 March 1889 he…
Exmouth was used as a military base in WW2 & as a rest camp for submariners with nearby Learmonth airfield constructed to provide fighter defence for the area. However, the town itself was not established until 1964 to support the United States Naval Communications station, Harold E Holt. A settlement for fishing & farming had been here in this…
A prized crown seal, 26oz is the Mundaring Aerated Water Company’s bottle featuring an impressed Mundaring Weir as its emblem. With permission from Mr. Mike Welsh, manager of the library at Mundaring I will include this extract from “A History of the Shire of Mundaring” by Ian Elliot. “A shop in Jacoby street was purchased in 1926 by a…
John Huxtable Wesley Peryman was born in 1837 at Brixham, Devon, England & arrived in Adelaide, South Australia with his parents about 1848. He married Julia O’Sullivan on 28 Feb 1863 in Adelaide. He worked for the Bank of Adelaide at the time and was also involved with the S A Cavalry and was Captain of the Adelaide Rifle…
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