Bulong is 32 km’s east of Kalgoorlie and was earlier known as the 25 mile or I.O.U. The town was gazetted in November 1895. By 1900 the town had a number of Residential and Business Lots but a lot of homes were only hessian campsites. The town had 6 hotels, a hospital and a brewery at its peak in…
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…
Northey & Harridge Aerated Water Company was situated at 11 Harvest rd, North Fremantle. They occupied the premises formerly the property of the Rowlands Aerated Water Company. In 1915 this cordial, wine & spirit merchant’s property, was the business of William P Bromley. By 1921 until the 30’s Arthur Waterland became the owner and then Northey & Harridge began…
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…
Richard and Katherine Nettle had 8 children born in South Australia, before the lure of gold in the West saw the family move to Norseman around 1900. Richard was employed as a miner as was his son Charles Harden Nettle born in 1881. Another son John Edward Nettle born in 1892 was a blacksmith in the town by 1914….
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…
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