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by Adrian | Jun 15, 2020 | Latest News For Adults, Local History | 0
Submit your Local History Donations Do you have any historical images of the Cockburn area that...
Read Moreby Leah | Oct 15, 2019 | Latest News For Adults, Local History | 0
Smelters Camp, Robb jetty and Coogee Did you know there was a semi-permanent homeless camp at...
Read Moreby Leah | Apr 9, 2019 | Latest News For Adults, Local History | 0
The Coogee Agricultural Hall was built in late 1896, with money raised by the local Agricultural...
Read Moreby Adrian | Feb 23, 2019 | Featured, Latest News For Adults, Local History | 0
New Cockburn History Website Explore Cockburn’s industrial, Aboriginal, migration, sporting,...
Read Moreby Lawley | Dec 31, 2018 | Local History, Podcasts | 0
Mary Kemenade (née Inman) Oral HistoryOral history of Mary Edith Veronica Kemenade (née Inman)....
Read Moreby Lawley | Dec 21, 2018 | Local History, Podcasts | 0
Bryan Atkinson Oral History Oral history of Bryan Atkinson recorded as part of That was my home:...
Read Moreby Leah | Sep 11, 2018 | Latest News For Adults, Local History | 0
Dora Philby was born in India in 1888, and her son Kim would become an infamous double agent for Russia in the Cold War. Dora’s sister Verna married Victor Manning and came to live in Western Australia in 1910, where they spent time at the Davilak Homestead in Manning Park.
Read Moreby Leah | Aug 16, 2018 | Latest News For Adults, Local History | 0
Intramaps is a fantastic resource for doing local history research in the Cockburn area, like finding your old house in Spearwood, seeing what used to be on the land where Adventure World is now, or tracing the changing layouts of roads, railways, and suburbs.
Read Moreby Leah | May 12, 2018 | Latest News For Adults, Local History | 0
Spearwood Agricultural Hall was built in 1927, on the land now occupied by the City of Cockburn office buildings.
Read Moreby Leah | Apr 12, 2018 | Latest News For Adults, Local History | 0
As you make your way around the City of Cockburn, you will notice poppies have begun to bloom on...
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