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FEEDBACK COMMENTS UPDATED I enjoy reading your additions. Thank you. Firstly, I really enjoyed looking at your site, finding lots of information. I was easily able to access the updated information about Henry James Catchpole & wife Sarah Ann nee Yates.The additional information about Harry Catchpole was great too; wonderful photos of his work, family & social life. Re George Spriggs' family history. Thanks Gordon you did such a good job. Thank you for all the info that you share with everyone on our history of our district. Well done Gordon, you did a great job. Greetings Gordon - your website gets more and more full of material you lot up there have dredged up from the past Thanks again for another year of your whizzo Web Site Your site is a beautiful one with a lot of effort gone into it to make it fascinating reading, and I have had fun reading it and finding details of my ancestors eg McCorkill Road is named after my grandfather. BRUCE McCORKILL, Victoria
Great compilation on the Forestry Companies with a few photos that I have not seen before. Overall a great page. Keep up the good work, you have some awesome material in there and I read all the updates. Great work. Regarding the article about the Forestry Companies. it is an excellent article I very much enjoyed reading it. I forwarded the link on to a American Vietnam Vet who lives in Texas. He flew as a recognizance officer in an unarmed jet called the Vigilante at 1100 km/hr at 500 ft above the jungle taking photos of just previous (minutes ago) bombing runs. He replied that he also enjoyed the article and was also totally unaware of a Corps of forestry workers during the war. I would imagine few people would be aware. Your article should be spread far and wide Love your article on the RAE, great piece of reading and those photos are fantastic. Keep up the good work mate. The Bus Preservation Society of WA (Inc) would like to express our thanks to you for the article you provided on the history of the Carilla Bus Service. Researched historical articles of this type are of great value to us and has been
added to our archival library for future reference. Thank you once again Your Web site is looking great and you have done a wonderful job of the research and keeping everybody informed of the history of Pickering Brook. Well done mate, you’re a credit to the community. Should be nominated for an OBE. Keep up the good work. I was flicking through your wedding photos the other day and saw that you had my grandparents listed but without their photo. I thought I should share it with you. They are Alf and Hilda Martin (nee Buckingham) who married at Kelmscott in Oct. 1916 I have attached it for you. You do a great job and am happy to share where appropriate
ELAINE de RUITER, Roleystone, Western Australia Thank you so very much for your enthusiasim over this project. It has been very special to me and no doubt will be to my family over time. I continue to be amazed at the information and photographs that you have dug up. It really is impressive. First of all might I say what a great website for the Pickering Brook History is, I really enjoy reading all the family stories. I wish we could do something for Kelmscott.
COLLEEN FANCOTE, Kelmscott, Western Australia It was delightful to read your tribute to Carol. I knew she had assisted you along the way, but I didn't know it was such significant help! Well done Gordon. More great work, Gordon. I am constantly amazed at the amount of research you do and then place the information on your webpage. How ever do you manage it all? I'm envious of your stamina!! I've had a good look through the remarkable pages you've got on the Pickering Brook district's automotives of yore. Congratulations on your latest Pickering Brook website update. Be rightfully proud of your work, its very nice. I will read some of the other families’ history as i grew up with many of them. I came across your website thanks to our family name of George Brainsford Beard. You have produced a wonderful resource. My husband, Doug, is Mac Beard's cousin, the son of Des beard. I have been able to update all the Pickering Brook Beard info and dates from your site. Thank you. I think the work you have put into this site is amazing and so valuable for the future. Many thanks for the update notification - particularly the addition of the
Barritt history. The Herbert kids were very good friends of Terry and siblings.
We learned to swim in the dam on their orchard in the late 1940's. Thank You
Gordon The bus story is fascinating and I hope will lead to getting the bus
restored as soon as possible.
Photos on the Reverse Marriage pages were fascinating and will most likely
provide some long-lost images for some family members. Some of the facial expressions are priceless!
SUSAN HALL, Western Australia You are a tiger for keeping the activity on this incredible website, Gordon! I've just read through your history of Bartons
Mill. Thanks very much. As
part of the Murphy/Smith family, I lived at Bartons Mill from about age 7 until
I joined the RAAF the first time in 1966. I grew up with the Ogg children and
knew the Venables and others named in your story. Went to Pickering Brook
Primary and then to Kalamunda High. My first year at KHS was the second year it
had been open. Of the nine children from our combined family, sadly one, Gary
Murphy, has passed away. As have both my stepfather William Murphy and my Mum,
Dorothy 'Dot' Murphy. Two of us, myself and Bill Murphy, now live in
Queensland following service in the RAAF for me and RAN for Bill. The rest live
in various areas of WA except Sister Carey who now resides in New Zealand. I
have a son, Darren, who now teaches English as a Second language in Madrid and a
daughter, Jessica who works in HR in Brisbane. My wife Cheng Im (Joyce) and I
live at Brassall, in Ipswich Area and I volunteer at Amberley Aviation Heritage
Centre. Many thanks for the wonderful story.
My father Joseph Clyde Perks and his brother Charles Drayton Perks, both from Greenbushes, were in Company 2/3. It is thrilling for me to read of their service. My father was died March 16th 1950 from a head injury sustained while fighting a bushfire near our home. I turned two years old two weeks later. Your researched article has added some details for me of their wartime journey. Each new piece of information brings me a little closer to knowing my father and for this I am grateful. My understanding is that my Uncle Charlie came back from New Guinea (?) with dengue fever. My father cut off three fingers in a sawmill in New Guinea. I am unsure of his location there or of the circumstances of his presumably early return. Thank you again VALERIE THEROUX (nee Perks), Kamloops, BC Canada I enjoyed looking at your website. Thanks for all the interesting information.
I would like to congratulate you on putting together a very
well presented website on the history of Pickering Brook
School. I am most impressed by the photos and in particular the one
of ROSIE GANDOSSINI (1950) as outlined in the school photo. This lady could be one of my relatives and was wondering if
you have any further details on her. Congratulations on the website. You have collected some amazing photos and
history. A great piece of historical research. Once again what a marvellous web site really interesting. Keep up the good work. Good work as always Gordon. Fascinating about the UGLY MEN’S ASSOC. FASCINATING. Thank you for compiling the comprehensive
Thomas Buckingham Family History. You must have put a lot of time & effort
into researching & recording their history. I have found the material used very
interesting. I have just now gone onto your website and had a look at the Carmel School
update. It is really really well done, so comprehensive, complete with the
introductory information. But following up with a newspaper article about an
ex-student who died in a plane crash, was to me, the epitome of a really
dedicated researcher. I also greatly admired the way you used the
Punishment Book info. Thank you. I have given your site details to my daughter Judy, to pass on to her grandson. Chaz is 12 this year, and is studying history, so I’m hoping to interest him in our family history. Keep up the good work. It is pleasing to see the increase in visitors to
the site, and that they are not ALL interested in our family. Relating to a
relatively small district in the Hills, Pickering Brook History is proving to be
a source of interest and information, and seems to be attracting both current
and former residents, as well as those with special interests in the area’s past
activities. Without your efforts, so much information, and so many photograps and stories would have been lost forever. A wonderful tribute to your efforts.
Thank you.
HELEN SKEHAN, Rossmoyne, Western Australia Many thanks for this, Gordon. Yours must be one of the cleanest looking and classiest websites available to the public. JOHN PARKER, Bedford Park, Western Australia Thank you, Gordon and Consultants.
The Pickering Brook History website is brilliant: colourful, clear and
interesting to read with lots of different stories to stir further interest in
the district and its people. I hope that many originally from the district will search their family
archives and add photographs and more information to what is already
there. The reverse marriage name list is a clever addition to discovering what
happened to the many young women and the many young men of the district. I look forward to reading more about the district as additional
information becomes available, but in the meantime, there is plenty to read
now. Thank you for sending Pickering Brook History Web Site. Really interesting especially flight over
Zig Zag. Well done, yet again. You really do put in the top effort with your
research. The Zig Zag railway is of particular
interest to me, as my dad George Tolliday was responsible for buildings and
maintenance on this and other routes on the WAGR System. I travelled the Zig Zag, as a
kid. Thanking you for your interest in our states history, like you I think it is important to document all we can find. MERILYN FINDLEY (nee Ashmore), Narembeen, Western Australia
Your new website is
looking really great - congratulations! I greatly enjoyed reading the saw mill article complete with its very many considerable additions
to my work. Your research skills are most impressive. I had a look at
your site (again) – looks great! What colourisation
software do you use? The old B&W
photos come up so much better with colour added. I am VERY impressed with the natural timber/ trees/ etc. motics (taken from our native bushland) on this new website. Particularly, the slab of timber that the opening page is written upon - excellent stuff! People probably think you're as "obsessed" with our historic interests in our native flora, etc, as they consider I am "obsessed" with the vintage cars in our past. But being "mad" has some benefits, eh?! You and David are doing a superb job in tracking down, preserving, and making
public the largely forgotten, in danger of being lost, history of the wider
Pickering Brook community. As a descendant of one of the pioneering families of
Pickering Brook I greatly appreciate the hours you both put in. Not only do you
chase up and record so much of this history, you also give others the impetus to
look into the history of their own family, thus unearthing information and
photographs that would otherwise have been lost. The ripple effect from dropping
that stone in the water. Just read your updates. Great
source of information. Well done Thanks Pickering Brook latest Good to see you back
ERIC COATES, Wanneroo History Society and Machinery Preservation Club of
W.A.
As all of your followers/disciples have already told
you, the new web site is marvellous. Thank you. Gordon I enjoyed reading about your website. I have lived in the Hills for over
fifty years and my wife and I have raised I just read the latest up-date, and was fascinated by the story of Barton. We
never really know the true story of the past without masses of research, and you
and David have done a great job. The story answers some of the queries I have
had from recalling Mum talking of her younger life, particularly remembering the
name Barton-Bruce, and understanding where her friend Gwen Thomas fitted in. Good on you Gordon, Looks Great Very nice job!! Interface is
clean and easy to navigate – 10/10 to you!!! Congratulations, Gordon. Glad to see your website up and
running. Looks good, but I have been tied up all day, so will get into it tomorrow.
Thanks Gordon, that looks great. The new site is excellent, well done. I just blue a couple of hours reading it, great work it's excellent. Looks great! You have some really great stories on
the site now - a great credit to you and all that have helped. Well, the URL has changed and most of
the content too, by the look of it. It looks good and you know as a webmaster,
there’s always more to put on. I have just read your Bio and backstory on William Francis Guppy and am very impressed. Prior to commencing my family research my knowledge of the roots of the Guppy family from a historical perspective was minimal. Discovering the Guppy's Mill history, on your website, has been aa absolute revelation, to the point where I am now communicating with a 3rd cousin in Perth. Tammy has been extremely helpful and together we have made some great discoveries of our joint ancestors. I enjoy your website and thank you. Thanks for the fantastic upgrade on the Whim! I was waiting for this data for a long time! I'm still working on the whim. A while ago I mounted a steam whistle. Now a real working steam "boiler feed water pump" is coming up soon. When this is mounted I will make a nice video again, and photos of course. One thing is certain, my whim will always stay with me, it is now my favorite logging machine!
LOEK PROPER, The Hague, Netherlands, Europe Well you have a great story there about the steam powered whim - Dad and myself were very surprised how well it has come together. Thank you for your fantastic update of the steam powered whim partition of your website . . . it is all very interesting reading and the photographs are great. Gordon, You’ve excelled yourself. Magnificent story and photographs of the steam powered whim. Your blood’s worth bottling! I hope there’s a folder or file somewhere that stores all this stuff you put together, safely, so that it’s not just on the web. It’s a fantastic resource for history. A great result - congratulations to all concerned. And a big thank you to all the time and effort you have put into not only the website but in furtherance of the Heritage Group as a whole.. DIANE BUCKLEY, Byford, Western Australia
CONGRATULATIONS – very well deserved FRANCESCA FLYNN, Perth Observatory, Bickley, Western Australia Brilliant news! And so well-deserved. Your Group continues to do wonderful work which benefits many many people! And I have recently been one of them once again. Very best wishes. Congratulations to you all. An award well deserved. Congratulations, good show, very pleased. Thank you Gordon, Wonderful. JOAN DELLA FRANCA, Pickering Brook, Western Austraila
That is fantastic, congratulations to everyone. Congratulations! I read some results in this morning’s paper, but no mention of Pickering Brook. My disappointment turned to elation with your email. Don’t celebrate too much! Again, congratulations and many pats on the back, and don’t cash in the gold medallion for the whim of fundraising!
Gordon What a GREAT result. Your contribution ... outstanding and I thank you for that always.
Congratulations to Gordon and the team. Fantastic News and a real inspiration to us all. Congratulations Gordon and everyone involved in your heritage group. You thoroughly deserve this and more for the work that you do. Personally, ⭐️CONGRATULATIONS⭐️ Well deserved and well done. Congratulations to you and your group, a worthy reward in recognition of 25 years of hard work. BETTY MARSH, Event Co-ordinator, Kalamunda & Districts Historical Society, Kalamunda, Western Australia
Congratulations to you all! Keep up the remarkable work. ROMA SPICCIA, Pickering Brook, Western Australia
Congratulations Gordon and members on a wonderful outcome, this award is well deserved and the promotion of Pickering Brook’s Heritage will grow with much pride. LE GREGORY, Gosnells, Western Australia
Congratulations Gordon and all the team! This is fabulous! What an achievement. It’s so great to know that the history of the Pickering Brook area is being preserved. My father grew up there and has wonderful memories of his childhood. My husband and I have visited Pickering Brook from the UK and have been made so welcome by the local community. So much so that I now feel a real connection to the area and my father’s past which is truly wonderful. Thanks so much. With best wishes to you all. CLAIRE PALMER, Bexhill-On-Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdm (Family formerly from Carmel)
Congratulations Gordon and Pickering Brook folk. A well-earned award.
Congratulations Gordon and Members , a well deserved award.
Congratulations on the award, Webmaster! Hans would be so proud of your skills (and so am I) Is it only 25 years since you were first talking about this work and the small politics and local scandals and feuds that you were running into? Well done. CAROLINE SCHMAH, Canada
Well done and hearty congratulations - very well deserved
Congratulations Gordon to you and everyone at Pickering Brook Heritage Group and good luck for the finals ߘ Glad to see the Perth Hills being cemented on the map! FRANCESCA FLYNN, Perth Observatory, Bickley, Western Australia
Fantastic news. You deserve to win.
Congratulations! And good luck! I know how hard you have worked on that web site and I remember a lot of small politics around the entering of these contests. I think the one you are vying for is definitely the one you should win having stirred so many folk into sharing and even beginning to discover their family history and how it contributes to the Pickering Brook area. Good on ya! CAROLINE SCHMAH, Canada
That is great news, a worthy finalist you have all put so much into the group. please pass my Congratulations on to all the members Hi Gordon, Congratulations ! – we will keep our fingers crossed for the 29th Well done! BRIAN & LEE EVANS, Palmyra, Western Australia
Hello Gordon What a wonderful result for all the work done by yourself and your helpers! Congratulations and good luck for a win to recognise that work. DIANE BUCKLEY, Byford, Western Australia Congratulations to your group, you must be very proud. SALLY KENTON, Padbury, Western Australia
Well deserved, good luck. VIC FERNIE, Queensland
Great news. You deserve to be a finalist.
Very impressive logo to add to your page. Congratulations to the Group, and to you, and best of luck in the finals. Thanks for ringing, Gordon, and for the info re the book. I look forward to the launch, and will definitely be ordering copies. Best wishes for continuing success. You are a star, and the website has introduced so many people to the history and heritage of our much loved Pickering Brook. Without you, this would not have happened. HELEN SKEHAN (nee Owen), Rossmoyne, Western AUstralia
Good luck Gordon. You all deserve it. Cheers What great news Gordon Pass my congratulations onto the team. I will be happy to put this into my next courier - so make sure you get some photos.
Very well done. Go Pickering Brook !! Congratulations on another excellent year, Gordon. The site continues to amaze me with its content and easy navigability. I have just read the wonderful story of Mason & Bird on your web pages. Very enjoyable. My grandfather, Walter George Trew worked for them. I was raised in the Canning Shire, and often visited Mason's Landing, but never knew then the importance of the place to our timber industry. Thank you once again for a very enjoyable read. Wow! The photos are fabulous. Thank you so very much. I read your narrative of my great grandfather, John Rush Padgett with great interest. As family members, we all knew the story, but there were still aspects I hadn't heard before which was marvellous. Congratulations on your wonderful website. What a marvellous web site you have. Really interesting. I continue to enjoy the Pickering Brook website and can always find something interesting to read in the updates. Thank you. Best wishes. May you find some more wonderful information and photos as you research. My name is Claire Palmer and I was given your email address by Mac Beard. My husband Giles and I live in the U.K. My father Tony Palmer used to live in Carmel in the early 1950s as a young boy. He knew Mac and Pam Beard back in those days along with all the other locals in area. I spoke to Mac on the telephone recently and he kindly sent us some Pickering Brook Heritage Group calendars and also some photos of my father's old house in Carmel Road, the old school house and the old post office. I think you may have been instrumental in producing the photos. I want to thank you for such an interesting and informative website. I have a family interest in Canning Mills as during the 1890s as my gt-grandfather James Dimond worked there as a carpenter and one son born there. The map of Canning Mills and the photographic history has helped me filling out my family history. I was delighted to read your tribute to Rudolph (Bobbie) Selk, as he has been a folk hero in our family for as long as I can remember. Our paternal grandfather, Fred Grosvenor, was a friend and workmate of Bobbie Selk. Granddad died in 1930, before any of his grandchildren were born, so anything I relate will be second- or third hand. They both worked for the PMG, probably in Fremantle, and folk lore has it that it was Granddad's responsibility to get Bobbie to important games of cricket on time & in a fit state, as he could be unreliable in that area. Our Dad, Neil Rudolph Grosvenor, second son b.1907, was named for Bobbie Selk, while the second-born Selk was named Grosvenor. Dad died in 1960, and a number of years later, Mum met Grosvenor Selk in his role as Friend of Kings Park, when he showed a group around the garden area. I can't remember Mum mentioning the connection with Pickering Brook, but maybe their conversation didn't go in that direction. As you might remember, Mum taught at Pickering Brook, as Cathie Lugg, in 1932/33. I continue to be amazed at the connections that occur in the history of our vast State. On behalf of Jill Brookes, of the Dardanup Heritage Park, we request the use of the information on your site of the Steam Whims and associated printed works. If you granted the use of such material, Jill would display it in the Sawmill Facility area we have at the Park, and would also give acknowledgement to your group for the use and research of such work. We find your research outstanding, and it would enhance our display considerably if you give your permission. PETER GRIFFIN, Bunbury, Western Australia I recently discovered your website and have found it a fascinating read. Having lived in Kalamunda now for twenty years, getting out in the bush on bike and foot has become my passion. I thought I knew everywhere there was to know and had been there too. Barton's Mill Prison was news to me. I visited it last week. Such a shame that it has been reduced to nothing more than foundations. Fascinating nonetheless. What a great website you have created. I find myself on there reading for hours getting to know all about your area and all those wonderful people. Congratulations Gordon and the Pickering Brook team. Nine years of commitment to the website is testimony to the dedication of the Heritage Group to sharing and collecting the district's history. The comments demonstrate just how far away responses are coming from for your website. Hello, I have just found you interesting site and I believe that I have found a missing family member that we ( my brother & me ) have been searching for . Can I ask if you have any record of the burial place of Annie Maria Strutt wife of George Strutt Horse Driver who died 19 May 1896. We have not been able to find where she was buried.
GRAEME STODDART, Melville, Western Australia I have just discovered your site in the process of researching for a book I am writing about my great great Grandmother and I have been truly impressed by the amazing photos and the amount of detail recorded. I was checking out your website regarding the history of Carmel Primary School and came across a 1933 photo, which I've got to say gave me goose bumps, as there was a photo that included my mum and her two sisters. So I thought I would help you out with three names to add to the photo. They are: Norah Mitchell, Winifred (Win) Mitchell and Doreen Mitchell Finding your website has brought back some wonderful childhood memories for me of my time growing up in Pickering Brook. Your material on the school, the general store (where I lived), and in particular Tommy Roads, are of great interest. Tommy was our nearest neighbour and I spent many, many hours sitting on his back verandah listening to his stories of his time in the district. He was a true character. Keep up the great work. On researching my family history I came across your website with an excellent article on Alf Russell, Kate (Kitty) (nee Gibson) and Pip. Kate was my Grandfather's sister, so my father, John (Jack) Gibson, was Kate's nephew and Pip's cousin. As contact was lost it was lovely to come across the article and read about Kitty and I only wish I could read her diaries now. The article had some great information in it on their lives, filled in a few gaps and had some lovely photos, not seen by my family before, so fantastic to see. If there is any other information regarding the family I would appreciate being contacted. Congratulations on a lovely informative website on Pickering Brook, a lovely place and definitely now on my list to visit. Keep up the good work. We really appreciate the effort you and your crew have put in. I do hope you can add the photo of Carmel School taken about 1929/30, to your historical collection for others to view for interest or research. What a wonderful site I have stumbled upon – congratulations on all the hard work that has been done. While researching my wife's family tree on Ancestry, I found your very impressive article on Kate Gibson and Alf Russell. I have been looking at your fabulous website about the history of Pickering Brook. You definitely have a wealth of historical knowledge about Pickering Brook. I teach at Kalamunda Christian School teaching year 2's. RACHEL PENDAL, LESMURDIE, Western Australia
I am currently writing a book to be published by UWA Press on the history of the land and landscape in south west WA. This includes a chapter on forests and I have been looking at your excellent website and especially at the section on steam whims that includes some wonderful photos by Phil Wyndham. I would very much like to include photo number 14 in the book, with due acknowledgement of course. Congratulations on a very informative and interestingly structured website. Glad to see the Pickering Brook Heritage Group is continuing strong. Your internet site is marvellous in it's comprehensiveness and I think the calendars are splendid. I recently lost my mum, Carmela Longo (nee Radice), and have been looking through this website to gain more info about the Pickering Brook area, where my Mum grew up. I was particularly interested in Mum's time packing in the apple sheds around Pickering Brook/ Carmel. I remember mum saying they had a competition to see who packed the most or best. Also Mum was involved in some sort of Miss 'apple queen ' or something similar. We are a bit unsure of this and was hoping to find someone who could tell us more. Very impressed with the Pickering Brook Heritage Groups web site which will warrant much more delving and re-reading. I discovered the site when researching wild flowers found in the area. ROS ARMSTRONG I have just spent far too much time reading through your updates! Congratulations to the students from Pickering Brook School for the excellent quality of their photographs and for the interesting images & comments. I sent the latest newsletter details through to my friend, Dulcie Hale (we were at school together), and had a phone call from her, saying she had spent a couple of hours enjoying its contents. Dulcie & her husband Bob were at the school for a time, but she also has a connection with Bartons Mill, where an aunt was the teacher in the 1930s. Small world, isn't it! Your website is brilliant and I enjoy looking through the old pictures, thanks to all who work on it. I am related to the Fernie's in Pickering Brook, my maiden name was Susan Fernie, my father John Fernie, his father Leslie Alexander who was the eldest child of Alexander Edward Fernie. You guys and your committee are to be congratulated on all the hard work and rewarding results you have contributed to the Pickering Brook Heritage Site. Again, I am gob smacked!!! I look forward to your updates. It is great that more and more people are finding your website. Again, it has been a great interest to me. Regarding the cricket team photo. Even though it was from an extremely old negative. I was intrigued see the photo of my dad "Pommie'' William White. It was nice to see that he played a sport, Another hobby of my mum and dad was playing cards. Bridge and Rummy was a term that I remember well. Sometimes they used to take us to a couple of places, but more often that not these nights were at our house, I guess because of us kids. I remember going to a Mr. King's house and I think one or two of the single men joined these nights. I would like to compliment your group for the fantastic website you have put together on the history of Pickering Brook area. It’s a pity that Kalamunda hasn’t done something similar. I’m 71 and have a long history relating to Guildford (since 1830), Midland, Kalamunda, Carmel and Pickering Brook and just love reading all of your stories. I noticed a mention in your website of my grand parent Alex Mitchell who lived in Union Rd, Carmel…also Alan Mitchell ran the Telephone Exchange at Carmel (opposite Carmel School…approx 1950),similar to the Switch Board you have on your website. My Mother (Norah Jones nee Mitchell) went to Carmel School in around 1929. Dad (Walter Jones from Kalamunda), lived in Pickering Brook for a while and his father (Alfred De Courcy Jones) was a Stationery Engine Driver at Smailes' Mill. So all of your stories brings a lot back to me. Keep up the good work. I’ve just viewed all your hard work on the history of my grandfather, Archie Anderson - well done - it’s a tremendous result! Once again, many thanks for your great efforts. Web feedback - in a word HONEST told me who you are, what were your aspirations, how to contact! Graphics / Pix / Colour / nice Type face - looked like someone cared! STEVE BOWMAN I am a descendant of Ernest and Annie Camp mentioned in your page on George and Ernest Holroyd’s. I just wanted to congratulate the group on such an interesting website with so much local history. I am researching my family history and have found your website. Mrs. Kate Weyman was my Dad's Aunt and he was always interested to know whatever happened to her and just guessed at her lifestyle but wasn't able, while he was alive, to find out anything. I've managed to find the most I can from your excellent site and from sending to W.A. for marriage and death certificates. I'm also aware that Fred Weyman signed his marriage certificate with a cross, so wonder whether that was why not much news was written home to the U.K. What a marvellous story you have put together, regarding the 'Emu Wars'. It is really entertaining reading, and the photos have been enhanced in amazing detail. Congratulations! I just wanted to write and say thank you for your wonderful write up on the history of the Karragullen School. My grandfather, Cecil Johnston was the teacher there in the late 1920's and it was fantastic to read all of the stories about him, especially since he passed away before I was born so I never had a chance to meet him. My mother (his daughter) who was born after his time teaching in Karragullen had no idea that he had once travelled to New Zealand or that he was interested in sports so it was somewhat of a revelation to her! She thinks I must get my love of books and my math skills from him. The website continues to grow, thanks to the seemingly tireless work you do. Congratulations on your magnificent effort. Thank you Gordon, I was thrilled to see the website, and quickly looked to see if anything (especially photos) was collated for my era. No I am sorry I don’t have anything to contribute, but very happy to pay a membership to encourage your great efforts. Was very interesting to read. I thank you and everyone involved for your efforts. As part of finding cheap things for the kids to do on holidays, we went for a visit at the old Canning Mills townsite and investigated around where we think the Forrest Inn and railway was situated. We are guessing that it was behind the low stone wall on Canning road. The kids were delighted to find remanents of the convict cobblestones of which there is quite fair bit left similar to that found off Canning Mills road. We had hours of entertainment digging around the old rubbish piles and retrieving bits of old broken china and glass and guessing where the houses and railway might have been.. Made all the more magical by the info we found on your webpage. The kids imaginations ran wild with the stories they made up about each bit of china and glass from being the "good china for the rich people in the hotel" to this bit of glass being from the "icky old fashion medine bottles" Thank you so much for such a great web page and resource. You have helped cultivate a new generation of history buffs! DENISE HARDY & FAMILY, Roleystone, Western Australia
Congratulations on the great work that is on display. I must commend you all for creating such a wonderful website, fabulous. Just happened to stumble across it when researching my uncles time in the My name is Lisa Gilbert and my Grandmother was Ruby Catherine Mason, married to Lawrence Albert Mason. All the very best. TONY URSICH, Zurich, Switzerland. I would just like to say I have enjoyed reading the history of Carmel school which is on your web site. I attended there with my sister in the 1960’s. Thank you for your splendid work in adding the Mason Family segment to the Website. It is gratifying to see it in print. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. My husband is Edward Vivian Harvey Keane and Lilla Rebecca Wharton Whites Great Grandson, and we had NO photos of them at all, and now thanks to you and all of your work, we do!!!!! My husband saw photos of his Grandfather for the 1st time today because of you guys... So a big thanks from me! That website of yours is receiving rave reviews among heritage enthusiasts. Ironically the website emanates comes from one of the most
Oh gosh, just when I thought you couldn't make your pickeringbrook web sight any better, you go and blow my mind with your endless talents yet again. I hope you are all extremely proud of your achievements, because people like myself appreciate it immensely. I’ve been visiting your web site and it really is a gem, full of fascinating information and photos. Congratulations!! Without doubt one of best websites for showing the history of Pickering Brook School ~ Other websites don't even compare to yours ~ As I am researching my family history of Orange Grove and Orange Grove Primary School ~ I am finding it extremely difficult to find any past school photo's ~ to date I have all but three!! Judy P sent us a 2011 heritage calendar, the committee need to be congratulated on the effort put into it and the Website. I think its great. What now for 2012? I came across your site while looking for a picture of something old (can’t remember now what it was). Anyway, I was impressed by the site and made a note to come back and read it in more detail. I am always on your website and think you have done a great job with all the history. It is so interesting. I have recently viewed the Pickering Brook Heritage Website and note the photo of the pipe band. Unfortunately the band is wrongly named. The Kalamunda Pipe Band was not in existence in 1958. The band in the photo is the 16th Battalion Cameron Highland Pipe Band of which I was a member at the time. May I congratulate your group on your endeavours to record the history. I hope I have not offended anyone by pointing out this little discrepancy. (Not at all, we appreciate your input to make the details correct. Thank you). I love the Website, you have done a fantastic job. I am writing to congratulate the Pickering Brook Heritage Group for the great Website and the valuable work being undertaken in preserving the local history for current and future generations. I am thoroughly enjoying reading and learning more about the area in which I grew up. Happy memories have flooded back and I look forward to reading more. Thank you. Your Website is a wonderful way to bring together records and memories to share with people now and in the future. The Pickering Brook Heritage Group have compiled this fabulous Website, rich in stories, facts and photos of the area. In the "schools section" many locals have already looked themselves up and viewed older relatives when they were school aged. Even for readers who were not from this area, viewing the old photos with names from the past reveals the families many of our landmarks are named after. Congratulations on a great Website. I have been looking at your excellent Website and I'm most impressed with it, especially the Railways page. You should be very proud of yourselves. Congratulations and thank you for your group's excellent work in making the rich history of your area so accessible to the public through your website. I was gobsmacked when I opened your site just a few minutes ago. All I can say is Wow!!!!!!! You have done a fantastic job. I had to ring my son Brett as he was the one that put all the photos on to the disk. He was so pleased to see the School Reports back in colour. He was thrilled for me to have contributed to the site. He said that it was wonderful that my parents featured on the Internet. They would have had no concept of the technology that was to come. My Dad never ever used a telephone. I will now have to send a link to my relatives in Western Australia. I am going to have a second look at it before I go to bed. Accolades by the million. I had a chance to look at the Website a couple of days ago, and didn't have any problem whatsoever with the pictures taking time to load up to the page. You certainly have done a truly wonderful job. I did enjoy it very much. I have spoken to my mother about getting my Aunty Peg to look at your Website so it will give her the idea she needs to present the Holroyd picture etc. My Mother spent last night reading your Website, and rang today to say how much she enjoyed it also. Thank you for your telephone calls. I did my memoirs some years ago on the computer, and at that time I searched the net for any information. The only thing
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