News and events of the Kununurra Historical Society - Archive, Gallery, Library, Museum and Research.
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Most Recent News Posts
State History Conference - Armadale WA - KHS Presented RWAHS State Merit Award - Posted 10 December 2016
Museums Are ******* Awesome - Museums Australia WA - State Conference - Posted 10 December 2016
Donald Howard's 'Wave Hill Spurs' - Posted 8 November 2016
30 Years of the Kununurra Historical Society - Posted 5 June 2016 (June 5th - Inauguration Day in 1986) Wirraway-Challenge Display DV - Posted 6 November 2015 75 Years of Ord Irrigation - Download KMD's 1941 Paper - Posted 18 August 2015 Memories of Stuart Skoglund - Pearl Ogden Talk - Posted 25 June 2015 Repatriation of Kimberley History Sources & 2015 AGM - Posted 4 April 2015 OR View older (next page of :^) news posts from KHS News - (Page 2 - Page 3 or Page 4) |
KHS News
3,000,000 KHS Image Views
The Kununurra Historical Society (KHS) collections on Flickr have now had more than 3,000,000 image views (passed in June 2019) - So half a million views since the 2.5 millionth view in March 2018 and the 2,000,000th view in December 2016, which equates to an average of more than 30,000 views each month or a thousand a day. These images could have remained in the KHS archive and seen by very few, so by digitising and documenting these KHS collections KHS is making them accessible to all from anywhere around the world. A new collection that went
online
in June 2019 - 1963 to 1969 (all now uploaded :^) This new
collection takes the total
number of KHS archival images online to over 2,990 KHS archival images on
Flickr.Once
this slideshow is playing - Use the 4 arrow
gadget in lower right corner to show on this page as a "Full Screen"
Slideshow as well there is a very useful feature that you can use to
"Show Info" (or not) for a
detailed information overlay on each image. All KHS images on Flickr
are fully documented with detailed information available on all images.
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Slideshow Not working? (blank box to left) Check Security 'Padlock'
icon to 'Allow' use of 'Adobe Flash' (Allow or set to 'Ask'?) to make viewer here
work or try different browser (No security risk in these slideshows
guaranteed! :^). If you have trouble viewing from here you can access
this collection from KHS Archive Collections on Flickr - Calder Family 35mm Slide Collection.
All of the KHS collections, including this latest collection are also discoverable on the National Library of Australia's wonderful Trove Search Engine as part of the "Trove - Australia in Pictures" 'Group' on Flickr (where we make photo collections accessible to all :^) Try searching Kununurra on Trove (Pictures) from https://trove.nla.gov.au/picture/result? (Pictures by Creator "Kununurra Museum" :^). |
May 2018 Remembering Them Exhibition
This year of 2018 marks the centenary of the end of World War I and
these exhibitions were initially researched and devised locally then
with thanks to further research by the Royal WA Historical Society, the
panels were professionally designed with collaboration between
each Society (Kununurra & Wyndham) and staff of the WA Museum and Museums & Galleries
Australia WA. There is also a museum quality showcase for each of the Kununurra
and Wyndham Museums.
The Remembering Them project that has been in progress since 2014 (to 2018) to commemorate the 1914-1918 WWI centenary) has been generously funded by Lottery West and the WA Government. Thanks to the Army Museum (Fremantle) WA for temporary display objects of the 10th Light Horse (for Kununurra Museum), as well as the WA State Records Office for images of the 'cancelled public plans' and the State Library of Western Australia who supplied photographs (& plans) for use on the history exhibition panels. Official openings on the weekend of May 5th & 6th 2018For full details see the Kununurra Museum Events Page |
Jim Gooderson Collection Online
James Gooderson Collection - 1960-1962 PWD Ord Surveys and Survey of Tidal Power in the Kimberley 1963
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1967 Kununurra Inaugural Races 50 Years Ago
"K.A.R.C. Scrapbook" (1967-1976) Collection
It has been a very busy few months, with numbers of past residents returning, and other interesting people enjoying their time at the Museum, where time is spent finding information for former residents and getting down their family information and contact details, often resulting in new collections, as well as enjoying the extensive histories, artefacts, displays of objects and the multi-screen date-sorted slideshows at the Kununurra Museum.
Wirraway (A20-62) Tail FoundIn June an amazing new addition to collections was brought into the Kununurra Museum after the discovery last year by a grader operator while he was out grading a fenceline on part of Carlton Hill Station (formerly Ningbing Station), when in bush adjacent to the fence-line he came across the remains of the tail-plane from ('our') CAC 12 Squadron Wirraway A20-62.![]()
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New Ord Noah Collection
A great new collection of 193 photographs have been derived from the album made by Henry Hall, who was in charge of Operation Ord Noah during the 1971-72 wet season, which saw Lake Argyle fill for the first time. Henry was part of the wildlife group Western Australian Wildlife Association (WAWA so when you see WAWA on boats in this collection that is nothing to do with the Water Corporation's former title post PWD, Water Authority of Western Australia - WAWA).
Clicking album page below will take you to the Album collection, once there click on an image then scroll down for further information or view ALL as a slideshow (only available from main album page - near top right of page).
This adds to our collections online, with more than 2,400 photographs available in our collections on Flickr, which now, have had over 2,100,000 views (since 2011), so what otherwise would have been seen by nobody, languishing in the archive, have been made "ACCESSIBLE to ALL!" and are being made more and more "DISCOVERABLE" through social media avenues. On behalf of the Kununurra Historical Society, we hope you enjoy.
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A Royal LIKE of Kununurra Museum on fb
On Saint Patrick's Day - March 17th 2017, which was the day of the 1963 Royal Tour to Kununurra, I decided to post on the Royal Family's Facebook Page, which got a Royal response from a possible future Queen. [I was impressed! Thank you Kate (and family! :^) from the KHS.] This pristine looking 16mm colour film was made by cinematographer (& WA Ag. Dept. Entomologist), Kevin Richards and was added to YouTube in April 2017 (after the Royal Like - Will have to post this one to the Royal Family's fb page! :^)
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War in the Kimberley-75 Years in 2017
Wirraway-Challenge Week - March 20-26 2017 - 75 Years Some Kununurra Museum News of new research web pages and information on coming events to commemorate 75 years! 'Wirraway-Challenge' Display at the Kununurra Museum with photograph of RAAF 12 Squadron, Pilot Sergeant Lew Dwyer - "We had no 'Mae West' (Life Vest), No Dinghy, and we were going half way to Timor on anti-sub'[-marine] patrols!" with another photograph of RAAF Pilot Sergeant Warwick Carmody standing on the wing of force-landed RAAF CAC Wirraway A20-62 (notice the mud from the wet saltmarsh). On the right hand side of that photograph has been superimposed a colour photograph taken at the site showing the cockpit canopy on the dry saltmarsh as it was in 2014 before salvage. Montage AB for KHS.
At this time 75 Years ago, war came to Australia, starting when the Japanese attacked Darwin on February 19th 1942. After this day many attacks were to be made on the Top End, the Kimberley and Queensland, especially devastating in the Kimberley during March 1942.
Kununurra Museum on Social Networking
KHS has been active in the lead up, posting day by day snippets to our social media and sharing these posts.
Have a look at the Kununurra Museum Facebook page from...
https://www.facebook.com/Kununurra.Museum/ [Opens in a new tab]
As well in the past few weeks Kununurra Museum now has a Twitter presence now linked to the Facebook page, so that posts are shared between the two. Kununurra Museum on Twitter from...
https://twitter.com/KununurraMuseum [Opens in a new tab]
This has been useful, by following Archives and Museums from all over the world on Twitter, feeds come in about new collections, like the Bio-Diversity Heritage Library, who have digitised thousands of documents, all freely available to download in eBook formats, PDFs or as images.
John Gould (1804-1881) - The Birds of Australia (1848) - FREE! Things like all of John Gould's original 1848 'The Birds of Australia' - All seven volumes have been digitised and are freely available [All DL'd for KHS digital archive to extract all Kimberley birds for the Museum Slideshows!] - See
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/105698 [Opens in a new tab]
New KHS Website PagesThe main reason of this post is to draw attention to some new pages added to the website in recent weeks.
The Miles of Wyndham This is about an oral history made with Maggie Lilly in 1986 by Ursula Brimble, who inaugurated the meeting to form the Kununurra Historical Society in that year. This is one of our earliest archives that is shared with Battye Library, who digitised this in recent years. The page has an extract to listen to about 'the Miles of Wyndham - 3 Mile - 4 Mile - Six Mile - Seven Mile - Nine Mile - 12 Mile & 20 Mile - What a classic! As well as a synopsis of what Maggie discusses, near the end are links to each of the digital audio files at the State Library of WA. Have a read and a listen to the wonderful tale from Maggie Lilly about 'the Miles from Wyndham'. [Goes to the new page on this site] or an extract and new photograph added today (Feb 28th 2017) of extending the Wyndham Aerodrome circa 1930, as follows.
1930-ca - Extending the Wyndham Aerodrome8m 24s - Marriage and Children - Edwin James [Liljengvist] known as, 'Sam Lilly' was born at Derby [CHECK year?]
Sam Lilly - Went to Wyndham in 1924
Sam helped build the airstrip in Wyndham.
[KHS Note]
A photograph found at the State Library of New South Wales (online).
1930-ca Extending aerodrome Wyndham - ex SLNSW bcp_05819h
1930-ca - Extending the aerodrome at Wyndham - DL'd for KHS from the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) bcp_05819h
The State Library of NSW has some great digital archives, I found out talking to staff there a few years ago, that they had a very progressive and dynamic directive, thanks to an attitude of, no hesitatation just digitise it and ask questions later! This image for example is freely available as follows.
http://acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemID=393858 [Opens in a new Tab]
Title Extending aerodrome - Wyndham, WA
Call Number At Work and Play - 05819
Digital Order No. bcp_05819
This image may be used freely without requesting permission. Please acknowledge that the image is from the collections of the State Library of NSW. (OK - Thanks SLNSW! :^)
The Wyulda - Scaly Tailed Possum & Violet Valley Here some old information in the form of a 1922 news article about the 'Wyulda' found circa 1919 by Mr Rademy (pictured below), who at that time was at Violet Valley, as well as some more recent information as the Wyulda was recently discovered in other Kimberley locations for the first time. Read more about The Wyulda with photographs of Violet Valley thanks to SLWA
[Image links to the Wyulda Page] History of Thompson's SpringA History of Thompson's Spring - Named in 1886 by Tom Kilfoyle is presented on this page - September 1886 - Charly found a spring I called it Tomsons spring." Also has some history about the masonry dam added at a much later date!
Wirraway-Challenge Week (March 20th to 26th) - Kununurra Museum It is 75 Years on March 20th 2017, since RAAF 12 Squadron Pilot Sergeants, Lew Dwyer and Warwick Carmody, had engine failure over the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, while on a mission to Drysdale River Mission, fling their first leg between Batchelor and Wyndham. They had to turn south and 'head for Australia' in Lew's words. They only just made it to the widest part of the Ningbing saltmarsh, with a textbook wheels-up landing, as it was too wet to land on the coastal saltmarsh, just 5 km inside Western Australia, adjacent to the WA-NT border (Longitude 129 degrees East of Greenwich). Read more and see 8 x Parts from a DVD about the forced landing of CAC Wirraway A20-62, for a story of Survival & Rescue by Aboriginal stockmen from Carlton Hill station, organised by pedal radio from Wyndham. Go to the Kununurra Museum's - Wirraway-Challenge Display - Page (Wirraway means Challenge! :^) All of the YouTube digital videos (DVs) are embedded lower down on that page or go straight to the...
Kununurra Museum's YouTube Channel [Opens in a new tab]
Also see the Kununurra Museum Events Page.
1971-72 - KHS - Bert Lee Operation Ord Noah Collection
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Bert Lee 1971-72 Operation Ord Noah
KHS - Bert Lee Operation Ord Noah Collection is now online!After distressing scenes when the Aswan Dam in Egypt first filled the WA Government did not want a repeat here, so the WA Wildlife Authority (another NLA) got involved to rescue and relocate animals caught by the Ord in flood filling Lake Argyle for the first time. Thanks Bert (in Townsville)!
Bert Lee - 'Operation Ord Noah' Collection
[As embedded Slideshow here on this page >>> ] - Use the '4 cornered' gadget in lower right hand side to go full screen - Once there use controls at top right to show full documentation for all of our archival photographs on Flickr! This collection, placed online last night has been included in the Trove Australia Group on Flickr, so are now also accessible to all via a NLA Trove search!
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WA Historic Number Plates Database
Great New Searchable DatabaseTo search for eg. WY (Wyndham) or any WA country town number plates the Carnamah Historical Society now provide this outstanding tool for WA history researchers - Thank You! See the post here from the KHS Kununurra Museum - FaceBook page... |
2 Million Views on Flickr
KHS on Flickr Our 2nd Millionth View
If these photographs had not been digitised and placed online, they would have still been in the archive and virtually nobody would have seen them. KHS - Making archives accessible to show the significance of this Kimberley History to anyone, anywhere in the world! Enjoy! The best way to view KHS collections on Flickr from...
KHS Subject Themes - 100 albums (Linked to Image Above - Click Image)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khs-museum/collections/72157625849162917/ KHS Archive Collections - 19 albums
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khs-museum/collections/72157625974583388/ or view as individual Albums from here... KHS Albums on Flickr - Page 1 - Decades then A-F http://www.flickr.com/photos/khs-museum/albums |