KHS News‎ > ‎

Complete Kevin Richards Collection

posted 31 Jul 2011 04:10 by Kununurra Historical Society Inc. Archive and Museum   [ updated 31 Jul 2011 05:17 ]
The final series of photographs from 1959 were added yesterday, with 1960, 1961 and 1962 being added in days since the last news post. Some great new images making a total of 605 photographs in this collection (Mostly Kodachrome 35mm slides) now make around 2000 KHS archive images online that have been digitised and documented to be made accessible to all!

Kevin's earlier uploaded Print Collection and the 35mm Collection are available from the new...

Kevin Richards Collections

Or view in various other ways from the...

There are many ways to view the images and all (Within two weeks), will be available on the National Library of Australia's Trove search from this example Trove Search link...

http://trove.nla.gov.au/picture/result?q=%22Kevin+Richards%22

(At the date of this post there were 40 or so images from Kevin Richards Print Collection that are already visible from the Trove link above but if you try this same link in about two weeks it will show over 600 results!)

Some other hilights from the collection can be seen from the selection of a few of the 60 Sets (In "Subject Themes" above) - See Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, photographed at Kununurra by Kevin, in March 1963 OR (Below) see Prime Minister Robert Menzies opening the Diversion Dam and viewing crops, five months later on July 20th 1963.

1963-03-17 Royal Tour Queen with WA Premier David Brand at Kununurra Airstrip - KHS-2011-31-120-2.45-P2-D

Royal Tour 1963
 16 photos

March 17th 1963 - "Queen arrives at Kununurra airstrip in private plane"

[Next to the Queen is WA Premier David Brand with Price Phillip and Mrs Brand behind. The RAAF fire tenders in the background and the Queen's car were flown in for the occasion on an RAAF transport plane.]

A recent archive sent by Melbourne visitor, David Rees, after seeing the "A20-62 Wirraway - Challenge Display at the KHS Museum earlier in July 2011, is an original 1986 publication commemorating 50 years of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) Factory at Fisherman's Bend in Melbourne. David worked at the CAC Wirraway factory, where the Wirraways were assembled and tested.

On page 22 of the Booklet (32 pages - original) 1986 CAC 50th Anniversary [Hawker de Havilland Victoria Ltd.] - A picture of one of these RAAF fire tenders that were made at the CAC factory for the RAAF. Two of these were flown up for the 1963 Royal Tour.

KHS - Kevin Richards (KRS Entomologist) Family Collection

4. Royal Tour - Richards Categories

KHS Digital Archive Number: KHS-2011-31-120-2.45-P2-D

Digitised and documented by KHS Volunteers with the assistance of a grant from the Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley

1963-07-20 - Day PM Menzies Opens Diversion Dam - July 20th 1963 - KHS-2011-31-391-2.75-P2-D

Diversion Dam Opening Ceremony

 24 photos

1963-07-20 - The Day Prime Minister Robert Menzies Opened the Ord River Diversion Dam - July 20th 1963

[Prime Minister Menzies addresses the crowd at the Opening Ceremony for the Diversion Dam]

KHS - Kevin Richards (KRS Entomologist) Family Collection

13. Diversion Dam Opening Ceremony 1963 - Richards Categories

KHS Digital Archive Number: KHS-2011-31-391-2.75-P2-D

Digitised and documented by KHS Volunteers, with a grant from the Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley.

Richards Family & House

Richards Family & House

 Wildlife

Wildlife

 Crops

Crops

 Dillon's Bottle Tree (KRS Boab)

Dillon's Bottle Tree (KRS)

 Diversion Dam Construction

Diversion Dam Construction
Flowers & Trees

Flowers & Trees
 61 photos  55 photos  99 photos  10 photos  486 photos  40 photos
Comments

Ninbing Boab in Early Morning Twilight

Site Owners

Kununurra Historical Society (KHS)
 Archive, Gallery Library, Museum & Research
Kununurra Museum - Coolibah Drive & Online

Dates & Events
Next KHS Meeting
1st Tuesday of the Month at 7pm
All Welcome

10days until
KHS Meeting 1st Tuesday of the Month (March 5th 2013) at 7pm - All Welcome!

69days since
KHS Open Day - On Sunday, March 17th 2013, when it was 50 Years since the Royal Tour visited Kununurra on March 17th 1963.

56days until
July 20th 2013, when it will be 50 years since the Ord River Diversion Dam was officially opened by Prime Minister Robert Menzies

Kununurra Museum Events

For more information on Kununurra Museum Events, for the Australian "Year of the Farmer," see the KHS Events Page

1942

March 20th 1942

Wirraway A20-62

On March 20th 2017 it will be...

75 Years...

Since the forced landing of Wirraway A20-62, on coastal saltmarsh, just inside the WA/NT border, by Pilots Lew Dwyer and Warwick Carmody. See the permanent "Wirraway - Challenge" display at the KHS Museum.

66days since
March 20th, which was the date of the forced landing of 12 Squadron Wirraway A20-62 in 1942. Broome and Derby suffered air raids on this day, March 20th 1942.

1942

1943 (Dry Season)

70 Years ago at Carlton Reach

(Ord River Experimental Station)

During the dry season of 1943 Kim and Bill Durack continued their work on the "Ord River Experimental Station," which had been set up late in 1941 at Carlton Reach using the waters of the Ord. More information is available about the 36 HP Petters "Atomic" diesel pump engine, used to raise the water for these first major experimental attempts at irrigation, at the twenty acre farm site. available from the Carlton Reach Pump Engine

ABC Kimberley Radio Interview (March 2013) - About the "Petters Atomic Diesel Engine - See http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2013/03/18/3718139.htm?site=kimberley

News Flash!
In April 2013 the 36 HP "Petters Atomic Diesel Engine" was donated to the Kununurra Historical Society by the Department of Agriculture and Food WA - Frank Wise Institute of Tropical Agriculture (formerly the Kimberley Research Station, where the engine was also in use until the 1950s), KHS plans to display the original pump engine by the entrance gate of the Kununurra Museum.

Events from 2011

Wyndham and Hall's Creek (aka "Kimberley") were established.

1886

125 Years Ago
(In 2011)

In May and June 2011 It was
90 Years
Since the WA and SA Government Astronomers came to the Kimberley in
1921
to determine the position of the WA/NT Border on the ground by using the new technology (in 1921), of radio time signals. This exepedition in 1921 would locate the border position and a WA Survey crew would come back in 1927 to build the Kimberley Obelisk, which still determines the border today.
Read More about the 1921 WA/NT Border Determinations

1941

1941
Carlton Reach

"Thethebeleng" or "Carlton Reach"
:-( now sadly, referred to as Lake Kununurra)
Was the largest permanent waterhole in the entire Kimberley Region, held back by a place called "Tharram," the "Rocky Falls" or "Jasper Bar" or "Bandicoot Bar," stretching all the way to "Carlton Ridge" or the head of the "Sleeping Buddha, as it is known today."

"Kim's Place"  or "Ord River Experimental Station" or "Ord River Experimental Farm" or "The Cabbage Patch" - No matter what it has been referred to in writing, this was the WA Government's precursor to the joint Federal (CSIRO) - State (WA Ag. Dept.) Kimberley Research Station (KRS).

The 1941 experimental station was set up at Carlton Reach, by Kimberley Michael Durack, for the Department of Agriculture WA, with assistance from the Public Works Department, along with his brother William A. (Bill) Durack, and other helpers along the way.

It will be 75 Years Ago
(in 2016)

Read More on the Carlton Reach Pump Engine Research Page

Top (Top of page text start - Starts below header photograph of the Diversion Dam)

845days since
This site was started on January 31st 2011

Navigation