1919-The Wyulda

1920 ca Ambrose and Nance Durack Young Ambrosine Durack, with Mr Rademy and his wife, Elizabeth (nee Webster) at Argyle Downs - Elizabeth Durack personal photographic collection courtesy of the Clancy and Durack families. KHS Archive Number KHS-2011-11-PD-20.

Violet Valley Photographs

 Some great photographs of Violet Valley a few years before the Wyulda was found, have been located at the State Library of Western Australia, from the AO Neville Collection. The first photograph above links back to that single photograph of Violet Valley, whereas, the following (6) photographs, are all available from a single url - Go to the SLWA Catalogue page with 6 x Violet Valley Photographs - (Opens in a New Tab :^)

Violet Valley - Cancelled Public Plan

The WA State Records Office have digitised thousands of Cancelled Public Plans, which are the master plans that were used by the WA Lands Department. They are printed lithographically so start black. Any new lease-holder is added in red, as can be seen here, meaning that anything in red was added sometime between 1923, (the start year for this plan) and 1955 (the end year for this plan). Typically, when they started in the 1880s as the "K" Series Kimberley plans, would last for about five years then the 2nd in the series would have lasted a similar period and so on so there are about 5 plans between say 1886 and 1910 then they go to the 300 chain plans, at a different scale, usually a similar number (4 or 5) of plans for that series between circa 1910 and 1955. In other words for every sectional area of WA there exists about 10 plans between say 1886 and 1955. I have DL'd all of the Kimberley for KHS use. Through these plans one can trace who had what land and when. A great resource digitised by the WA State Records Office from their 'Maps Online' Page or try their new(ish) Atom Search engine from https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/ [All Open in new Tabs]