Carnamah Historical Society & Museum in Carnamah, Western Australia | Community museum

Carnamah Historical Society & Museum

Locality: Carnamah, Western Australia

Phone: +61 457 911 984

Address: 10 Macpherson Street 6517 Carnamah, WA, Australia

Website: https://www.carnamah.com.au

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23.01.2022 A great photo of the former garage and showroom (now The Exchange) at 4 Macpherson Street in Carnamah when owned by Eric Gurr in the 1940s. The garage was built in 1930 by local builder Charlie Dallimore for mechanic Stan O'Grady. The front portion used bricks from the very short-lived Carnamah Brickworks and while the front has since been rendered over, there is now an exposed brick wall inside.

22.01.2022 Our very own Andrew Bowman-Bright will be giving an online talk this evening (7pm Tuesday 15th) with Familyhistory WA - FHWA. Andrew will be giving a tour of our online databases and recounting some of the interesting and unexpected stories that have emerged through their creation. Further info, and $2.50 tickets, can be found at https://www.trybooking.com/BKSCN

22.01.2022 The Carnamah Golf Club was formed at a community meeting at the Carnamah Hall on Monday 5 May 1930, which means the club will be reaching the milestone of 90 years in 2020. Pictured here is the opening of the Carnamah Golf Club's second golf course at Centenary Park in Carnamah in 1933, which comes from The Perenjori Pioneer newspaper of 5 August 1933.

20.01.2022 We'd like to extend our best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We've added the tree to this early 1930s shot of Stan Hidden's 'The Corner Store' at 2 Macpherson Street in Carnamah. Although substantially changed over the years, this shop is still there today as Wallaces News & Drapery.

19.01.2022 Counting sheep as they leave the race, on the Reading family's Wellmeadow Farm at Five Gums in Carnamah

19.01.2022 Sunday sure was a dusty day in Carnamah and Corryne Bull has shared this great photo of a dust storm from several decades ago. Check out the crosswalk! It is looking east along Macpherson Street, the buildings on the left are no longer there and are now the site of the huge tree next door to the Shire's office.

17.01.2022 Our museum in Carnamah is now CLOSED for renovations! We look forward to welcoming you back in 2021. In the meantime, we remain open 24/7 online at www.carnamah.com.au

17.01.2022 Today is #InternationalNursesDay, aligned to the birthday of Florence Nightingale, which took place on this day in 1820. The first known nurse in the Carnamah district was Mrs Bessie Reid, who settled in 1915 on Auchindoir Farm in Winchester (South Carnamah). Initially without training and from pure necessity to help those around her, she treated accidents, responded to emergencies and acted as a midwife... even saving the life of a man bitten by a snake. In 1917 Bessie comm...enced formal training in Perth, after which she returned to Winchester as Nurse Reid. Our thanks to nurses around the world, especially for their efforts over the past few months. You can search for Western Australian nurses between 1919 and 1949 in our online index at www.carnamah.com.au/WA-nurses

16.01.2022 The general store of Eric Gurr at 7 Macpherson Street in Carnamah. The store was built in 1921 for Lou Parker and was used continuously as a supermarket until burning down in 2004.

14.01.2022 There's a great range of activities happening in Coorow, Carnamah, Morawa and Mingenew for this long weekend's Act-Belong-Commit Harvest Festival. If anyone would like to visit the Carnamah Museum of the Macpherson Homestead over the weekend, please get in touch with George on 9951 1690 or 0439 966 040. For the festival's program, see www.harvestfestival.org.au or in our comment below.

12.01.2022 Miss Maggie Macpherson commenced as Carnamah's first postmistress or postmaster 125 years ago on this day in 1894. She fulfilled the role of processing Carnamah's mail from her family's homestead 'Carnamah House' for 19 years, retiring in 1913. The post office then moved into town, complaints having begun in 1912 that the homestead was located too far from the railway station for the efficient conducting of business. You can discover an overview of Carnamah's postal history in our online exhibition at www.carnamah.com.au/post-office

10.01.2022 A great write up by the Gingin Hockey Club on Shirley Rowland, who spent the first few decades of her life on Billaloo and Red Hill Farms in Carnamah.

10.01.2022 What can be found on many 20th century globes of the world between Perth and Geraldton? Generally the only place listed on mass-produced globes was Carnamah - like on this one in our museum's collection.

07.01.2022 The historic Macpherson Homestead in Carnamah is playing host to a free 'Night Skies' event with Astrotourism WA and the Shire of Carnamah this Saturday 5th December from 7pm. BYO food and drinks, if you'd like to, and there will be some food for sale. Photo by Colin White.

05.01.2022 Christopher Hoskyns-Abrahall served in the UK's Royal Marines for 23 years. Following his retirement he purchased one of the Midland Railway Company's Ready-Made Farms in Winchester, South Carnamah. With the outbreak of war he was appointed to the 16th Western Australian Infantry but shortly afterwards returned to England and joined the Portsmouth Battalion of the Royal Marine Light Infantry. With four other men, he led a gallant attack against Turkish trenches at Gabe Tepe o...n the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 3 May 1915. The attack was credited with allowing many Australian soldiers, who'd been driven out of their trenches, to safely return. He was wounded during the attack and died on a hospital ship the following day. His name appears on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Hampshire, England but sadly does not appear on the Carnamah War Memorial. He was counted, on our nomination, as one of the 1023 Gallipoli Dead from Western Australia. Photo courtesy of Dulwich College in London, which he attended from 1884 to 1889. For more on Christopher, see his entry in our Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs at www.carnamah.com.au/bio/christopher-henry-hoskyns-abrahall

05.01.2022 Photograph of a cockatoo, taken on the Poole family's Elberton Farm at Billeroo, East Winchester (Carnamah) in the early 1930s. The building in the background was their 'summerhouse' where the family slept in the peak of summer when it was too hot to sleep in the main house.

04.01.2022 You never quite know which museum objects are going to become famous, or infamous! A photo of the key to our museum's former toilet door is now gracing the Facebook cover photo of Australian Museums and Galleries Association Western Australia! The door was a casualty of our museum extension and its key is featured in our virtual exhibition '10 Macpherson Street' at www.carnamah.com.au/tearooms

02.01.2022 Horace Williams ran a dental surgery in Carnamah from January to August of 1930. This plaque was found almost 50 years later under the floor of the house at 6 Railway Avenue in Carnamah when it was being renovated by Eddie Jennings in the late 1970s; and Eddie kindly donated the sign to our museum in 2020. Horace Williams was one of three dentists who briefly operated in Carnamah in 1929 and 1930: - Noel Crossing, January to September 1929... - Allan S. Mummery, September to December 1929 - Horace Williams, January to August 1930 See more

02.01.2022 The recent 'cars and coffee' morning along Macpherson Street in Carnamah. Photos courtesy of Dave Essers.

01.01.2022 The Carnamah Hostel, also known as Brown's Boarding House, which was located at 15 & 17 Caron Street in Carnamah. When Flo and Chitter Brown opened the boarding house in 1928 it contained four rooms for boarders in addition to considerable space on its ten foot verandah around the building. It boasted electric lighting, modern conveniences and a large comfortable dining room with piano. Judging by the lack of neighbours, we believe the photo was taken before 1930 when Bank of... Australasia (now The Bank Gallery Space) was built next door. In 1936 the hostel was split in two, which have been occupied ever since as two houses. Our many thanks to Lindsay Adams for a copy of the photo and to Reg Ellery some remedial magic.