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Friends of Mandurah Museum
The "Friends of the Museum" are a group of community minded individuals who actively promote and support Mandurah Community Museum. The group meets once a month over morning tea, to discuss and plan activities, in association with the museum, and to compile a bi-monthly newsletter.

Newsletter - August 2010
Jan Baker: Dalrymple School reaches 110 years...Michael McGhie: History of the Fishing Industry...MDO Report: Eacott’s cottage...Scoop magazine...Travelling displays...Coming Events: Scitech...Mandurah-Spanning The Ages Project...Our Collections: Blacksmith’s Bellows...Chairpersons Report for AGM...New committee members

Newsletter - June 2010
A Load of Hot Air... Memories and Photos of the Smart Street Mall... Special Morning Tea... Phyl Hardy: Deloraine Museum... Pat Mc Donald: Smart Street Mall Poem... Nancy Turns 86... Vale Stan Dawe RIP... MDO Report... Education Matters... Chairpersons Report

Newsletter - April 2010
Smart’s Cannery... Oral History and Artists Combine... NLA Historic Newspapers Site... Mandurah Meat Supply...Wellstead Museum...Egg Scale...MDO Report... Education Matters... Chairpersons Report

Newsletter - February 2010
School milk in Western Australia... Pinjarra Massacre Website... Book Report-"The Sinkings"... Spot Light on volunteers... "The Mandurah Murray Story" $7.50... MDO Report: Interpretation Plan... Roads Board Display a Success...Chairpersons Report

Newsletter - Christmas 2009
1953 Bridge... Comparing Narrows to Mandurah Bridge...MDO Report: Exhibitions & Displays, Volunteer Outing...Eleanor Kay: Hackett St School 70 year Anniversary Celebration October 09... Chairpersons Report-Jan Baker: Oral history Projects, volunteers nominated for awards... Education Matters: Education Kits, Fire & Emergency Services Education & Heritage Centre... Christmas Memories

Newsletter - October 2009
Long Serving teachers- Mrs Tonkin & Mr Kirkpatrick... Hackett Street School Reunion... Bouquets to Eleanor Kay... Other Museums-Wagin & Musee de Orsay... MDO Report: Welcoming John Hughes & Interpretation Plan update... 2010 Calendar

Newsletter - August 2009
Road Board Anniversary- 60 years... Wilfred Goode: Headmaster of Hackett Street School in 1939...Mandurah Progress Association... Chairpersons report for AGM- Jan Baker... MDO Report: Historical Display at CWA Conference & Indigenous Oral History Project

Newsletter - June 2009
Hal Sutton, Freeman of the City of Mandurah remembered... Early Educators...Neil Morfitt’s 75th Birthday... Volunteer Luncheon... Eddy Bryant remembered... Pioneer Day...music for the Museum... From the MDO: Mature Learner’s Group lectures & Stretch Festival

Newsletter - April 2009
Cooper’s Mill... Martin Reynard a character of Mandurah... To Be Heirs Forever by Mary Durack...Robert Mewburn...Aboriginal Mia Mia... MALA lectures... Christ?s Church Archaeology

Newsletter - February 2009
Mary King award... Cooper’s Mill... First Educator: Eliza Tuckey... Harry Jackson...Hackett Street School memories

Newsletter - Christmas 2008
Coopers Mill...Transcribing...Coloured Star Club...MDO Report...Broome Museum...Volunteer Awards...Friends Oral History Function...Winjan...Recollections of a Christmas Tree

Newsletter - August 2008
Dudley Tuckey 1921-2008...Index of Fact Sheets 2005-2008...Mandurah Iceworks...Book Review: The last Explorer by Simon Nasht...Magneto telephones...From the MDO: Significant Tree Register, Adam Family of Ravensthorpe, Stingray Point, Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Museum Advisory Committee

Newsletter - July 2008
Electrical Power in Mandurah...Archaeological Dig for Police Barracks...Pat Harrison (1914-2007)...Tales of Times Past From the MDO: Migrant Barrack Wall, Stingray Point, Visitor Centre Display

Newsletter - April 2008
Pinjarra Mounted Police...Home schooling...Anzac Day From the MDO: local studies collection, Tuckeys Bungalow

Newsletter - February 2008
Guns of Garden Island...Southern Suburbs Railway...Schoolroom Ghosts: oral history excerpts...Volunteering in Nepal...From the MDO: Indigenous Oral History

Newsletter - Christmas 2007
Catalpa...Scout visit...Christmas in Mandurah: oral history excerpts...Christmas outing...Book Report...From the MDO: Island Point History Day

Newsletter - October 2007
Commercial fishing in Mandurah - The Early Years...Wattle and Daub...School Programs...Auction...Volunteers...Holiday Homes Exhibition...From the MDO: Island Point, Muddy Creek, Shire of Augusta-Margaret River visit

Newsletter - April 2007
Violet Sutton’s Corner Store...Violet Sutton’s Home...Education Questions (not answers...Malliag Museum and Highland Heritage Museum, Scotland...Manjar Gallery Installation Education Discovery Boxes...School Holidays...Fisherfolk of the Peel: Oral History tapes and transcripts...Bennet Brook Railway...Volunteer Projects and Activities...From the MDO: Museum Precinct and Conservation Plan, talks, Southern Estuary Progress Association Hall

Newsletter - February 2007
Holiday Program: Mostly Marine...Book Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak...Borehole Rescue...Stingray Point and Peninsula Hotel...Chairmans Report...From the MDO: Borehole Rescue Exhibition, Museum advisory Board, Joe Walley RIP

Newsletter - November 2006
Leah Fouracre...2006 Volunteers Christmas...Outing: Creery Wetlands, Morphitt’s Cave, Winjan’s Camp, Sutton Graveyard, Eacott’s Cottage, Eacotts Well, Blythewood Volunteering...From the MDO: Estuary mural, Museum Precinct Conservation Plan, Agricultural Hall, Essex Six ute

Newsletter - August 2006
Old Mandurah Footbridge...NAIDOC Week...Borehole Rescue Project...Education Officer...Volunteer Dinner...Chairman’s Report...From the MDO: mural, Joe Walley creation story, Holiday Home photography workshops

Newsletter - June 2006
Bush Heritage...Oral History course...Vale: Beryl Slade...Book Report: Everymans Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany...Ferry Service 1843-1878...Stretch Arts Festival...Holiday Home Photographic Collection...Volunteering at Perth Zoo...From the MDO: Cultural Heritage Grant, mural

Newsletter - April 2006
Old Bridge...Matthew Price Pioneer and Bridge Builder...Bush Heritage Holiday Program...Eureka Vacuum...Volunteer achievements...From the MDO: Storage shelves, darkroom, John Scott

Newsletter - February 2006
Website launch...Magical History Tour...Yarloop Workshops...Scitech visit...Spotlight on volunteers...From the MDO: darkroom

Newsletter - January 2006
175th Anniversary of the Settlement of Mandurah...Coopers Mill...News form the Friends...Roy Whitehead Photographic Collection...Scitech...Book Report: Burkes Soldier by Alan Attwood...Maps...Spotlight on Volunteers...Hal Sutton and Owen Tuckey oral history recordings...Legends of the Peel...From the MDO: Street sign, Lotterywest Interpretation Grant, Indigenous Artefacts


Friends Project
The oral history team are busy collecting stories about the Agricultural Hall for its 110th anniversary in 2009. Incidentally, if you are interested in learning about interviewing and oral histories then talk to Jan Baker or Phylis Hardy on Wednesdays (or leave a message for them anytime) and they’ll put you down for the next training course. Training courses are held by demand, register your interest by phoning 9550 3683.

Join Friends of the Museum
Contact the Mandurah Community Museum and we can tell you more about the group. Alternatively, fill out the membership form and pop it in the post and we’ll send you the latest copy of the newsletter

 

 
 

The Borehole Rescue at Mandurah on Friday 18th January 1957 was one of the most dramatic, sustained rescue operations ever carried out in Australia. The drama brought Mandurah world-wide publicity. The rescue operation was a collective community effort by many people who came forward spontaneously to give their combined and determined cooperation to achieve a rescue under the most hazardous conditions.

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