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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Apr 13, 20221 min read
Troops, Tents and Training
Mundaring and Hills Historical is pleased to announce the publishing of Troops, Tents and Training - The history of the Chidlow WWll Army...
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Apr 4, 20221 min read
World Health Day
World Health Day is a global health Awareness Day celebrated on the 7th April every year under the sponsorship of the World Health...
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Mar 30, 20221 min read
Yardil Headdress Returns Home
Yardil Songman's Headdress Mundaring and Hills Historical Society supports the repatriation of First Nations artefacts back to their...
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Mar 28, 20221 min read
Mothering Sunday
Tea and Scones Anyone? Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday in Lent and not a Public Holiday, it was originally to attend their local...
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Mar 21, 20222 min read
Unearthing Footprints from the Past
The MHHS has embarked on a project to identify Aboriginal sites throughout the Shire of Mundaring. The project supports the Shire of...
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Mar 16, 20221 min read
The Three Well Known Australians
Where is Pea? The exhibition Three Well Known Australians opened in the Mundaring District Museum on Wednesday 9 March 2022 and will be...
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Mar 2, 20222 min read
International Women's Day 8th March
Katherine Susannah Prichard was a Mundaring Shire resident during the years 1920 to her death in 1969.
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Feb 28, 20221 min read
Over 150 Years Since the 1st Typewriter
Numerous inventors in Europe and the U.S. worked on typewriters in the 19th century.
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Feb 14, 20221 min read
Coughs, Sneezes and Diseases
On 16th February 600 AD Pope Gregory the Great decreed that saying “God Bless You was the correct response to a sneeze.
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Dec 15, 20212 min read
Mundaring's Earliest Post Offices
The first Mundaring Post Office was a corrugated iron building on the corner of Hodgson and Jacoby Streets.
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Nov 17, 20212 min read
Artefact has links to WA's earliest and most influential settlers
Perth Hills detectorist and history enthusiast Rhys Hall has recently unearthed an artefact with links to one of WA's early settlers.
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Nov 17, 20211 min read
Carnaby Cockatoo
Did you know that the Carnaby Cockatoo is named after Ivan Carnaby who was a well known resident of Parkerville from 1922.
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Nov 17, 20211 min read
Murder at the vineyard
It was 9.10 am Wednesday the 4th February 1903 when the picnic train puffed into Smith’s Mill Station.
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Mundaring & Hills Historical Society
Nov 17, 20211 min read
Bailup and the Wayside Inn
Bailup is located on Toodyay Road, north east of Noble Falls in the Shire of Mundaring.
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