From siding to Stoneville . .

A timber camp on the railway midway between Parkerville and Lion Mill (now Mount Helena) was served by a private set of rails known as Adams and Dowie’s siding. The two men provided many Perth bakehouses and woodyards, railing cords of firewood, as well as hand-hewn sleepers, from their siding. In 1905, local residents named the siding ‘Stoneville’, apparently after Sir Edward Albert Stone, Chief Justice of Western Australia, who succeeded Stephen Parker (of Parkerville) in that position.

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Image: Residents outside the Stoneville Hall 1929. The hall is now a private residence. MHHS Collection.