Showing posts with label Yannathan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yannathan. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Lang Lang, Yannathan Lower and Yannathan South - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

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 Subscriber Trunk Dialling (S.T.D.) came to Koo Wee Rup on Sunday June 24, 1973, so you no longer had to ring an operator to have a call put...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

Letters to Yannathan from World War One soldiers

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This post looks at letters sent to people  in Yannathan (or by those with a Yannathan connection) from three Great War soldiers - William Du...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Yannathan State School Reunion 1964

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This is an account of a reunion, held on November 28, 1964,  of pupils who attended Yannathan State School, No. 2422.   Yannathan State scho...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

The Great Yannathan Fires of 1898

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I came across this obituary of Robert Gardiner, of Yannathan, who died on January 11, 1939 at the age of 83. It's an interesting obituar...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Koalas at Yannathan and on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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This post looks at references to koalas at Yannathan and more broadly on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp.    In May 1891, Cyrus Mason wrote a letter t...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

Royal Commission into Overseas Settlers from Britain (Migrant Land Settlement) 1931 and the Owen family

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The Age newspaper, of January 24, 1931 reported on the Royal Commission on Migrant Land Settlement [read the full article here ] - The Roya...