View Historic Photo Gallery. Beginning - Geraldton Port has been servicing the Mid West as the major seaport of the region since when the first ship, the HMS Champion, first anchored off its coast. The first jetty - Construction of Port facilities began in with the first town jetty extending metres due north from Gregory Street. A metre breakwater was completed in , being connected to land in the mid s.
First reinforced concrete berth in WA - Wharf construction began in and the first reinforced concrete berth in the state was officially opened in Geraldton in Development of Berths 3 and 4 - s Dramatic development during the s and s brought on line new berthing facilities in Berth 3 and a Fishing Boat Harbour was added in Development of Berth 5 - In Berth 5, a metre berth designed to accommodate vessels of up to 27, tonnes displacement was added.
Development of Berth 6 - Increased regional trade and shipping demands led to the development of Berth 6 and by Berth 3 was due for refurbishment to cater for an expansion of grain handling and shiploading facilities erected by Co-operative Bulk Handling Ltd. Be sure to call in to the Geraldton Visitor Centre for more information on what trails are available in the Geraldton and Midwest region.
The Residency is a heritage listed building that was constructed using convict labour in and was home to local Magistrates and their families.
Then in it opened as the Geraldton and District Maternity home. In it was converted into a Community Centre, which it still is today. Brimming with history. Itineraries and travel inspo. Holiday Planner.
History Geraldton is brimming with history, just walk around the CBD and you can see it for yourself. Back to Top Historic Trails The Midwest is absolutely brimming with history, and what better way to explore these stories than by embarking on one of the many historic trails that meander through the region?
Back to Top The Residency The Residency is a heritage listed building that was constructed using convict labour in and was home to local Magistrates and their families.
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Read More. Book now. Whether you are a keen fisherman, looking to explore the Abrolhos, an avid. Geraldton Belair Gardens Caravan Park. Horrocks Beach Caravan Park. A relaxing holiday destination located on the coast between Kalbarri and Geraldton.
Horrocks Beach is a unique destination which offers a quiet and unspoilt holiday atmosphere. Our guests enjoy the. Port Gregory Caravan Park. Welcome to Port Gregory Caravan Park Located next to the beach, Port Gregory, is a sheltered natural harbour with excellent fishing, snorkelling and diving. Drive past and take in the magnificent pink. Broadwater Resort Hotel. Geraldton is a booming coastal city along fantastic beaches and surrounded by fertile agricultural land, proudly being the Coral Coast's only city and a highly important centre of regional activity.
Ibis Styles Geraldton. The comfortable and friendly Ibis Styles Geraldton sits at the edge of town, close to the airport and m from the beach.
Along with 60 rooms, Ibis Styles Geraldton features a pool, restaurant and. Drummond Cove Holiday Park. View all Geraldton Accommodation.
Ultimate Watersports - Geraldton. Based at the Geraldton Foreshore, spending some time with Ulitmate Watersports is the best place to start if you are looking for things to do! It's a beautiful protected bay central to the city where. Transwa is Western Australia's regional public transport provider, linking destinations, from Kalbarri in the north to Augusta in the south west to Esperance in the south east. The Transwa system. Overlooking the Indian Ocean, the Western Australian Museum — Geraldton celebrates the rich heritage of the land, sea and people of the Mid West region.
Enjoy a guided tour through the stories from. New Leaf Connect. Turn over a new leaf - explore, discover, and experience, locally.
New Leaf Connect is all about creating connections between people, places and produce across the Midwest in celebration of all things. RedSands Campers. Offshore Charters WA. We specialise in fishing, crayfishing tours and eco tourism charters offering a unique and unforgettable ocean. Both Mr. Burton, and Mrs. Bennett, despite their 70 odd summers, still lead active lives.
Burton was a Miss Snowdon, a name still well known in this district, and was born at Lynton Station — frequently men- tioned in the course of these memoirs.
Andrew Brand lives with her daughter, Mrs. Worthington, in Fitzgerald Street. She was a passenger from England in the 'Mary Harrison' which arrived in Fremantle in She was then 18 years old.
It is a strange coincidence that two passen gers by this boat — Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Brand — now, after all these years, live within a stone's throw of each other. Brand's has been the experiences of the true pioneer. Most of her life, except for an interval of some 10 years on the Greenough, has been spent at Lynton Station near Port Gregory — a place started in , soon after its discovery by the Gregorys, by a Cap tain Sanford, whose name still survives in Sanford Street.
Brand relates how when she first came to Geraldton with the family of the late Julius du Boulay they were the guests of Mr. Simmons the then R. Her life as a lonely woman with a family of young children in the outback is a moving story of bravery and endur ance. Listening to her, we know whence came the men of the Anzac breed who clambered up the heights of Gallipoli. Ward, of Fitzgerald Street justly claims to be the oldest person in Geraldton and there must be few in the State older than she.
She was born in Warwickshire in , and was therefore 93 years old in October last. Ward is wonderfully well and in full possession of her faculties, despite her years. She arrived in Fremantle in the sailing ship 'Mary Harrison'. She was then a young matron with two children. Frank Ward, the wheelwright in Cathedral Avenue, being 'the baby.
Ward came to Geraldton in with her late husband, who was chief prison warder, a position which he occupied for 23 years. Narra Tarra, situated 12 miles from Geraldton, was taken up in the early fifties by Mr. Joseph Green. His daughter, whose photograph appears with her grand daughter Beryl Miss Australia, is the subject of this sketch. William Burges, then Magistrate, who lived at the Bowes, and went to Port Gregory when a boat arrived to her home at.
Narra Tarra. Subsequently she met and married the late John Mills, who had acquired a further 75, acres of land. Together they reared a family of nine children, eight of whom are still living. Upwards of twenty years ago Narra Tarra was re-purchased by the Government, and there are now twenty eight families settled there Mrs. Mills was born in in Guild. She can tell some stirring stories about the privations of the early settlers in the surrounding districts.
Thomas Hutchinson claims to have been, if not the first white child born in Geraldton, then the first within Geraldton environs. He was bom at White Peak in His earliest recol lections are of the copper and lead mining industry at Geraldine, in which his father was then engaged. He remembers the building of the old Gwalla Church, a landmark now unfor tunately destroyed.
The pillars and ornaments of this church were turned by a Mr. David Cameron, who was specially brought from Scotland for the work, and Mr. Hutchinson, with a twinkle, relates how as a small boy he. Cameron to turn him a sandal-wood top. Hutchinson, proudly displaying to us the quaint little relic. Geraldton, Mr. Hutchinson remembers as a moving expanse of sandhills. The immediate approaches to the foreshore where the town now stands, he says, were absolutely devoid of herbage. Most of the shrubbery now seen in.
Geraldton, he claims, is the result of seed sown and bush planted when a very early Government passed the Geraldton Sand Drift Act. In his late 'teens Mr. Hutchinson and his brother, the late R. Hutchinson, went to Sydney where they resided for many years.
They returned to Geraldton on the outbreak of the Murchison gold fields. Mention of the Late R. Hut chinson recalls the political history 0f Geraldton, in Geraldton was represented in parliament by the late George Simpson, popularly known as 'Silver-tongue. Robson subsequently made reflections on some of the sup porters of the then Government, which, after inquiry, were pronounced 'over the fence.
Hutchinson, who had served a vigorous apprenticeship as mayor, was elected to represent Geraldton in the. Assembly, defeating the late Pat Stone recently deceased. Hutchinson are still hale, and, as always, keenly interested in the pro gress of Geraldton.
Hut chinson sententiously. I reckon this one cf the picked districts of the Australian Continent, and that's saying a lot. The original building of the Gerald- ton Government School is readily rec- ognized in the present pile a photo of which appears on page 38 by its weather beaten walls and shingle- roof.
To meet the requirements from time to time new class rooms have been added almost at random to the origin- nal structure, and the result is a ram- bling building, not without picturesque ness, which epitomises in stone and brick the growth of the school since its foundation.
The first, or founda- tion stone of the school building was laid by Lady Ord, wife of Governor Ord, on October 4,
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