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York Cemetery Historical Walk Trail
The old York cemetery, situated on the slopes of Mt
Brown is one of the most attractive Municipal Cemeteries
in the State. The Walk Trail booklet features the
biographies of some of the pioneers and the characters
of old York who are buried in the Cemetery. Follow the
trail around the cemetery and discover York's
fascinating history and heritage.
$10.00
Postage $2.20
Recollections of York Diary
A perpetual diary that can be used for any year,
featuring photographs from The Residency Museum
historical collection and showing many of York's
heritage buildings.
$10.00
112 pages, Postage $3.65
Barladong:
The York Society History and Heritage Journal
Publication temporarily ceased
Issue Number Five, 2005
Featuring the following articles:
Growing up at Yangedine by Hilary Hooper
Charles Smith Bompas and the York Government Garden by
A.M. Clack
The Jam Post and Plain Wire Fence by Roger Underwood
Early Days at Mt Hardey School by Doris Collins
Rigmarole of York Names by Julie Rae
One Hundred Years Ago from the pages of the Eastern
Districts Chronicle
$6.00, Postage $2.20
Aborigines of the York Area
by Sylvia J. Hallam
"… the Avon Valley, as Europeans found it, was not as
God made it, but as the Aborigines made it over tens of
millennia." This book examines the effects upon the
Aboriginal groups living in the York area at the time of
European settlement. It also examines the significance
of the celebrated rock art seen in the Gwambygine cave
complex south of York.
$15.00,
Postage $2.20
York Sketchbook
Twenty four illustrations of York's unique heritage
buildings and places of interest by York artist Jenni
McColl. The Town Hall, Sargent's Pharmacy, the Castle
Hotel, Settler's House, the Old Court House, the
Residency, the Old Flour Mill and many more. Each
illustration, accompanied by a text by A.M. Clack, gives
the historical background. An ideal souvenir of York.
$15.00,
Postage $2.20
The Photographs of Edward Tours Hamersley
A unique Western Australian collection of late
nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs.
A visual social history of a pioneering farming family
in the Avon Valley.
Over sixty full page photographs reproduced from the
original glass plates with accompanying text and with a
historical introduction outlining the development of the
Wilberforce property near York.
With a Foreword by Rica Erickson
Out of Print
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