The end of whaling in Albany was a pivotal moment for many of the city’s residents in 1978, and former Albany Advertiser reporter Chris Pash says it is a time in his career he keeps coming back to reflect on.
Jacki Elezovich
Rooms in boarding houses were in high demand. And when they were full or too expensive, tent cities sprang up around the fringes of Perth and Fremantle.
Malcolm Quekett
Jo Wassell’s new exhibition Women in Whaling shines a light on a group of Albany women and their experiences with Albany’s whaling history and contributions to the city’s history.
Whaling is one of Albany’s major historical claims to fame, with the city the site of the last shore-based whaling station in Australia.
The only Australian Inland Mission hospital still standing in WA was a place for connection and celebration on Sunday, as a host of people linked to the service gathered for its centenary.
Hannah Whitehead
For most of the public, 1979 was largely a pretext to have a good time.
Hemmed into an impossibly hot, dry, dusty and dangerous slice of north Africa in World War II, the Diggers faced seemingly insurmountable odds.
Only a handful of Albany locals can say they saw the Queen not just once, but twice in Albany.
Amy Towers
St Patrick’s School in Katanning honoured its 100-year milestone at the weekend with an all-day celebration that brought students and educators past and present back to the school.
Before news was digital, Albany’s stories were formed by molten lead and Bob Selby was one of the men who built the Albany Advertiser papers by hand.
When the gold boom changed the face of WA almost overnight, a key supply chain was developed to supply the towns which were rapidly ballooning and running out of resources.
As far back as early 1941 a local paper promoted the idea of bringing in US naval firepower to Cockburn Sound.
‘We would be dropped in by helicopters, there would be no one around us so we had to do our work quickly.’
The statue of WA’s first governor has sat in storage for two years.
The stories of prominent citizens of the colony, captains of industry, and ordinary people are all nestled in the cemetary, which was built in the Swan River Colony’s infancy.
Community members took part in archaeological digs at the Pilot Station at the weekend to uncover the history of the Albany site.
Before its construction, Australia had virtually been like “two great islands — an eastern and a western”.
When the local council proposed blowing up Dog Rock in 1921, the Albany Advertiser got its teeth into the drama.
Claire Middleton
Sybil Davies has provided a personal glimpse into Albany a century ago through a diary entry written by her father, Douglas Parbery Frost.
One of Albany’s most loved landmarks is a giant lump of granite which, when seen from its western side, looks like a dog
Skaters young and old celebrated 50 years of the beloved Albany Snake Run skatepark on Saturday, bringing members of the skating community together for the day to share their stories of the wild course
Albany’s Old Convict Gaol remains one of the city’s most historically significant landmark that provides insights into WA’s convict era.
Narrogin’s historic museum and shop has finally reopened a year after a car ploughed through its walls, with the manager saying it was “wonderful” to welcome visitors back after the terrifying incident.
Just in front of the band at this particular venue were candles. Crosses. Robed clergy clapping along.
