Wave Rock

I've been to Wave Rock several times but still can't get enough of the view.

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Corrigin Town Hall

- The Corrigin Town Hall was built during 1928 to be completed in time to celebrate the centenary of the foundation of Western Australia in 1929.

- The hall was a result of considerable community and Roads Board effort and was the subject of controversy, as a lot of people were against it. The Corrigin Town Hall was opened on 29 March 1929, by James Adams, the Chairman of the Corrigin Roads Board, and CP Wansborough MP.

- The Corrigin Amateur Dramatic Society was founded in July 1929, and in November that year the Narrogin Operatic and Dramatic Society performed the Geisha at the Town Hall.

- The Hall was the venue of community and celebratory activities which included numerous balls; balls during the war, the annual Show Ball, the Victory Ball and Debutant balls.

- The Town Hall and Corrigin Road Board Office (1923) were designed by renowned architect Percy W. Harrison, who was a foundation member of the West Australian Institute of Architects.

- It has been the venue for the annual ANZAC Day celebrations since 1930 and in the 1940s and 1950s, also served as a court room and infant health clinic.

- Today, the hall continues to be used for community celebrations and for badminton competitions.

Remembrance Day

This year 11 November marks the 96th anniversary of the Armistice which ended the First World War (1914–18). Each year on this day Australians observe one minute’s silence at 11 am, in memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts.

Narembeen

- Narembeen is situated 286km from Perth in the Wheatbelt area of Western Australia and is predominantly an agricultural region with the main agricultural pursuits being cereal cropping, cattle and sheep.

- Located strategically between Wave Rock and the Great Eastern Highway, and only three hours east of Perth

- Narembeen, named after its aboriginal heritage as the 'place of the female emu'.

Brookton

- Brookton is located 135km south east of Perth via the Brookton Highway.

Brookton is located 135 km south-east of Perth via the Brookton Highway. - See more at: http://www.aussietowns.com.au/town/brookton-wa#sthash.3RLHxKLi.dpuf

Brookton is located 135 km south-east of Perth via the Brookton Highway. - See more at: http://www.aussietowns.com.au/town/brookton-wa#sthash.3RLHxKLi.dpuf

Brookton is located 135 km south-east of Perth via the Brookton Highway. - See more at: http://www.aussietowns.com.au/town/brookton-wa#sthash.3RLHxKLi.dpuf

Brookton

Old Railway Station

Meckering Earthquake (1968)

- At 10.59 am on 14th October 1968, the town of  Meckering was destroyed by an earthquake. The magnitude of the Meckering earthquake was 6.9 on the Richter Scale making it one of the largest recorded in the seismic history of Australia.

- Fortunately nobody was killed.

The Big Camera in Meckering

- The Big Camera Photographic Museum is situated 134 kilometres east of Perth right on the Great Eastern Highway at Meckering.

- The Big Camera Museum is the only museum of photography open to the public anywhere in Western Australia and the building is shaped like a giant camera with displays of over 1,000 items including cameras (dating from eight years before photography was invented right up to the present), projectors, enlargers, processing equipment, magic lantern projectors and slides, movie cameras and projectors( from nine and a half millimetres up to super eight millimetres),epidiascopes, zoetropes, phantascopes, kaleidoscopes and three dimensional photography.

- Also available is information regarding the Meckering earthquake that occurred in 1968. Photographs and newspaper articles are on display and local tourism information is available.

Meckering

- Meckering is situated 134 kilometres east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway.

- Meckering is located within the Shire of Cunderdin.

- Originally known as Beebering, the name Meckering was chosen by explorer, John Forest with the official declaration of the townsite taking place on 17th February 1887.

- The first settlement was made in 1887 about 3kms north of Beebeering Hill but it was not until April 1889 that the surrounding land was declared an agricultural area.

ANZAC Centenary (Albany)

ANZAC Centenary : Marking 100 years to the day when the first convoy (from Albany) of 30,000 troops sailed for battlefields of World War I on November 1, 1914.

Albany, Western Australia.