(Busselton History Society), The first school building, which housed 16 pupils, was built-in 1919 and left much to be desired. Learn how your comment data is processed. ( Log Out /  Margaret River & Districts Historical Society Inc. (Australia). If you are planning a visit to Walsall we’ve put together some of the things nearby that you can see or do while you are here. Walsall is a small Western Australian Rural Location within the local government area of Busselton, it is located approximately 210kms from the capital Perth covering an area of 22.499 square kilometres. The work was hard in unfamiliar surroundings in baking heat, covered in filth, flies, ants and dust. A total of 150 groups were formed with such names as Peel Estate, Busselton, Kudardup, Denmark, Walpole, Manjimup, Nannup and Bridgetown and of course Walsall. A couple of years ago one of my Walsall Lives calendars found its way to Tasmania, Australia. The Clarks set sail from London on the SS Demosthenes on 26th April 1924, on the same ship were two women from Palfrey, both named Mayo and travelling with their young children but without their spouses who had possibly gone out first. Every destination has something worth seeing so start exploring… If you know Walsall and think we’ve missed something, let us know and we’ll share it here. The question now arises, why was Group 124 called Walsall? Map showing the group settlements in Western Australia with the approximate location of the Walsall Group identified by the red circle. Previously, Mr Douglas had been living in the UK with his uncle, Timothy Elwin Andrews, while his family remained in Australia. Walsall is a small Western Australian Rural Location within the local government area of Busselton, it is located approximately 210kms from the capital Perth covering an area of 22.499 square kilometres. 52 properties for sale in Walsall, WA 6280. ( Log Out /  The circle at the top of the drawing was where the stable yard, store-room and chaff house were situated. The Walsall in Australia came about in 1925 through the Group Settlement Scheme, the brainchild of an Australian politician named Sir James Mitchell. It remains a mystery as who was directly responsible for naming the group but obviously one of the families mentioned above possibly had some involvement in the process with Glassby being the favourite although the dates don’t coincide. The idea was to open up parts of the State previously sparsely populated and turn it into an agricultural area. Browse the latest properties for sale in Walsall and find your dream home with realestate.com.au. It was thought one of the teachers, Les Veall, had brought it to the school from the town where he lived (possibly Busselton). This postcode finder is the quick and easy way to search and check postcodes for all suburbs and locations around Australia. A far cry from a life in Palfrey, The Butts or Caldmore, these brave settlers took their chance, for some the grass really was that much greener whilst others wished they had never heard, let alone seen the back of beyond and yearned to be back in the “real” Walsall…..as strange as that may seem! Change ). The recipient was ex-Walsallian, Ken Pomlett who lived with his parents in a house on the corner of Bath Road and Little London before he emigrated to Australia in the 1960s. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. After a voyage of many weeks the immigrants landed on the quayside in Fremantle and then made their way to the given destination by road and rail in very uncomfortable circumstances. The Scheme proved popular to the unsuspecting potential settlers nine-thousand miles away in Blighty and they enrolled in their droves from all over Britain.

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