Bindi Bindi War memorial & water supply commemoration

Author

Shire of Moora

Place Number

11152

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Location

Bindi Bindi-Toodyay Rd Bindi Bindi

Location Details

Local Government

Moora

Region

Wheatbelt

Construction Date

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

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Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

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Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

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Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	19 Nov 1997	Category 5	Category 5 Recognition of the site. No specific regulations would be imposed, except in the case where the site is within the bounds of a precinct category would take precedence. While the Shire recognises the value of the site, it would be a community and/or shire responsibility to mark the site, as appropriate in future development, recognition or inter[retation.
Statewide War Memorial Survey	Completed	01 May 1996			Heritage Council

Statement of Significance

The site represents associations with war and settlement.

Physical Description

Constructed in the 1950's, thw stone memorial rises vertically from a stepped stone path.

History

The local branch of the RSL erected the memorial with many mebers contibuting to the several busy bees. The memorial commemorates local people who paid the ultimate sacrifice in World War I and World War II;"Lest we Forget".
In 1941, it was proposed that a new bore be installed at Bindi Bindi. It ws further recommended that a well be sunk and a tank installed. The government undertook to investigate the situation in the mid 1940's and take a regional view. Nothing eventuated.
Until 1988 the town and surrounding community of Bindi Bindi did not have a reticulated water supply. After many years of lobbying by Doug Tierney of the Rural Water Council and the Moora Shire and with the help of Ernie Brdge, water ws finally piped from Balidu to Bindi Bindi. It is an extension of the Goldfields ad Agricultural water Supply scheme. It was turned on 113 years after settlement. The Bindi Bindi community supplied machinery and labour to t=bring the water pipeline from Miling ot Bindi Bindi (16kms). A memorial we erected on the same site as the war memorial, commemorating the opeing of the water supply by the Minister for Water resources, Ernie Bridge on 26th February 1988. The opeing ceremony included the local school children, the local community and past members of the community.

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	M Laurie;"Tracks Through the Midlands, A History of the Moora District."	Shire of Moora	1995
	Margaret Ellis compiled "Unpublished Research Notes"		1996

Place Type

Historic Site

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Present Use	MONUMENT\CEMETERY	Monument
Original Use	MONUMENT\CEMETERY	Monument

Construction Materials

Type	General	Specific
Other	STONE	Granite
Other	STONE	Marble

Historic Themes

General	Specific
SOCIAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES	Community services & utilities
OUTSIDE INFLUENCES	World Wars & other wars

Creation Date

17 Mar 1998

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Last Update

01 Jan 2017

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