Lunn's Landing Siding - Site of

Statement of Significance

The site has historic value for the associations with the railways and Chinese market gardens in the area. The site has research value as it has potential to contain subsurface archaeological remains.

Physical Description

There was no tangible evidence marking the location of the former siding.

History

A. Lloyd and his brother David took up Coondle subdivision in about 1899. In 1913, David Lloyd sold 80 acres of his land to Yock Lunn, a Chinese gardener. Until that time, Lunn had leased land at 'Nardie'. He was a man of some standing in the Western Australian Chinese Community and had acted on the Chinese Consul's behalf in occasions. He later took over Donegan's Store and set up a vegetable shop in Toodyay. He sent cauliflowers and cabbages to Kalgoorlie by train and the siding near his home was called Lunn's Landing. The market gardens were still there in the late 1940's. Mr Yock Lunn lived there for many years until he returned to China.

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