Dornier X-36 Wreck Site, Eighty Mile Beach

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Site buried in mud.

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Rowley Shoals Shipwreck

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Gantheaume Point

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25091 Broome Sandstone Dinosaur Footprints

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Bidyadanga Police Station

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Binniup School - Site of

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Bobalong School - Site of

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1934-1934

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Brookdale School - Site of

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1921-1934

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La Grange Community

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The Catholic Mission at La Grange is significant in informing of the history of mission settlements and government policies regarding the relocation of Aboriginal people from their traditional Home-lands and the provision of minimal essentials

History

The Catholic Mission at La Grange was established in 1955 as an adjunct to the Pallotine Missions at Beagle Bay and Lombadina. Aboriginal people were moved to La Grange from the surrounding pastoral properties by the police, where they were housed in Nissan huts and provided with the bare essentials of food, clothing and blankets.

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Rowley Shoals Marine Park

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Talgarno Military Base (Former)

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• The place has historic value for its association with the Rocket testing undertaken by the British Government in Woomera, South Australia in the post war period. • The remnant elements on the site have historic value as demonstrations of the type of facilities built during the post war period for service personnel and their families. • The place has research value as there is potential for archaeological deposits to be found on the site revealing information about the lifestyle and work practices of the occupants of the base. • The place has social value for the members of the community who visited it during the 1950's and 1960's as the facilities and services offered there were comparatively rare in the region and made it a well-known destination for visitors.

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The site has not been accessed for this assessment. It is not clear what remains of the former military base.

History

Talgarno was a military airbase on Anna Plains Station used in the post-Second World War period for the monitoring and recovery of British Blue Streak rockets, test-fired from Woomera in South Australia. The origin of the name is not known although there is a rural locality in Victoria named Talgarno after the Talgarno Pastoral Station established in 1836. The name is believed to have been derived from an Aboriginal expression describing ‘dry country’. The military base was established in 1958-1959 and was a well-equipped facility providing single and married quarters, and a range of services including a swimming pool, cinema and hospital. The airstrip on the site was well built and enabled large aircraft to land at the site. By September 1964, Talgarno was decommissioned and dismantled. Materials from the buildings were reused in the district. It is understood that the Mangrove Hotel built in 1972-1975 used steel from the Talgarno base. In 1999 the Department of Defence test-fired a missile from a site on Anna Plains in connection with the development of the Jindalee over-the-horizon radar project.

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Broome Hospital Physiotherapy Building

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12038 Broome Hospital

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Bedford Park Precinct

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• 03596 Rushton Power Generation Engine
• 03594 Tramcar
• 03597 Dornier Aero Engine
• 03595 Pearl Diver's Decompression Chamber

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26192 BEDFORD PARK/DAMPIER MEMORIAL/WAR MEMORIAL

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• 03596 Rushton Power Generation Engine
• 03594 Tramcar
• 03597 Dornier Aero Engine
• 03595 Pearl Diver's Decompression Chamber

Statement of Significance

Bedford Park is of considerable significance for the War Memorial, Dampier Memorial, and other commemorations, and as one of the few parks in Broome town overlooking Roebuck Bay.

Physical Description

Bedford Park is triangular shaped open parkland in a tropical setting with some mature plantings including Boab trees and palms. A brick wall and iron gates form an entry statement across a corner truncation. The entry leads through to the Broome War Memorial and Dampier’s Memorial. Plaques and commemorative elements are located throughout the park.

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Bedford Park was named after Governor Bedford and opened by him in 1924. In 1938, a memorial was installed in the Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast. The Broome War Memorial and the pearl divers' decompression chamber are also in the park. The chamber was donated to Broome by English firm E. E. Heinke & Co, manufacturers of diving suits. The use of the chamber reduced the number of deaths from the bends from thirty-three in 1914 to one in 1918. In 1990, the Broome Historical Society sent the decompression chamber to Fremantle Maritime Museum for restoration. It was returned in 1992 and is now displayed in the Museum. Other memorials in the park include one honouring Hugh Davis (Pa) Norman, one of the pioneers in the pearling industry and another honouring his son, Edward (Ted) de Burgh Norman, and his wife Catherine Mary (Rene), who was the first Commissioner of Girl Guides in the north-west from 1932-1941. In 1938, a memorial was installed in Bedford Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast in the Roebuck in the early 1700s. It was originally accepted that Dampier had landed at Roebuck Bay, but this has since been proved incorrect.

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INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree Modifications: Additional plaques and commemorative elements

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BEDFORD PARK/DAMPIER MEMORIAL/WAR MEMORIAL

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• 03592 Bedford Park Precinct
• 02669 Dampier Memorial
• 03593 Broome War Memorial, Bedford Memorial Pk

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• 03592 Bedford Park Precinct
• 02669 Dampier Memorial
• 03593 Broome War Memorial, Bedford Memorial Pk

Statement of Significance

Bedford Park is of considerable significance for the War Memorial, Dampier Memorial, and other commemorations, and as one of the few parks in Broome town overlooking Roebuck Bay. Dampier Memorial is of considerable significance for the commemoration of William Dampier and for the association with Marshall Clifton, an esteemed architect of the Interwar period.

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Bedford Park is triangular shaped open parkland in a tropical setting with some mature plantings including Boab trees and palms. A brick wall and iron gates form an entry statement across a corner truncation. The entry leads through to the Broome War Memorial and Dampier’s Memorial. Plaques and commemorative elements are located throughout the park.

History

Bedford Park was named after Governor Bedford and opened by him in 1924. In 1938, a memorial was installed in the Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast. The Broome War Memorial and the pearl divers' decompression chamber are also in the park. The chamber was donated to Broome by English firm E. E. Heinke & Co, manufacturers of diving suits. The use of the chamber reduced the number of deaths from the bends from thirty-three in 1914 to one in 1918. In 1990, the Broome Historical Society sent the decompression chamber to Fremantle Maritime Museum for restoration. It was returned in 1992 and is now displayed in the Museum. Other memorials in the park include one honouring Hugh Davis (Pa) Norman, one of the pioneers in the pearling industry and another honouring his son, Edward (Ted) de Burgh Norman, and his wife Catherine Mary (Rene), who was the first Commissioner of Girl Guides in the north-west from 1932-1941. In 1938, a memorial was installed in Bedford Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast in the Roebuck in the early 1700s. It was originally accepted that Dampier had landed at Roebuck Bay, but this has since been proved incorrect.

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Dampier Memorial

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• 03593 Broome War Memorial, Bedford Memorial Pk

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26192 BEDFORD PARK/DAMPIER MEMORIAL/WAR MEMORIAL

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• 03593 Broome War Memorial, Bedford Memorial Pk

Statement of Significance

Dampier Memorial is of considerable significance for the commemoration of William Dampier and for the association with Marshall Clifton, an esteemed architect of the Interwar period.

Physical Description

Concrete with Dampier’s coat of arms

History

In 1938, a memorial was installed in Bedford Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast in the Roebuck in the early 1700s. It was originally accepted that Dampier had landed at Roebuck Bay, but this has since been proved incorrect. The memorial is in the form of a sea chest and bears the inscription: 'This memorial chest was presented to the Town People of Broome by the Commonwealth Government and the Western Australian Historical Society and unveiled by Commander R.R. Dowling R.A.N. HMAS Swan on the 30 October 1938'. An inscription by John Mansfield reads: 'We little guess which deed a future year may mark to mortals from our passing here'. Bedford Park was named after Governor Bedford and opened by him in 1924. In 1938, a memorial was installed in the Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast. The Broome War Memorial and the pearl divers' decompression chamber are also in the park. The chamber was donated to Broome by English firm E. E. Heinke & Co, manufacturers of diving suits. The use of the chamber reduced the number of deaths from the bends from thirty-three in 1914 to one in 1918. In 1990, the Broome Historical Society sent the decompression chamber to Fremantle Maritime Museum for restoration. It was returned in 1992 and is now displayed in the Museum. Other memorials in the park include one honouring Hugh Davis (Pa) Norman, one of the pioneers in the pearling industry and another honouring his son, Edward (Ted) de Burgh Norman, and his wife Catherine Mary (Rene), who was the first Commissioner of Girl Guides in the north-west from 1932-1941. In 1938, a memorial was installed in Bedford Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast in the Roebuck in the early 1700s. It was originally accepted that Dampier had landed at Roebuck Bay, but this has since been proved incorrect.

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• 03593 Broome War Memorial, Bedford Memorial Pk

Statement of Significance

The memorial is important as it marks the link with Broome of the first Englishman to visit Australia shores. It has been on the Trust's recorded list since 1973.

History

Assessment June 1983 The Dampier Memorial was built in 1938 and was designed by Marshall Clifton. It is built in the form of a sea-chest in granite with Dampier's name and coat of arms on it. The original exposition notes that is was funded by the Commonwealth and the WA Historical Society and that a dedicatory oration for its unveiling was written by John Masefield. William Dampier was the first Englishman to sight Australia. He visited the north-west coast in 1688 in "Cygnet" and in 1699 in "Roebuck", the bay on which Broome stands being on if his landing places on the second voyage.

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Uniting Church, Broome

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This building is an architectural/technical accomplishment. Every aspect of its design, such as the rolling and folding doors, the double high pitched roof, the wide verandahs and the opening clerestory, were especially designed to cope with the intense northern heat of Broome. In the cyclone season the building could be closed up like a box and little damage was possible. These functional features have been incorporated in a building of balance and charm. The building certainly demonstrates life, custom and function as a well designed, tropical church and a public meeting place. For years it was the only public hall in Broome. The building is of historic importance, as a memorial to Rev. Frank Brady, whose death was of such significance to the town that the church was built by public subscription. It is also the only pre-war Australian Inland Mission church building in the Kimberley. The building adds to Broome's historic townscape. It is included in many town publications and artistic works, such as the film "Flight into Hell". The scarcity value of this building is clearly demonstrable. There would be few church buildings extant of a tropical design of the early twentieth century.

Physical Description

The building is timber framed with asbestos sheet cladding. The major part of side walls consist of large wooden doors which roll back onto metal tracks to create wide openings onto the verandahs, and thus allow the breeze in. The front wall consisted of two folding wooden doors, until this was fixed and a double door was inserted as a front door. There are wide wooden verandahs on three sides of the building. The roof is of iron, built in two sections divided by a clerestory. The high pitched main roof finishes at the clerestory and the second roof covers the verandahs. The clerestory itself consists of metal clad, horizontally pivoting windows on the four sides of the building which allow the hot air to rise and escape at ceiling level, drawing cooler air in at the bottom, creating upward convection currents.

History

The building was never built as a residence, but as a church and memorial to Rev. Frank Brady in 1925. Brady ministered to the Kimberley from 1913-17, and again in 1925.

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26191 UNITING CHURCH & MANSE

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Uniting Church is of considerable significance for the continuous associations with the Presbyterian and subsequent Uniting Church since 1925, and with Reverend Brady, AIM organisation and John Flynn. The design and aesthetic are significant for the AIM associations, response to the tropical climate and unique design of rollback walls. The churchmake a considerable contribution to the streetscape, character and townscape of Broome.

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Uniting Church, Broome, an Inter-War Bungalow style timber frame fibro clad building with a corrugated iron roof, the building is a distinctive part of the streetscape and makes a positive contribution to the character of the town. The place exhibits technical sophistication in the operable (moveable) walls and clerestory windows which demonstrate significant response to the tropical climate.

History

In 1910 the Rev J. C. Fordyce, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in WA volunteered to establish a mission in Broome to alleviate the 'appalling neglect and degradation' believed to be prevalent there at the time. Church services were held on the wide latticed verandahs of the Manse, known as the 'Verandah Church'. In 1912, the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) Board of the National Presbyterian Church was created and took responsibility for the north-west. Broome was the base for AIM's pastoral patrol to Derby, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek and Wyndham. A hall was rented from the Broome Council for church services. Construction of the Uniting Church commenced in 1925, funded by public subscription as a memorial following the death from malaria of Rev F. G. H. Brady, who had administered to the Kimberley 1913-1917 and returned in 1925. The building was called the Brady Memorial Hall. The design of the Church, with special consideration for the Broome climate, suggests it was the work of the Rev John Flynn, Superintendent of AIM. It is similar to his design for Adelaide House in Alice Springs. As well as use as a place of worship, the Church has also been used as a meeting place, social club, youth centre, day care centre and opportunity shop. The Church celebrated it Golden Jubilee in 1975 and renovations were carried out to the Manse the following year. In 1977, the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches joined to form the Uniting Church of Australia. In 1983, Broome became the regional centre for the Uniting Church Kimberley Presbytery and an office and residence were built in Herbert Street.

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Modifications: Church: 1971 folding doors at front replaced.

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UNITING CHURCH & MANSE

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• 16865 Uniting Church Manse
• 00292 Uniting Church, Broome

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• 16865 Uniting Church Manse
• 00292 Uniting Church, Broome

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Uniting Church and Manse are of considerable significance for the continuous associations with the Presbyterian and subsequent Uniting Church since 1910, and with Reverend Brady, Australian Inland Mission (AIM) organisation and its founder, John Flynn. The design and aesthetic of the church are significant for the AIM associations, response to the tropical climate and unique design of rollback walls. The church makes a considerable contribution to the heritage character and townscape of Broome.

Physical Description

A cohesive pair of buildings in Broome vernacular style, associated with the beginnings of the Presbyterian Church in Broome. The church is a single storey timber framed fibro clad building with a hipped corrugated iron roof. Double clerestory with high-pitched roofs. Raised from the ground on concrete stumps, the walls can be rolled back to facilitate cross ventilation. Manse: The symmetrical front with central gable entry detail faces the church. Single storey timber framed fibro clad building with a hipped corrugated iron roof. Hinged shutters above the lattice dado verandahs.

History

The Manse was built in 1910 for the Rev J. C. Fordyce, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in WA who volunteered to establish a mission in Broome to alleviate the ‘appalling neglect and degradation’ believed to be prevalent there at the time. The Manse cost £600 to build and services were held on the wide latticed verandahs, earning the place the name ‘Verandah Church’. In 1912, the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) Board of the National Presbyterian Church was created and took responsibility for the northwest. Broome was the base for AIM’s pastoral patrol to Derby, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek and Wyndham. When the congregation outgrew the latticed verandahs, a hall was rented from the Broome Council for church services. Construction of the Uniting Church commenced in 1925, funded by public subscription as a memorial following the death from malaria of Rev F. G. H. Brady, who had administered to the Kimberley 1913-1917 and returned in 1925. The building was called the Brady Memorial Hall. The design of the Church, with special consideration for the Broome climate, suggests it was the work of the Rev John Flynn, Superintendent of AIM. It is similar to his design for Adelaide House in Alice Springs. As well as use as a place of worship, the Church has also been used as a meeting place, social club, youth centre, and day care centre and opportunity shop. The Church celebrated it Golden Jubilee in 1975 and renovations were carried out to the Manse the following year. In 1977, the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches joined to form the Uniting Church of Australia. In 1983, Broome became the regional centre for the Uniting Church Kimberley Presbytery and an office and residence were built in Herbert Street.

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Community Health Services

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Commonwealth Health Laboratory (fmr) is significant for its associations with medical research and health services in the Broome district. It represents an uncommon example of concrete construction and interwar development in Broome.

Physical Description

Commonwealth Health Laboratory (fmr) comprises 3 single storey buildings: former laboratory, animal house and toilet block. All are situated in the grounds of Broome Hospital. The buildings are reinforced concrete structures with hipped corrugated asbestos/cement roofs, although the Animal House is rendered and painted concrete with corrugated iron roof. Conversion to Nurse's quarters included partition walls to create more rooms, construction of bathroom in former storeroom, verandah enclosure and alterations to toilet block.

History

Constructed as a diagnostic and research laboratory for doctors, it had an associated animal house and toilet block. The laboratory was a larger version of the Darwin Health Laboratory (1933) and was opened in July 1938 by Dr R. K. Gray. It was involved with work on the outbreak of malignant Tertian Malaria at Fitzroy Valley and the incidence of leprosy in the northwest, but by the early 1950s there was little requirement for a laboratory in Broome. The Broome District Medical Officer used the place as a residence for several years, and in 1955 it was converted for use as hospital Nurse's quarters. In 1959, the animal house was converted for use as quarters for hospital domestic staff and a laundry was added in 1962. The Nurse's quarters were upgraded in 1967 and the water tanks and tank stands were removed. In 1975-76, the former laboratory was refurbished for use as Community Health Services. It has provided community health care since that time and is of particular importance to the Aboriginal community in the areas of preventative medicine and child health care.

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Uniting Church Manse

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26191 UNITING CHURCH & MANSE

Statement of Significance

Uniting Church manse is of significance for the continuous associations with the Presbyterian and subsequent Uniting Church since 1910, and associations with Reverend Brady, and the AIM organisation. The manse make a contribution to the streetscape and character of Broome.

Physical Description

A cohesive pair of buildings in Broome vernacular style, associated with the beginnings of the Presbyterian Church in Broome. The church is a single storey timber framed fibro clad building with a hipped corrugated iron roof. Double clerestory with high-pitched roofs. Raised from the ground on concrete stumps, the walls can be rolled back to facilitate cross ventilation. Manse: The symmetrical front with central gable entry detail faces the church. Single storey timber framed fibro clad building with a hipped corrugated iron roof. Hinged shutters above the lattice dado verandahs.

History

The Manse was built in 1910 for the Rev J. C. Fordyce, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in WA who volunteered to establish a mission in Broome to alleviate the ‘appalling neglect and degradation’ believed to be prevalent there at the time. The Manse cost £600 to build and services were held on the wide latticed verandahs, earning the place the name ‘Verandah Church’. In 1912, the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) Board of the National Presbyterian Church was created and took responsibility for the northwest. Broome was the base for AIM’s pastoral patrol to Derby, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek and Wyndham. When the congregation outgrew the latticed verandahs, a hall was rented from the Broome Council for church services. Construction of the Uniting Church commenced in 1925, funded by public subscription as a memorial following the death from malaria of Rev F. G. H. Brady, who had administered to the Kimberley 1913-1917 and returned in 1925. The building was called the Brady Memorial Hall. The design of the Church, with special consideration for the Broome climate, suggests it was the work of the Rev John Flynn, Superintendent of AIM. It is similar to his design for Adelaide House in Alice Springs. As well as use as a place of worship, the Church has also been used as a meeting place, social club, youth centre, and day care centre and opportunity shop. The Church celebrated it Golden Jubilee in 1975 and renovations were carried out to the Manse the following year. In 1977, the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches joined to form the Uniting Church of Australia. In 1983, Broome became the regional centre for the Uniting Church Kimberley Presbytery and an office and residence were built in Herbert Street.

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Maurice Lyon's House

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Typical example of 'Pearl Masters' home and its structural form in largely original condition

Physical Description

Single storied, timber framed structure, currugated iron and timber cladding on walls and corrugated iron on roof. The surrounding garden is typical of Broomes ornamental vegetation

History

Assessment 1983

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Maurice Lyon’s Residence (former), is significant for the associations with civil servant William Lightfoot, and pearlers Wilfred Hawkes and Maurice Lyons. It is a fine representative example typical of early 1900s residences of the prosperous pearling period and demonstrates the tropical architectural style that typifies Broome architecture of that period.

Physical Description

The single storey timber framed structure is clad with horizontal corrugated iron walls. The hipped roof is also clad with corrugated iron. Verandah roof separate, but same pitch. Mostly obscured by the lush tropical garden, typical of Broome.

History

Built in 1903 as the residence of civil servant William R. Lightfoot who was a landing waiter in 1901 and Acting District Registrar in 1902. In 1908, the residence was purchased and occupied by Wilfred and Ella Hawkes. Wilfred Hawkes was employed by pearlers James Clark & Co. Maurice Lyons and wife Edith purchased the property in 1930. Maurice Lyons was a clerk in the Union Bank in 1917, but is listed as a pearler by the early 1920s. The Lyons eventually owned seven luggers and a schooner and pearled successfully until 1935, when the price of pearl shell fell dramatically. The Lyons left Broome during World War Two and on their return worked for Streeter and Male, Edith as head bookkeeper and Maurice as paymaster for the pearling fleet and the shell packing shed. Edith died in 1968 and Maurice in 1970. Both are buried in the Pioneer Cemetery. Later owners were storekeeper William Gerry Fong (1970 to 1975) and carpenter Keith Thomas (1975-1996).

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Male Family Residence

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Male Residence (fmr) is significant for associations with generations of the pioneering Male family, prominent business identities in Broome’s history. It is a representative example typical of early 1900s residences located in expansive settings in the old Broome townsite.

Physical Description

The single storey timber framed structure is clad with horizontal corrugated iron walls. The hipped roof is also clad with corrugated iron. There is a more recent detached double storey section. The residence has been extensively altered and extended.

History

Constructed c.1910 by Piggotts for the Male family of Streeter and Male. Occupied first by Archie Male and his wife Annie (Biddles), who raised four children. Archie Male was Mayor of Broome 1915-1918. Following Archie’s death in 1922, only his eldest son Theodore remained in Broome. Theodore ran several of the Streeter and Male companies for the next twenty years before retiring to the south. Archie’s nephew, Arthur Streeter (Sam) Male, later occupied the family residence. Sam married first in 1925, to Eleanor Piggot, who died two years later. His second wife was Phyllis Quigley, with whom he had two sons, Richard and Kimberley (Kim). Sam Male died in 1976 and Phyllis Male retained the residence until about 1997, when the property passed out of Male family ownership.

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Typical example of the 'Pearl Masters' home and its structural form in largely original condition. Current family home of the pioneering male family

Physical Description

Single storied, timber framed structure, corrugated iron roof, corrugated iron and timber cladding on walls and screens. It is sheltered from the road by a well developed stand of trees. The surrounding garden is typical of Broomes ornamental vegetation.

History

Assessment 1983

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