Bindoon Military Training Area

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Gray's Old House

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The place has associations with the Grays and a period of development in Bindoon.

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Original four room stone cottage. Subsequent additions over the years.

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Fromson's House and Moreton Bay Fig Tree

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The place has associations with J F Ferguson, and is an example of a fine home in the prosperous developing years of post World War Two in Bindoon. The tree is significant for the associations and land mark character.

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Brick construction

History

J. F. Ferguson had the house built in the years of post war development in Bindoon. The place was a show place at the time of construction. The Moreton Bay Fig tree in the front yard was a sapling when the house was built.

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Integrity: Intact Authenticity: High Degree

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Doubleview

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The place is a representative dwelling of the post war period in Bindoon, and a fine example using local materials. It has associations with the Kay family, early settlers in Bindoon. The plac'd has a high degree of authenticity.

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Stone construction with surrounding concrete verandahs foundation/retaining wall. The hipped tile roof extends over the verandah. The windows feature 'deco' style leadlight patterning. The original fit outs remain throughout the house, including the kitchen.

History

John and Ann Kay were early settlers in the Bindoon area in 1882. They had several hundred acres which included this property. Their family included; William, Alf, Henry, Ernest, Clara, Ethel and their 'foster child' Harold Edmonds. William Kay and his wife worked for Henry Lefroy at Walebing, and Mrs Kay ran the dairy and the boys delivered the milk in town (Moora) The original dwelling has since been demolished, and some land was sold prior to the war, with much of the land was subdivided after World War Two mostly for soldier settlement. Mont Sander bought this and Clune properties before the war, and Alf Kay (son of William & Ann 'Granny') went to work for him in 1944. Alf Kay later purchased the 50 acres from Mont Sanders. Alf and his wife Molly (nee Dix) had eight sons, including two sets of twins. Alf built the house with assistance from a Hungarian stonemason working in the area at the time. He carted the stone in a horse and cart, from various places around the 50 acre property.

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Integrity: Intact Authenticity: High Degree

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Catholic Agricultural College, Bindoon

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Catholic Agricultural College, Bindoon comprises: Catherine House (1937, c.1943, 1951), the Dormitory Block (1940-1942), the Classroom Block (1942, 1948, 1955, 1970s), the Refectory Block (1944), the Central Block (1944-1953), the Technical Block (1948-1951), the Old Convent (1948-1950) the Laundry & Bakery (1949), fourteen statues forming the Stations of the Cross (1949), the statue of Christ the King, and the statue of the Holy Family (1949-50), the Cemetery (1950-1960), and the Main Entrance Gate. The road into the college has paddocks either side of the road which are named after various associated people. The grave of Brother Paul Keaney at the Grotto (1954) and his life-size statue (1962) were removed in c. early 2017.

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The Catholic Agricultural College precinct is of exceptional significance in the history of Catholic orphanage and farm school development in the state and nation. The associations with Brother Keaney, Brother Conlon, Mrs Musk, British immigrant children, Italian POWs, Benedictine Sisters, Christian Bothers, Dom Urbano, and Monsignor Hawes, are significant. The design, use of local materials, use of child labour, relationships of the buildings, and period during which they were constructed, make the places exceptionally significant, both individually and in their precinct setting. The place has an exceptional 'sense of place' for the 'boys', and their families, the Brothers and Sisters and any other people associated with the place.

Physical Description

The college comprises a number of buildings. The road into the college has paddocks either side of the road are named after various associated people, y Central building 1941-1953 : designed by Dom Urbano. The symmetrical two storey stone and rendered building has a dormitory wing flanking each side of the central domed entrance which is approached by a wide staircase. The roof is tiled with terracotta roof tiles. The entry interior is a double height void accessed by a sweeping staircase at the rear of the entry. Administration block 1941: designed by Monsignor Hawes in 1939. Stone and mortar construction with brick dealing. A two storey tower is central in the frontage. Verandahs to the front and side facing the central cqiurt are semi enclosed with a stone wall. Kitchen/Dining Block 1942-1943 Kitchen refit in c1965 : designed by Monsignor Hawes in 1939. Stone and mortar construction with brick detailing. A two storey tower is central in the frontage. Verandahs to the front and side facing the central court are semi enclosed with a stone wall. Manual Arts Building 1952: designed by Dom Urbano. Cement building of the same aesthetic quality as the central building. Two storey classroom wings flanked the symmetrical central entry. The building comprised woodwork and metalwork facilities on the ground floor, and the science rooms above. Nun's Convent c1948 designed by Dom Urbano. Toodyay stone and mortar with pointed finish, the building has an undercroft. The central entry has a tower and staircase. The place is condemned. Laundry designed by Dom Urbano. The laundry has a stepped rendered facade at the front and is cut into the hill at the back - Entry pillars and gates Girls dormitory Schoolroom block 1954: A two storey rendered white structure with a central hipped tiled roof over the main structure. Verandah and walkway extensions at each end have flat roofs. Christ the King statue : Designed by Father Eugene Perez, overlooks the complex from a nearby hill. Stations of the Cross (12) 1950: Designed by Father Eugene Perez, they are placed along the driveway into the complex. Grotto 1954: Laterite stone grotto with Keaney's grave in front. Keaney statue 1954 Relocated in 1994.

History

Edmund Byrne arrived in 1848 as a Parkhurst boy, pardoned on condition of being apprenticed in the Colony. Byrne was indentured to Saul Spice who took up 'Brockhill' (Ref 78-B39) in Bindoon. He was subsequently 'free' in 1852. He took up the Mount Pleasant property in 1868. The homestead was the Byrne's second dwelling on the property. In the 1890s Byrnes sold the property to Mr Pearce, a Fremantle Publican, who then sold the property to John Musk in 1912. The first North Bindoon School and school teachers quarters (mudbrick) were located on the Prospect Farm, that part of which is now college property, on the east side of the highway opposite Prospect Farm," and the site of quarters 100 metres north of the mud brick ruin, and the school site north of that. The North Bindoon School opened in 1895 and closed on 5 August 1901 - associations with Edward Wells, John Kay. The teacher was shared with South Bindoon School and the duties also included cleaning the schools. In 1901, the school site was moved to Swan Location 708, as this site considered unsuitable by Education Department. By 1920, John Musk owned considerable properties in Gingin and Bindoon. They included 'Mount Pleasant' at Bindoon Hill. John Musk died in 1921, and his wife Catherine inherited the properties. Mrs Musk sold the Mt Pleasant property to W Padbury, but the sale did not proceed, and she was fortuitously introduced to Bro Keaney. On 11 August 1936, Mrs Musk donated Mount Pleasant to the Christian Brothers and facilitated the establishment of St Josephs Farm and Trade School, for orphans and child migrants. The property comprised 17,000 acres with 5,000 acres cleared. In 1802, in Ireland, Edmund Rice, a wealthy businessman, founded the Christian Brothers Congregation to assist handicapped and underprivileged children. In 1843, the Christian Brothers established in Sydney. In 1894, they established in Perth, and founded the Clontarf Orphanage in 1901, and later the Castledare and Tardun establishments. Bro Patnpk Conlon had been sent to Perth to help save the farm schools that were not viable. Together with Bro^eaney, they lobbied Government and influential people, and in 1937, gained a rates exemption in perpetuity for their colleges and farms including Bindoon and securing freehold ownership of Bindoon. In 1938, Brother Conlon organised the immigration of British boys to Bindoon. Three brothers and seven boys began at Bindoon in 1939, living in the Mount Pleasant farm house. They planted fruit trees, grape vines and crops, and tended a variety of animals. In 1941, Mrs Musk laid the foundation stone on the first wing of the Administration building. Bro Keaney built the foundation and the boys were supervised by Mr O'Reilly, the former Clerk of Works for St Marty's Cathedral in Perth. It was opened in 1942, by the Hon JJ Kenneally, the Chairman of the Lotteries Commission. In 1942, Br Keaney was appointed Superior-Principal of Bindoon Boys' Town, and proceeded with the construction of the buildings. He was assisted by 33 boys who were evacuated to Bindoon from Clontarf when it was taken over by the Airforce. They began the construction of the dormitory which is the lower level of the school block. The foundation stone on the Dining Room was laid on 17 October 1943 by ARG Hawke, the Minister for Works. In 1944, Bro Keaney planned an appeal to further establish Bindoon, by bringing 500 boys from Britain over a ten year period. However at that time, Bro Doyle replaced Bro Keaney and instigated a slow down in development and a regular school curriculum. The World War Two airstrip was built in November 1944 under the Director of Works and Buildings. It had a satellite connection to Middle Swan. Italian POWs lived on site during the war, with one of them living in the dining block tower. In 1946, local Bindoon identity, Tom Hayden, a former Tardun boy, lived in the tower. In 1947, Bro Conlon organised the immigration of more British boys to Tardun and Bindoon. In 1948, the convent was built to accommodate eight Benedictine Sisters. The Sisters influenced a new philosophy in childcare at Bindoon, and by facilitating the domestic arrangements, the Brothers had more time for school and extra curricular activities. Olives and oranges were for sale. In 1950, thirteen boys came from Malta to the Bindoon Boys School, and in 1953, another seven boys joined them. During the years that the central building was being constructed, work began on the cathedral designed to be behind the central building. After the deaths of Brother Keaney(1954) and Dom Urbino, the construction was abandoned, and the site was subsequently used to build the Brother Charles Dawe Swimming Pool. In 1953, the Manual Arts building was opened by ARG Hawke, the Premier of the State. In 1954, the school block, incorporating the original dormitory building, was opened. Bro Paul Keaney died in 1954, on the day of his departure to Ireland on a trip sponsored by the Committee. The Committee used the funds to commission a life size bronze statue of Keaney in front of the main building to overlook Keaney's grave in the grotto. The statue has since been removed. In 1966, Bindoon Boys' Town was renamed Keaney College in commemoration of Bro Keaney and his contribution to the place. The migration schemes were completed by 1966, and plans were made for the future of Keaney College which was registered with the Education Department in 1968, as a Junior High Agricultural School. In 1995, the name of Keaney College was changed to Catholic Agricultural College, and the school offered co educational residential college for years 8-12. Keaney is also a registered Devon cattle stud, running a herd of 300 breeding cows. In 1996,1997, and 1998,, the College took the top Agricultural Society award for the agricultural colleges and schools. Bro Paiy Keaney MBE ISO. Born in Ireland in 1888, he emigrated to Australia in 1911, and subsequently joined the police force. In 1916, he became a Christian Brother in NSW, then worked in a Melbourne orphanage before transferring to Clontarf in 1919. He began a tradition of 'building', having the Clontarf Chapel constructed. He went to Tardun after two periods of Superior at Clontarf, and in 1942, was appointed Superior-Principal of Bindoon Boys' Town. He stayed there until his death in 1954 (except for 1945 & 1946). Monsignor Hawes was a priest in the Geraldton diocese who designed and built many church buildings in Geraldton and surrounding region. Dom Urbino, an Architect and town planner (Italian) was a Benedictine Monk from New Norcia.

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Integrity: Intact or Redeemable Authenticity: High Degree

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The place is significant for its role in the history of child migration in Western Australia, for its buildings and their materials and method of construction, for its social significance to the community and for its association with the controversial figure of Brother Francis Paul Keaney. AESTHETIC VALUE: The precinct comprises an attractive, aesthetically appealing and impressive group of buildings in part Spanish Mission and part Italianate styles, all in very good original condition. Collectively the buildings constitute a grand architectural accomplishment using local materials and built by a few Christian brothers and numbers of very young boys. The complex forms a significant landmark, beautifully sited, in a eucalypt forested valley. The buildings have an unusual and unique mixture of classicism and romanticism, strongly influenced by the classical architecture illustrated in the New Norcia library collection, as well as by the Franciscan missions of California admired by Monsigneur John Hawes. Beaux Arts classical details also resulted from the involvement of the Italian master craftsmen who carried out the construction with the labour of the boys. (Criterion 1.1 and 1.2) The extensive complex has an unusually high degree of stylistic unity and cohesiveness as a result of being purpose designed and planned by its priest-architects. The group of buildings is similar in style found in the Town of New Norcia but are rare and unique to the Bindoon area. They have been progressively erected in the same style and materials since 1941, with the exception of a modern building on the south eastern side and an addition to the rear of the main building. Both of these do not detract from the high degree of unity of setting. (Criterion 1.3 and 1.4) HISTORIC VALUE: Historically the college has played a part in the Catholic education of orphans and migrant boys brought to Western Australia from 1947 to 1966 as part of a policy of increasing population by immigration. It continues as a residential and co-educational agricultural college to educate future WA farmers. SCIENTIFIC OR EDUCATIONAL VALUE: As well as having potential to contribute to the understanding of an aspect of the development of the State (Criterion 3.1), the buildings have significance in demonstrating the effective use of local materials (Criterion 3.3). SOCIAL VALUE: The college is significant socially, educationally and spiritually as a Christian Brothers institution, well known to many in Western Australia who have contributed to its history since inception as a farm property which was initially donated to the brothers by Mrs. Catherine Musk. (Criterion 4.1) RARITY: THE college buildings are quite unique in design and demonstrate the unusual translation of the European classical Tradition in a naively sincere manner, using craftsman skills that "were elsewhere falling into disuse" and "quite removed from the sophisticated eclecticism of the contemporary professional architects of Perth". (Ian Molyneux - Looking Around Perth: a guide to the architecture of Perth and surrounding towns. (Criterion 5.2) REPRESENTATIVENESS: The main buildings demonstrate the characteristics of a religious community as well as being representative of the combined work of the architect-priests Dom Urbino and Monsigneur John Hawes.

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Assessment 1998 Construction: 1941 onwards Architect/Designer: Dom Urbino of New Norcia, Mons. John Hawes and others Builders: various, including the orphans of Boys Town. The Main Building: of two storeys, now used as dormitories for Brothers and pupils, was designed by Dom Urbano of New Norcia, a Benedictine Monk with Italian qualifications as an Architect and Town Planner. The building is approached by a wide flight of 20 steps flanked by four pillars holding white Art Deco era lights leading up to a symmetrical facade with a massive pillared central section surmounted by a tiled four-sided domical vault. This has arched windows in each side and on top is a cupola with a cross. The building has brick foundations, a red tiled roof with a balustrade, rustic walls made of rough chunks of local stone set in cement contrasting with cement pilasters, moulded cement balustrades on the upper verandahs, colonnades beneath. Most windows and doors are of plain glass leadlight in an Art Deco design. Through the arched portico is the foyer which has terrazzo flooring and marbling of green, cream and red on the pillars and walls. At the far end of the foyer there are two wings of a grand curved staircase with marbling on the steps and balustrades. All the marbling and terrazzo work was done by two Italian stonemasons, Pio Sinicco and Vittorio Muchino who came here at the outbreak of the second World War. They show particularly fine artistry in the Boys' Town crest and other symbols worked into the floor in the doorways and at the foot of the staircase. On the walls following the curves of the staircase there are oblong windows with a leadlight design of a cross and above each of these is a recessed round window with yellow and blue stylised floral leadlight design. Glass in the doors at the foot of the staircase repeat these themes and lead to an open balcony. Hanging in the foyer is a modern icon of Edmund Rice, the Christian Brothers founder, a picture of the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a portrait of Brother Keaney and photos of Catherine and John Musk. Off the foyer is a small Chapel where there is a wooden carving of the Sacrificial Lamb of God which dates back to the alter used in the original 1936 farmhouse, also a hand painted copy of the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. This building look 12 years to complete and was opened in 1953. Administration and Kitchen/Dining Blocks. In the early 1940's Monsignor Hawes, a priest of the Geraldton Diocese who built the Cathedral and other buildings in Geraldton and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Mullewa, designed these two buildings. The Brothers and boys were helped in the work by Joe Pascoli, a stonemason and general builder. The Administration Block was begun in 1941 with a foundation stone laid by Mrs. Catherine Musk and opened in 1942 by the Hon. J.J. Kenneally, Chairman of the Lotteries Commission. After Brother Keaney had finished the foundations the boys were supervised by Mr. O'Reilly, an experienced builder who had been Clerk of Works during construction of St. Mary's Cathedral in Perth. The Kitchen/Dining block was begun in 1942. Both blocks have rustic local stone in cement walls, brick arches and balustrading forming verandahs along the front and side and a rectangular tower above the main entrance with windows and classical balustraded parapet. The buildings are supported by foundations of local stone piers connected by arches. In the 1960's the Kitchen/Dining block was completely remodelled inside to provide a new kitchen to cope with 200 pupils, the matron's quarters, dining room and toilet facilities for the staff. Dom Urbano also designed the Manual Arts Building and the Nuns' Convent & Laundry both featuring walls of local stone set in cement and cement pilasters. There is a quarry near the olive grove on the property. The Manual Arts building was opened in 1953 by Mr. A.R.G. Hawke, Premier of Western Australia, and houses the woodwork and metalwork classrooms on the ground floor and the science rooms above. The flooring and staircase are terrazzo and the decorative ceilings are supported by painted round cement pillars. The Convent, set among the trees some way from the main complex, is a single storeyed building with a square tower and arched entrance. It was occupied by the Sisters in 1948. The New Library and Schoolroom Block was opened in 1954. This is a more modem style of building of two storeys made of rendered white painted brick with central red tiled hip roof and a flat roof either end. It has pillars between extensive window areas. Fr. Eugene Perez designed the statue of Christ the King standing on the hill overlooking the complex and in 1950 completed the art work on the Stations of the Cross placed along the main drive into the College. To the rear of the main building work had begun on a Cathedral type Chapel and went as far as the foundations before being abandoned after the deaths of Brother Keaney and Dom Urbano. The space was used instead to build the Br. Charles Dawe Memorial Swimming Pool. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW - according to the Christian Brothers. The Christian Brothers Congregation was founded in 1802 in Ireland by a wealthy businessman, Edmund Rice. His wife had died after only four years of marriage leaving a handicapped child and it was this that prompted Edmund Rice to focus on helping handicapped and underprivileged children through the Christian Brothers. It took twenty years for the Brothers to be recognised by Rome as a Papal Congregation. Edmund Rice lived long enough to farewell the first Christian Brothers to leave for Australia in 1843 where they began in Sydney. They first came to the West in 1894 to St. Georges Terrace, Perth. Clontarf Orphanage was the second foundation in 1901. (This was eventually taken over by the Air Force in 1942 and has now become the Clontarf Aboriginal College.) There were also establishments at Tardun and Castledare. On 11th August 1936 a property called Mt. Pleasant Farm at Bindoon was donated free of debt for an orphanage for boys and a place for child migrants by Mrs. Catherine Musk and was called St. Joseph's Farm and Trade School. In the beginning from 1939 to 1941 there were only three Brothers and seven boys in this community living in the old farmhouse. They planted fruit trees and crops, grazed sheep, made pig and poultry runs and tended grape vines. Much of this early work was destroyed by plagues of rabbits. In 1941 they began building at Bindoon. Brother Conlon and Brother Keaney came from Clontarf and pegged out the foundations for an Office Block in ground as hard as bricks. They cut rather than dug these foundations. The work went ahead quickly and what is now a wing of the Administration Block was completed in one year, being officially opened on 21®' September 1941. The completion of this building to provide essential facilities had become imperative by the decision of the State Government to subsidise the upkeep of Catholic boys at Bindoon. Brother Patrick Aloysius Conlon had been sent to Western Australia to help save the Farm Schools which were not financially viable. He and Br. Keaney between them talked to Government Ministers and other influential people and in 1937 obtained an exemption from rates in perpetuity for Tardun, Bindoon, Castledare and Aquinas College. Further diplomacy resulted in a Bill handing the fee simple of the Tardun and Bindoon properties to the Brothers, thus securing their future ownership. In 1938 Br. Conlon organised the migration of British boys to Australia and again 1947 saw him accompanying more boys who went to Tardun and Bindoon. In 1950 thirteen boys from Malta came to Bindoon and in 1953 a further group of seven. In 1942 Br. Paul Keaney was appointed Superior - Principal at Bindoon and construction of all buildings proceeded with the help of 33 boys who had been evacuated from Clontarf when it was taken over by the Air Force. They camped in tents supplied by the Army and Br. Keaney immediately began construction of a large dormitory which is now part of the ground floor of the school block. The evacuation also gave the impetus needed to complete the front portion of the Office Block and to begin construction of the Kitchen/Dining Block. In the early 1940's every Friday there was a trip to Perth in the Bindoon truck run on its gas producer. Leaving at 7 a.m. two boys accompanied it as far as the Swan Cement Works where they stayed to bag the loose cement. The driver proceeded to the city to unload and sell firewood at $3.50 per ton. Then to Fremantle to get potatoes from the Potato Board, to Mills & Ware to collect three tea chests full of broken biscuits, then to collect two lea chests of Weeties at a North Fremantle Factory, back to Perth to collect hardware from Harris, Scarfe & Sandovers or McLeans, and groceries from Sara & Cook and to collect washing from the laundry of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Bread was then picked up from Noonan's Bakery in Victoria Park (later from Tip Top Bakery in Subiaco); and finally a call back to the cement works to pick up the boys and the bags of cement (paid for with butter from the Bindoon diary). At the end of a very dusty day and laden with so many goods they finished their Friday run back at Bindoon at about 9 or 10 p.m. During the second world war U.S.A.F. personnel stationed near Bindoon contributed financially and physically to helping Bindoon, and the finances of Tardun and Bindoon were also greatly helped by the high prices of wool and wheat. A typical day's activity during 1943-44: the boys were up at 6.30 a.m. and after breakfast some rounded up the cows for feeding and milking and separating the cream for butter, feeding calves and a daily cleaning of the dairy area; other boys caught a horse and harnessed the spring cart and went to an area where ringbarked trees were cut down, two boys to each crosscut saw, and each trunk cut into ten foot lengths for charcoal making. Clean charcoal was used to fuel trucks and buildings as they all ran on producer gas, and also bagged for sale. Another constant job was carting of clean sand from a pit 20km east along the Toodyay Road. This extract from a Christian Brother's version of a typical day does not take into account the major part of the work done by the boys which was to erect the buildings at Bindoon, working out in all weathers, cold rain and hot sun, climbing about on very flimsy scaffolding. No mention is made of schooling and there would seem to have been little time for it. Early in 1944 it was decided to launch an appeal to further the work at Bindoon and plans were made for 500 migrant boys, over a period of ten years, to be brought to Bindoon. With this in view they needed more land and the appeal for donations was started. At this time Br. Keaney was replaced by Br.Doyle who decided not to go ahead with the expansion as he wished to slow down the pace of development and install a more regular school curriculum. In 1947 the Main Building designed by Dom Urbano was completed and opened in 1953. The Technical Block was also finished in this period. In 1948 Dom Urbano designed a convent to be added to the Laundry Block to accommodate eight Benedictine Sisters. This became a turning point in child care at Bindoon because of the Sisters' economy, efficiency, devotedness and motherly solicitude. They supervised domestic arrangements and so freed the Brothers for school and outside duties. This rosy picture of the nuns expressed by a Christian Brother does not extend to all institutions run by them. There are records of extreme cruelty by nuns who had no vocation for looking after children. From 1966 to 1968 was a transition period between completion of the migration scheme and working out a specific future for Boys' Town. On V January 1968 Keaney College was registered with the Education Department as a Junior High Agricultural School. The College continued in the following years to go from strength to strength, acquiring and clearing more land, purchasing agricultural machinery, improving and adding to the buildings, creating a science wing in the upper floor of the Technical Block where carpentry and metalwork are taught on the lower floor, a library, new Year 10 cubicles and bathroom, holiday accommodation built near the mouth of the Moore River called Tuppin House. The students are well catered for with sports facilities: The Brother Charles Dawe Memorial swimming pool, two tennis courts, cricket pitches, a football oval, a Pony Club, tuition in fencing and archery. There is also a stamp collectors club. The students study for some days of each week in the classrooms and receive practical lessons in agriculture for the rest of the week. The farm has a ram paddock, cattle section (the College is now registered as a Stud Farm), bee hives, fields for planting and cropping of wheat, hay, barley, clover and oats. There are also orchards and a vineyard, a piggery, a poultry run and horses, all on 3000 hectares. Financial returns from the farm become more promising every year. In 1995 the name of Keaney Agricultural College was changed to the Catholic Agricultural College, a co-educational residential college for years 8 to 10. These privileged pupils should take note of the commemorative plaque in recognition of the work done by the Brothers and boys who built Bindoon. The young orphans who were made to work so hard should be specially remembered for their astonishing achievements.

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Community Housing

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Statement of Significance

The place demonstrates the continued development of the Bindoon town.

Physical Description

Brick and tile construction - 3 units.

History

An innovative development in Bindoon demonstrating confidence in the future. The units were financed by a joint venture between the Shire of Chittering and Homes West. The place was a long time in the planning, and is the first such joint venture in Bindoon, and came about as a response to the need of that specific type of accomodation. Four more units were constructed in 1997.

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Integrity: Intact Authenticity: High Degree

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Claremont Cottage

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The place is the oldest remaining building in Bindoon and a fine example of a c1860's stone dwelling. It has significant association with generations of the Clune family.

Physical Description

Original three room stone cottage with cellar. Now located on 5 acres in proximity to stoned well, stable block and old Peppermint tree.

History

In 1867, Irish brothers Matthew and Jeremiah Clune purchased properties in the Victoria Plains area. It seems this place was built before legal purchase was effected (in 1861). In 1860, stonemason John Sullivan took court action against Matthew Clune for non payment of work. The Clune brothers leased extensive pastoral properties in the Victoria Plains. After Matthew died in 1897, lengthy legal action took place, and by the time Jeremiah died in 1916, their estate was diminished. In 1902, Thomas Joseph Clune, (TJ) second son of Mathew, inherited 'Claremont'. In 1949, T. J. Clune's son Gus inherited the property. The phone exchange transferred from Bindoon General Store to 'Claremont' and was run by Ellie Phillips (nee Clune- daughter of Thomas). Some time after that, Bill Robinson, a Perth solicitor, purchased the property. In the 1960s the place became vacant and fell into disrepair. In 1984, property developer Kenneth Eather bought the property and developed it as part of the Chittering Country Club sub division. The place was extensively renovated and opened by MLA Des Dans in 1985. It was then the home of Bindoon Arts and Crafts and a stable agistment facility for Chittering Country Club members until the demise of the Chittering Country Club Association. The trustees were keen to see the place develop as a working museum. The place was subsequently purchased and tearooms and an art gallery were established.

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Integrity: Intact or Redeemable Authenticity: Medium Degree

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Sandalwood Pool

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The site is significant for the history and people associated with it.

History

The Sandalwood Pool has a unique and unwritten history.

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Blacksmith

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The site has associations with early transport in the Bindoon area, and the blacksmith way of life that is no longer practised.

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Bindoon & Chittering Lakes Reserve

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Bindoon Agencies

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The place is significant as one of the early businesses in Bindoon town. It has beefoas significant employer in the town since the 1950s, and associations with transport, town electrical%upply and the agricultural industry/

Physical Description

The main building is a steel framed and clad gable roofed 'shed' with a symmetrical brick rendered 'art deco' parapet frontage with stepped piers and symmetrical frontage divided in three. Addition on the south side, and recent bullnose verandah addition across the front.

History

Pre World War Two, Ted Martin owned the site which was the base for the Bindoon to Perth bus run. The garage was established by Jack Eddy, immediately after World War Two when the town of Bindoon prospered with an influx of soldier and other settlers. In 1946, Jack Eddy erected an open fronted shed. The next owner was Brian Carr, who also ran the school bus with his father Lionel Carr. Reg Vernon took over from the Carrs. In 1957, Eddie and Joan Smith bought the place. Eddie apprenticed many local boys to train as mechanics. Later the Smiths took over a machinery dealership, and there was always a display at the garage at Bindoon Show time. Eddie Smith operated a power supply from a generator at the rear of the garage. It supplied the town hall (from 1949), post office, general store and Les Martin's place. The generator ran from sunset to midnight, and passing trucks frequently bought down the lines, until SECWA power connection in 1974. In 1980, the Smiths left and the Read's took over, running the business until the present owners took over.

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Integrity: Intact or Redeemable Authenticity: Medium/High Degree

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Bindoon Country Inn

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Statement of Significance

The place is significant for its association with the Midland Railway Company transport and hospitality. It shows the changes and development in Bindoon since the war.

Physical Description

Original stone building had railway lines cut to length to form lintels for the door and window openings. Many extensions and alterations have taken place. Corrugated asbestos roof. Motels; timber framed, clad with flat asbestos sheets and has a hipped corrugated iron roof.

History

The original building (still there) was built as tearooms for the Midland Railway Company, and called 'Bindoon Park'. The tearooms provided a stop over for road buses to Geraldton after the war, and served morning and afternoon teas. A & K Mabrose were running the Bindoon park refreshment Rooms in c1957, when the road bus service was stopped. After William J (Billy) Greenaway took over, he applied for a liquor licence, and the place subsequently became the Bindoon Hotel. The motel units were constructed on the site of the former bus garage and office. Before the Brand Highway was opened in 1960, all the traffic northwards came through Bindoon.

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Integrity: Redeemable Authenticity: Low/ Medium Degree

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Bindoon Hall

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The hall is significant as the first public building in Bindoon. The design and construction shows influences of the interwar 'deco' style within the modest rural context, and the place is ik landmark in the streetscape and townscape character of Bindoon. The place has a sense of place for%enerations of Bindoon people who have experienced the social and community events at the hall.

Physical Description

Timber framed and asbestos clad. The symmetrical frontage features a stepped parapet in ^ the 'deco' design. The layout has a central main hall with rooms either side and a rear dressing room behind the stage.

History

In 1938, architect CLE Harrison called for tenders for the demolition of the Chittering Hall, and transport of the materials to Bindoon for construction of the Bindoon Hall. The first ball was held in the Bindoon Hall on 24 June 1939. In c1950, the CWA purchased the stage curtains which were pink hessian, and drawn open by Mrs Ogden. In 1972, the local storekeeper, George Rickson and orchardist Ernie Parkinson began lobbying for an extension of the SEC grid power from Tony's Place' 20 kilometres north to Bindoon town. They established a local subscription to fund the extension, and they then organised a Celebration Ball at the hall when the power was connected in Bindoon in December 1974. Five Debutant Balls have been held at the Bindoon Hall, 4 of them before 1987.

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Integrity: Intact or Redeemable Authenticity: High Degree

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Bindoon Post Office & Phone Exchange (fmr)

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The place is significant as the first purpose built centre of postal communication in Bindoon from 1946 to 1969.

Physical Description

Timber framed and clad with asbestos and a corrugated iron roof.

History

The house and post office was purpose built by Mrs ME (Nell, also known as Ellie) Phillips to operate the phone exchange and post office. Prior to this building, Mrs Phillips operated the phone exchange from Claremont Cottage. Mrs Phillips was the daughter of T.J. Clune. After Mrs Phillips died in 1949, Gus Clune and Kathleen took over the phone exchange , until 1969, when the automatic exchange was installed in Bindoon, and the post office was moved to George Rickson's Bindoon General Store.

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Integrity: Intact/Redeemable Authenticity: Medium Degree

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Bindoon RSL War Memorial

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Bindoon Soldier Settler Precinct

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The site is associated with post war settlement in Bindoon.

History

Post World War Two, was the most significant phase of development in the Bindoon town area. Properties throughout the state were purchased by the government and subdivided for soldier settlements. Farms in this area including Gibsons, Brisbane's, Finches and the Brand farm were subdivided and allocated to soldier settlers.

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Chinkabee Tearooms

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The site has associations with the 1950s development of the Bindoon townsite, hospitality, and then the significant development of the ambulance service in Bindoon districts.

History

The land was originally owned by Matthew Clune. In 1950, the town of Bindoon was progressing with the establishment of Soldier settlers and other settlers in the area. The Chinkabee Tearooms were built in c1962. In 1973, the Martins offered to sell the tearooms to St John Ambulance. Until that time, the ambulance meetings had taken place in a lean-to on the side of Bindoon Transport premises. The Chinkabee Tearooms were purchased with joint funding from the Shires of Chittering and Gingin, and a local doorknock appeal. The Chittering Gingin Sub Centre was opened on 18 November 1973, by Mr EHM Lewis MLA. An upgraded ambulance was bought in 1976, and a second ambulance was added in 1979. The sub centre was demolished in 1993, to make way for the construction of a new subcentre.

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Chinkabee Sporting Complex

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The site represents associations with the Ferguson family, and sport and recreation during the early years of the development of Bindoon.

History

Part of the existing bowling green was where William and Maryann Ferguson's house was located, as well as the home of their son Frank and his wife May, whose driveway was opposite the north end of the Bindoon Store. The existing cattle yards are the site of the original netball courts. Tennis courts were next to the hall.

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Edmond's House (fmr)

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The place is representative of the post war development and prosperity in the Bindoon townsite, and makes a significant contribution to the townscape.

Physical Description

Red brick and tile construction. The return front verandah, under the main hipped roof, is supported by composite columns. The house is located on large site.

History

Associations with Edmonds. It is the most substantial hcuse of the 1950s period, in the Bindoon townsite.

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Integrity: Intact Authenticity: High Degree

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Water Supply Bores & Tanks

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Associated with the supply of water and development of the region.

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