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023947PD: Balmoral Station shearers quarters after the cyclone of 6 March 1945
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023948PD: Balmoral Station house after the cyclone of 6 March 1945
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023949PD: Balmoral Station house after the cyclone of 6 March 1945
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023950PD: Betsy Noune, M. Stone and W. Leslie standing in the ruins of Balmoral Station house after the cyclone of 6 March 1945
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023951PD: Balmoral Station shearers kitchen and dining room after the cyclone of 6 March 1945
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023952PD: Balmoral Station homestead after the cyclone of 6 March 1945
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023954PD: Balmoral Station homestead after the cyclone of 6 March 1945
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023955PD: Trish Leslie (aged 4) and the ruins of Balmoral Station shearers quarters and dining room after the cyclone of 6 March 1945
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Summary
In 1925 Balmoral and Mardie Station were amalgamated. In March 1945 a destructive cyclone hit Mardie and Balmoral Station. Twenty thousand sheep were lost overnight; 500 miles of fencing, two homesteads, two woolsheds, the shearer’s kitchen and mess were also destroyed. There was also extensive damage to the staff quarters, blacksmith shop, windmill man’s cottage and stables. (source: www.karratha.wa.gov.au)
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Title devised by cataloguer. Captions supplied by donor. Negatives made from prints (not original negatives)
Subjects
- Buildings -- Natural disaster effects -- Western Australia -- Balmoral -- Photographs.
- Ruined buildings -- Western Australia -- Balmoral -- Photographs.
- Online image.
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Call Number
BA338/5-10, 12-13
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