History Council of Western Australia

Guildford State Heritage Listing

The Heritage Council of WA recently received public submissions its draft listing of ‘Guildford Historic Town’ on the State Register of Heritage Places. 

Midland’s Magnificent Oak

Back in 1961, the Tree Society published a short piece in The Swan Express, asking if anyone knew the age or anything about the history of what the Society described then as “The magnificent oak tree in the grounds of the Midland Junction Railway Station…”

Guest Editor for the Spring 2018 Issue

Each issue of the Newsletter is edited by a different member of the History Council’s management committee, using a standard template.  This issue’s guest editor has been public historian Bruce Baskerville, who joined the committee at the last AGM.