Margaret River Library Local History Books

A collection of local history books and information is held by the Margaret River Library.

Gumboots and Gelignite

Jim Lowrie
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Gumboots and Gelignite book cover

A personal account of Farmer/Groupsettler Jim Lowrie, detailing how life progressed from 1928 until the late 1950s.

The author emigrated from Liverpool to the Cowramup area near Busselton in the South-West of Western Australia in 1928 as part of the Group Settlement Scheme. His memories, with many b&w photographs

Group 85 Osmington Church : the story of a group settlement

Val Cain
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Osmington Church book cover