Have You Lived in Kununurra?

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Have You Lived in Kununurra?

Then you have had an experience that is impossible to fully describe!

Kimberley Images and Histories

With a very young, but incredibly unique development and history of just 50 years the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA) - Ord River Project was just getting underway in 1961 - At this point in the evolving history of Kununurra, the Kununurra Historical Society Inc. (KHS) Archive, Library, Museum & Research facility would like to call for the many former residents to provide us a short history and any images of their involvement in the town. This could be an interesting snapshot in 2061. Have You Lived in Kununurra?

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Have You Lived in Kununurra?

This group has been formed to attract images and histories of past and present residents of Kununurra, the Ord River Irrigation Area, Kimberley Research Station and even outlying communities and stations, with any relevance to Kununurra.

More on.. Have You Lived in Kununurra?

Kununurra has always had a very transient population, and KHS is seeking past and present Kununurra residents (Please send them this link if you have contacts for any?), to participate in a project to celebrate these 50th and 70th anniversaries by calling on all businesses, Government Departments, Organisations, Clubs, Associations, and especially people to supply and share a history of their Kununurra involvements. These can be complex or as simple as you like, in documents and object form with real photographs posted to the archive, or in any electronic document format. Please DO include images if you can, and email to us. Alternatively, or as well, you can participate in this Group Pool and add your history with wour image descriptions.

Group Rules and Keywords to Use - Please read the Group Rules and other Guidelines at
www.flickr.com/groups/have-you-lived-in-kununurra/rules/

The transience of Kununurra's population, is a reason why it is of great importance for KHS to actively seek material relevant, from past residents to ensure local access and availability of this short but very rich history. Read more about the KHS Archive, Library, Museum & Research Facility.

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Kununurra Archive & Museum

If you have objects you'd like to be preserved for future generations, we have a modern purpose-built archive, museum, library and research facility with a great interest in the preservation of any documents, photographs or other objects of relevance to Kimberley history, especially the history of the Ord and NT border areas. Your archival donations will be safely cared for and made accessible in our modern facility to be preserved and available for future generations. Please contact us.

Kununurra Historical Society (Inc.) Archive & Museum – Established in 1986 - Celebrating Our 25th Year in 2010 & 2011 – Making Accessible the Significance of 70 Years of Tropical Agriculture & 50 Years of Kununurra & the Commercial Ord River Irrigation Area in 2011.

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KHS Digitisation Program

Many of the early 1960's images you will see on the KHS Flickr site have been digitised with the assistance of a major funding grant from the Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley (SWEK) Read more on the KHS Profile Page from the link below.

Want to help? Feel free to come and give a hand when you see the museum open over the wet season. No experience neccesary. This program will continue over the next four months. Or just come in to see all digitised images to date of the, A Photograhic Journey on the Ord, will be available for viewing at the Museum from January 1st 2011, showing all newly digitised images, maps and documents.

Significance Definition

"Significance refers to the value and meanings that items and collections have for people and communities. Significance helps unlock the potential of collections, creating opportunities for communities to access and enjoy collections, and to understand the history, cultures and environments of Australia".

From Significance 2.0 a guide to assessing the significance of collections, by Roslyn Russell and Kylie Winkworth for the Collections Council of Australia Ltd. (Now axed - This may still be available online as a PDF - Search title).

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1st Submissions

The first few submissions for this project have been received in email writings from Marion Hansen who was in Kununurra with a family in the very earliest days of Kununurra during 1961. Marion's husband Uffe Hansen was Engineer for Christiani Nielsen & Clough, the Danish company contracted to build the Ord River Diversion Dam (After building the first Narrows Bridge in Perth). Recently Uffe also posted KHS some very interesting C&N Danish issue Magazine copies and other documents for the KHS Archive.

Digital images of Kununurra can be uploaded to this brand new Flickr Group that KHS officially started on January 1st 2011.

It will soon have some stories of the first families and people here in 1960 and 1961, as examples - OR Go On! Be the first to add an image and some of your history to the group!.

People can upload photographs of their time in Kununurra and add details of images and stories or complete histories into the information dialogue for each image.

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KHS Administered Groups on Flickr

KHS has started four groups along these lines.

Other Group Photo Pools Initiated and Administered by KHS.

Have You Lived in Kununurra? – www.flickr.com/groups/have-you-lived-in-kununurra/ (This Group Pool)

Have You Lived in the Kimberley? www.flickr.com/groups/have-you-lived-in-the-kimberley/

This is a Kimberley wide Group pool, for anybody, who has lived in Broome, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek, Wyndham, Kununurra, all Mines, Stations, Aboriginal Communities, Islands, Missions, or people from any other group or place overlooked, that have resided in the Kimberley Region.

Are you involved in an archive repository like KHS? Then start a "Have You Lived in ?" for your town, to make your images accessible! - Link to us and ADD KHS as a Contact and if you have Ord River or Kimberley History images - See Below!

Calling all Archives Libraries, Museums and Historical Societies.

KHS is utilising the Flickr platform for accessibility and is calling on ALL other archives, libraries, museums, historical societies and any collecting institutions, government or private to seek out and submit, any images that may be in your archive, relating to Ord River/East Kimberley history, to this new pool of resources and help KHS show the great Significance of this young, but incredibly fascinating, 50 years of Kununurra and the commercial Ord River Project history. Anything from Wyndham that is to do with the Ord Project is also welcome, as are images from Company archives that were involved in the Ord Project eg. Companies involved with the Ord River Project, like making the Diversion Dam gates in Perth.

Ord River History in (Ours & Other) Archive repositories submit your Ord River and Kununurra images here...
at www.flickr.com/groups/ord-history-in-other-archives/

The Kimberley Region in (Ours & Other) Archives

The final Group Pool with similar aims

Kimberley History in (Ours & Other) Archives – for Kimberley wide archive images.
www.flickr.com/groups/kimberley-history-in-archives/ (Right Click to Bookmark the address?)

Kimberley wide Group pool, for any images in archival institutions to do with the history of Broome, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek, Wyndham, Kununurra, all Mines, Stations, Aboriginal Communities, Islands, Missions, or any other group or place overlooked.

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Donate and/or join KHS

Would you like to see the KHS digitisation program continue? Any further donations may help to extend this program.

KHS has been endorsed by the ATO as a "Deductible Gift Recipient", since 2000, meaning all donations of cash or property are fully tax deductible.

Making accessible images and documents from the KHS Archive collections to show the significance of this young but fascinating history of 50 years.

KHS on Flickr - Links

All links from the KHS Profile Page www.flickr.com/people/khs-museum/

Photostream (All images)
www.flickr.com/photos/khs-museum/

KHS - SETS

Carlton Reach Pump Engine 1941
www.flickr.com/photos/khs-museum/sets/72157625632296956/

Swim Beach Tree
www.flickr.com/photos/khs-museum/sets/72157625658812746/

KHS Now & Then
www.flickr.com/photos/khs-museum/sets/72157625641791776/

Also see these on the ABC Open Site
KHS Images on ABC Open Site
open.abc.net.au/projects/now-and-then/series-1/contributions

See KHS Flickr Profile at www.flickr.com/people/khs-museum/

Also see the
Have You Lived in the Kimberley Group

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Guidelines

The list below can be used as a guideline [Just Select the area below, then Copy and Paste into a document] for what to write about. However feel free to write as you please or add others not mentioned below. Add images or send audio and video to the addresses from the KHS Flickr Profile page..

Guidelines Only

Name of Business or Group
Years of business or group's activity.
List of managers/staff/Volunteers.
A short history of the business or group.
Name of person, people or family who lived in the East Kimberley Region.
About them: [e.g. Nickname(s) and reason for ? etc. Best remembered for ?]
Birth (and Death) details.
What Brought you to Kununurra or the East Kimberley. [Job, Family, Business, ?]
First Impressions.
The Appearance of the Area.
Years of Residence - Dates lived in the East Kimberley.
Name of Spouse/Partner, Children.
Your Workplace - Jobs held in the East Kimberley (with dates, if known).
Lived at (Kununurra address if known [add picture(s) if possible – eg. Kimberley Research Station, Construction Camps, Stations, Lake Argyle or other East Kimberley places.]
Sporting and other Leisure Activities.
Schooling – Educational Opportunities.
Sporting Affiliations. (Clubs belonged to etc.)
Shops and other Amenities.
How things Changed. - The growth of Kununurra and the ORIA.
What you as an individual, business or group may have done to help this growth.
Memories.
Good friends (any funny work/ other stories?)
Events (eg. Races, Cotton/Ord Festivals, Picture Gardens, Ord Tiki Event, Dam to Dam, Christmas Parties, Important Visitor Events/Openings. Etc.)

This information has been supplied to KHS Archive & Museum by:

Name:
Address:
Contact Phone Numbers:
Email address:

Please attach and email any photographs or upload to this Flickr Group and include details of your stories in image descriptions.

We are interested in ANY contributions, no matter how small you think they may be, all information could be useful in the future.

You could put these into a document format, or record these details to tape/CD or video/DVD with a “release” to allow such items to be used in future research projects. Digital images and documents can be emailed to KununurraHistoricalSociety@gmail.com or contact us for further information or if you would like us to send these guidelines in a document format for you to type into.

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As a gesture of our 25th Year, and as we are considering a change to membership renewals to be on a fixed date in the middle of the year, rather than a flexible date based on the AGM, that we have at present, we are offering a membership here that will be valid until mid 2012. Please email us for a Membership application form to support these activities and be a part of the 50th & 70th Celebrations.

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