Port Hedland from the jetty

Until the 1930’s, the port serviced the import and export of stores and local primary produce. Pearl shell, wool, livestock, gold and tin left the ‘small seaport’.
The road being impassable between Port Hedland and Broome, the ministerial party travelled by steamer, the SS Gorgon. Tides in the port were described as rising and falling ’22 feet’. There was a wait for the tide to rise in order to load all the cars safely from the jetty
The building with writing on the roof on the right-hand side of the photograph is the now-demolished Pier Hotel.