STUBBY HOLDER - PIONEER VILLAGE WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Purchased in the 1980s by Alf and Dorathy Cassely during a visit to Pioneer Village with their family. Was later used at their family home in Seville Grove.
Pioneer Village opened on a four hectare paddock, behind the Narrogin Inn, that included a disused quarry on 5 April 1980. The venture was inspired by Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, Victoria. The tourism venture was built by George Doukidis of Taku Pty Ltd and included around 30 stores, a mock gold mine, a school, police station, theatre, blacksmith and restaurant. The site soon won a number of Western Australian tourism awards but was also facing financial trouble.
In October 1982 the site and the Narrogin Inn was sold to Chanel Seven TVW Enterprises for $1.75 million. In 1985 the sites name was changed to Pioneer World. The site operated for a few more years but in the early 1990s many of the buildings were sold to the Pioneer Village School who converted a large part of the site classrooms and the quarry into a sports oval.