Myola Club Building

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Overview

The Myola Club Inc building, at 6 Stirling Road, Claremont. Looking east, shows a white building with an ochre tiled roof. Brick chimney on right, three hibiscus shrubs at the front. Club name in black metal letters at right front of building [MYOLA/CLUB INC/6].

Historical information

The Myola Club began as Mrs Flower's Literary Circle through an arrangement she made with Lionel Logue, to coach a group of women in the art of speech making and chairing a meeting. The annual subscription was two shillings and sixpence. Over the next few years the group had many meeting venues and name changes. They began developing plans for their own building in 1930 with Ms Margaret Pitt Morrison (First female architect in Western Australia) and Mr Kranz as the architects. At the end of 1935 they began meeting at their new rooms at 6 Stirling Road. They had to vacate the building during WWII in 1942, when the United States Navy used it as a medical centre, with Dr Wassell in charge. In 1946 the club decided to undertake humanitarian work, such as the Silver Chain Cottages, the Red Cross and the Cancer Appeal. The Club had a choir, a reading circle, a drama group, held craft classes, formal dances and wedding receptions. An Aboriginal fund was formed in 1953 to create a Myola Scholarship for a selected Aboriginal student, but for some years its sole use was to aid Jigalong Mission with christmas parcels, sewing machines and materials. The golden jubliee was celebrated in 1971, with 150 members sitting down to a lunch in the hall. And in 1981 they celebtated their diamond (60 years) anniversary. Declining numbers, an aging membership and the high cost of maintaining the building forced the Club to close in December 2004. Myola means 'place for knowledge' or 'meet and learn'.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-28--5-358-a,b

Item type

Photographs

Themes

Social History

Geotag

-31.98292154458, 115.77789961405

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Claremont Museum.