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City of Armadale - Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Photograph of Ruby Lambert standing in front of the Narrogin Inne.

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Birtwistle Local Studies Library, located in Armadale, Western Australia is a comprehensive source of photographs, written documents and ephemera relating to the Armadale-Kelmscott district and the localities therein. The library is named after eminent W.A. journalist Ivor Treharne Birtwistle (1892 – 1976), a founding member of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society and an Armadale- Kelmscott Shire Councillor.

Photograph of the foyer of Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Postal Address

Shop 64 / 10 Orchard Avenue
Armadale WA 6112
Australia

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Email

birtwistle@armadale.wa.gov.au

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Shop 64 / 10 Orchard Avenue
Armadale WA 6112
Australia

https://www.armadale.wa.gov.au/libraries

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First School in Kelmscott 1882 - St Mary's Anglican Church

Early Schools of the Armadale District

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Champion Lakes

Champion Lakes Regatta Centre

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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An artist impression of the buildings, paths, parking areas, Pioneer Village Motel, Narrogin Inn, Albany Highway, surrounding scrub and shale pit to the east.

Pioneer Village in Armadale

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Kelmscott Show 1997

The Kelmscott Agricultural Show

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Sunrise at Forrestdale Lake

Lake Jandakot Sailing Club

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Armadale Aquatubes

Armadale Aqua Tubes

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Rifle practice, by members of the Armadale Women's Emergency Corps learning to fire a rifle.

Armadale Women's Emergency Corps

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Old Armadale School at Minnawarra Park

The Moving of the Old Armadale School Building 1987

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Courtesy Birtwistle Local Studies Library - Postcard Collection

Darjeeling in Roleystone

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Courtesy of Birtwistle Local Studies Library

The Murder of William Foster at the Narrogin Inn

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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Portrait photo of Ivor Birtwistle

Ivor Treharne Birtwistle

Birtwistle Local Studies Library

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