Replica Wooden Fire Tower, Manjimup Heritage Park, Western Australia
by Elaine Teague
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Replica Wooden Fire Tower, Manjimup Heritage Park, Western Australia
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Elaine Teague
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Photograph - Photography
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This replica wooden fire tower, in the Manjimup Heritage Park, Western Australia, was built in in 1897. It is typical of the ones used by the Forests Department to help spot bush fires in State forests between 1936 and the mid-1970's.
The Manjimup Timber and Heritage Park, centrally located within the Manjimup town site, highlights the region’s logging heritage. Set on 10 hectares of natural landscaped and grassed picnic areas are the State Timber Museum, Age of Steam Museum, historic hamlet with period buildings and exhibits, and a full-size replica fire lookout tower. The Snorting Lizzy and the Saw Pit provides a wonderful insight to the technology and techniques of days of the past, while a timber museum filled with memorabilia will captivate all visitors
In addition to the many historic static displays relating to the early era of timber and steam the park also hosts the Manjimup Woodturners Association and a local blacksmith, bringing home the strong links of timber and steel to the region’s history.
The Manjimup Timber and Heritage Park provides an experience in discovering the area’s rich and colourful history with an insight of how the Lower South West region was developed by the early pioneers of major industries. Surrounded by a stand of significant trees found within the region, the Manjimup Timber and Heritage Park will take you on a journey to a time past, when a special breed of people worked to forge a prosperous future for the Manjimup district.
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October 17th, 2020
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Deane Palmer
Excellent photo, Elaine. Thank you for giving me a new place to visit when we go down to Albury, Drove strait through last trip, but it was raining, anyway.
Elaine Teague replied:
Thank you Deane. I think you might mean Albany, not Albury. The Heritage Park is well worth a visit and Manjimup has changed quite a bit in the last year.
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