Local Government
Murray
Region
Peel
44 Banksiadale Rd Dwellingup
No 1 Mill, Dwellingup
Murray
Peel
Constructed from 1910
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| Local Heritage Survey | Adopted | 26 Mar 2020 | Category C | |
Dwellingup Mill has been associated with the timber industry in the Dwellingup area for more than a century, since 1910. Dwellingup Mill is associated with the expansion of the railways east of Pinjarra. Dwellingup Mill is associated with the foundation of the Dwellingup townsite.
Timber mill complex comprising a mill and associated buildings.
A 1906 Government Board of Inquiry recommended opening up the forests of the Pinjarra scarp region to the timber industry. By 1908 the WAGR was having difficulties in accessing sleepers for the ever-expanding railway system as well as timber for construction of bridges, buildings and rolling-stock, so it was decided to develop two railway owned and operated mills which would come under the control of the Controller of Stores WAGR Midland workshops. In 1910, the Western Australian Government Railways opened No 1 Mill, Dwellingup. The mill supplied sawn sleepers, bridge timbers and scantlings for rail use. In the early part of the 1900s within the main mill site, a case mill (casing for packing fruit) was located, this later moved alongside the railway line across the tracks from Hotham Valley and operated until the mid-1950s. In October 1961 Hawker Siddeley purchased the mill, machinery, town and operating railway together with all State Saw Mills for £189,000 from the State Government. They continued operations until June 1963. Hawker Siddeley also bought Railway Mill No. 2, renamed Banksiadale after the Education Department set up a school there. In 1970 the mill was sold to Bunnings, and it temporarily closed in 1991. As of 2018, Dwellingup Sawmilling Pty Ltd operate the mill. The mill currently operates five days a week and employs 11 people.
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| Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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| Richards, Ronald 'Murray and Mandurah' | Shire of Murray | 1993 | |
| Smith, Stephen, 'WAGR Number 2 Railway Mill, Banksiadale' | Industrial Heritage of the Australian hardwood timber industry, c.2005 | 2005 | |
| 'The Early Days: Federation Walk Trails of Dwellingup Series' | Centenary of Federation Project | 2001 |
Historic site
| Epoch | General | Specific |
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| Present Use | FORESTRY | Timber Mill |
| Original Use | FORESTRY | Timber Mill |
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| OCCUPATIONS | Timber industry |
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