Old Onslow Townsite

Author

Heritage Council

Place Number

03444

Location

Reserve 35118 Talandji

Location Details

North of the Ashburton River

Local Government

Ashburton

Region

Pilbara

Construction Date

Constructed from 1885 to 1924

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents
Heritage Agreement YES 06 Nov 2012 HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument
State Register Registered 17 Feb 2006 HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument, HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type Status Date Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management
Category
Aboriginal Heritage Sites Register Permanent
Register of the National Estate Indicative Place
Municipal Inventory Adopted 17 Aug 1999 Category B

Child Places

  • 04232 Tramway and Jetty
  • 03949 Old Onslow Police Station

Condition

Old Onslow Townsite is a rare example of an historical archaeological site of a former ‘frontier’ settlement in a very remote area of the North West of the State.

Associations

Name Type Year From Year To
George Temple Poole Architect - -

State Heritage Office library entries

Library Id Title Medium Year Of Publication
11441 Old Onslow Townsite Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan} 2016
3729 Old Onslow Townsite Pilbara, Western Australia : a conservation management plan. Volumes 1 & 2. Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan} 1998
109 An archaeological survey of old Onslow Report 1991
2163 Edge of empire. Book 1983
10162 Wheatstone Project: environmental scoping document Report 2009
10228 Old Onslow Townsite Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan} 2011
11661 Peedamulla and Old Onslow Police Station Complex Conservation works report 2017
11671 Old Onslow Cemetery Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan} 2018
9909 Final environmental impact statement/ reponse to submissions on the environmental review and management programme for the proposed Wheatstone project. Electronic 2011
11660 Old Onslow Police Station Complex Conservation works report 2017

Place Type

Precinct or Streetscape

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Original Use Transport\Communications Water: Other
Original Use GOVERNMENTAL Courthouse
Original Use RESIDENTIAL Single storey residence

Architectural Styles

Style
Other Style

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Wall STONE Local Stone

Historic Themes

General Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Racial contact & interaction
TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATIONS River & sea transport
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Resource exploitation & depletion
OCCUPATIONS Fishing & other maritime industry
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Settlements
SOCIAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES Law & order
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Workers {incl. Aboriginal, convict}
PEOPLE Early settlers
OCCUPATIONS Grazing, pastoralism & dairying
PEOPLE Aboriginal people

Creation Date

18 Feb 1994

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

01 Jan 2017

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