2024 - Sunday Morning Coming Down

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Back at ‘home base’ at the Shire Hall we all gathered for even more food!  Who would have thought there was anything left in the town let alone the district!

Greg’s ‘breakfast at sweethearts’ included more delicious omelettes, frittata, ham and egg, bacon and egg, five styles of toast.  That said, I noticed quite few people were focussed on the coffee first – and if you stood close enough to Greg he would pour you a percolated coffee.

 

L-R - Lorraine Perry, Moya Hobley

L-R - Michael Kilkenny, Peter Hanlon

Fred McGlashan about to break into song - 'It's lonesome away, from your kindred and all . . . " - which is what you get from drinking disinfectant!  Also Jeanette Spragg

L-R - Linda Giles, Lorraine Perry, Moya Hobley

 

This scribe and Lorraine decided to head out to Bruce’s Rock for a squiz. Interestingly, although she lived in Bruce Rock until aged about 9, she had never visited the Rock before the 2014 reunion.  I guess she wasn’t old enough to think of it as an alternative Lover’s Lane – which came up in conversations but we never really established its precise location.  Too many secrets, perhaps?

 

Looks like a special sign in the sky - what do those clouds mean?

 We also checked out the bulk grain handling facility in a drive past before combing some of the back streets seeing what we could find.

Just for the heck of it, we checked out the original primary school site that we drove past in the bus yesterday.  We quickly realised the plaque on the commemorative rock is wrong!  It says the school operated until 1951 – it should be 1961.  We understand that Kylie has brought this to the attention of the shire and we will check their homework next time we are in town.

Back to the future - Lorraine Perry has survived 64 years since first walking into the BK school on this site

Spot the error - Kylie is on to it!

Some of the mob did a drive by of Bruce Rock Engineering.  It is owned by the Verhoogt  family and produces massive trailers for agricultural, mining, construction and general freight industries nationwide.

 The head office is still in Bruce Rock; another massive manufacturing facility near Perth airport and two others elsewhere in the state.  It is a multi-million-dollar company that employs a total of 350 people and is a significant contributor to the local economy.

A tour of the facility was planned for our reunion but they could not provide sufficient hard hats and steel tipped boots - perhaps next time?

Being Sunday morning, we decided to see what was what in the religion department.  We found the Church of Christ in Butcher Street– and were invited in to join the service.  The Anglican Church is a quaint little building also in Butcher  Street – and the Catholic Church a much more modern affair at the corner of Parry and Westral Streets.

The Church of Christ - the original building was the BK Road Board Hall and later the CWA rooms.  Parts of the building were originally the fire station a Bullfinch.  Yes, I can read the sign out the front.

The wooden part of St Peter’s Anglican church was opened in 1922 and the five-sided brick sanctuary added in 1929.  All the information is on the sign out the front.

Bruce Rock Catholic Church - but what do those ominous clouds mean?