Wyndham is an interesting town with a diverse history of the cattle industry & mining. Known as the Top Town of the West there are trucks towing four trailers going through town full of iron ore to the port every 8 minutes.
Had a chat to the man in the photo who looks after the Historical Museum & discovered he had a shop in Talbragar St, Dubbo when we had our shop there... always a small world!
The Main Street is a shadow of its former self when the town had a major meat works employing 2000 seasonal workers. A photo in the museum shows the men working in the slaughter room barefooted because of safety reasons as the floor was wet & slippery. After the works was sold to a private owner boots became compulsory - because of safety reasons!
An interesting character, Iris, runs a little shop that sells "stuff". A combination of second hand goods & local crafts the walls are pasted with old newspapers of events such as Twin Towers, Lady Di, Princess Margaret & Kennedy assassinations. The only thing is you have to adjust to the darkness as there are no lights. Iris sits in this window until 4pm each day chatting to the passers-by.
The back wall in Iris's shop.
The view from the lookout where the five rivers meet the sea. The rivers are the Pentecost, King, Ord, Forest & Durack. The ship was being loaded with iron ore from Doon Doon. The cattle yards are in the foreground. Live cattle used to be brought here from the surrounding cattle properties, unfortunately for the farmers it has not been used since Julia's ban on live export to Indo.
Above ...The view looking south & below looking north.
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