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Coorow is a town in the Mid West region of
After rapid growth through the early 1920s local settlers began to seek obtaining a hotel licence for the town in 1927. The licence was granted in 1929 to Alexander Gloster who put forward a tender of £1,750, and submitted his plans for approval.
The hotel was erected at a cost of £13,000 and constructed of
Shire of Coorow
Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs
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Western Australia
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, north of Perth
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.
History
The townsite of Coorow was gazetted in 1893. Its name is derived from the Aboriginal name of a nearbyspring
Spring(s) may refer to:
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* Spring (season), a season of the year
* Spring (device), a mechanical device that stores energy
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, first recorded in 1872. The meaning of the name may be from the word "Curro", which is the Aboriginal word for a variety of '' Portulaca''; another source gives it as "many mists".
The town experienced some flooding in 1918 following a deluge of of rain overnight. The Moore River broke its banks and caused much more severe flooding downstream at Moora.
After rapid growth through the early 1920s local settlers began to seek obtaining a hotel licence for the town in 1927. The licence was granted in 1929 to Alexander Gloster who put forward a tender of £1,750, and submitted his plans for approval.
The hotel was erected at a cost of £13,000 and constructed of cement
A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel (aggregate) together. Cement mixe ...
blocks and brick. The two storey building held fifteen rooms for accommodation on the top floor and more accommodation along with a kitchen, bar, commercial room, saloon and laundry on the ground floor. The building was sewered, with hot and cold water to all rooms, and had an electrical plant installed.
In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia announced that the town would have two grain elevators, each fitted with an engine, installed at the railway siding.
The town was flooded in 1932 following torrential rains in the area. The town was left under water for at least a day but the water flowed rapidly away down the Moore River. It was feared at one point that the town dam would burst from the pressure. Roads were cut from washaways and the streets and flooded buildings were left deep in mud with some stock losses, mostly sheep
Sheep or domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') are domesticated, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Although the term ''sheep'' can apply to other species in the genus '' Ovis'', in everyday usage it almost always refers to domesticate ...
, being reported.
References
External links
Shire of Coorow
Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs
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