![Enlarge photo 1](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6614.JPG) 1 Mundaring Community Sculpture Park Located on the site of the former Mundaring Railway Station, artistic sculptures are set in bushland amidst nature's own masterpieces of Golden Wattles, Eucalypts and Wildflowers.
| ![Enlarge photo 2](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6596.JPG) 2 The Tourists The Tourists are bronze figures painted in loud, colourful design reminiscent of the 1950s and 60s.
| ![Enlarge photo 3](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6611.JPG) 3 Mainstream This sculpture is a reference to the Golden Pipeline that runs from Mundaring to Kalgoorlie. Constructed from sections of pipe, with all sorts of tools welded to the main body.
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![Enlarge photo 4](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6595.JPG) 4 Another view of Mainstream This sculpture is a reference to the Golden Pipeline that runs from Mundaring to Kalgoorlie. Constructed from sections of pipe, with all sorts of tools welded to the main body.
| ![Enlarge photo 5](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6600.JPG) 5 Mother A stylized figure's head, neck, shoulder and arm present a nurturing gesture and embrace a comfortable resting place.
| ![Enlarge photo 6](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6608.JPG) 6 Missed the Last Train A park bench project that cites history as a station and railway line.
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![Enlarge photo 7](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6609.JPG) 7 Missed the Last Train Maybe, off to join the circus!
| ![Enlarge photo 8](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6605.JPG) 8 Moondae-ring Acoustic Sculpture This sculpture is a enigmatic coming together of two artistic facets, the visual and the acoustic. In two sections, 'The Hub' (totem-pole structure) and 'The Sentenial' (the rocking horse structure) it hints at all manner of historic significance. The Moondae-Ring rises up out of old railway ground. Steam trains once hissed and hauled only metres from where the sculpture now replays the sound of a 'W' Class locomotive whistle.
| ![Enlarge photo 9](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6613.JPG) 9 The Second Wave Second Wave was constructed from the original railway signals and designed for the old Mundaring Station site - now the amphitheatre. The work is a doorway to the amphitheatre and uses exaggerated artificial perspective to create a funnelling effect as the amphitheatre is approached.
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![Enlarge photo 10](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6603.JPG) 10 Untitled This is a unique interpretation of a sculpture that functions as a seat. Inspiration has been drawn from found pieces of machinery that refer to the heritage of Mundaring.
| ![Enlarge photo 11](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6598.JPG) 11 The Gate House Presented to the residents of the Shire of Mundaring at the conclusion of the 2003 Centenary Year commemorating 100 years of local government in the Shire of Mundaring.
| ![Enlarge photo 12](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6602.JPG) 12 Country Women's Association Hall Colourful murals on the walls.
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![Enlarge photo 13](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6615.JPG) 13 Mural on Toilet Walls
| ![Enlarge photo 14](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6632.JPG) 14 Sign Post Main Street of Cunderdin.
| ![Enlarge photo 15](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6634.JPG) 15 Ettamogah Pub at Cunderdin
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![Enlarge photo 16](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6635.JPG) 16 Water Tank at Ettamogah Pub Cunderdin.
| ![Enlarge photo 17](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6636.JPG) 17 Ettamogah Pub Sign
| ![Enlarge photo 18](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6637.JPG) 18 Ettamogah Pub Cunderdin.
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![Enlarge photo 19](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6618.JPG) 19 Commemorating the Centenary of Cunderdin This plaque commemorates The Centenary of the Cunderdin Townsite declared 18th May 1906 under the Land Act (Govt. gazette) R. Cecil Clifton Under Secretary for Lands. The Cunderdin Historical Society 2006.
| ![Enlarge photo 20](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6617.JPG) 20 Railway Water Tower Government Railways of W.A. - Water Tower - erected circa 1892. Water gravitated from the rock catchment and reservoir (Cunderdin Hill) into this water tank to supply the railway steam engines.
| ![Enlarge photo 21](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6616.JPG) 21 Railway Water Tower at Cunderdin Government Railways of W.A. - Water Tower - erected circa 1892. Water gravitated from the rock catchment and reservoir (Cunderdin Hill) into this water tank to supply the railway steam engines.
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![Enlarge photo 22](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6619.JPG) 22 Cunderdin Museum The museum building, formerly the No3 Pump Station on the Golden Pipeline, features the town icon, the brick chimney.
| ![Enlarge photo 23](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6620.JPG) 23 Cunderdin Museum The collection includes the Worthington engine that powered the No7 Pump Station, a crop-dusting plane, a railway dining car, a tractor and truck display and the re-sited Qualegeting one-teacher school.
| ![Enlarge photo 24](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6625.JPG) 24 Cunderdin Museum Iconic brick chimney.
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![Enlarge photo 25](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6621.JPG) 25 Cunderdin Museum Display of tractors and agricultural machinery.
| ![Enlarge photo 26](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6622.JPG) 26 Cunderdin Museum Display of tractors and agricultural machinery.
| ![Enlarge photo 27](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6623.JPG) 27 Cunderdin Museum Caterpillar Thirty Tractor.
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![Enlarge photo 28](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6624.JPG) 28 Cunderdin Museum Deutz Tractor.
| ![Enlarge photo 29](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6626.JPG) 29 Cunderdin Museum Formerly the No 3 Pump Station on the Mundaring / Kalgoorlie water pipeline.
| ![Enlarge photo 30](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6627.JPG) 30 Cunderdin Museum Formerly No 3 Pump Station.
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![Enlarge photo 31](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6628.JPG) 31 Cunderdin Museum The iconic chimney of the former No 3 Pump Station.
| ![Enlarge photo 32](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6629.JPG) 32 Cunderdin Museum Rural Lifestyle Pavillion.
| ![Enlarge photo 33](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6630.JPG) 33 Cunderdin Museum Displays include agricultural machinery used in bygone years, an original steam pump used on the Goldfields Water Scheme, a Tigermoth aircraft, an original bush school and many artifacts depicting the pioneering spirit of the district.
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![Enlarge photo 34](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6631.JPG) 34 Cunderdin Museum View through the fence.
| ![Enlarge photo 35](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6638.JPG) 35 Cunderdin Museum Viewed from the Ettamogah Pub.
| ![Enlarge photo 36](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6639.JPG) 36 Memorial Rose Garden, Meckering Townsite Officially opened October 2008 to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the 1968 Meckering Earthquake.
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![Enlarge photo 37](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6641.JPG) 37 Meckering Memorial Rose Garden
| ![Enlarge photo 38](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6668.JPG) 38 Mouldboard Plough Meckering Memorial Rose Garden.
| ![Enlarge photo 39](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6642.JPG) 39 Meckering Memorial Rose Garden
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![Enlarge photo 40](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6670.JPG) 40 Fordson Tractor Meckering Memorial Rose Garden.
| ![Enlarge photo 41](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6646.JPG) 41 Machinery Display Meckering Memorial Rose Garden.
| ![Enlarge photo 42](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6647.JPG) 42 Ingenious Cement Mixer Meckering Memorial Rose Garden.
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![Enlarge photo 43](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6640.JPG) 43 Earthquake Memorial Meckering Memorial Rose Garden.
| ![Enlarge photo 44](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6643e.JPG) 44 Earthquake Memorial This depicts the scene that most faced with all the shops and the majority of houses ruined.
| ![Enlarge photo 45](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6645.JPG) 45 Earthquake Memorial On 14th October 1968 an earthquake measuring 6.9 rocked Meckering. Many houses were destroyed and the town relocated to its present site. This depicts the scene that most faced with all the shops and the majority of houses ruined.
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![Enlarge photo 46](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6649.JPG) 46 Earthquake Facts Date: 14th October 1968 Time: 10.59 a.m. Intensity: Approx 6.9 on Richter Scale Epicentre: Latitude 30.31 S, Longitude 116.58 E, 9km SW of town Length of Faultline: 37 km Height of Faultline: 1.5 max height Duration: 40 seconds
| ![Enlarge photo 47](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6650.JPG) 47 Earthquake Damaged Water Pipe Meckering.
| ![Enlarge photo 48](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6655.JPG) 48 Earthquake Damaged Water Pipe Goldfields and agricultural areas water supply earthquake damage to main conduit near Meckering. This section of 30" steel LBCL pipe was telescoped about 2 miles west of the town by the Meckering Earthquake on 14th October 1968. The eastern portion of the earths surface rose about 5' vertically as well as horizontally with respect to the western side
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![Enlarge photo 49](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6656.JPG) 49 Earthquake Damaged Water Pipe Meckering.
| ![Enlarge photo 50](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6651.JPG) 50 The Earth Shook The town of Meckering was devastated by an earthquake with a force of 6.9 on the richter scale at 10.59 am on Monday 14 October 1968. It was the most severe earthquake recorded in Australia to that time. In the space of 40 seconds virtually the whole town was destroyed.
| ![Enlarge photo 51](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6652.JPG) 51 Cut Off Many of the town services were cut including road and rail connections and power, telephone and water supplies.
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![Enlarge photo 52](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6657.JPG) 52 Broken Bones Luckily no one was killed in the earthquake or the shocks that followed. Because it was a public holiday the school and most of the commercial buildings were empty. Injuries were also minimal. Twenty people from Meckering and York were admitted to hospital. Another twelve people were treated and released - most sustained broken bones, cuts, bruises and shock.
| ![Enlarge photo 53](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6658.JPG) 53 Many Miles Away The earthquake was felt over 400 kms away with reports of tremors from Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Albany. Minor damage, particularly to items on shelves in shops and homes, was experinced in a number of places.
| ![Enlarge photo 54](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6648.JPG) 54 Section of Railway Line twisted by Earthquake Meckering
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![Enlarge photo 55](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6660.JPG) 55 Faulty Lines Railway lines, power lines, communication lines and the water supply pipeline pass through Meckering. The force of the earthquake severed the pipeline. It twisted and buckled both the standard gauge railway line connecting Perth to Kalgoorlie and the Eastern States, and the narrow gauge railway line servicing Western Australia's south west.
| ![Enlarge photo 56](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6661e.JPG) 56 Section of Railway Line twisted by Earthquake Meckering
| ![Enlarge photo 57](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6659.JPG) 57 The Meckering Earthquake Monument
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![Enlarge photo 58](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6653.JPG) 58 The Trip of a Lifeline This is a stop on the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail, a National Trust project for the people of Australia. Many of the communities along the pipeline continue to face unpredictable hardships. The trail takes you to some towns and communities that have not recovered from some. Meckering has overcome adversity to remain an important centre for the district.
| ![Enlarge photo 59](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6654.JPG) 59 Meckering's Nightmare Evidence of the earthquake that hit Meckering on the morning of 14 October 1968 is still around. Read the story of the earthquake in these panels. Take a walk through the Memorial Park to see evidence of the quake's destructive force in the sections of railway and pipeline.
| ![Enlarge photo 60](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6664.JPG) 60 Meckering Hall
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![Enlarge photo 61](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6662.JPG) 61 Meckering Rural Scene The Goldfields Pipeline taking water from Mundaring to Kalgoorlie, passes through Meckering.
| ![Enlarge photo 62](https://photos.imageevent.com/gladysclancy/australiassouthwest/avonvalley/icons/IMG_6663.JPG) 62 Goldfields Pipeline at Meckering In the 1890s CY O’Connor engineered a pipeline to carry freshwater from Mundaring Weir to arid goldfields 560 km to the east.
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