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Caversham

Placename: Caversham
Layer: WA Journey Ways - Aboriginal Camps Around WA
Link back to source:: http://batchelorpress.com/node/396
Type: Other

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Latitude: -31.87555556
Longitude: 115.9744444
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Layer Warning:: This layer contains historical information about Aboriginal people that may be distressing. It contains names of people who have passed away.; "My uncles and my mother and I used to go up and do all the grape picking up around Caversham and West Swan, places like that. That was in about January and February we’d pick the grapes. And then later years when I left school, we used to go and dig potatoes down the southwest. We used to go down twice a year for that. In May, digging in the swampy country around Benger, you were up to your knees in mud trying to dig potatoes. In the summer months, we used to go down in October to Roelands, Brunswick Junction and Burekup and ‘cause they get the potatoes growing on the side of the hills more or less." (Corrie Bodney, oral history, 31 January 2007, 27 Corrie Bodney, conversation 17 April 2013. Cited in Cook 2016)

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