In ww2 soldiers via hospital ships came their from Palestine in 1941, by 1942 the hospital which had two theatres, numerous stores, mess halls all built on concrete pads where gone after only 1 year of use, but 600 people where treated their and they stayed in tents this time on the opposite side of the rock that the prospectors did 50 years before them.
If that ain't enough history, in 1929 they built a railway home on top of the 1895 railway home, to manage the railway dam that harvested water off the rock, their is also gold mine shafts in their, a quarry that was used to make stone bricks for both the dam in the 1890s but also the railway home in 1929 and again in 1941 for hospital. their is 2 old cars 50 years or more in age that i have found so far, plus from 1942 it went back to nature to look after, been for 118 years or more a place locals have visited, since the 1920s its been a place people would come for picnics.
From 1948 to 1971 a housing reserve was created on 11 acres of the WW2 hospital ruins, this for first three years housed migrants from europe who earned their Australian citizenship by working in the area.
Well i never seen a rock like it and i have seen many granite rocks in W.A, this one has several tall trees way up on it, many valleys and pits in the rock, so as you climb it you find little pockets of thick bush and several trees with heaps of stuff to you that over the last 118 years people sand their to watch the sunsets or picnics, the council has got a seat up half way under a tree, some areas on the rock have sand several feet deep and others shallow 1 or 2 feet deep, the rock is 270 million years old, is the highest rock or hill for 200km in any direction and up on top of the first peak, their is two peaks on this rock yet its locally known just as the peak.
The first peak in 1942 they laid a concrete slab on it, built a pump house on that and from the railway dam on the south side of rock they pumped up the water to it and then pumped down to the south east side where hospital was to give them water, god only knows why they went over the rock, i think going around is only 100 or 200 metres further.
Below is just some of the photos of the place,
