WUBIN
Gateway to the North
Wubin is located 268km North of Perth, Western Australia, on the Great Northern Highway
at the junction where the road turns off to Paynes Find, or continues north to Mullewa.
It is at latitude 30 06 South and longtitude 116 38 East. Wubin is one of the small towns in the
Shire of Dalwallinu in the heart of the northern wheatbelt. The first settlers took up their holdings in January of 1908 and the first lots
in the townsite were sold in June 1914. Wubin derives it's name from the Aboriginal
name for a nearby water source, Woobin Well, first recorded by a surveyor in 1907.
Click here to see a map of where Wubin is located in Western Australia
My grandparents were pioneer farmers at Wubin, they grew up in Dalwallinu and then purchased a farm west of Wubin in the early 1920's. As a teenager, I spent many enjoyable hours working on their farm. Building a model railway, I decided to model Wubin, and hence needed some pictures and information. This website shares some of that information.
• Click here to see more photographs of buildings in Wubin
• Click here to see photographs of the model of Wubin
A recent Saturday in September, parking was at a premium, as locals and visitors converged on Wubin to visit the Wildflower Display in the Wubin Hall, and to launch a new publication "Prepared to Pioneer". This booklet is a history of the people who pioneered, worked and toiled to built Wubin and its community. Copies of the book are available from the Wubin Post Office.
If you would like higher quality files of these or other images or have any other comments, please Email me.