The Taylor family arrived in Perth in September 1891 and John started business as a boarding-house keeper. Two years later he applied successfully for a publican’s licence and took up management of the Cannington Hotel. A newspaper advertisement proudly set out what the hotel had…
John Skinner Prout (1805-1876) was an artist who came to Australia in the 1840s. He described his voyage out to Australia in an article in The Illustrated London News, with sketches of life on board ship. Emigrants to the Swan River Colony would have had a similar…
The featured image is Canal Street, Wolverhampton, taken in the 19th century. One of the houses in this street was the home of the Turner family and the birthplace of Jane Turner, the future Mrs Jane ‘Jenny’ Taylor. Jane’s father was Charles Turner, born in…