Lindsay Calyun and friends Brucy Mippy, Noel Quartermaine and William Bodney playing at Millar’s Cave, 1965. (©West Australian Newspapers Limited)
Millar’s Timber & Trading Co. had offices on Nash Street and a joinery, timber yard and sheds on Lord Street near the railway crossing for many decades. The company played a major role in the timber industry in WA from the early 1900s until it was bought out by Bunnings in 1983. Today the area is a carpark beside St Bartholemew’s House.
Before the timber yards were demolished in the 1970s, the area offered Aboriginal people a hidden and sheltered place to meet and camp.
‘Millar’s Cave’, the unofficial name for the area, came from the name of the timber company and also from a popular 1960s American country and western song ‘Miller’s Cave’.
Way down in the state of Georgia, through the swamps and the everglades
There’s a hole in Tiger Mountain
God help the main who gets lost in Miller’s Cave
Miller’s Cave by Charlie Pride (1966)
Listen
Brenda Woods
Marie Pryor
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Millar's Timber Yard, 1935. (State Library of Western Australia)
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Advertisement for Millar's Timber, The Daily News 8 June 1955.
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Perth Sewerage Map showing MIllar's Timber Yard and Offices, 1953 (State Records Office, Retro Maps)
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Miller's Cave sung by Charlie Pride (1966)
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