2024 SJ Remembers Community History Awards
The SJ Remembers inaugural Community History Awards were held in 2024. Below are the winners from the 2024 awards, recognising community members who have helped preserve and share our local heritage.
Winners of the inaugural SJ Remembers Community History Awards. (L-R: Heather Moorhead, Diane Mount, Ada Fawcett, Athol Wigg, Ron Chapman, Jennifer Phillips, Patricia Lording and Joan Miller)
2024 winners
Oral History & Jan Skillington Award
Winner: Ron Chapman
Robert (Rob) Smith’s recollections of life in Jarrahdale during the early 1960s and his work in the town’s timber mill.
Winner: Ada Fawcett
Life as a Child in the Years 1933 - 1949.
Runners-up: Athol Wigg (Memories 1951) and Heather Moorhead (Memories of the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale).
Winner: Jen Phillips
Jarrahdale’s Pirate – The Story of Basilo De Los Santos.
Runner-up: Dianne Mount (Serpentine Jarrahdale Community Resource Centre).
Photographic Memory (pre-2000)
Winner: Joan Miller
Byford’s First Swimming Pool.
Runner-up: Patricia Lording (various aspects of Byford life in the 1960s).
Winners by category
Oral History
Winner: Ron Chapman
Robert (Rob) Smith’s recollections of life in Jarrahdale during the early 1960s and his work in the town’s timber mill.
Written Memoir
Winner: Ada Fawcett
Life as a Child in the Years 1933 - 1949.
Runners-up: Athol Wigg (Memories 1951) and Heather Moorhead (Memories of the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale).
Original Research
Winner: Jen Phillips
Jarrahdale’s Pirate – The Story of Basilo De Los Santos.
Runner-up: Dianne Mount (Serpentine Jarrahdale Community Resource Centre).
Photographic Memory (pre-2000)
Winner: Joan Miller
Byford’s First Swimming Pool.
Runner-up: Patricia Lording (various aspects of Byford life in the 1960s).
Jan Skillington Award
Awarded to: Ron Chapman
The Jan Skillington Award recognises an outstanding contribution to preserving and sharing Serpentine Jarrahdale’s local history.