This Day in History: 1981-03-20

The Toodyay Shire Council bought Donegan’s Cottage, on Lot 101, Toodyay Street, Toodyay, to extend the Showgrounds. Harold and Blanche (nee Leeder) Donegan had tenancy of the Cottage until Harold’s death in 1993.

Sources:
Land title, 1981.
Rica Erickson & Robyn Taylor. Toodyay homesteads. Hesperian Press, 2006, p.74.
Wally Chitty. Toodyay – the good old days. Hesperian Press, 2004, p.99.