Youngs Siding, Western Australia

Youngs Siding is a town and locality of the City of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

[2][3] Youngs Siding is on the traditional land of the Minang people of the Noongar nation.

[4] Youngs Siding was established as a railway siding on the Torbay Junction to Torbay railway line, which opened in 1889, a line that was eventually extended further west to Denmark and Nornalup.

He hosted Prince Albert and the future George V at his homestead, Marbelup Cottage near the shore of Wilson Inlet, in 1881 when they came to Western Australia as midshipmen on HMS Bacchante, and took them on excursions in the area.

[8][11][12] The heritage listed Young's Siding Hall is located at the townsite and was officially opened on 14 April 1923, one of a number of community halls build in the area before and after the First World War.