SWAN RIVER COLONY City Walking Trail DIRECTIONS DIRECTIONS Bus drops students at bus bay on Grosvenor Avenue Walk diagonally through Stirling Gardens beside Supreme Court Gardens (near corner of towards the north-west gates on the corner Riverside Drive) or near the Bell Tower. of St Georges Terrace and Barrack St. SLWA 6923B/162 Walk across the Gardens to the back of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. DIRECTIONS The Stirling Gardens were established as an acclimatisation A shady Walk past the front of St George’s Cathedral through garden by botanist James cool area. Cathedral Square and past the new Perth City Library. Near the Supreme 5 minutes Court on the side Drummond in 1845. Some of the facing the river, trees he planted still stand today, you will find the including the oak trees. St George’s Cathedral was built original site of by convicts and is constructed the river bank Find the dragon trees, a unique of handmade bricks. Consecrated Australian botanical specimen. in 1888, the cathedral is built City Walking Trail Walking City marked by limestone. Collect a seed or leaf from the ground to study from West Australian materials. 10 minutes and draw later. (Please don’t pick any from the The Supreme plants.) What materials can you recognise? Court Gardens 3 minutes IVER COLONY IVER R WAN S were formed HASSchat Stirling Gardens HASSchat St Georges Cathedral SLWA 6909B/130 from the St Georges Cathedral history reclamation of the Swan The new City of Perth Library River shallows Comfortable DIRECTIONS was designed by Kerry Hill and Toilets are toilets are in 1903. Find the Alexander Forrest statue on the corner of completed in 2015. A time inside on the nearby and St Georges Terrace and Barrack St. capsule is under the Tree of first floor. HASSchat Supreme the lawns are Court Gardens Knowledge. shady and cool. HASSchat Reclaiming the Land Alexander Forrest (1849-1901) What would you put in a Perth time capsule? was a surveyor who made two transcontinental expeditions DIRECTIONS CAREFUL! with his brother John. He is SWAN RIVER 5 minutes DIRECTIONS This is a busy Climb the narrow stairs portrayed here in his exploration The statue of James Stirling is on Hay Street near the to the east (right) of corner! clothes. This statue was the first COLONY entry to the City of Perth Library. the Supreme Court to made in Western Australia to commemorate a local person. the Old Court House Law Museum. View Trove Newspaper article Western Mail 5th September 1903, page 30 Sir James Stirling was a British naval officer and the City Walking Trail 2 minutes first governor of Western Australia. His persistence persuaded the British Government to establish the The Old Court House, Swan River Colony in 1829. He died in England in 1865. Heritage Perth and the State Library of Western Australia built in 1837, is the DIRECTIONS city’s oldest surviving View Australian Dictionary of Biography hope you enjoy this walk exploring Perth’s colonial heritage. Cross St Georges Terrace with the traffic lights; turn public building. SLWA 100003PD right and walk along the front of the Treasury Building. The walk can begin at the Supreme Court Gardens and Today you can visit it as a Museum end at the State Library of Western Australia, or be done in and the Francis Burt Law Centre. reverse. Allow an hour to complete this walk comfortably. DIRECTIONS Read the plaque on the front. This trail is an introduction to the history of the area from What else has this building been used for? Walk west along colonisation in 1829 to the early 20th Century and provides Hay St to the links for further study. HASSchat Old Court House Perth Town Hall. 5 minutes The State Library of Western Australia preserves maps, Look across to Council photographs and documentation recording the history House, the offices of Western Australia and provides free workshops for of the City of Perth. Perth Town Hall 5 minutes school students to develop historical investigation skills. The building was was designed by SLWA BA1823/20 www.slwa.wa.gov.au opened in 1963 by 3 minutes Richard Roach Jewell and partly Her Majesty Queen built by convicts on the highest point of the To book a workshop, speak to an education officer on Elizabeth II. ‘Tom city. When completed in 1870 it was the only building (08) 9427 3202, complete the online form, or email your SLWA 007334D the Grocer’, Thomas with a clock. It is said that in 1829 Mrs Dance felled a request to [email protected] Wardle, was lord mayor tree near here to commemorate the foundation of Perth. HASSchat links and other resources can be found on at that time. Find the plaque in the pavement for Point Zero. the Heritage Perth Learning Portal – City of Perth Point Zero is the marker from which all distances Look for the plaque in the northwest corner of learning.heritageperth.com.au How many T shapes can you count? from Perth have been measured since 1925. the Town Hall. What does it commemorate? It represents the centre point of the city. Comfy shoes, water bottle and a hat make happy walkers. HASSchat Council House This point also marks the site of the former HASSchat Perth Town Hall General Post Office. HASSchat Where Perth Began SWAN RIVER COLONY T S City Walking Trail FRANCIS JAME S S ST State T WIILLIAM Library DIRECTIONS MUS Cross at traffic lights to Hay Street Mall. EUM Barrack Street T S Walk to London Court. T T UFOR BUS Most early buildings in the city were made of timber ST BEA ATION ROE AR and iron but were replaced during the 1890s gold GALLERYT STIRLING S YAGAN ST boom. Next to London Court is the original Theatre SQUARE Royal. It was the first purpose built theatre in the state. Across the mall you can see the remains of the Savoy SLWA 7098B Hotel, built by architect John Talbot Hobbs, once TRAIN 5 minutes described as ‘The Ritz of Australia’. ST ATION Some of the original gold boom buildings still SLWA 090757PD WELLINGTON stand today. ST DIRECTIONS Guess which of the buildings in Hay Street Mall date back to this time? Walk across Wellington Street and turn right past Perth MURRAY S FORREST PLACE ntry. Go up the stairs to the south T London Court was built in 1937 Railway Station e of the main station entrance. Walk across to the for gold miner and financier Perth Cultural Centre. Claude de Bernales. It was This is a pedestrian MURRAY S T S designed to look like an English T precinct but there T MALL Tudor street scene. can be unexpected Perth’s first railway line ran from Fremantle to Guildford HASSchat Thanks to the Goldrush traffic. and opened in 1881. The original station was designed HAY ST BARRACK by Richard Roach Jewell and had just one platform. In WILLIAM S 1893 this new building designed by George Temple- 10 minutes Poole was built to accommodate the increasing MURRAY S population and new routes. HAY ST MALL T PLAZA ARCADE HASSchat Transport T The walkways S are shaded. PIER SLWA 113577PD TOWN T ST GEORGES TCE HALL S LONDON COURT PERTH LIBRARY TREASURY HAY ST IRWIN DIRECTIONS BUILDING ST GEORGES Turn right to walk through Plaza Arcade to Murray CATHEDRAL Street Mall and into Forrest Place precinct. T The Plaza Theatre was built in 1937 in the Art Deco style. SLWA 013888PD S STIRLING It screened the first feature film in Perth. GARDENS MOUNTS BAY RD COUNCIL Forrest Place was the Central Arcade until 1914. The new HOUSE BARRACK General Post Office was completed in 1923. SLWA 013898PD This land is reclaimed from Goologoolup (Lake DIRECTIONS SUPREME 5 minutes Kingsford), significant for the Aboriginal people and one GEOFFREY BOLTON AVE COURT OLD COURT Visit the of a series of lakes drained by the early settlers. State Library of Western Australia C✓ omfy shoes HOUSE Walk past the Art Gallery and into W✓ ater bottle TOILETS the State Library. HILL ST SUPREME COURT GARDENS Please notify the Welcome Desk of ✓ Hat There’s public There are toilets your arrival. seating in at the back of the Organise your bus to meet you on BELL VICTORIA AVE ADELAIDE TCE Forrest Chase. Library, it’s cool Francis Street. make happy walkers TOWER RIVERSIDE DR inside! State Library education Heritage Perth Learning Portal GOVERNORS AVE SLWA 211038PD What feature here reminds us of the wetlands?.