Local Heritage Inventory 7.0 THEMATIC FRAMEWORK MATRIX 1893 – 1918 1829 – 1849 1850 – 1892 1919 – 1945 1946 – 1979 1980 – 2018 THEME / SUB-THEME: FERRIES, JETTIES AND GOLD SPORADIC DEVELOPMENT GROWING CONFIDENCE RAPID GROWTH AND WAR POST-WAR STABILITY FUTURE DIRECTIONS BOOM 1. DEMOGRAPHIC 1833 first land grants; 1834-37 Convicts and Pensioner Guards; 1898 boundary changes; South 1922 South Perth becomes Road 1955 boundaries of South Perth changed to Increased population in South Perth district SETTLEMENT AND MOBILITY Peninsula surveyed as village; Pensioner Guards’ lots along Perth Road Board; Como Beach Board District again; Post WWI - include Mt Henry and Salter Point; 1959 owing to urban infill and high density development along Suburban Melville Water, Como - failure - popular – 1905 subdivision survey brick homes preferred over South Perth becomes a City; 1960s and housing: 1990s pop. approx 34,500; 2013 • Why people settled Road; development in South abolished 1959; Perth Water of Como; 1911 Como Beach timber; 1926 gas mains reach 1970s redevelopment – many old buildings population 46,113; 1996 Homeswest began • Why they moved away Perth limited owing to isolation foreshore developed; 1858 map officially declared; 1901 pop 796: South Perth; 1936 deep demolished e.g. Haddon Hall 1976; many discussions with City for major withdrawal • The things they left behind from Causeway and Perth Town; shows name officially as South 1902 South Perth Municipality; sewerage; 1945 Hurlingham proposals for foreshore - residents disagree. from Karawara to enable sale of land for some settlement in eastern South Perth; 1880s property South Perth still rural; houses built subdivision. private housing; City of South Perth popular Perth; South Perth not officially development boom on peninsula along South Perth Esplanade for its proximity to Perth; development of named, referred to as Perth in South Perth. substantial; large land allocation Windsor Park; 2013 approval of Town Suburban. for Zoo. Planning Scheme Amendment for South Perth Station Precinct to facilitate intensive redevelopment. 2. TRANSPORT AND 1833 first ferry driven by horse; Mends Street jetty; horse and 1890s horse-drawn bus service 1922 trams; cars, buses and trucks 1946 establishment of South Perth Ferry continues to be important link to COMMUNICATIONS private boats essential; 1934 buggy; bicycle; 1849 Canning over Causeway; 1894 Mends St increase; 1937 Fremantle Road Community News; 1947 Suburban Road central Perth; Narrows Bridge duplicated, Mt Government controls ferry Bridge; 1867 new Causeway and jetty; 1896 Coode St jetty; I897 renamed Canning Highway; 1938 renamed Mill Point Road; 1949 Coode Street Henry Bridge expanded; Perth to Mandurah • How people and goods operation; 1843 Causeway has new Canning Bridge; 1873 regular ferry service; 1998 Mends fourth model of Canning Bridge; ferry closed for first time; 1950 tram ceases; railway - improves people’s movements moved impact on ferries; Canning Manning Road gazetted; market St jetty improved - ferry travel to roads improve. 1952 new Causeway completed; 1959 heading north-south; speed limit increased SETTLEMENT • How people Bridge; Suburban Road; tracks; garden produce transported by Zoo; temp Post Office in hotel; Narrows Bridge and Kwinana Freeway; on Freeway – maximum 100 kmh; fax, communicated and horse and light carts. barge; no telegraph line or 1900 Suburban Road Post Office; automation of telephone system. mobile phones; South Perth Station Precinct exchanged information properly sealed roads; 1892 car speed limit 8 mph; 1908 3rd designed to support a future train station at Canning Bridge raised. Canning Bridge; 1910 Fire Station; South Perth. telephone service; 1903 ferry from Coode St. 3. OCCUPATIONS Wind powered flour mill; timber 1850s development on Perth 1898 Perth Zoo established; 1905 1919 Weaver and Lock cool drink 1961 Gaiety Theatre closes; Freeway Hotel Mends Street shopping centre dynamic – cutting for fences, firewood; Water - market gardens, dairies, private power station, 1914 taken factory; 1926 Gaiety Picture starts succession of a number of small hotels many new shops and restaurants; Windsor • What people did for fishing; poor land quality limits orchards, vineyard; 1859 Mill over by Municipality; 1890s Theatre; 1930 Hurlingham Hotel; built owing to proximity to Perth. Hotel still popular; Karawara centre sustenance or to add agricultural development. ceases operation; conversion of Chinese market gardens; hotel, 1933 Hurlingham Picture Theatre; (Waterford Plaza) expanded; South Perth quality to life; paid and Mill to hotel; growth of tearooms, grocer, butcher etc in 1938 Como Picture Theatre; 1939 Station Precinct created as a major future unpaid labour commercial fishing. Mends Street; dairying important - Como Hotel; 1940s Pagoda employment centre; Canning Bridge local and Perth-wide; piggeries. Ballroom. Precinct planning initiated; Technology Park expanded into Kensington. 4. COMMUNITY EFFORTS 1834 'Raid on the Mill' by 1860 first church and school; Musical concerts in Zoo; Zoo oval 1932 new Saint Mary's Church; 1959 South Perth Civic Centre, Council 1992 Local Studies Collection in South Perth Aboriginal group; no community protests by petition – residents – cricket matches, tennis, Kensington Race Track Office, library built in Sandgate Street: 1959 Heritage House – relocated to South Perth • What people did together development owing to isolation desiring independent Local Govt; camping, picnics. Small train, converted to Hurlingham Polo Ngala Mother-craft Home; old offices leased Library in 2002 as part of massive Civic as a community; the issues from Perth. 1892 South Perth Road Board mineral baths; Churches; State Ground; Wesley College out to medical services; 1948 Collier School Centre expansions; 1992 centenary of local that divided them; the established - meeting either in Schools; Police Station; Council established; 1926 Kensington established; 1951 Manning School; 1952 government; Sir James Mitchell Park ABORIGINAL OCCUPATION PRIOR TO EUROPEAN structures they created to private homes or in old Wesley Offices; Mechanics Institute used State School; 1932 Infant Health South Perth Methodist Ladies College; 1953 improved and used for big occasions serve civic needs Chapel - used as public meeting as private school; Kensington Clinic; 1936 Canning Bridge South Kensington School; 1956 South Perth (caravan show, sky show); recreation – place; recreation includes fishing, Race Course; Local Health Board; School; 1937 Saint Columba's Community Hospital; 1957 Koonawarra popular ‘Round the Bridges’ walk, run. bike picnics, boating. Pen Hall; 1901 Clontarf Boys Church; 1939 Aquinas College; School; 1960 South Perth City Council Hall; or rollerblade; South Perth Historical Society Home; Royal Perth Golf Club. recreation - movie pictures at services for aged; 1962 Methodist Church; strengthens with increased awareness of hall; sailing; Como declared Manning Library. history and heritage. public beach. 5. OUTSIDE INFLUENCES Colonial government arranges Decision to introduce convicts to Gold boom in WA increased Depression; WWII - shortage of War Service Homes built on standard plans, State Government encourages high density surveying - village survey and help struggling colony; South population - boom economy, real building supplies and petrol basic materials for returned Service people; living; by 2015, sixteen local heritage places • Events, decisions or large land grants limit settlement. Perth commonage - 1700 acres estate increases – eastern states rationing; Wars lead to Memorials technical advancement in hospitals, traffic recognised on State Register of Heritage changes which affected common pasture ground; 1862 investors; depression in eastern and RSL. systems, communication; 1951 South Perth Places. the community but were floods destroy Causeway; 1871 states; railway controversy electricity service taken over by State. beyond its control Local Govt Act - most of South involves many people throughout Perth in City of Perth area; Perth and South Perth; Federation; controversial decision to build WWI. railway on north side of river; 1892 South Perth Road Board. 2018 51 Local Heritage Inventory 8.0 PLACES RECOMMENDED FOR INCLUSION IN THE LOCAL HERITAGE INVENTORY Place inHerit Place Name Street Street Name Locality Description Statement of Significance Category Heritage No. No. No. List 1 16178 Canning Canning Como Canning Bridge spans Canning River at the narrowest point where the River flows Canning Bridge, comprising two almost identical timber bridges, Canning Bridge A YES Bridge Highway into the Swan River in Como and Applecross. The bridge consists of two adjacent eastbound (1937) and Canning Bridge westbound (1958), over the Canning River timber structures designed and built by the Main Roads Department of Western between Applecross and Como, has cultural heritage significance for the following Australia. The first structure, completed 1937, was designed and supervised by E. reasons: W. Godfrey, Chief Transport Engineer for Main Roads, and the second, almost identical, structure was completed 1958. • the place is rare as an intact, substantial timber bridge comprising two adjacent structures built at different times; The bridge is supported on timber piles. The piles have been potted at various • the site represents changing transport systems in Perth since 1829, from its locations and the majority have been epoxy wrapped at water level. The deck origins as a ferry