Around Canning

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WOODLOESSHORT ST ST Museum in Woodloes Continue along Manning Road and Street, Cannington. through the first set of traffic lights and turn left onto Fleming Avenue. Continue along Fleming Avenue and turn CANNING TOWN HALL 5 right onto Kent Street and continue to the parking area at the end. The Canning River Eco Education Centre is located Canning Town Hall was constructed in 1909 here along with a café, free electric barbecues, toilets following a period of controversy regarding its and picnic shelters and the Wilson Park station of the proposed location (purchased by the Queens Park Castledare Miniature Railways. Council from a J.H. Woods for £100). The architect for the building was H. Jeffries. The hall was used WOODLOES for various activities including social functions, Continue along Marriamup Street and turn right at the end Woodloes Street, Cannington 1 dances, concerts, first aid classes and more. In and continue through the roundabout and then turn left 1921 a memorial to fallen soldiers was erected in Originally the home of Francis and Maude Bird built onto Albany Highway and proceed towards Perth. front of the hall and in 1948 the memorial arch was in the early 1870s. Bird was an architect and a relocated to its present site. In 1921 the hall was partner of the Mason Bird Timber Company with first used as a cinema and in 1926 extended to access to excellent timbers; some of which can CANNING SHOWGROUNDS 3 include a public gallery with a new boardroom and be seen in the door surrounds within the house. additional office space. In 1973 the building was The house has an interesting history having been On your right are the Canning Showgrounds which renovated for use as a senior citizens and youth through many owners until acquired by the Town now comprise the Cannington Exhibition Centre and centre and further renovated and refurbished in of Canning for restoration and opened as a local the greyhound racing venue. The first Show here time for its centenary in 2009. museum in 1978. At the rear of Woodloes is a was held in 1894 and has continued almost every reproduction of the Congregational Church with the year since then. Chimney which stood on Albany Highway until 1988 CANNING COUNCIL OFFICES 6 when it was demolished due to the widening of the ALBANY HIGHWAY 4 highway. Continue along Albany Highway towards Perth. This Canning Council Offices were opened in 2006 and strip of the highway was the centre of Cannington replaced the 1971 buildings, which in turn replaced with two hotels, the Cannington Hotel and the Cecil the offices located within the Canning Town Hall. After leaving Woodloes, head along Woodloes Street around Hotel (on the corner of Cecil Avenue, managing to the various bends. Where just before Mason’s landing is a remain until around 1990 when it fell victim to road cottage and stables, a final remnant of the horse training widening. Continue along Albany Highway to the Canning War KENT STREET WEIR 8 activities which once abounded in the Canning district. You Memorial on the corner of Manning Road and turn left onto will then come to Masons Landing on the river bank on your Manning Road. Built at the request of local residents to stop the left. ingress of salt water during the summer months, Other businesses on the highway included Cockram’s Store, the weir was completed in 1927. The weir has built by the man who donated the land for the original an impact on the natural ecology of the river and Church with the Chimney. Richard’s Store on the corner of CANNING WAR MEMORIAL defines a distinct boundary separating salt water MASON’S LANDING the Highway and Greenfield Street arrived in the first part 7 and fresh water. 2 of the 20th century as the school tuck shop, and eventually, Originally erected in 1921 in front of the Canning In 1864 Ben Mason obtained a permit to cut timber spawned Richgro fertilisers which are still around today, Town Hall where its setting included lawns, in the Darling Ranges and within two years was although the old shop disappeared in the 1990s. surrounded by a post and chain fence and hedge. Leave the Weir and go back along Kent Street and turn left employing 100 men, both at the mill site in Carmel Two machine guns, allocated to the district as war and at the Landing. Francis Bird joined him as a Cannington Primary School was moved as part of the onto Fleming Avenue. Turn left again onto Fern Road and development of the Carousel Shopping Centre, to a site on trophies were mounted on top of the arch. Moves to follow it around (watch the speed humps) until you get partner in 1871. A wooden railway (later capped relocate the memorial were initiated in 1948. with iron) joined the mill in the hills with the landing. Wharf Street where it opened in 1970. to the roundabout and the entrance into Castledare. You can drive into the Castledare grounds past the church and Boans Waverley was the start of Westfield Carousel down towards the river where there is parking associated Shopping Centre when the Perth department store with the miniature railway. opened a branch in September 1958. Continue along Albany Highway to George Street West. 18711973 1990 oric drive A hist canni1909ng nd THIS EVENT IS PART OF u 18941926THE NATIONAL TRUST aro HERITAGE FESTIVAL. 1958 1988 CASTLEDARE killing William Gaze. Yagan was arrested, spending WHITE HOUSE 23 9 Drive along Rivermoor Loop to its end and turn right into two months on Carnac Island before he escaped by The original house on site is a fine example of Riley Road and follow it around and return to Riverton Bridge. stealing a dinghy and rowing to the shore. Yagan Just before the bridge on the right hand side is the Federation style architecture, comparatively rare At the roundabout at the Bridge turn left into Barbican Street and others murdered two men, making their way to White House built by William Gordon Brookman, in the Canning area. It was built by Mr Fleming and then right into Marjorie Avenue. This will bring you to Canning from Bull Creek with provisions. Yagan and an extremely wealthy mining entrepreneur who around 1906/08. Originally part of an 83 acre farm Leach Highway. Turn left onto the Highway and drive west, the others were declared outlaws. Midgegooroo was became Mayor of Perth in the 1890s. Brookman’s the property was purchased in 1928 by the Catholic moving into the right hand lane ready to turn right at the imprisoned in May 1833 and executed. Yagan was house “Riverview” was later converted into a Church to provide a shelter for orphans. It developed traffic lights at the intersection of the highway and Barbican shot dead by two brothers, John and William Keats function centre known as the White House and in into a home for under-privileged boys and later into a Street West. Follow Barbican Street West around its left hand in July, 1833. Another Aboriginal man, Heegan and more recent times as a church. primary school and a training college. The Chapel of bend and then turn immediately right into Modillion Avenue William Keats also died in the exchange. Yagan’s the Mother of Perpetual Succour is a good example and then left into Corbel Street. Travel along Corbel Street head was severed and smoked by a settler and sent of 1950s church architecture including the use of until you reach the Canning River and the Shelley foreshore to England. It was only returned in 1997 and was 24 NICHOLSON ROAD BRIDGE decorative mosaic tiles on the front elevation and the park. Turn left into Riverton Drive and look out into the river reburied in Upper Swan by the Noongar community design of the forecourt area. and you will see a row of posts – just like a row of fence in 2010. Nicholson Road Bridge crosses the Canning River posts (which is what they actually were). and is the fourth bridge over the river at this point. The first bridge built in 1885 was demolished in 1907 and replaced with a more substantial After passing the aged person’s complex, you can turn structure, which in turn was upgraded in 1926/7. The site is the home of the Castledare Miniature Railways right at the traffic lights and return to Leach Highway and The river bed was widened and the span of the of Western Australia which started in 1962. The railway turn left.

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