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City of Canning Municipal Heritage Inventory City of Canning Municipal Heritage Inventory October 2017 1 City of Canning Municipal Heritage Inventory Table of Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................. 4 2. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 5 3. METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................... 6 3.1. Municipal Heritage Inventory Review Process ........................................................................ 6 3.2. Management Categories ......................................................................................................... 7 3.3. Scheme Heritage List .............................................................................................................. 7 4. THEMATIC HISTORY AND FRAMEWORK ............................................................................... 9 5. PLACE RECORD FORMS BY MANAGEMENT CATEGORY .................................................... 9 MANAGEMENT CATEGORY 1 Exceptional Significance .............................................................. 10 Woodloes Homestead .................................................................................................................... 11 Canning Town Hall .......................................................................................................................... 17 The Chapel of the Guardian Angel ................................................................................................. 22 Castledare Boys Home (fmr) .......................................................................................................... 25 Convict Fence ................................................................................................................................. 30 Canning War Memorial ................................................................................................................... 33 Kent Street Weir .............................................................................................................................. 38 Former Sikh Cemetery .................................................................................................................... 41 Canning River Regional Park .......................................................................................................... 45 MANAGEMENT CATEGORY 2 Considerable Significance .......................................................... 54 Riverton Road Bridge ...................................................................................................................... 55 Queens Park Fire Station ................................................................................................................ 58 MANAGEMENT CATEGORY 3 Some Significance ....................................................................... 61 Canning Council Administration Centre .......................................................................................... 62 Kent Street Weir Park ..................................................................................................................... 67 House, 1 Woodloes Street, Cannington .......................................................................................... 71 Cannington Bus Service (fmr) ......................................................................................................... 75 LORNE (No. 13 River Road, Cannington) ...................................................................................... 78 St. Francis Church .......................................................................................................................... 81 Nicholson Road Bridge ................................................................................................................... 84 Landing at Nicholson Road Bridge ................................................................................................. 87 Old Quarry ...................................................................................................................................... 90 Bentley Hospital .............................................................................................................................. 94 MANAGEMENT CATEGORY 4 Limited Significance ..................................................................... 99 St Norbert College & St Joseph's Priory ....................................................................................... 100 Brownlie Towers ........................................................................................................................... 104 2 City of Canning Municipal Heritage Inventory Canning Vale Freight Line ............................................................................................................ 109 Carousel Shopping Centre ............................................................................................................ 116 Welshpool Munitions Factory ........................................................................................................ 128 Castledare Boys Home (fmr) – Miniature Golf Course ................................................................. 134 MANAGEMENT CATEGORY 5 Historic Site ................................................................................ 139 St Josephs School ........................................................................................................................ 140 Mason’s Landing ........................................................................................................................... 144 Landing Former Reserve No.1455 ................................................................................................ 149 Willetton Post Office ...................................................................................................................... 154 Fence Post .................................................................................................................................... 161 Cannington Railway Station (fmr) ................................................................................................. 166 Welshpool-Kewdale Railway Link (fmr) ........................................................................................ 174 Cannington Post Office (fmr) ........................................................................................................ 180 APPENDIX 1 – List of places on the 1995 MHI which have been demolished ............................. 187 3 City of Canning Municipal Heritage Inventory 1. Executive Summary Local governments are required to compile, maintain and review Local Government Heritage Inventories in accordance with the Heritage of Western Australia Act 1990. The City of Canning (the City) adopted its original Municipal Heritage Inventory (MHI) is 1995. The City conducted a review of the MHI between 2015-2017 which has included the following key steps: a) Review of the Place Record Forms for the existing places on the 1995 MHI; b) Addition of new records and updating the Place Record Forms for the places to be retained on the MHI; c) Assessment and inclusion of new places as a result of public nominations and officer investigation; d) Allocation of a management category for all places (current and new) in accordance with the State Heritage Office guidelines and recommendations; and e) Recommendation of places for inclusion on the City’s Town Planning Scheme Heritage List. This document is the culmination of the abovementioned review process. The following places have been placed on the MHI due to their heritage values. In accordance with State Heritage Office guidelines, these management categories are assigned a number from 1 to 5 where 1 is the highest significance and 5 is the lowest. Detailed Place Record Forms for each place are included in Section 5 of this document. 1.1. Management Category 1 – Exceptional Significance: 1.1.1. Woodloes Homestead – No.39 Woodloes Street, Cannington 1.1.2. Canning Town Hall – No.1309 Albany Highway, Cannington 1.1.3. The Chapel of the Guardian Angel – No.190 Treasure Road, Queens Park 1.1.4. Castledare Boys Home (fmr) - 108 Fern Road, Wilson 1.1.5. Convict Fence - Canning River between Mount Henry and the Riverton Bridge 1.1.6. Canning War Memorial, Corner Albany Highway and Manning Road, Cannington 1.1.7. Kent Street Weir – Reserve No. 48327, Wilson 1.1.8. Former Sikh Cemetery – Reserve No. 7773 Adenia Road, Ferndale 1.1.9. Canning River Regional Park – Those landholdings and portions thereof that fall within the Canning River Regional Park reserve and are located within the boundary as indicated in the place record form map. 1.2. Management Category 2 – Considerable Significance: 1.2.1. Riverton Road Bridge - Fern Road, Riverton 1.2.2. Queens Park Fire Station - No. 44 George Way, Cannington 1.3. Management Category 3 – Some Significance: 1.3.1. Canning Council Administration Centre – No. 1317 Albany Highway, Cannington 1.3.2. Kent Street Weir Park - Cnr Kent Street and Queens Park Road, Wilson 1.3.3. House – No. 1 Woodloes Street, Cannington 1.3.4. Cannington Bus Service (fmr) - No. 57 Nicholson Road, Cannington 1.3.5. LORNE - No. 13 River Road, Cannington 1.3.6. St. Francis Church – No. 56 Redcliffe Street, East Cannington 4