navigating The trail takes approximately 3 to Want to know Items in this collection include 4 hours to complete. Make sure reports, newsletters, photographs, the trail you bring plenty of water and more about oral histories, newspaper wear comfortable shoes. Public Mosman Park’s clippings, digital histories and The Mosman Park toilets and picnic facilities are history? books, including: Heritage Trail visits available intermittently along the mosman park Between River and Sea: A History 17 sites along a 10.5 route (refer to the attached map). The Grove Library of Mosman Park, Western kilometre route that Cafes, shops and restaurants can maintains a community Australia by Elizabeth Tuetteman heritage trail takes you along the river, be found in the centre of town. history collection about Beaches, Bush & Riverbanks: through the bush and Participants following the trail do the people, places and Memories of Cottesloe, back into the heart of so at their own risk. events that have shaped Peppermint Grove & Mosman Park Mosman Park. While the history of Cottesloe, edited by Katherine Wallace most of the trail can be Peppermint Grove and Most material in this collection is walked at a leisurely pace, Mosman Park. not for loan but may be there are sections that referenced and copied in the could be physically Community History Library. challenging for some walkers. These areas are indicated on the map on The construction of a reservoir the back of this brochure. around the obelisk on Buckland Hill, 1935.

Bar-b-q Party Pontoon on the Front Cover: A group of children Swan River, Mosman Park, 1989. from Doyle Street on the Mosman Discovering Bay foreshore, 1936.

Historical images courtesy of Mosman Park’s The Grove Library hidden history

This trail was proudly developed Town of Mosman Park Rudwick’s chemist by the Town of Mosman Park. Memorial Park shop on , c. 1920. Cnr Bay View Terrace and • Memorial Drive Mosman Park WA 6012 relive the mosman park heritage trail PO Box 3, Mosman Park WA 6912 (T) 08 9384 1633 Do you want to share or revisit the information provided along this (E) [email protected] trail? Scan this QR code or visit the Town’s website at: www.mosmanpark.wa.gov.au/heritage-trail Welcome to the What’s in a Name? Whadjuk TrailS mosman park As you walk along the Mosman Park Heritage Trail, Along the trail between heritage trail you may notice different names for the suburb. the Mosman Bay These reflect the fact that Mosman Park has had at foreshore and Leighton This trail explores some Two men on the Mosman Bay Lime kilns on Buckland Hill, jetty during the floods of 1920. least seven different names! Battery, look for stainless c. 1920. highlights of Mosman steel triangles cut into Park’s history and 1833 – Surveyor John Septimus 1930 – Confusion caused by the the footpath. These mark uncovers traces of the The Warden Beelier Bidi is part of It is hard to imagine this quiet Roe labels an undefined area of existence of Cottesloe and the Wardun Beelier Bidi, past that have been left the Whadjuk network of walking suburb as an isolated ‘country town’ land north of as Cottesloe Beach leads the Road a 17.4km trail linking trails that connects remnant behind. Take the time to or the home of large-scale industry. Buckland Downs on an original Board to change its name back to bushland with iconic bushland areas in ’s western explore the trail, in Yet once this was a place of open survey map. Buckland Hill Road District. Noongar and heritage suburbs. To download the free App whole or in part, and bushland and large factories that – The area northwest of – A committee considers a for the Wardun Beelier Bidi and lined the river and the highway. 1841 1932 trails in the Town of don’t forget to take in Rocky Bay appears as Buckland new list of names for the district, other Whadjuk Trails, or for Going to ‘the pictures’ or a local Cottesloe, Shire of the beautiful scenery of Hill on a map drawn from the short-listing Buckland, Mosman additional information on the dance was a treat for hardworking Peppermint Grove and this unique municipality, H.M.S Beagle. Park and Rivermont. Local Whadjuk network of walking trails, residents on Friday and Saturday Town of Mosman Park. between river and sea. residents lean strongly towards please visit: nights, while Sundays were 1899 – Buckland Hill Road Mosman Park as a distinctive www.whadjukwalkingtrails.org.au reserved for family fun at the river District is gazetted. The Road name for the district. or the beach. Board and residents, however, unofficially refer to the area as – The Mosman Park Road Physical reminders of Mosman Park’s 1937 Cottesloe Beach after the local District is officially gazetted. history have slowly disappeared train station on the Perth to as residential development has 1961 – The Local Government Act Fremantle line. thrived. Although much of the open 1960 replaces Road Districts with land and industry that once defined 1908 – Members of the Buckland Councils and establishes the Shire Mosman Park has gone, some of the Hill Road Board officially change of Mosman Park. Town’s remaining buildings, reserves the Board’s name to Cottesloe 1962 – The Shire of Mosman Park and residential developments are Beach Road Board. Permission to is designated the Town of reminders of this vanished past. use the new name is granted by Mosman Park. the Minister the following year. 1922 – A competition is held to establish a new name for the district. Five names are considered, including: River Sea, Beachlia, Beachhole, Riverslea, and Riverbeach. None of these names is found to be suitable and the issue is abandoned.

The Returned Servicemen’s League (RSL) Hall, which once stood on the corner of Solomon Homemade skiffs on the Mosman Bay foreshore, c. 1948. and Johnston Streets, 1938. Miss Kelly and two American servicemen at Blackwall Reach, 1942. KEANE’S POINT

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