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If you haven't been to see the Christmas decorations in the city, I wouldn't bother. They are pathetic.
Sidewalk in the Perth Central Business District right next to the Goodearth Hotel where I stayed my first night there.
The "domestic" block at 63A has been targetted by the local neds, no doubt under some freedom of expression thing. Some attempt has been made to secure the place but it is open to further attack.
W.C.R.Co.Class 47 786 Roy Castle OBE with 'The Royal Scotsman' at Perth station 19/5/2010.
This Train is described as the 'Luxury Train Journeys In Scotland'.Carries a maximum of 36 passengers per trip(at a price!).
Perth Stadium located in Burswood adjacent to the Swan River, Armadale railway line and Graham Farmer Freeway. It is the main venue for AFL football replacing Subiaco Oval as the home ground of the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers for the 2018 season. It is also the venue for large-drawing cricket matches what were previously played at the nearby WACA ground. Under a sponsorship arrangement it is currently known as Optus Stadium.
The stadium seats around 60,000 spectators as an oval with the ability to be reconfigured for for a rectangular field with a capacity of 65,000. The development of the Burswood stadium was chosen over a potential redevelopment of Subiaco to a similar capacity ground in mid 2011 - the previous plan was the build in Kitchener Park and demolish the existing Subiaco Oval until theconcept was abandoned in early 2009. The Burswood site selection was made due to its lack of development constraints and the presence of the railway line enabling a large station and sidings to be constructed.
The stadium site was previously part of Burswood Park Public Golf Course which closed and the site was split between the stadium and an adjacent hotel development servicing nearby Crown Casino. Decades prior to that the stadium site was Goodwood Racecourse - located alongside current Belmont Park Racecourse both were privately developed before being taken over by the Western Australian Turf Club in 1945 and Goodwood was subsequently closed.
Perth Stadium located in Burswood adjacent to the Swan River, Armadale railway line and Graham Farmer Freeway. It is the main venue for AFL football replacing Subiaco Oval as the home ground of the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers for the 2018 season. It is also the venue for large-drawing cricket matches what were previously played at the nearby WACA ground. Under a sponsorship arrangement it is currently known as Optus Stadium.
The stadium seats around 60,000 spectators as an oval with the ability to be reconfigured for for a rectangular field with a capacity of 65,000. The development of the Burswood stadium was chosen over a potential redevelopment of Subiaco to a similar capacity ground in mid 2011 - the previous plan was the build in Kitchener Park and demolish the existing Subiaco Oval until theconcept was abandoned in early 2009. The Burswood site selection was made due to its lack of development constraints and the presence of the railway line enabling a large station and sidings to be constructed.
The stadium site was previously part of Burswood Park Public Golf Course which closed and the site was split between the stadium and an adjacent hotel development servicing nearby Crown Casino. Decades prior to that the stadium site was Goodwood Racecourse - located alongside current Belmont Park Racecourse both were privately developed before being taken over by the Western Australian Turf Club in 1945 and Goodwood was subsequently closed.
This is all I can show you of the Perth Mint; they don't allow cameras inside. So you'll just have to take my word for it that it's totally awesome and there is more gold here than you've ever seen in your life.
Perth Water Works (former), Marshall Place, Perth, 1830-32.
Now the Fergusson Gallery.
Café Crystal.
Margaret Morris (1891-1980).
Oil on canvas, 1920.
Cafés played an important role among the artists, writers and philosophers of the day, who met there to share, discuss and develop their ideas. This painting captures the Bohemian spirit of the time.
John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961) was one of the most important and influential artists in Britain in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Edinburgh, with ancestral links to Perthshire, he spent much of his career in France and is now most associated with the Scottish Colourist group. The Fergusson Gallery holds his vast collection of artwork and associated archive, along with the archive of his lifelong companion, the pioneer of modern dance, Margaret Morris.
The collections were gifted in two major donations; the Fergusson Collection was donated by the J D Fergusson Art Foundation in 1991, following which the Margaret Morris Archive was gifted in 2010.
The Gallery is housed in the former Perth Water Works of 1832. It is one of Scotland's most significant industrial buildings and is the earliest identified example of a large scale cast-iron building in Scotland. It may be the very first in the world. Occupying a critical corner site at one of the main entry points to the city, its rotunda with dome and tall engine house chimney is visible from many vantage points, providing the city with one of its most distinctive landmarks.
The Water Works was built to designs by Adam Anderson, the rector of Perth Academy. Clean water was drawn from filter beds at Moncreiffe Island in the Tay and pumped under the river by a steam-engine into the tank within the rotunda. It held 146,000 gallons of water producing enough to supply nearly all the town's commercial and residential needs. The buildings became redundant when a new city waterworks was opened in 1965. The original urn atop the engine house chimney was destroyed by lightning in 1871.
It was restored in 1973 for use as a Tourist Information Centre by James Morris & Robert Steedman. The building was further converted to an art gallery for the display of JD Fergusson's works and other temporary exhibitions in 1992. The dome was reconstructed by Bell Ingram Design in 2003 as part of a £1 million restoration funded by The Heritage Lottery, Historic Scotland and Perth & Kinross Council to safeguard its national significance as a key monument to Scottish water engineering.
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The former Perth Down Centre signal box between platforms 4 and 7 (in view) at Perth railway station. Tuesday 4th June 1996
Perth General Station signal box was a Caledonian Railway Company non standard design within the station building that opened on 10th October 1886 fitted with a 41 lever Stevens & Sons Glasgow Old Pattern frame. When opened the signal box only controlled the up lines, but controlled the down and up lines from 9th May 1887. The signal box ceased to control the up lines and was renamed Perth Down Centre upon the opening of Perth Up Centre signal box on 14th May 1893, the lever frame possibly being reduced to 20 levers at the same time. It closed on 26th March 1962 being replaced by signalling controlled by Perth signal box and after closure the lever frame was removed and it was used as a relay room. Perth railway station, including the signal box was awarded Grade B listed building status on 26th August 1977
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Shots of the Causeway, a major traffic arterial from Perth across the Swan River connecting Adelaide Terrace and Riverside Drive to Albany Highway to Perth's south eastern suburbs. Prior to the construction of the Narrows Bridge and Kwinana Freeway in 1959 it provided the only river crossing from the Perth city centre.
The current bridge is the third to be constructed at this location. The first was a raised timber bridge between earthen embankments crossing what were then mudflats in 1843 and was operated a toll road initially. The low level meant the structure was prone to flooding. It was replaced by a second causeway in 1867 by a larger timber structure comprising of three bridges spanning the mudflats.
This was widened and strengthened in the early 20th century and again in the 1930's. Ultimately a footpath was added as well as a single tram track as part of Perth's tram system for the Victoria Park line in 1905. For the line's existence the causeway tram crossing remained single track with double track either side. Branches to South Perth and Como followed using the same line.
The third and current structure was completed in 1952 with two six lane bridges crossing a single Heirisson Island built up from the previous islands. The channels between were dredged to make them more navigable. Land was reclaimed on the western side near the present-day Adelaide Terrace-Riverside Drive intersection filling in the section which contained the third bridge of the 1867 causeway. This was the first major bridge in Perth and one of the first in Australia to be built using a composite steel concrete method, notable at the time as most road bridges in Western Australia crossing waterways were timber.
Trams never returned to the rebuilt causeway with the line to Como closing in June 1950 and Victoria Park December 1950. It was anticipated trolleybuses would serve these lines with additional vehicles ordered but wiring was never installed instead motor buses were used from that point onwards.
Traffic relief to the causeway would come in the form of the Graham Farmer Freeway in 2000. Afterwards the two centre lanes were converted to bus lanes which remain to this day.
Commonwealth Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma (2nd from left) at the opening of the Commonwealth Business Forum in Perth, Australia. ©Commonwealth Secretariat/Julius Mucunguzi
Australian Adventure -
Strolling around in the Central Business District of Perth. Skyscrapers, rooftop bars and christmas deco at 30 degrees celsius.
This, for me, was a very bad trip to the Perth Canyon (about 50km west of Fremantle). I got badly seasick an hour into the trip and didn't take my camera out of the bag for the next 4 hours. Only when we turned to go back with the swell rather than across and through it did I improve. There were only 2 of us so badly affected but it doesn't change my view. I took a few shots over my shoulder and was fortunate to be able to salvage this one. Still not a good photo. There were albatrosses and shearwaters and Storm petrels that I hadn't previously got so this was an opportunity missed. I have been out there before on a purpose built whale watching boat - excellent. This boat was a converted crayboat - they are built for in-shore work not so far out. It was converted as a charter dive and fishing boat, for which I'm sure it would be well suited.