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This was the shot that I had planned to upload in response to Nino H's suggested crop. But, I uploaded the wrong shot.
I promise, no more Perth City lights shots........................ atleast, not until the next one!
Sad to hear that Union of South Africa has apparently finally been withdrawn. It was one of several A4s that ended their days in a fitting manner working from Ferryhill on expresses to Glasgow Buchanan Street which is how I will remember 60009. On Friday 5 June 1965 it is accelerating the up "Grampian" away from its stop at Perth.
Perth is a mining town. Mining is a major source of revenue for Western Australia and hence the state is relatively wealthy and has the highest median household income of any Australian capital city. The picture shows the precinct at the ground floor for one of the major mining companies. This is repeated throughout the city with some lovely grounds
Ferryhill A4 No. 60026 Miles Beevor has just passed Hilton Junction with the "Up Special TPO" on Thursday 4 June 1965. A colourised b/w neg.
Ferryhill A4 60026 Miles Beevor taking the Stirling line at Hilton Junction with the "Up Special TPO". A rescanned neg. 22 August 1964.
Old Perth Boys School, St Georges Tce, Perth.
Built circa 1860.
I suspect the door is much more recent.
Lightning over Perth, Western Australia. This was a storm that came out of the blue on 1st March 2017, and one that was a long time coming. No decent storms in Perth since 2015!
Came home at 23:30 last wednesday after work. Flashes everywhere. Got on the roof of my appartment building and managed to get this shot before the rain.
Perth, WA, Scarborough beach.
This is the external facade of the Perth City Library including the extensive remediation building works. But it is good the library is still operating, with a dedicated children's floor that is accessible only to parents and their kids. I quite often pop into a library when travelling, just to see what is different and interesting.
40081 calls at Perth with a parcels service.
I managed to identify the loco thanks to the first class sticker on the bottom central disc and the extra lamp bracket.
'Freedom of Scotland' railtourer day four, spring 1981.
This looks very much like the 4A40 11:34 Edinburgh to Aberdeen parcels which ran via Stirling and Perth. It was booked for a 40. It would get there at 14:30-15:00. Not sure if it shunted, your shot is in the Caley/Highland platform which would have meant a reverse. A possibility?
The bay platforms at Perth are occupied by ScotRail Class 158 and Class 170 DMUs on 23rd September 2019.
For alternative railway photography, follow the link:
www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html to the Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle.
Viewed from the Captain Cook Cruise boat from Fremantle up the Swan River to Perth. With my school friend who was over from the UK visiting her son and his family in Perth. Wonderful catch up :-) photos in comments.
For nearly 40,000 years the area on which Perth now stands was occupied by groups of the Nyoongar people and their ancestors – a fact that has been verified by the discovery of ancient stone implements near the Swan River which have been carbon dated at 38,000 years old.
In December, 1696, three ships in the fleet commanded by de Vlamingh anchored off Rottnest Island and on 5th January, 1697, a well-armed party landed near the present-day Cottesloe Beach, marching eastward to the Swan River near Freshwater Bay. They tried to contact some of the Nyoongar to enquire about the fate of survivors of the Ridderschap van Hollant, lost in 1694, but were unsuccessful. Following this encounter, they sailed north, but not before de Vlamingh had bestowed the name Swan on the river because of the black swans he saw swimming there.
Just over 100 years later, in 1829, Captain James Stirling founded Perth as part of the Swan River Colony. Stirling thought the natural environment around Perth was “as beautiful as anything of this kind I had ever witnessed” and advocated that a colony be established there. The British Government agreed to found the colony as the first free settlement in Australia, and settlers began to arrive in Western Australia in June 1829.
heritageperth.com.au
Stirling officially declared the foundation of Perth, capital of the colony, on 12 August 1829, the date chosen to honour the birthday of the King George IV. The name of Perth was chosen after the birthplace of Sir George Murray, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies.
australiangeographic.com.au
28/365 2018
52 weeks of 2018, week 5, SOOC, straight out of the camera, zero editing.
Note: camera time was 16:12, Queensland time, 2 hours ahead of actual Perth time :-)
Saturday challenge - memories
Perth is a city in central Scotland, located on the banks of the River Tay. It is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county of Perthshire. Quoted from Wikipedia.