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CITY OF GOSNELLS

HERITAGE INVENTORY

2010

Prepared for

City of Gosnells

by

Laura Gray

Heritage & Conservation Consultant

in association with

Irene Sauman Historian

OCM 15 JUNE 2010 APPENDIX 13.2.1A

CONTENTS

CONTENTS ............................................................................................................... 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................... 3 SUMMARY LIST OF PLACES 2010.......................................................................... 4 SECTION A: REVIEW PROCESS........................................................................... 12

AMENDMENTS TO THE HERITAGE INVENTORY............................................. 13 MANAGEMENT CATEGORIES........................................................................... 18 CRITERIA FOR SIGNIFICANCE.......................................................................... 27

SECTION B: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW & REFERENCES .................................... 29 SECTION C: PLACE RECORDS............................................................................. 46

Gosnells Hotel


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Under the Heritage Act (1990) all local governments in WA are required to maintain a Heritage Inventory, listing places considered significant to the history and/or heritage of their area. The City has recently completed a full review of its Heritage Inventory. Being the first review since the original, published in 1998, the Inventory has an added 33 new places and updated 46 property listings, as well as listing significant trees, sites and natural landscapes. New listings were sought by calling for nominations from the public, staff, and History and Heritage Advisory Committee members. Listings were sought to include properties from suburbs not previously represented in the 1998 Municipal Heritage Inventory. The research and review work was undertaken by Consultants, Laura Gray, heritage and conservation consultant, and Irene Sauman, historian, and subsequently reviewed by Heritage Services staff. The City’s Planning Implementation and Parks and Environment branches have also provided feedback on the draft document. The historical overview and references contained in the 1998 MHI (Municipal Heritage Inventory) have been revised, to provide a foundation from which to understand the history and identify places significant to the development, events, people and phases of the history of the City. Some of the property listings have been grouped to recognise the link between them, either for historic reasons or due to their location. In addition, management categories have also been reviewed. Management categories are critical to providing some guidance to the owners, community and the City of Gosnells, to respond appropriately to each heritage place based on its assessed significance. The review of the City of Gosnells’ Heritage Inventory further emphasises the significance of the heritage and history of the City.

Germon Residence, Gosnells


SUMMARY LIST OF PLACES 2010 Following is the list of places (including sites, trees, and the natural environment) which makes up the City of Gosnells’ Heritage Inventory 2010.

Mulvay House, Maddington


Ref No Place name Address Category BECKENHAM B1 Montrose 1554 Albany Highway B

B2 Adelaide 1575 Albany Highway B

B3 Skinner’s House (fmr) 41 Beckenham Street C

B4 Hatch House (fmr) 50 Beckenham Street C

B5 War Service House 16 Highbury Crescent C

B6 Homestead (fmr) 69 Horley Street (cnr Kenwick Link) B

B7 Wimbledon Park 17 Packer Street B

B8 Harris House (fmr) 340 Railway Parade C

B9 Beckenham Primary School 386 Railway Parade C

CANNING VALE CV1 (Tom) Hungerford House (fmr) 75 Amherst Road C

GOSNELLS G1 Basham House (fmr) 2103 Albany Highway B

G2 City Council Group 2120 Albany Highway B

City of Gosnells Civic Centre Building (boardroom) Centennial Pioneer Park RSL Monument Banyan Tree Road Bridge Weeping Mulberry Tree (WJ Bone’s orchard)- in Civic Centre Gardens

G3 Gosnells Police Station 2293 Albany Highway C

G4 Addie Mills Centre 4 Astley Street C Royal Poinciana Flooded Gum –Canning River off Station Street, downstream from Cargeeg Bridge G5 Lander Farm Lot 9501 Chamberlain Street B

G6 Corfield Street Bridge Corfield Street C

G7 St Munchin’s Catholic Church 175 Corfield Street C

G8 Captain William’s House (fmr) 29 Dorothy Street (cnr Hicks Street) C

G9 All Saints Anglican Church & Parish Centre 32 Dorothy Street (cnr Hicks Street) C

G10 Jones House and printing office (fmr) 61 Dorothy Street (Amaroo) C

G11 Amaroo Retirement Village 67 Dorothy Street C

G12 Gosnells Hotel 1 Fremantle Road (cnr Albany Highway) A Port Jackson Fig Trees (opposite Gosnells Hotel) Site of horse troughs at hotel

G13 Fremantle Road Bridge Fremantle Road C

G14 McNess Housing Trust Houses (fmr) 208, 210 Hicks Street C

G15 John Okey Davis Park Group 8-34 Homestead Road B Wilkinson Homestead (fmr) A (reg) Wilkinson Orchard (fmr) Almond tree Jarrah Tree in Park


JO & F H (Frances Harriet) Davis’ Grave Homestead Site (archaeological)

G16 Shangri-La 64 Homestead Road B

G17 Lewis House (fmr) 64 Lissiman Street B Avenue of Trees (McMahon Caring Centre)

G18 Railway Station Lissiman Street C

G19 Manning Ave Footbridge Manning Avenue C

G20 Gosnells Primary School 16 May Street (cnr Hicks Street) C

G21 Cargeeg Bridge Station Street C

G22 Gosnells Oval & Grandstand & Trees Terence Street C

G23 Swingler Residence (fmr) 15 Wheatley Street B

G24 Germon Residence (fmr) 27 Wheatley Street B Kurrajong Tree (Illawarra Flame Tree)

G25 Sutherland’s Shop (fmr) 79 Wheatley Street B

G26 Cutten’s House (fmr) 125 Wheatley Street C

G27 St John Ambulance Hall 138 Wheatley Street

(cnr Verna Street) C

HUNTINGDALE H1 Gay’s Nursery & House Bullfinch Street C

H2 Southern River Bridge Southern River Road C

H3 Southern River Progress Assoc Hall Southern River Road (cnr Bullfinch C

Street)

KENWICK K1 Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery 1762 Albany Highway B

K2 Liddelow Homestead (fmr) 7-9 Cooper Avenue B Moreton Bay and Hills Fig trees

K3 Kenwick School 1 Moore Street (Rupert Street) C

K4 House 80 Oliphant Street C

K5 Catholic Church (fmr) 13 Royal Street C

LANGFORD L1 Church of Foursquare Gospel 50 Nicholson Road C

MADDINGTON M1 Winery 1921-1923 Albany Highway C

M2 Maddington Fire Station 1961 Albany Highway C

M3 Cowen House (1) (c.1913) 1993 Albany Highway C

M4 Mulvay House 2005 Albany Highway C

M5 Maddington Homestead 90 Burslem Drive A (reg) Pepper Trees Flooded Gums River Ford Site

M6 Maddington Community Kindergarten 24 Helm Street C

M7 WW Alcock House (fmr) 13 Kelvin Road B


M8 Butler House 226 Maddington Road C

M9 Kiely Homestead (FM Alcock) 10 Madrid Place (in salvage yard) B

M10 Tarling House (fmr) 24 Phillip Street C

M11 Cowen House (3) (1928) 21 River Avenue (cnr Attfield Road) C

M12 Cowen House (2) (1923) 22 River Avenue C

M13 Cowen House (4) (c.1960) 49 River Avenue (cnr Phillip Street) C

M14 Orr Homestead (fmr) 55 River Avenue (cnr Phillip Street) C Avenue of trees

M15 Brennan House 15 Serenity Court C

M16 Lankester House 74 River Avenue (off Serenity Ct) C

MARTIN MAR1 McKenzie House 2510 Albany Highway (Seaforth) B

MAR2 RSL Memorial Hall & Tennis Club 1 Gosnells Road West C

MAR3 Hillside Farm Hayward Road (North East end) B

MAR4 Martin House 99 Mills Road West C

MAR5 Moran House (fmr) 108 Mills Road West C

ORANGE GROVE O1 Bickley Reservoir Group Hardinge Road B Dam Recreation Camp Hardinge Park Pipe Track

O2 Jadran Winery 87 Reservoir Road C

O3 Jabez White’s Cottage & Mill Site 26 White Road A

THORNLIE T1 Crestwood Community Centre 27 Coronet Court C

T2 Crestwood Estate Coronet Court, Regency

& Regal Drive C

T3 Thornlie Community Centre & Homestead Glenbrook Road C Remnants

T4 House 21 Pegus Street C

T5 House 21 Rangeview Way C

T6 Thornlie Square Shopping Centre 318 Spencer Road C

T7 House 13 Spring Road C

T8 House 20 Spring Road C

T9 Sister Kate’s Kenwick Boys’ Home (fmr) 35 Spring Road C

T10 Thornlie Child Health Centre 1 Culross Avenue C

T11 Thornlie Tennis Club 38-48 Thornlie Avenue C

T12 Thornlie Baptist Church 24A Wynyard Way C


Ref No Place name Address Suburb SITES S1-CV Bateman House Garden Street Canning Vale S2-CV Canning Vale Hall Nicholson Road Canning Vale S3-CV Langford House Warton Road Canning Vale S4-G Gosnells Town Group Albany Highway Gosnells Griffith’s Hardware Conway’s Store (cnr Dorothy Street) Mazzucchelli’s Shop (cnr Dorothy Street) Mait Armstrong’s Bootmaker Shop Albany Highway “Johnny Allsorts” (Ashenden) Albany Highway Keehner’s Bakery Albany Highway

S5-G ‘Dehru Doone’ (McKeown Homestead) Albany Highway (opp hotel) Gosnells

S6-G Albany Highway Bridge Albany Highway (near Lewis House) Gosnells

S7-G Lloyd Hibble’s Two Storey House Pioneer Park, Albany Highway Gosnells

S8-G Mott’s Drive-in Theatre Albany Highway Gosnells

S9-G Gosnells Child Health Clinic Albany Highway Gosnells

S10-G Gosnells Roads Board Stock Pound Albany Highway Gosnells

S11-G Salvation Army Hall Albany Highway Gosnells

S12-G Pages Park Astley Street Gosnells Norfolk Island Pine Trees

S13-G Methodist Church Dorothy Street Gosnells

S14-G Timber Tramway –Lander Property Evelyn Street Gosnells

S15-G First houses built in Gosnells Town Federation Parade Gosnells Jacaranda

S16-G O Lauterbach’s House & Orchard 23 Fremantle Road Gosnells

S17-G McKim’s Jam Factory Lissiman Street Gosnells

S18-G Passmore House Mills Road West Gosnells

S19-G Stalker Pumps 22 Stalker Road Gosnells

S20-G First Bulk Milk Carrier Verna Street (cnr Astley Street) Gosnells

S21-G Railway Station & Platform Wheatley Street Gosnells Footbridge Norfolk Pine Kurrajong Trees Marri Trees

S22-G Gosnells CWA Hall Wheatley Street Gosnells (fmr Theosophical Hall)

S23-G Gosnells Picture Theatre and Hall Wheatley Street (cnr Bert Street) Gosnells

S24-G Mazza (Mazzucchelli) Billard Wheatley Street Gosnells

Saloon

S25-G Wright’s Produce Store Wheatley Street Gosnells Albany Highway Maddington

S26-G Seaforth Progress Hall (Acorn Theatre) Manning Avenue Gosnells

S27-K Coulthard’s Brickworks Albany Highway Kenwick

S28-K Station Master’s House Albany Highway Kenwick

S29-K Packer Estate: 25 Rimmer Lane Kenwick


House, Oak Tree, Worker’s Cottage, Pump House

S30-M St Luke’s Anglican Church Albany Highway (cnr Herbert Street) Maddington

S31-M Cowen’s first house Lot 18, Canning Loc 14A Maddington

S32-M Dellar Homestead (Stokely) 2036 Albany Highway Maddington

S33-M Gosnells Roads Board & Albany Highway cnr Olga Street Maddington Maddington Centenary Hall (McDonalds)

S34-M Maddington Post Office Albany Highway Maddington

S35-M Methodist Church Albany Highway (cnr Sampson Street) Maddington

S36-M Maddington Oval Canning Park Avenue Maddington Avenue of Trees Race Course Artesian Bore

S37-M Helm’s Gravesite River Avenue Maddington Railway Bridge (1890s parabolic)

S38-MAR Canning Bore 11 Broadhurst Road Martin

S39-MAR Quarry Park 505L cnr Cockram Road Martin Date Palm (1912) & Mills Road East

S40-MAR White Rock Quarry Cockram Road Martin

S41-MAR Sexton Homestead cnr Lewis Road & Gosnells Road Martin

S42-MAR Polain’s House 64 Mills Road West (cnr Francis Street) Martin

S43-O Mason & Bird Tramway Bickley Road, Boyle Lane, Hardinge Road Orange Grove

S44-O Orange Grove Brickworks Bickley Road Orange Grove

S45-O Orange Grove Primary School & Play Shed Maddington Road Orange Grove

S46-O Maffescioni’s House & Cellars Hillside off Reservior Road Orange Grove

S47-T Poultry Farm Spring Road Thornlie

S48-T Poultry Farm Yale Road (cnr Elliot Place) Thornlie

S49-T Whittaker Poultry Farm Yale Road (cnr Spencer Road) Thornlie


Ref No Place name Address Suburb TREES (Cross referenced into Place, Site or Natural Environment as appropriate) G2 Banyan Tree Albany Highway Gosnells Weeping Mulberry Tree (in Civic Centre Gardens)

G4 Flooded gum: Canning River Astley Street Gosnells (off Station Street –downstream from Cargeeg Bridge) Royal Poinciana 4 Astley Street

S12-G Norfolk Island Pine Trees Astley Street Gosnells – Pages Park

TR1-G Oak Tree Evelyn Street Gosnells

G12 Port Jackson Fig Trees 1 Fremantle Road Gosnells

S15-G Jacaranda Federation Parade Gosnells

G15 Jarrah Tree – John Okey Davis Park Homestead Road Gosnells Almond tree Citrus trees

G17 ‘We Remember’: Avenue of Trees 64 Lissiman Street Gosnells

TR2-G Pine Trees Lissiman Street Gosnells

TR3-G Christmas Trees Verna Street Gosnells (next to Seaforth Primary School)

TR4-G White Gums Verna Street Gosnells

G24 Kurrajong Tree 27 Wheatley Street Gosnells

S21-G Fmr Gosnells Railway Station Wheatley Street Gosnells Platform Norfolk Pine Kurrajong Trees Marri Trees

TR5-G London Plane Trees (2) Windsor Drive Gosnells

TR6-H Marri Tree –Balfour Street Reserve Balfour Street Huntingdale

K2 Moreton Bay and Hills Fig Trees 7-9 Cooper Avenue Kenwick

S29-K Oak Tree – Packer Estate Rimmer Lane Kenwick

TR7-L Oak Tree Oak Tree Court Langford

S39-MAR Date Palm (1912)- Quarry Park 505L cnr Cockram Road & Mills Road East Martin

M5 Pepper Trees 90 Burslem Drive Maddington Flooded Gums

TR8-M Eucalyptus cladacalyx Kelvin Road (cnr The Crescent) Maddington

TR9-M Cork Trees Maddington Road Maddington

M14 Avenue of Trees 55 River Avenue (cnr Philip St) Maddington

TR10-T Olive Trees - Walter Padbury Park Berehaven Avenue Thornlie

T3 Olive Trees Glenbrook Road Thornlie


Ref No Place name Address Suburb NATURAL ENVIRONMENT NE1-B Yule’s Rapids (Canning River) Horley Road Beckenham

NE2-G Mary Carroll Park Verna Street Gosnells

NE3-K Brixton Street Conservation Brixton Street Area Kenwick

NE4-MAR Ellis Brook Reserve Cockram Road, off Rushton Road Martin

NE5-MAR Wright Brook Bushland Mills Road East & Connell Avenue Martin

NE6-T Tom Bateman Reserve Wilfred Road Thornlie Wetland

The full list of places is located in Section C: Place records.


SECTION A: REVIEW PROCESS Nominations were gathered from the public, History and Heritage Advisory Committee members and staff and were subsequently provided to the appointed Heritage Consultant, Laura Gray, to review and research. Places considered to have sufficient heritage significance were drafted a place record form for the 2010 Heritage Inventory. These place record forms were then reviewed by Heritage Services staff with additional feedback provided by the City’s Planning Implementation and Parks and Environment branches. Consulting historian Irene Sauman reviewed the historical overview contained in the 1998 MHI (Municipal Heritage Inventory) and added information on the City’s development and significant places from 1998 to the present day. The Review list from the 1998 MHI was reconsidered during the 2010 review, with 20 places, including trees, from this list being included in the 2010 Heritage Inventory. Fourteen places from the 1998 Review list are recorded only as sites in the 2010 Inventory as they have been demolished since 1998. Due to insufficient information, 6 places have been removed from the list, and will not be considered for future reviews. The remaining places from the 1998 Review list will be considered in the next review as they are considered to be of potential future interest. All sites listed in the 1998 MHI were re-assessed during the 2010 review, along with sites provided by other sources. Sites have either been added to the 2010 Sites list or removed entirely due to insufficient description or information to positively identify the actual site. The properties included on the 1998 Heritage Inventory were also reviewed. Three places were not included from the 1998 MHI and some places have now been grouped together for clarity of recognition, and to include significant trees where relevant. Some places have been listed differently from the 1998 Inventory to better reflect the changed status to a site. The 2010 Heritage Inventory will now be made available for public comment, with submissions being returned to Council for formal consideration. It is envisaged the final document will be adopted by Council and will then formally replace the outdated 1998 Municipal Heritage Inventory.


AMENDMENTS TO THE HERITAGE INVENTORY ADDITIONS The following 33 new places identified by various sources, were assessed as having heritage significance to the City of Gosnells and have been included on the 2010 Heritage Inventory. There are 23 new sites, trees and natural environment places listed. B5 War Service House 16 Highbury Crescent, Beckenham

CV1 (Tom) Hungerford House (fmr) 75 Amherst Road, Canning Vale

G3 Gosnells Police Station 2293 Albany Highway, Gosnells

G4 Addie Mills Centre 4 Astley Street, Gosnells

Poinciana trees

G5 Lander Farm Lot 9501 Chamberlain Street, Gosnells

G9 All Saints Anglican Church &

Parish Centre 32 Dorothy Street, Gosnells

G10 Jones House and printing office (fmr) 61 Dorothy Street, Gosnells

G11 Amaroo Retirement Village 67 Dorothy Street, Gosnells

G18 Railway Station Lissiman Street, Gosnells

G27 St John Ambulance Hall 138 Wheatley Street, Gosnells

H1 Gay’s Nursery & House Bullfinch Street, Huntingdale

H3 Southern River Progress Assoc Hall Southern River Road, Southern River

K3 Kenwick School 1 Moore Street, Kenwick

K5 Catholic Church (fmr) 13 Royal Street, Kenwick

M2 Maddington Fire Station 1961 Albany Highway, Maddington

M6 Maddington Community Kindergarten 24 Helm Street, Maddington

M11 Cowen House (3) 1928 21 River Avenue (cnr Attfield St), Maddington

M13 Cowen House (4) c1960 49 River Avenue (cnr Phillip St), Maddington

M16 Lankester House 74 River Avenue, Maddington

MAR2 RSL Memorial Hall & tennis club 1 Gosnells Road West, Martin

MAR4 Martin House 99 Mills Road West, Martin

T1 Crestwood Community Centre Coronet Court, Thornlie

T2 Crestwood Estate Coronet Ct, Regency & Regal Drive, Thornlie

T3 Thornlie Community Centre & Homestead

Remnants Glenbrook Road, Thornlie T4 House 21 Pegus Street, Thornlie T5 House 21 Rangeview Way, Thornlie

T6 Thornlie Square Shopping Centre 330 Spencer Road, Thornlie

T7 House 13 Spring Road, Thornlie

T8 House 20 Spring Road, Thornlie

T9 Sister Kate’s Boy’s Home (fmr) 35 Spring Road, Thornlie


T10 Thornlie Child Health Centre Thornlie Avenue, Thornlie

T11 Thornlie Tennis Club Thornlie Avenue, Thornlie

T12 Thornlie Baptist Church Wynyard Way, Thornlie

NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS, SITES, AND TREES

NE6-T Tom Bateman Reserve Wetland Wilfred Road, Thornlie

S1-CV Tom Bateman house Garden Street, Canning Vale

S3-CV Langford House Warton Rd, Canning Vale

S4-G Griffith’s Hardware Albany Highway, Gosnells

S9-G Gosnells Child Health Clinic Albany Highway, Gosnells

S15-G Jacaranda behind Agonis Federation Parade, Gosnells

S18-G Passmore House Mills Road West, Gosnells

S21-G Kurrajong tree on former railway Wheatley Street, Gosnells

station platform

S21-G Marri tree on railway reserve Wheatley Street, Gosnells

S21-G Pine tree on fmr railway station Wheatley Street, Gosnells

platform

S26-G Seaforth Progress Hall (fmr) Manning Ave, Gosnells

S29-K Oak tree on fmr Packer estate Rimmer Lane, Kenwick

S32-M Dellar Homestead (Stokely) 2036 Albany Highway Maddington

S36-M Artesian Bore, Maddington oval Kelvin Road, Maddington

S46-O Maffescioni's House & cellars Hillside off Reservoir Rd

S47-T Poultry farm Spring Road, Thornlie

S48-T Poultry farm Yale Road, cnr Elliot Place, Thornlie

S49-T Whittaker Poultry farm Yale Road, cnr Spencer Road, Thornlie

TR1-G Oak tree Evelyn Street, Gosnells

TR2-G Pine tree Lissiman Street, Gosnells

TR3-G Christmas trees Verna Street, Gosnells

TR4-G White Gum trees Verna Street, Gosnells

TR9-M Cork trees Maddington Road, Maddington


REFINEMENTS A number of places listed in the 1998 Heritage Inventory have now been grouped together for clarity of recognition and consistent management responses. The group listings also include historically significant trees where relevant. In addition to places being grouped together, a number of places have been listed differently to their 1998 listing. This is to better reflect the changed status to a site, or a change to the place’s significance.

1998 Ref 2010 Ref B9 Yules Rapids Natural Environment

G2 Avenue of Trees Amaroo G17

G5 Council Offices G2 City Council Group

G11 John Okey Davis Grave G14 Davis Park Group

G13 Mary Carroll Park Natural Environment

G15 Methodist Church (demolished) S13-G

G16 Centennial Pioneer Park G2 City Council Group

G17 Railway Platform (fmr) & Tree S21-G

G18 RSL Monument G2 City Council Group

G21 Stalker Pumps S19-G

G24a Wilkinson Orchard G15 Davis Park Group

G24b Wilkinson Homestead G15 Davis Park Group

Review list - Okey Davis Homestead G15 Davis Park Group

site

G25 Bridges G6 Corfield Street Bridge

G13 Fremantle Rd Bridge

G19 Manning Ave Footbridge

G21 Cargeeg Bridge

G2 City Council Group

H2 Southern River Bridge

Review list Railway Bridge (Lissiman St)

G26d Weeping Mulberry G2 City Council Group

G26a Moreton Bay Trees G12 Gosnells Hotel

G26b Norfolk Pine S12-G Pages Park

K1 Brixton Street Conservation Natural Environment

K5 Packer House (demolished) S29-K M1 Avenue of trees, Canning Park S36-M

M3 Avenue of Trees M14 Orr Homestead

MAR 1 Ellis Brook Reserve Natural Environment

MAR2 Gold Mine MAR3

MAR3 McKenzie House MAR1

MAR6 Polain’s House (demolished) S42-MAR


MAR7 Quarry Park S39-MAR

MAR9 Wright Brook Bushland Natural Environment

Review list – Pipe track O1

Site list – Bone’s orchard G2

Site list – Horse troughs near hotel G12

Site list – Jabez White dairy and flour mill O3

Site list – river ford near Maddington Homestead M5

EXCLUSIONS As an outcome of the 2010 review, four places have not been included in the 2010 Heritage Inventory despite being included in the 1998 version. The reasons for this are provided in the table below. Those places not in the City’s boundaries still retain significance to the history of the City of Gosnells.

Place code Place name Reason for exclusion G1 Arum Lilies @ John

Okey Davis Park Have been declared a noxious weed and are under- going an eradication program

G26c Norfolk Island Pine Tree was removed due to termite damage. SR1 Lake Balannup Not in City of Gosnells geographical location. M2 Avenue of trees,

Canning Park Avenue

Trees are gradually being removed due to ill health And risk of collapse.


REVIEW LIST The following places will be considered in the next review as they did not score sufficiently in the 2010 evaluation process but were considered to be of potential future interest. Six places have been deleted from the 1998 Review List and will not be considered for further review due to their demolition or because they were no longer considered as being of sufficient significance.

Place name Address Suburb Houses between Beckenham and Harris St

Albany Hwy Beckenham

House 164 Bickley Road Beckenham Prof Waters House - Tall palm trees Wimbledon St Beckenham House & garage 2350 Albany Highway Gosnells Stidwell House 2392 Albany Hwy Gosnells Lockhart House Astley Rd, Gosnells

Della Vedova's residence Eileen Street Gosnells Small timber cottage 69 King St, Gosnells Ozich House Railway Bridge remnants

35 Fremantle Road Lissiman St

Gosnells Gosnells

Pope's House Lissiman St Gosnells House 87 Mills Rd West Gosnells House 39 Wheatley St Gosnells House 39 Wheatley Street Gosnells Binley Stud Albany Hwy, cnr Kenwick Link Kenwick Patterson's House Albany Hwy Kenwick Coulthard House Cnr Kenwick Rd & Stafford St Kenwick House 31 Kenwick Road Kenwick House 66 Royal Street Kenwick Maddington Primary School 1951 Albany Highway Maddington Viol's House Attfield St Maddington House 73 Kelvin Road Maddington

House 49 Phillips Street Maddington Railway bridge River Avenue Maddington House Glover Residence fmr

601 Canning Mills Road 629 Canning Mills Road

Martin Martin

Mudbrick house 'Good Earth' 123 Gosnells Road West Martin World War Two Camp remnants Off Hardinge Road Orange Grove House 65 Spring Road Thornlie


MANAGEMENT CATEGORIES

Beckenham Primary School

MANAGEMENT CATEGORIES It is an important element of the recognition and understanding of cultural heritage significance of a place that some guidance is provided to the owners, managers and statutory authority, to respond to the assessed significance. Management categories have been determined consistent with the assessed level of significance for each place.

The hierarchy of management categories is as follows:

Category A A place of exceptional cultural heritage significance to City of Gosnells and the state of Western Australia, that is either in the Heritage Council of Western Australia’s (HCWA) Register of Heritage Places or worthy of consideration for entry into the Register. Some places are currently on the Heritage Council of WA’s assessment program. A place worthy of recognition and protection through provisions of the City of Gosnells’ Town Planning Scheme. Planning application needs to be submitted to City of Gosnells for any proposed development. The development application needs to be submitted to the Heritage Council (HCWA) for approval for any proposed development, and City of Gosnells cannot approve contrary to the HCWA recommendation. Recommend: Maximum encouragement to owners to retain and conserve the place. Full consultation with property owner prior to the proposed development. Implications of Registration: A Memorial is lodged on the Certificate of Title of the registered place under the provisions of the Heritage Act (1990).

By virtue of the Heritage Act, the owner is bound to conserve the place.


All development (including demolition) must be referred to HCWA for consideration prior to undertaking any works.

The City of Gosnells cannot approve anything contrary to HCWA recommendations.

Private owners of Registered places qualify for the HCWA’s Heritage Grants Funding. $1,000,000 is available annually. A Conservation Plan is a pre-requisite for conservation works funding, but a Conservation Plan can also be funded on same basis.

Local Government, churches and community owners qualify for Federal Cultural Heritage program funding administered by Environment Australia. $3,000,000 is available annually to the nation for built heritage, the environment and Indigenous heritage. It is funded on a $ for $ basis. A Conservation Plan is a pre-requisite for conservation works funding.

Local Government, churches and community owners qualify for Lotterywest conservation funding. $1,500,000 is available annually. It is funded loosely on a dollar for dollar basis, although ‘in kind’ contributions are encouraged. Benefit to the community is a significant factor in assessment for funding. A Conservation Plan is a pre-requisite for conservation works funding, but a Conservation Plan can also be funded on same basis.

Local Government owned registered places qualify to claim for $10,000 per annum ‘Disability allowance’ through the Grants Commission. Up to a maximum of $50,000 is allowed for 5 buildings or more.

Category B

A place of considerable cultural heritage significance to the City of Gosnells that is worthy of recognition and protection through provisions of the City of Gosnells’ Town Planning Scheme. Planning application needs to be submitted to City of Gosnells for any proposed development. Recommend: Retain and conserve the place. Document the place if retention is not possible. Implications of Registration: Planning applications must be submitted to City of Gosnells for approval prior to undertaking any works.

Private owners do not qualify for any funding at this time.

Local Government, churches and community owners qualify for Lotterywest conservation funding. $1,500,000 is available annually. It is funded loosely on a dollar for dollar basis, although ‘in kind’ contributions are encouraged. Benefit to the community is a significant factor in assessment for funding. A Conservation Plan is a pre-requisite for conservation works funding, but a Conservation Plan can also be funded on same basis. Category C

A place of some cultural heritage significance to the City of Gosnells.

No constraints.

Recommend: Encourage retention of the place, and document the place if retention is not possible. Implications of Registration: City of Gosnells officers are available to discuss any proposals affecting the cultural heritage significance of the place, but there are no statutory requirements pertaining to heritage issues.

Private owners do not qualify for any funding at this time.


Local Government, churches and community owners qualify for Lotterywest conservation funding, although at a lower priority. $1,500,000 is available annually. It is funded loosely on a dollar for dollar basis, although ‘in kind’ contributions are encouraged. Benefit to the community is a significant factor in assessment for funding. A Conservation Plan is a pre-requisite for conservation works funding, but a Conservation Plan can also be funded on same basis.

Category D

A site without built features that is of some cultural heritage significance to the City of Gosnells.

No constraints.

Recommend: Interpret the place. Implications of Registration: City of Gosnells officers are available to discuss any proposals affecting the cultural heritage significance of the site, but there are no statutory requirements pertaining to heritage issues.

Private owners do not qualify for any funding.

Local Government, churches and community owners qualify for Lotterywest interpretation funding. $1,000,000 is available annually. It is funded loosely on a dollar for dollar basis, although ‘in kind’ contributions are encouraged. An Interpretation Plan is a pre-requisite for any interpretation works or initiatives funding, but an Interpretation Plan can also be funded on same basis.

Wilkinson Homestead, Gosnells


PLACES LISTED BY MANAGEMENT CATEGORY Category A A place of exceptional cultural heritage significance to City of Gosnells and the state of Western Australia, that is either in the Heritage Council of Western Australia’s (HCWA) Register of Heritage Places or worthy of consideration for entry into the Register. Some places are currently on the Heritage Council of WA’s assessment program. A place worthy of recognition and protection through provisions of the City of Gosnells’ Town Planning Scheme. Planning application needs to be submitted to City of Gosnells for any proposed development. The development application needs to be submitted to the Heritage Council (HCWA) for approval for any proposed development, and City of Gosnells cannot approve contrary to the HCWA recommendation. Recommend: Maximum encouragement to owners to retain and conserve the place. Full consultation with property owner prior to the proposed development.

GOSNELLS

G12 Gosnells Hotel 1 Fremantle Road (cnr Albany Highway) G15 Wilkinson Homestead (fmr) Homestead Road (HCWA Registered)

MADDINGTON M5 Maddington Homestead 90 Burslem Drive (HCWA Registered)

ORANGE GROVE

03 Jabez White's Cottage & Mill Site 26 White Road

Category B A place of considerable cultural heritage significance to the City of Gosnells that is worthy of recognition and protection through provisions of the City of Gosnells’ Town Planning Scheme. Planning application needs to be submitted to City of Gosnells for any proposed development. Recommend: Retain and conserve the place. Document the place if retention is not possible. BECKENHAM B1 Montrose 1554 Albany Highway

B2 Adelaide 1575 Albany Highway

B6 Homestead (fmr) 69 Horley Street (cnr Kenwick Link)

B7 Wimbledon Park 17 Packer Street

GOSNELLS G1 Basham House (fmr) 2103 Albany Highway

G2 City Council Group 2120 Albany Highway


City of Gosnells Civic Centre Building (boardroom) Pioneer Park RSL Monument Banyan Tree Road Bridge Weeping Mulberry Tree (WJ Bone’s orchard)- in Civic Centre Gardens

G5 Lander Farm Lot 9501 Chamberlain Street

G15 John Okey Davis Park Group 8-34 Homestead Road Wilkinson Orchard (fmr) JO & FH (Frances Harriet) Davis’ Grave Jarrah Tree in John Okey Davis Park Homestead Site (archaeological)

G16 Shangri-La 64 Homestead Road

G17 Lewis House (fmr) 64 Lissiman Street Avenue of Trees (McMahon Caring Centre)

G23 Swingler Residence (fmr) 15 Wheatley Street

G24 Germon Residence (fmr) 27 Wheatley Street

G25 Sutherland’s Shop (fmr) 79 Wheatley Street

KENWICK K1 Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery Albany Highway

K2 Liddelow Homestead (fmr) 7-9 Cooper Avenue Moreton Bay and Hills Fig Trees

MADDINGTON M7 WW Alcock House (fmr) 13 Kelvin Road

M9 Kiely Homestead (FM Alcock) 10 Madrid Place (in salvage yard)

MARTIN MAR1 McKenzie House 2510 Albany Highway

MAR3 Hillside Farm Hayward Road (North East end)

ORANGE GROVE O1 Bickley Reservoir Group Hardinge Road Dam Recreation Camp Hardinge Park Pipe Track

Category C

A place of some cultural heritage significance to City of Gosnells. No constraints. Recommend: Encourage retention of the place, and document the place if retention is not possible. BECKENHAM B3 Skinner’s House (fmr) 41 Beckenham Street

B4 Hatch House (fmr) 50 Beckenham Street

B5 War Service House 16 Highbury Crescent


B8 Harris House (fmr) 340 Railway Parade

B9 Beckenham Primary School 386 Railway Parade

CANNING VALE CV1 (Tom) Hungerford House (fmr) 75 Amherst Road

GOSNELLS G3 Gosnells Police Station 2293 Albany Highway

G4 Addie Mills Centre 4 Astley Street Royal Poinciana

G6 Corfield Street Bridge Corfield Street

G7 St Munchin’s Catholic Church 175 Corfield Street

G8 Capt William’s House (fmr) 29 Dorothy Street (cnr Hicks Street)

G9 All Saints Anglican Church & Parish Centre 32 Dorothy Street (cnr Hicks Street)

G10 Jones House (fmr) 61 Dorothy Street (Amaroo)

G11 Amaroo Retirement Village 67 Dorothy Street

G13 Fremantle Road Bridge Fremantle Road

G14 McNess Housing Trust Houses (fmr) 208, 210 Hicks Street

G18 Railway Station Lissiman Street

G19 Manning Ave Footbridge Manning Avenue

G20 Gosnells Primary School 16 May Street (cnr Hicks Street)

G21 Cargeeg Bridge Station Street

G22 Gosnells Oval & Grandstand & Trees Terence Street

G26 Cutten’s House (fmr) 125 Wheatley Street

G27 St John Ambulance Hall 138 Wheatley Street (cnr Verna Street)

HUNTINGDALE H1 Gay’s Nursery & House Bullfinch Street

H2 Southern River Bridge Southern River Road

H3 Southern River Progress Assoc Hall Southern River Road (cnr Bullfinch Street)

KENWICK K3 Kenwick School 1 Moore Street (Rupert Street)

K4 House 80 Oliphant Street

K5 Catholic Church Hall (fmr) 13 Royal Street

LANGFORD L1 Church of Foursquare Gospel 50 Nicholson Road MADDINGTON M1 Winery 1921-1923 Albany Highway

M2 Maddington Fire Station 1961 Albany Highway

M3 Cowen House (1) (c.1913) 1993 Albany Highway

M4 Mulvay House 2005 Albany Highway


M6 Maddington Community Kindergarten 24 Helm Street

M8 Butler House 226 Maddington Road

M10 Tarling House (fmr) 24 Phillip Street

M11 Cowen House (3) (1928) 21 River Avenue (cnr Attfield Road)

M12 Cowen House (2) (1923) 22 River Avenue

M13 Cowen House (4) (c.1960) 49 River Avenue (cnr Phillip Street)

M14 Orr Homestead (fmr) 55 River Avenue (cnr Phillip Street)

(Avenue of trees)

M15 Brennan House 15 Serenity Court

M16 Lankester House 74 River Avenue (off Serenity Court)

MARTIN MAR2 RSL Memorial Hall & Tennis Club 1 Gosnells Road West

MAR4 Martin House 99 Mills Road West

MAR5 Moran House (fmr) 108 Mills Road West

ORANGE GROVE O2 Jadran Winery 87 Reservoir Road

THORNLIE T1 Crestwood Community Centre 27 Coronet Court

T2 Crestwood Estate Coronet Court, Regency & Regal Drive

T3 Thornlie Community Centre & Homestead Remnants Glenbrook Road

T4 House 21 Pegus Street

T5 House 21 Rangeview Way

T6 Thornlie Square Shopping Centre 318 Spencer Road

T7 House 13 Spring Road

T8 House 20 Spring Road

T9 Sister Kate’s Kenwick Boys’ Home (fmr) 35 Spring Road

T10 Thornlie Child Health Centre 1 Culross Avenue

T11 Thornlie Tennis Club 38-48 Thornlie Avenue

T12 Thornlie Baptist Church 24A Wynyard Way

Category D

A site without built features that is of some cultural heritage significance to the City of

Gosnells.

No constraints.

Recommend: Interpret the place. CANNING VALE S1-CV Bateman House Garden Street S2-CV Canning Vale Hall Nicholson Road S3-CV Langford House Warton Road

GOSNELLS


S4-G Gosnells Town Group Albany Highway Griffith’s Hardware Conway’s Store (cnr Dorothy Street) Mazzucchelli’s Shop (cnr Dorothy Street) Mait Armstrong’s Bootmaker Shop Albany Highway “Johnny Allsorts” (Ashenden) Albany Highway Keehner’s Bakery Albany Highway

S5-G ‘Dehru Doone’ (McKeown Homestead) Albany Highway (opp hotel)

S6-G Albany Highway Bridge Albany Highway (near Lewis House)

S7-G Lloyd Hibble’s Two Storey House Pioneer Park, Albany Highway

S8-G Mott’s Drive-in Theatre Albany Highway

S9-G Gosnells Child Health Clinic Albany Highway

S10-G Gosnells Roads Board Stock Pound Albany Highway

S11-G Salvation Army Hall Albany Highway

S12-G Pages Park Astley Street Norfolk Island Pine Trees

S13-G Methodist Church Dorothy Street

S14-G Timber tramway –Lander Property Evelyn Street

S15-G First houses built in Gosnells Town Federation Parade Jacaranda Tree

S16-G O Lauterbach’s House & Orchard 23 Fremantle Road

S17-G McKim’s Jam Factory Lissiman Street

S18-G Passmore House Mills Road West

S19-G Stalker Pumps 22 Stalker Road

S20-G First Bulk Milk Carrier Verna Street (cnr Astley Street)

S21-G Railway Station & Platform Wheatley Street Footbridge Norfolk Pine Kurrajong trees Marri Trees

S22-G Gosnells CWA Hall Wheatley Street (fmr Theosophical Hall)

S23-G Gosnells Picture Theatre and Hall Wheatley Street (cnr Bert Street)

S24-G Mazza Billiard Saloon (Mazzucchelli) Wheatley Street

S25-G Wright’s Produce Store Wheatley Street Albany Highway

S26-G Seaforth Progress Hall (Acorn Theatre) Manning Avenue

KENWICK S27-K Coulthard’s Brickworks Albany Highway

S28-K Station Master’s House Albany Highway

S29-K Packer Estate: 25 Rimmer Lane House, Oak Tree, Worker’s Cottage, Pump House MADDINGTON S30-M St Luke’s Anglican Church Albany Highway (cnr Herbert Street)

S31-M Cowen’s First House Lot 18, Canning Loc 14A


S32-M Dellar Homestead (Stokely) 2036 Albany Highway

S33-M Gosnells Roads Board & Albany Highway cnr Olga Street Maddington Centenary Hall (McDonalds)

S34-M Maddington Post Office Albany Highway

S35-M Methodist Church Albany Highway (cnr Sampson Street)

S36-M Maddington Oval Canning Park Avenue Avenue of Trees Race Course Artesian Bore

S37-M Helm’s Gravesite River Avenue Railway Bridge (1890s parabolic)

MARTIN

S38-MAR Canning Bore 11 Broadhurst Road

S39-MAR Quarry Park 505L cnr Cockram Road Date Palm (1912) & Mills Road East

S40-MAR White Rock Quarry Cockram Road

S41-MAR Sexton Homestead cnr Lewis Road & Gosnells Road

S42-MAR Polain’s House 64 Mills Road West (cnr Francis Street)

ORANGE GROVE S43-O Mason & Bird Tramway Bickley Road, Boyle Lane, Hardinge Road

S44-O Orange Grove Brickworks Bickley Road

S45-O Orange Grove Primary School & Play Shed Maddington Road

S46-O Maffescioni’s House & Cellars Hillside off Reservior Road

THORNLIE

S47-T Poultry Farm Spring Road

S48-T Poultry Farm Yale Road (cnr Elliot Place)

S49-T Whittaker Poultry Farm Yale Road (cnr Spencer Road)


CRITERIA FOR SIGNIFICANCE

The City of Gosnells uses the criteria determined and utilised by the Heritage Council of Western Australia, detailed below. These criteria are also used for determining the significance of heritage places around Australia.

Thornlie Baptist Church

HERITAGE COUNCIL OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA: CRITERIA FOR SIGNIFICANCE Aesthetic Value

Criterion 1 It is significant in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by the community

1.1. Importance to a community for aesthetic characteristics.

1.2 Importance for its creative design or artistic excellence, innovation or achievement.

1.3 Importance for its contribution to the aesthetic values of the setting demonstrated by a landmark quality or having impact on important vistas or otherwise contributing to the identified aesthetic qualities of the cultural environs or the natural landscape within which it is located.

1.4 In the case of an historic precinct, importance for the aesthetic character created by the individual components which collectively form a significant streetscape, townscape or cultural environment.

Historic Value

Criterion 2 It is significant in the evolution or pattern of the history of Western Australia. 2.1. Importance for the density or diversity of cultural features illustrating the human occupation and evolution of the locality, region or the State.

2.2. Importance in relation to an event, phase or activity of historic importance in the locality, region or the State.


2.3. Importance for its close association with an individual or individuals whose life, works or activities have been significant within the history of the nation, State or region.

2.4. Importance as an example of technical, creative, design or artistic excellence, innovation or achievement in a particular period. Scientific Value

Criterion 3A It has demonstrable potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the natural or cultural history of Western Australia. 3.1. Importance for the information contributing to a wider understanding of natural or cultural history by virtue of its use as a research site, teaching site, type locality, reference or benchmark site.

3.2. Importance for its potential to yield information contributing to a wider understanding of the history of human occupation of the locality, region or the State.

Criterion 3B It is significant in demonstrating a high degree of technical innovation or achievement.

3.3 Importance for its technical innovation or achievement. Social Value

Criterion 4 It is significant through association with a community or cultural group in Western Australia for social, cultural, education or spiritual reasons. 4.1 Importance as a place highly valued by a community or cultural group for reasons of social, cultural religious, spiritual, aesthetic or educational associations.

4.2 Importance in contributing to a community's sense of place.

Degree of Significance - Rarity

Criterion 5 It demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of the cultural heritage of Western Australia.

5.1 Importance for rare, endangered or uncommon structures, landscapes or phenomena.

5.2 Importance in demonstrating a distinctive way of life, custom, process, land-use, function or design no longer practiced in, or in danger of being lost from, or of exceptional interest to, the locality, region or the State.

Degree of Significance - Representativeness Criterion 6 It is significant in demonstrating the characteristics of a class of cultural places or environments in the State.

6.1 Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a range of landscapes or environments, the attributes of which identify it as being characteristic of its class.

6.2 Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a range of human activities (including way of life, philosophy, custom, process, land-use, function, design or technique) in the environment of the locality, region or the State.

CONDITION refers to the current state of the place in relation to each of the values for which the place has been assessed. Condition reflects the cumulative effects of management and environmental effects.

INTEGRITY is a measure of the likely long term viability or sustainability of the values identified, or the ability of the place to restore itself or be restored, and the time frame for any restorative process.

AUTHENTICITY refers to the extent to which the fabric is in its original state.


SECTION B: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW & REFERENCES

Prepared by Irene Sauman: Historian

Church of Foursquare Gospel (“The White House”), Langford


1. INTRODUCTION

Throughout its history, the City of Gosnells has continually experienced changes in land allocation and population settlement. These factors have given an evolutionary pattern to the development of the area and this has led to a multicultural and diversified business and social community. How the City of Gosnells has evolved has been influenced by its early successes and disappointments.

The experience of the first settlers in the Canning District (part of which was later to become the City of Gosnells) was harsh and often challenged the pioneers' determination. The spirit of the men and women who resolved these difficulties and stayed to develop the Gosnells district, is to be admired. They faced poor living conditions, isolation, unknown weather patterns and chequered communication between the new Colony and their mother country Britain. The physical remnants of this early period are part of the heritage of today. A closer inspection of the history will reveal those aspects upon which the foundations of the City of Gosnells are built.

Prior to European contact the Gosnells district had been inhabited by Aboriginal people for many thousands of years. These people were nomadic hunter gatherers. They were tribal folk with a unique culture which was reflected in their strong social systems and their close relationship with the land. Their identity was both embodied in and derived from the places to which they were connected. The Aboriginal attitude to land and sites was in part due to their religious beliefs but also due to their responsibilities towards the land and the rights to it that were inherited through kinship. The arrival of the Europeans was to have a devastating impact upon the way of life of the Aboriginal people.

2. The Period 1829-1835 A Daunting Task

Early settlement along the banks of the Canning River was a daunting task. The first land allocations occurred in the latter part of 1829 in localities now known as Thornlie, Kenwick and Langford. Within a very short time frame land was allocated right up to Kelmscott. One of the largest land grants went to John Okey Davis whose 7,026 acres today would have included much of the Gosnells, Huntingdale and Southern River areas.

The size and shape of each land grant on the Canning was predetermined by Government regulations. These rules tried to maximise the number of settlers who were to have land with river frontage. The result was long thin blocks with a narrow riverfront. Seen from the air today they would have a ribbon type appearance, hence their names, ribbon grants. The early rules of colonial land administration determined the future pattern of settlement until the turn of the century.

Access to the river was vital for the early period of settlement on the Canning. It was not only a water source for those living beyond the salt water affected reaches, but the river was also important for transport. Boats, barges and ferries carried people, livestock and supplies into the area. Though river travel was expensive and had some trying moments with sand bars and rock obstacles, land travel was fraught with difficulties. Tracks were developed in the bush, but the settlers found the going sandy and boggy with swamps to cross during winter. Slight improvement came with the York to Fremantle track and the road from Bull Creek to Fremantle.

These difficulties were just a few experienced by the early settlers. At times things became so desperate that survival became their paramount objective. Names of early grant holders included Thomas Hester ('Redcliffe'), Thomas Bannister ('Woolcombs'), Captain Peter Pegus ('Coleraine'), Thomas Yule ('The Rapids') and John Phillips ('Maddington Park' and 'Stoke Farm') as well as John Okey Davis ('Chenies'). The settlers had to supplement their stores by hunting, trapping and fishing and they also worked long hours to establish their farms. Most of those without any extra labour had to clear, cultivate, plant and harvest crops under trying conditions. Unknown weather patterns, untested soil and a river that was tidal and at times flooded, resulted in many failed crops. This caused unendurable heartbreak for some of the settlers who abandoned their


properties. Some died premature deaths; such as John Okey Davis and his wife who had both passed away by 1836.

Those settlers who remained, cleared land for the planting of wheat, potatoes and vegetables. Livestock such as cattle, sheep and a few pigs were kept, but, with no fences, shepherding was a necessity. The livestock was one of the factors that created tension between the Aboriginal people and the settlers. The Aboriginal social and economic structure was not understood. As they killed the precious cattle, sheep and goats for food, conflict arose between the Aborigines and the pioneers.

The population of Aboriginal people in the Canning District consisted of small family groups totally reliant on the native animals and plants in the area. Initially, when the settlers arrived co-operation seemed possible. The Aborigines helped the settlers find good quality water and edible native plants and also acted as guides. In return the settlers supplied flour or bread to the Aborigines. However, the settlers soon encroached on traditional Aboriginal hunting, meeting and spiritual grounds and confrontation seemed inevitable. There were incidents involving the spearing of young male shepherds tending herds of sheep in the bush. The settlers continued the conflict by reprisal killings or beatings. Further problems occurred with the lighting of fires by the Aboriginal people. The fires were part of their traditional hunting methods as animals scurried out of the way of the path of the fire and were then trapped. Further reasons for native burning were also to keep down scrub, for ease of walking as well as to make attractive grazing ground for native animals. The fires often got out of control and the settlers' homes, stock and property were vulnerable. This practice unwittingly caused much anguish to the settlers who lost property to bushfires.

Protection from the Aboriginal people was constantly sought by the settlers. Their only official support came from a group of Yeoman Cavalry based at Kelmscott until 1834. In this year a small group of soldiers was based at Maddington Park but the communication between the two protagonistic factions continued to fail. Aborigines were imprisoned at Rottnest Island for stealing stock. This was a dreadful punishment as many prisoners died while in captivity.

The settlers were also faced with frequent floods and drought. Isolation, not only from Britain, but from the rest of the colony, added to their depression. Relief came in the form of support from the government. Captain Stirling, governor of the colony, quickly realised that the farmers needed help to survive. He released supplies from the government stores and made loans available.

The houses built for the settlers were very simple and mostly quite temporary structures, namely tents, wattle and daub one-roomed cottages and bark huts. The dwellings reflected the little time dedicated to building homes as farmers worked seven days a week to eke out their existence. Conditions were also extremely trying for the women. Isolated from neighbours and medical personnel, they worked long hours, juggling their time between house, children and farm work. Social occasions were limited while schools and churches were non-existent. Difficulties in communication were so prevalent that a series of signals was introduced so people could call for help from their neighbours in times of emergency.

Despite the difficulties that arose, the future of the Canning district began to look brighter by the mid 1830s. The blazing of the Swan River Colony-Albany Road opened up a new route for Canning people to reach Perth (Albany had proved an important safe port alternative for ships which found the anchoring at Gage Roads dangerous during the stormy winter). Increased knowledge of the seasons and the analysis of soil allowed farmers more success in crop production. Therefore, by 1836 the destiny of the Canning district looked more certain.

3. The Period 1836 - 1864 A Glimmer of Hope

By 1836 the worst difficulties of basic survival had been overcome. Farm houses improved and more stables, barns and sheds were constructed. The best example of a homestead was built at Maddington Park. This farm was first established by John Phillips but financial hardship forced him to sell the property to William Nairn. While Phillips withdrew to concentrate on Stoke Farm, William Nairn aimed to build a stately homestead at Maddington Park. The two-storey house was


built over approximately a decade, and today is the only remnant from this early period of Maddington history.

As the original settlers died or left the colony, a second (albeit small) wave of settlement occurred. New areas such as Orange Grove were settled by Jabez White and Stephen Gibbs. However, some of the bigger estates remained intact but unworked, thereby preventing the district from developing to its full potential. When Chenies was sold in 1862 to Charles Gosnell of London it was still largely undeveloped and remained this way for many years. One newcomer who did not follow this trend was Wallace Bickley and his family. Bickley built up his farm called Kenwick Park to become the first successful commercial enterprise in the area. The farm grew as land was leased from absentee landowners who could not sell, as prices were low and demand minimal. One of Bickley's accomplishments was the breeding of horses that he exported to India. Bickley's success story was made possible by a solid backing of capital, good servants and a strong wife who epitomised the pioneering spirit needed in this period.

Farmers after 1835 began to produce small but steady surpluses from their farms. The livestock started to multiply despite problems with shepherds and the losses of stock to Aboriginal people.

Conflict between the settlers and the Aborigines continued till the end of the 1830s. By 1838/1839 the small group of Aborigines who lived in the Canning district had disbanded. Some had died while others moved over the Scarp to avoid further contact with the settlers and tried to retain their lifestyle. The Aborigines who did stay often gained employment as labourers, shepherds and sometimes as Native Constables. These constables were to help maintain law and order amongst their fellow men and women.

Transporting produce and supplies from Fremantle or Perth was still an arduous task. Attempts at bridges were made, such as the one across the Canning River at Maddington. However, this did not allow for heavy loads, and only pedestrians and horses were safe to cross. The bridge was later to be swept away in a flood. Most traffic was forced to cross the river at fords. The most frequently used one was 'The Rapids' at Thomas Yule's property. Here a barrier was built to prevent the tidal salt water from the Swan from encroaching on the fresh upper reaches of the Canning. Communication with the outside world was improved when a mail service supplied by the Albany Mail Coach was introduced into the Canning district in 1840. Complaints about its efficiency nevertheless continued almost unabated.

In 1842 a bridge over the flats between Perth and Victoria Park was completed. This became known as the causeway. It allowed easier transport for people, supply wagons and livestock, hence better access to markets. However, a description of Elizabeth Bickley's arrival to join her husband in the colony showed the overland trip was still difficult. In 1851 her trip from Fremantle to Kenwick Park on a bullock wagon was slow. Traversing swamps and sand caused many incidents of bogging.

Problems of bridge and road building were solved with the supply of convicts that began arriving in 1850. Strong support for the transportation of convicts to the Swan River Colony was given by farmers from many districts. Landowners in the Avon had experienced similar problems to those on the Canning. Many felt that a solution would come with a cheap supply of labour. Though the convicts did not turn out to be as inexpensive as the farmers had hoped, their presence made a large impact on the colony's infrastructure and farm labour supply.

The increased labour force led to improved roads in the Canning district, many of which are the routes of the major roads today, such as Fremantle Road. In 1854 a bridge across the Canning River was built (near the present day bridge on Albany Highway in Gosnells). This, plus the improvements to Albany Road, was a boon to the settlers of Canning. It had a two-fold effect. Contact with Perth was greatly improved and the road added to a sense of community as travelling for social or sporting functions became easier. People from outside the district began to visit more regularly. Hunting parties were a popular drawcard to the area.

The community nevertheless took a long time to unite and build a church and a school. This was owing to the scattered population, the few children and the lack of time available for such causes. Therefore the building of the first community centre became a significant event - the start of a new era.


4. The Period 1865 - 1893 A Community Grows

Wallace and Elizabeth Bickley's contribution was not limited to successful farming. They also became community leaders when they encouraged the building of the first Community Centre at Kenwick in 1865. The centre supplied the much needed facilities for a school and church. At one end police quarters were also built, later to be extended in 1872 to include a lockup. Unimpressive as the building was, it was both a symbol of enhanced community awareness and a location for future community activities.1

The school hall in Kenwick became an important centre for social activities such as the annual ball after the Canning Races. Other social events enjoyed were picnics and sports days held on special holidays such as the Queen's Birthday. The school hall also doubled as a post office and the school mistress became post mistress.

The Bickley’s had a hand in the location of another important place in the district, the cemetery. The first person to be unofficially buried in the Kenwick Cemetery (now called the Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery) is thought to have been John Tolland although this is not proven beyond doubt. Tolland was a Bickley employee who unfortunately drowned in the Canning River. He was buried on the Bickley's property. The first official interment occurred in 1866.

The building of community was furthered with the formation of the Canning Road District in 1871. However, it had a very large area under its jurisdiction, including nearly all of the present City of Gosnells as well as many other localities. Divisions between the wards was constant.

The growing population of the Canning District created a demand for an inn. Known as the Horse Shoe Inn, it was established in 1871. It struggled to survive, especially under the infamous mismanagement of the licensees. It closed in 1876, leaving the district once more without this service.

The Anglican Church, recognising the need for something more than the community centre, built the Michael and All Angels Church in 1884. The life of the church was short, as it had been left disused by 1896 and was demolished in 1900. The foundation stone was later held at St Luke's in Maddington.

The farmers of the district continued to experiment with mixed farming, trying out new crops and abandoning those that appeared not suited. Sheep and cattle grazing were phased out to be replaced with specialty stud farms, dairy cattle, pigs and chickens. Crops now included grapes as well as other fruit and vegetables. The growing urban population created a demand for fresh produce.

The clearing of new land for farms led to a secondary income for some farmers. The timber could be cut and sold for firewood to the people in the town of Perth. Other work in the area included Jabez White's flour mill that was driven by water power. He also used this water to irrigate crops. His was one of the first irrigation schemes in the district.

Many new houses built in the district during this period were constructed of bricks made from local clay and then fired or simply sun dried. The roofs were constructed of shingles, mostly from local timber. The families who occupied these homes must have felt vulnerable to fire, especially during the dry summer. Devastation was the result in 1882 when three miles of tramway, the homestead and many outbuildings and fences on Kenwick Park were destroyed by a bushfire. The homestead was replaced by the new owner, John Liddelow.

Another large estate, known as Thornlie, was established by Walter Padbury in the 1880s. Managed, and later owned, by his niece Amy and her husband Frank James, the Estate employed a number of Chinese labourers. Most of the Chinese in WA at this time were indentured labour under contract.

By the 1890s Kenwick had declined as the centre of society in the Canning Valley. This role was taken over by Cannington. Cannington had grown with the establishment of a timber industry.

1McDonald and Cooper, The Gosnells Story 1988: P.74


The Mason and Bird Timber Company encouraged the growth of Cannington by employing tree fellers, mill hands, teamsters, labourers and barge and ferry operators. The river boat ran from Mason's Landing down to Fremantle and became the centre of most of the river transport in the area. In 1871 a tramway was set up between Mason's Landing and the timber source in the hills. Though on the periphery of the area, Kenwick, East Cannington (later to become Beckenham) and other localities were affected by the Timber Company.

The major event of this period was the arrival of the South Western Railway in 1893. This, along with other external factors, influenced development in the area now known as the City of Gosnells.

5. The Period 1894-1920 End of an Era for Large Estates

The South Western Railway was completed in 1893. It had the short-term effect of immediately improving the transport of goods out of the area to market. The more far-reaching effect, however, was the influence the railway had on land subdivisions. Increasing demand for a rural lifestyle led to the division of large tracts of land into smaller parcels. In one of the earliest subdivisions (1897), now known as Beckenham, land lots were surveyed and determined according to soil type and also proximity to the railway.

Other influences on the changing face of settlement in the region were the Eastern States depression and the Kalgoorlie/Coolgardie gold finds. The Eastern States, particularly Victoria, experienced a serious decline in the economy during the 1890s and thousands flocked to the West Australian goldfields, many to try their luck in prospecting or to find work in the large mines, while others established businesses to serve the mining towns. The end of the gold boom led many people to try their luck on the land, resulting in rapid development of the agricultural areas of the state. Large pastoral estates were subdivided to create smaller agricultural blocks.

The gold boom also brought many immigrants from overseas, particularly from the Mediterranean countries and from Asia. Asian migrants were particularly controlled, and they were limited to working in laundries, restaurants, factories, market gardening and similar small businesses. The White Australia policy instigated at Federation curtailed new Asian migration. There were some Chinese market gardeners in the Canning district in the early 1900s, including several who owned land, but most of these men worked closer to Perth, on market gardens located on drained lake beds.

In 1901, 'Riverview' estate in Canning Vale owned by William Brookman was sold and divided up. With it went his home built in 1898, which later became the White House Reception Centre. However, the major change in land settlement came with the Gosnells Estate Company.

John Okey Davis' original 7,026 acres, which had been sold to Charles Gosnell in 1862, still remained largely uncultivated. Despite stories that the land had at first been purchased to grow flowers for the Gosnells Perfume Company, it appears that it was only really a speculative investment. The demand for land in this district at the turn of the century was recognised by Thomas James. With great entrepreneurial spirit he convinced three others to join him to establish the Gosnells Estate Company. The company purchased the land from the Gosnells heirs in 1902 and began advertising blocks in 1903. People bought the land to maintain a rural lifestyle, while some invested here because of the possibility of commuting to and from the city.

This major release of land led to other subdivisions: notably Grasmere, Martin (1903), Cargeeg, Maddington (1905) and Kenwick Park (1907). Part of James Roe's Maddington Park was split up in 1908, and Stoke Farm in Maddington in 1913. Further subdivisions in Kenwick were created after the establishment of the Kenwick railway station in 1914.

Some of the subdivisions went smoothly and the new inhabitants established successful properties. Charles Passmore, who bought in Martin, built up an accomplished dairy and orchard. Stoke Farm was divided into small orchards which also proved to be successful. However, some properties still stayed quite large, including Frank and Amy James' Thornlie Park.

The Gosnells Estate Company however, did not have a smooth transition. Badly set up and poorly managed, the company left many people out of pocket with no land to show for their


money. The company was put into receivership in 1911 but was allowed to trade for at least another ten years in the hands of a very dubious manager. Eventually a Royal Commission was called to look into the affair but no resolution was found. Nevertheless, land was settled and development on previously uncultivated land began.

The railway proved to be an important link for the people of the Gosnells district as the Albany Road was still a notoriously rough route. Unpaved, deeply rutted and potholed, the road took its toll on vehicles, especially the newly invented motor car. The maintenance caused constant divisions with the Canning Roads Board (Kelmscott Roads Board district had already been separated in 1894). It appeared that the Cannington end of the road was favoured when allocating funds for road improvement. The divisions led to the setting up of the Gosnells Roads Board in 1907. The Canning Roads Board was abolished and in its place the Queens Park Municipality was formed. Immediately the new Gosnells Roads Board set out to upgrade Albany Road. The task seemed insurmountable as the rates did not generate income. The problem was solved for a while by taking a loan. Also, a quarry was set up to supply road base. An issue that created some friction for the newly formed Roads Board was the site on which the new offices were to be built. Maddington was chosen as this was considered the most central place and the offices were opened in 1908.

This period saw an explosion in community groups, buildings and services. The Methodist Hall was built in 1905 on land donated by the Gosnells Estate Company. Until 1907 this was also used as a school. In that year a school was built in Gosnells and was attended by children from some distance. The school became quite famous as the head teacher, R. Murdoch, set it up as a Model School. The children were encouraged to be involved in gardening and landscaping as well as the normal academic subjects. Visitors were invited from the country to admire the innovative teaching methods.

Soon after this school came Beckenham (for many years known as East Cannington), Maddington, Orange Grove (1923) and Canning Vale primary schools. Many churches also enjoyed celebrating their services in new surroundings. Previously some of the many church groups met in the small hall behind the Gosnells Hotel that was built in 1907. This was the social meeting place before churches and sporting clubs had their own purpose built premises. Some of the churches built included St. Munchin’s Catholic Church (1919) and the Anglican Church of All Saints, (1913). The growing community involvement in sport was reflected in the development of sporting clubs such as football, cricket, tennis, athletics and bicycling. Many of these sporting activities, however, were suspended during World War One owing to a lack of participants.

The change in settlement in the Gosnells district resulted in a shift in land use. Farming still included orchards of stone fruit such as peaches and apricots. However, citrus fruits became a popular product when the soft fruits had to be abandoned owing to fruit fly infestation. Between 1912-15 the pest nearly wiped out all the crops of stone fruit in the region. Dairying in Gosnells and Maddington increased, particularly with the availability of quick reliable rail transport and poultry farming (including turkeys) expanded. Market gardening was quite successful owing to the introduction of irrigation. This was a great feat in the sandy soils of Canning Vale. However, rural life in the region was still hard. Many people had to supplement their incomes by working at other jobs, sometimes outside the district. The introduction of industry to the Gosnells district first came in the form of brickworks established by Murdoch in the early 1900s. Murdoch had 40 acres for his brickyards in the area now called Beckenham. The Coulthard’s established brickworks in Kenwick around 1920. Commercial enterprises included an increasing number of specialist shops rather than general stores. Some of these shops were located on Albany Road and sold petrol to the growing number of motorists.

6. The Period 1921-1955 Depression and War

Migration for land settlement, including soldier settlement, was encouraged by the government following the end of World War One. Most migrants were of British origin, but there was a growing number of other nationalities among those moving from the goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie, and in the 1920s this number grew as migration from Europe increased with the


changing politics of the time. Italian, Greek, Yugoslav, Polish and Czechoslovakian names, to mention but a few, began to appear in the Gosnells Road Board rate books. There was a general feeling of optimism throughout the state and the agricultural districts as prices for produce were high.

For the first part of the 1920s the inhabitants of the Gosnells Roads Board district worked diligently on their farms clearing land, planting crops and tending stock. Life was made easier by the arrival of electricity for some areas and reticulated mains water (1926) for Maddington and Gosnells. The damming of Bickley Reservoir helped this water supply as this had been completed in 1921. Commuters now had a choice of a train or a bus service. However, in the outer areas, life was still difficult. Places like Orange Grove, Canning Vale and Southern River did not enjoy the same amenities as the others. These areas did not have easy access to the railway as the linking roads were very rough. They had not yet received the services of electricity, phones or mains water supply.

The perennial problem of road building and maintenance were highlighted by the Albany Road in 1924. The Roads Board still could not keep up with the maintenance so the residents took matters into their own hands. Organising a nearby quarry to supply the road base, the people mended the worst parts of Albany Road that could not cope with the increasing motorised traffic. Stock roaming the district added to the problems of travelling on Albany Road. Despite a large increase in fencing, many farmers thought it their right to let the animals roam freely. Accidents or near misses between cars and stock were frequent. These were lessened by the appointment of a pound keeper (Ranger) to control the problem.

Pressure was placed on the Roads Board when its boundaries were extended in 1923. The abolition of the Jandakot Roads Board district led to the inclusion of a new area into the Yale Ward (now Canning Vale). Along with inheriting a debt already incurred for this area, there had been little road development. This was another problem for Gosnells Roads Board to address.

In 1926 a new Board and Chairman were elected. They managed to turn the direction of the Board around to become a vital and progressive local government body. In 1928 the Roads Board offices burnt down, under suspicious circumstances. The offices were quickly replaced on a site in Maddington, and in 1929 the Maddington Centenary Hall was erected beside the new Roads Board Office and opened with great fanfare in 1932.

The 1920s was a very active period in the rural sector of the Gosnells Roads Board district. Large dairies were set up in Southern River and an active progress association began in 1930. In Maddington and Orange Grove, Yugoslav and Italian migrants settled and planted grapevines on a large scale. Though these were not the first vineyards in the district, they were the beginning of a long-standing relationship with the wine industry in Gosnells. Jadran Wines of Orange Grove was started by Wally Radojkovich in 1929. In 1996 his original 25 acres still produces grapes for Jadran Winery run by Radojkovich's son and grandson. Gosnells also became popular for apiarists who produced very good quality honey. Road side stalls were set along Albany Road to sell fruit, vegetables, honey and eggs to people passing through the district.

The Gosnells Fruit Growing Association organised a joint effort of all orchardists to attack the fruit fly problem with a widespread spraying program. This seemed to bring the problem under control. However, the move to citrus trees continued. This replacement program was further encouraged when a savage storm in the Maddington area damaged many orchards. The push to citrus led this district to become renowned for producing the best citrus fruit in the urban area.

The concentration of citrus orchards made the Gosnells district an ideal location for McKim's Citrus Peel and Jam Factory. Other businesses to start up included Sunnyvale Garden Nursery founded in 1926 by a soldier settler, Gay, and the Stalker Pump Factory.

The introduction of the Swan & Canning Times newspaper in 1928 was an important vehicle for the spreading of local news. However, the role of reporting the economic decline from 1929 would have been devastating. The Depression had a variable effect on the people and businesses in the Gosnells Roads Board district. While some people remained unemployed and in dire straits, others fell back to subsistence living and survived by planting vegetables and fruit. The area also experienced an influx of new people in search of inexpensive land. Failed farmers and soldier


settlers from the country arrived. They were attracted by the cheap land rates and the possibility of growing their own fruit and vegetables on a small plot of land. Nevertheless many people experienced difficulties. The brickworks failed and many fruit growers were forced to plough in crops of fruit that were not worth the effort of transporting to market as prices were so low.

The Gosnells Roads Board took advantage of the Depression era by mounting road and drainage improvement programs. These were heavily subsidised by the State Government so that the local government bodies could organise sustenance work for the unemployed.

The need to supplement Perth's water supply was recognised as early as 1915. During the 1920s many discussions were held about the placement of dams. The Metropolitan Water Board's initial idea of a dam near the Nicholson Road Bridge caused furore amongst Gosnells residents. The plan was rejected, other options led to the placement of the Canning Dam in its present position. In 1933 work started on the wall. It was a great boon to the surrounding districts as it employed men at a time when many of them had been unemployed for long periods during the depression. The dam was finished in 1941.

Australia was to be directly affected by WWII in a way not experienced in WWI. For the first time Australia's shores were seen as vulnerable to enemy attack. The Japanese bombing raids in the north sent shock waves throughout Australia. This experience led to an active War effort by many. Enlistments were high and the Home Guard and Air Raid Precaution Units were established. The women supported the cause by raising funds through the Country Women's Association (set up in 1935) and the Red Cross Society.

In the years following WWII many technological advances brought a higher standard of living and increased efficiency in farming to the Gosnells district. Improvement in bulldozers and tractors made land clearing and farming easier. However, as road transport became more efficient, the more fertile land in the south west of WA became a competitor to the dairies, market gardens and orchards of the Gosnells district. Pressure from the growing metropolis of Perth also encouraged urbanisation rather than rural production. Therefore, agricultural pursuits declined in Canning Vale, Orange Grove and Southern River. For those people who remained, amenities such as electricity, phones and a public water supply improved their quality of life.

Post WWII advances in transportation and communication were also a catalyst for change. In 1952 the Gosnells Post Office was built. This was the first official Post Office in the district. In the years immediately following WWII, railways remained as the main link but this soon changed. Heavy road transport began to take over from the trains. After incidences involving cars and trains at the Maddington intersection of the railway and Albany Highways, the State's first railway crossing signals were installed. In the ten years following WWII the number of cars on the road increased enormously. Private car ownership was one of the factors that allowed the development of the next major subdivision in the Gosnells Roads Board District - Thornlie.

7. The Period 1956-1976 The Changing Face of Rural Gosnells

The establishment of the new suburb of Thornlie was a sign of increasing urbanisation in the Gosnells Roads Board. The suburb was to be developed on the land from the old Thornlie Estate which had been initially settled first by Captain Bannister and then later by Walter Padbury, who first came to the colony in 1830. It remained in the family until 1937 when his heirs started to break up the old estate. In 1956 approval was given to the Thornlie Development Company to privately develop the suburb. This did not occur without some controversy as there was some conflict over the supply of a public mains water system.

Thornlie grew at a rapid rate, some four times the rate of any residential subdivision in Australia at the time. The 1950s were another period of optimism and growth following the end of another major war, fuelled also by industrial and mining developments. Thornlie became a haven for British migrants who were attracted to the area by advertisements run in Britain. They were excited about the possibility of prices that would allow them to own their own homes. Children from Thornlie at first went to school at Kenwick. Slowly the services improved along with a sense of identity in the area.


The 1960s was a period of rapid growth and development in the Shire of Gosnells, 1961 saw the change from Roads Board to Shire. Controversy arose within the Shire about the sites for both the Civic Centre (built 1966) and the present day Council Offices (completed in 1973). An independent committee was formed to resolve the issue of the latter. Problems also arose over the name of the Shire. Some called for it to be changed to Maddington. This all coincided with the change of classification from Shire to Town.

A bridge built in 1959 over the Southern River on Fremantle Road allowed a new route to Fremantle. A huge public works program included hard sealing (bituminising) many roads and large improvements to drainage. The decline of agricultural pursuits was offset by the establishment of the Maddington Industrial Estate, which still plays a vital role in the district. The Maddington Industrial Estate was followed closely in 1970 by a subdivision in Maddington that created 1,000 new residential building blocks.

1970 was also the year of the Langford Estate. Langford was developed by the State Housing Commission with a school, hotel, parks, recreation and shopping centre as well as facilities for aged people. The new housing estate was named in memory of Bill Langford and his family. Bill has the record as the longest serving Councillor in Gosnells local government history. His career representing Canning Vale Ward spanned 42 years. In 1972 he was made a Freeman of the Shire of Gosnells.

Following Langford, Crestwood Estate was developed in Thornlie. This estate was modelled by town planner Paul Ritter on the innovative town planning Radburn design. The adopted plan aimed at exposing housing to the maximum amount of park land possible and reducing the impact of motor vehicles.

The population growth in the Town of Gosnells during the 1970s was massive. It is reflected in the very fast period in which the district qualified to move from town to city status.

8. The Period 1977-1996 An Urban, Industrial and Rural Blend

In 1977 Gosnells became the eighth municipality in Western Australia to achieve city status. In this same year it experienced seventy years of local government. The occasion was celebrated with a Proclamation Ball, Art and Craft exhibitions and a flower show by the Gosnells District Horticultural Society.

The move to city status did not go through without some controversial issues needing resolution. Many discussions were held over the emblems to be chosen for the crest of the new city. The crest was emblazoned on bronze and silver medals and presented to schoolchildren in honour of the occasion. The medals can be viewed in the City of Gosnells Museum. Enlarged photographs of the medals and details of their manufacture are held in the Local History Collection at the Knowledge Centre in Gosnells.

The growth in the number of people residing in the City of Gosnells led to the supply of many services. New schools included Ashburton, Huntingdale and Maddington primary schools. The library service was decentralised and built branches in Thornlie, Kenwick and Gosnells. Near Gosnells Library the Gosnells Writers Circle met to share their literary offerings. In 1989 Gosnells Family Hospital opened. Parks were prevalent in council planning, including some environmentally sensitive areas set aside for conservation.

The Mary Carroll Park Management Plan written in 1991 reflects the increasing interest in preserving areas of natural history such as this important wetland area. It was named after a school teacher who taught for many years at Gosnells Primary School. Mary Carroll used the swamp (formerly known as Kurtz' Swamp) in her class nature studies. The Brixton Street Wetlands in Kenwick were also preserved from development. The push for conservation came from the Wildflower Society owing to the presence of rare species of native flowers. This area has now been registered on the National Estate by the Australian Heritage Association.

The Ellis Brook Valley Reserve was formerly Stephen Gibbs property, settled in 1880. It was examined closely as a possible source of minerals, particularly gold, but nothing worthwhile has


been found. Clay was used from the valley for brickworks. The Reserve is recognised for its environmental value and is on the Register of the National Estate. Close by, Hillside Farm, the former home and farm of Stephen and Elizabeth Gibbs, is being transformed into an agricultural school. Pioneer Park was developed along the Canning River as part of a Bicentennial project, the first stage being completed in 1993. A mixed orchard (behind Coles) reflects the importance of agriculture to the early settlers.

The City of Gosnells had an active role in promoting Community Arts Programs. In 1989 the Arts program was expanded to attract youth involvement. In the 1990s an Urban Art Program for spraycan artists was initiated in an attempt to reduce graffiti. Free concerts were held at the amphitheatre in Pioneer Park to build a sense of community spirit. In 1996 the theme of the Community Arts Council was 'Our Heritage'.

The Community Arts projects also included a mosaic tile mural behind the Gosnells Library. The mural depicts an Aboriginal Dreamtime story, 'The Birth of the Darling Range'. The mural was designed by Aboriginal artisans.

In 1993 the City of Gosnells commitment to Aboriginal welfare resulted in the setting up of the Aboriginal Advisory Committee. This was the first committee in any WA local government formed to find strategies to improve Aboriginal health, housing and education.

New developments in the City of Gosnells business section included the opening of the Maddington Shopping Centre. The Centre occupies land that was once owned by William Nairn and later the sons of John Septimus Roe (the first WA Government Surveyor in the 1830s). In the early 1970s Cohunu Wildlife Sanctuary opened, encouraging tourism in the district. The koalas were the great attraction. This facility has since left the district. The Gosnells Hotel, which was restored in the 1980s is near a large commercial area as shops developed along Albany Highway.

The progress of the Gosnells City from a largely rural area to a more densely population metropolitan suburb was marked particularly by the establishment of new church facilities. All the churches built up to and including the 1950s were replaced with modern structures in post-War styles, while the social and welfare support provided by them has become more complex to meet the problems faced in modern life.

Another recent development was the building of the Canning Vale Prison and the Juvenile Detention Centre. This contributed to a small growth in population in nearby Langford and Thornlie owing to employment at the prison.

The semi rural nature of some localities in the City of Gosnells was maintained in Orange Grove, Canning Vale and Martin. Some market gardens and vineyards still existed, while the prevalence in equestrian properties grew. Much care needed to be taken each year in the clearing of firebreaks as these areas were prone to dangerous fires in summer. More attention was paid to the environmental impact of development and the preservation of bushland.

To visit the area during this period, an alternative to Albany Highway could be taken. In 1981 the first stage of the Foothills Route of the Tonkin Highway opened from Gosnells to Forrestfield. In 2009 this has been further lengthened. Work was also done on the Albany Highway.

There has been some recognition of heritage places in Gosnells. It started very early with the protection given to John Okey Davis' Grave on the Wilkinson homestead. This preservation was secured in 1927 by CF Gale, Chief Inspector of Fisheries and a Davis descendant. They also attempted to buy the site of John Okey Davis' original mud brick home but the plan fell through. Today the grave can be viewed by taking a short walk from the Wilkinson Homestead (Gosnells Museum). The Homestead was built in 1912 and the family lived there until 1968. The house was restored and opened to the public in 1988.

The Liddelow Homestead in Kenwick (formerly the Bickley property) was built by Liddelow after the original homestead was destroyed by fire in 1882. In 1976 it was also restored and opened as a museum. Presently it is used for displays of Arts and Crafts. Workshops and classes are held in the sensitively planned additions to the rear of the property.


In 1992 the former home of Jabez White of Orange Grove was privately restored. The owners, saw in the 1860s cottage, the value of keeping a building that demonstrates a way of life lost in this century.

8. The Period 1996-2010 To the Present Day

One of the most significant places of heritage value in the City of Gosnells is Maddington Park. Maddington Park, built during the 1830s, is one of the oldest examples of early colonial architecture still standing in Perth, although it is little more than a ruin since fires in 2004 and 2005. It has been recognised as such by being placed on the Register of the National Estate and has been evaluated by the National Trust and the entered into the Register of Heritage Places by the Heritage Council of WA.

The City of Gosnells celebrated 100 years as a municipality in 2007. That year also marked the 50th anniversary of the first housing development in Thornlie which has since become a large community.

The Tonkin Highway has now been further lengthened and Albany Highway has been widened and rerouted through some areas.

The pioneers of Gosnells worked hard to establish a community in an area prone to drought, fire and flood. Location near the edge of a large and growing metropolis resulted in pressures on the rural nature of the district. Beyond the busy Albany Highway are many places with cultural and heritage significance. In an increasingly developing area, it is vital that the value of such places to the City of Gosnells is recognised.


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SECTION C: PLACE RECORDS

Gosnells RSL Hall


Place No: B1

NAME OF PLACE Montrose Other names Address 1554 Albany Highway Suburb/Town Beckenham Reserve No. Lot No. 78 Diagram 31226 Vol 2522 Fol 696 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1932 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Rendered Brick Roof Clay tiles Hipped with gable feature Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar bungalow DESCRIPTION "Montrose" is a distinctive single storey brick and clay-tiled house. The high-pitched predominantly hipped roof features a front gable detailed in contrasting vertical timbers. The front verandah breaks pitch and is supported by pairs of bracketed timber posts. The driveway is flanked by a tall rendered pillar topped with a ball and monogrammed with a distinctive ‘M’. The garden is well maintained. CONDITION Good: well maintained INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY High degree STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE 'Montrose' is a significant example displaying architectural features typical of a quality 1930s residence. It is a fine representative example of a number of homes in the area that were built by A Skinner. ‘Montrose’ also represents associations with Arthur Castles, a well-known man in the district.

MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATION Category B: City of Gosnells ‘Heritage List.’ TPS: Development Application. Retain & conserve.


HISTORICAL NOTES Arthur Castles, the original owner of this property, arrived from Scotland in 1919 and was employed as a draughtsman with the Lands Department. Together with builder Arthur Skinner, he designed and built his home. Castles was well known for his beautiful garden and particularly his roses that took many prizes at the Royal and Cannington Agricultural Shows. He was also a member of the Gosnells Bowling Club during the 1940s. 'Montrose' was built with leadlight windows and jarrah framework. Skinner built many other 'superior' residences along Albany Highway.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Arthur Castles First owner/co-designer Arthur Skinner Builder/co-designer LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13804 Other Reference Number GIS Property Number: 236237 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper - 'The Gosnells Story' Book A brief look at Gosnells first residential area - Beckenham 1932-1991

Article based on oral history


Place No: B2

NAME OF PLACE Adelaide Other names Address 1575 Albany Highway Suburb/Town Beckenham Reserve No. Lot No. 10 Diagram 14502 Vol 2019 Fol 289 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1932 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Clay tiles Hipped with gable feature Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar bungalow DESCRIPTION "Adelaide" is a distinctive single storey brick and clay-tiled house. The front boundary is angled to the road that has been raised above the property ground level. The manicured lawns and plantings provide an ambient setting. Asphalt tennis courts are located on the north side. The high-pitched predominantly hipped roof has decorative finials at either end of the ridge and features a simple front gable and breaks pitch over the front verandah. The wide verandahs have short Doric classical columns atop square brick pillars supporting a simple beam and exposed rafters. The windows are casements with fanlights above. There is a bay window to the right hand side, projecting out under the roof. The tall square chimneys at the rear have a chimney pot on top of each. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY High degree STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE "Adelaide" has a high degree of architectural integrity as it remains in an almost original state. It is a fine representative example of a residence constructed by Arthur Skinner. The character of the home is valued by the wider community as reflected in its description as a 'gracious gentleman's residence'.



HISTORICAL NOTES "Adelaide" was built for Mr Mudge, Chief Engineer of the Perth Road Board in 1932. Arthur Skinner built the home together with a number of other homes along Albany Highway. "Adelaide", described in its day as a 'gentleman's residence', was featured in an issue of Australian "Home Beautiful" magazine. In the garden is a well, used to water horses travelling on the road to Albany. In the 1950s "Adelaide" was occupied by a doctor, Peter Childs.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE E C Mudge First owner Arthur Skinner Builder LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13800 Other Reference Number GIS Property Number: 221648 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Council Rates Books Book A brief look at Gosnells first residential area - Beckenham 1932-1991


Council G.I.S Electronic Data Base


Place No: B3

NAME OF PLACE Skinner's House (fmr) Other names Address 41 Beckenham Street Suburb/Town Beckenham Reserve No. Lot No. 30 Diagram 13716 Vol 1134 Fol 908 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1929, 1999 (extensive renovation) Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick & weatherboard Roof Zincalume Hipped with gable feature Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey brick and timber framed house has a predominantly hipped metal clad roof. The expansive street frontage features a protruding gable with awning over the rectangular bay window within the protruding element. The walls feature a face brick dado with weatherboards above. The verandah on the north and west has been enclosed. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree: extensive extensions STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE This single storey brick and weatherboard residence has significant associations with Arthur C Skinner, who owned and initially built this place prior to many others in the vicinity of Albany Highway Beckenham during the 1930s.

MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATION Category C: Retain & conserve if possible. Record prior to any development.


HISTORICAL NOTES Mona and Arthur Skinner purchased the land on the corner of Albany Highway and Beckenham Street in Beckenham prior to 1928. They built their home on this land and lived there until 1951 when they built a new one in the orchard. Mrs Skinner recalled there were only two other houses in the area at the time. Builder Skinner's telephone number was W51, and it was said to be the only telephone for miles. Mr Skinner was the builder of the Gosnells Road Board Offices and Maddington Centenary Hall in 1929. He was also employed to build the extensions to the Gosnells Road Board Offices in 1955. Arthur Skinner was contracted to build a series of 'superior' residences on blocks 1540, 1542, 1545, 1549, 1553, 1557, 1563, 1569 and 1575 Albany Highway. Skinner was made a life member of the Gosnells Bowling Club after many years of voluntary work at the club. He was also very much involved in the building of the clubhouse. Arthur Skinner died in 1973.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Arthur Skinner Owner/Builder LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13805 Other Reference Number GIS Property Number: 223402 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Local Studies Collection - Architecture Domestic - Biographical

Notes Notes

Local Studies Collection File – Gosnells Road Board 1907-1961

File

A brief look at Gosnells first residential area - Beckenham 1932-1991



Place No: B4

NAME OF PLACE Hatch House (fmr) Other names St Helier Address 50 Beckenham Street (cnr of Camberwell Street) Suburb/Town Beckenham Reserve No. Lot No. 2 Diagram 9883 Vol 1062 Fol 312 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1939 Original Use Residence

Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick dado & render Roof Clay tiles Hipped Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey brick and clay-tiled house with rendered brick walls above the face brick dado, is typical of the period. The hipped roof continues at full pitch over the verandahs to the south and east that wrap the street front corner. The verandahs are supported on solid rendered brick piers that are stepped in above sill height. The windows are typical configurations of three with casements flanking a central fixed pane. The freestanding brick garage facing Camberwell Street has had a later intrusive addition of a brick wall with three white roller doors. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree. Intrusive garage extension. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Hatch House (fmr) is a representative example of a late 1930s home built by Arthur Skinner. It is significant for associations with the Hatch family who were pioneers of the Gosnells district. The original owner, Eric Hatch and his family lived in the house for fifty-eight years. He was a well-known local identity.



HISTORICAL NOTES This house was built in 1939 for Eric Hatch, one of the sons of Alfred and Sarah Hatch. The Hatch family were part of a 'new wave' of pioneers to the Gosnells district in the early 20th century. They were attracted by the rural lifestyle of the area. Alfred and Sarah Hatch settled on a seven-acre block in Maddington in 1913. While Alfred continued to commute to his government job in Perth, Sarah managed the property that became a successful small farm. The Hatch's went on to raise six children in the district.

Eric Hatch and his family have lived in the house since it was completed in October 1939. The original builder was Arthur C Skinner, who built many other significant buildings in the district. The block of land cost £90 and the house cost £776. Repayment was at the rate of £6 per month. The building of the house was completed in six weeks.

In 1939 the district was called Kenwick, but was later renamed Beckenham. Copies of original documents show that at that time there were no postal deliveries, and mail had to be collected from a postal agency in Cannington.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Eric Hatch Original owner Arthur Skinner Builder LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13803 Other Reference Number GIS Property Number: 223407 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Information from the owner, E Hatch Oral History Copies of original agreement with the builder, and payment receipts

Copies of documents


Place No: B5

NAME OF PLACE War Service House Other names Address 16 Highbury Crescent Suburb/Town BECKENHAM Reserve No: n/a Lot 36 Diagram 6432 Vol 1227 Fol 663 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1961 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face brick (stretcher bond) Roof Tiled Gable (pavilion) Other Wrought iron balustrade to

front verandah Freestanding gable garage clad with vertical shadow line fibrocement sheeting

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Post war bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey simple rectangular form has a pavilion roof, and timber framed windows. The windows have fixed picture windows adjacent to a series vertical series of hopper windows. The main window has a timber-lined dado across the base.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE 16 Highbury Crescent is significant as a representative example of a War Service Home provided by the State Housing Commission in the early 1960s.



HISTORICAL NOTES Frank and Kathleen Teale were married 1 July 1961 and the State Housing Commission had the house built by 9 September 1961. It was built by Jack Mavric of Messrs. Mavric & Sons of Maddington. Frank Teale was a returned serviceman having served overseas, including on Crete and mainland Greece as a driver in the Australian Transport Platoon between January 1941 and 19 December 1945.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE State Housing Commission Provision of War Service Homes LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 224673

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Records of building specifications – in Local Studies Collection

Document

Notes from original owner in 2006 –in Local Studies Collection Oral history


Place No: B6

NAME OF PLACE Homestead (fmr) Other names Address 69 Horley Road (cnr Kenwick Link) Suburb/Town Beckenham Reserve No. Lot No. Pt 1 Diagram 20935 Vol 2132 Fol 520 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1905 Original Use Residence Present Use Offices (SERCUL a land care group) Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Timber framed Painted weatherboards Roof Corrugated iron Hipped Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey timber framed homestead is elevated above the ground that slopes down to the Canning River frontage. The high pitched hipped roof features vented gablets and tall corbelled chimneys. The surrounding verandah has a break pitch roof, criss-cross balustrades, and the stop chamfered timber posts show evidence of decorative brackets. Bachelor windows feature on the front rooms of the symmetrical building with central corridor. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY Moderate to high degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree: some impact for office use and considerable impact to the setting. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Homestead (fmr) is representative of a timber framed and clad Federation Bungalow typical of rural dwellings of the period. The close proximity and frontage to the Canning River with nearby well, is significant in revealing the settlement pattern of the pioneers of the area. Its rescue from demolition and acquisition by the City of Gosnells in 1997 reflected the concern the Council had about significant heritage assets in the district.



HISTORICAL NOTES This house stands on a portion of the land farmed in the 1860s by Richard White, and willed to his son, John in 1868. Location 7 and 8 was a 1226 acre property in White's period of ownership. Later this was part of Canning River Estate No.1, cut up by H. A. Hope. The house was built in the early part of the Twentieth Century, c.1905. Though there are no records of who originally owned the house, in 1927 it belonged to a Helen Pearse. In 1931 it was purchased by Miss W and Mr L George. They continued to own the property until 1942/43. A Mrs Lance owned the property for the next twenty years before selling it to the Main Roads Department in 1993. After this change in ownership the house rapidly deteriorated. Many internal fittings disappeared. During the process of compiling the 1998 City of Gosnells Heritage Inventory, attention was brought to the place by the architect who was assessing the significance of the places. He indicated that urgent attention was needed if the place was to be preserved. The former owner, Mrs Lance, was also concerned about the disrepair. The declining state of the house was arrested when the City of Gosnells intervened, offering to take over the property from Main Roads. In 1997 its significant architectural style led to its rescue from demolition, when a lease at no cost was negotiated, and the Council voted a budget to restore the house. It was leased to a tenant, and at a later stage Council intended to use the building as a community or recreational facility. However, by the end of 1998 this arrangement no longer existed. The City of Gosnells withdrew from the arrangement, and Main Roads transferred the property to the WA Planning Commission as part of a land exchange. In 2000 a heritage assessment was commissioned by WAPC under the Government Heritage Places Disposal Policy. The Heritage Council subsequently determined the place would not be entered into the Register of Heritage Places. The place is currently used as the South East Regional Centre of Urban Landcare (SERCUL) headquarters.

During a building survey carried out c.1997, a well dug by convicts in the nineteenth century was uncovered between the house and the river. The well is approximately 4m deep and had barbed wire on top to prevent stock or people from falling in. It has since been covered. This is a significant historical find.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Richard White Original owner SERCUL Current use LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 3169 Other Reference Number GIS Property Number: 224655 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE City of Gosnells correspondence Letters Community News 11.3.1997 Newspaper article


Place No: B7

NAME OF PLACE Wimbledon Park Other names Brooking (fmr) Address 17 Packer Street Suburb/Town BECKENHAM Reserve No: n/a Lot 701 Diagram 39743 Vol 2553 Fol 499 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1909 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence and Chauffeur’s Quarters (fmr) Other Use Chauffeur’s Quarters, Doctor's surgery/residence CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick & render Horizontal banding Roof Corrugated iron Hipped with gable feature Other: windows Double hung sash ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey residence has a perimeter verandah under the main roof. The roof features a gable over a facetted bay window below. The verandah is detailed with distinctive bracket and valance decoration at the front. At the rear is the old chauffeur's quarters. It is a modest single storey building with rendered brick walls and a corrugated iron roof with a verandah supported by timber posts.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY High degree: timber verandah replaced by concrete.

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Wimbledon Park is a fine example of Federation Bungalow and is significant for associations with Benjamin Mason of Mason & Bird Timber Co. The addition of the chauffeur's quarters and the Blythe family associations gave Wimbledon Park eminence in the district.



HISTORICAL NOTES Benjamin Mason’s (Mason & Bird Timber Co) grandson, William Mason Ousten, built the house for his family in 1909. William was the son of Benjamin's daughter Sarah and her first husband, Fremantle boat builder William Ousten, who died in 1888, aged 33. The house was later named 'Brooking' by the Blythe family, after their station 'Brooking Springs' in the north of the state. The Blythe's built the garage and the chauffeur's quarters at the rear. A wine cellar has been added by later owners, the O'Neils and in recent times Dr Henderson had his surgery in the house. Other owners included Gwen and Murray Martin, who bought the property in 1970 and successfully restored it to its former state and gave it its present name of 'Wimbledon Park'. The property comprises 1.7 hectares of treed park land.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Benjamin Mason Mason and Bird Timber Company Blythe family Owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13807 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 225521

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Card series of Heritage Places Card Erickson, Rica, Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians, vol. 3. Book


Place No: B8

NAME OF PLACE Harris House (fmr) Other names Address 340 Railway Parade Suburb/Town BECKENHAM Reserve No: n/a Lot 14 Diagram 591 Vol 1038 Fol 982 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1914 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Weatherboard Roof Zincalume Hipped with gable features Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey timber framed weatherboard clad house has a predominantly hipped roof. Gables with roughcast infill feature over the symmetrical frontage, above facetted bay windows that flank the central door. Another gable is evident on a protruding room on the side. A separate hipped skillion verandah wraps the front and both side returns. It is supported by square chamfered timber posts. Part of the side verandah has been enclosed. There is a weatherboard garage in the corner that is separate from the main house. A recent limestone pillared steel palisade fence along the front boundary obscures views.

CONDITION Fair INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Harris House (fmr) is a good representative example of a substantial timber Federation Bungalow home built during World War One.


HISTORICAL NOTES This house was built by John Boughton Harris around 1914. This Harris family came from Bendigo, Victoria and were not related to the Harris family of Maddington Park. They left this property during the Depression years.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE John Boughton Harris Original owner


LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13820 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 225592 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Information from Margaret Lefevre Oral history


Place No: B9

NAME OF PLACE Beckenham Primary School Other names East Cannington State School Address 386 Railway Parade Suburb/Town BECKENHAM Reserve No: 14897 Lot 1785 Diagram N/A Vol N/A Fol N/A CONSTRUCTION DATE 1912, 1960s (north extn) Original Use School Present Use School Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Colourbond Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation DESCRIPTION This is a high single storey brick building, with an expansive hipped roof and feature gable. The central gablet has three vertical format windows below and generally the windows are balanced along the frontage with sets of two and three windows. The double hung sash windows are divided into nine panes. Tall square face brick chimneys are evident along the railway (street) frontage. To the north is a later addition, built in the 1960s. There is a recent low-pitched entry pavilion at the north end of the frontage. Further buildings have been added to the east side, the south of the original block (in brick) and a demountable building to the corner of the courtyard.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual school function AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Beckenham Primary School is a representative example of early Twentieth Century government architecture, consistent with other schools of the period. It has significant associations with generations of students and the local community since 1912. The school's growth has reflected the change and development in the district.



HISTORICAL NOTES Beckenham Primary School started its life as the East Cannington State School in 1912. This followed an earnest petition to the Minister for Education in 1910 by the residents of East Cannington. The school commenced at the beginning of 1912 with twenty one pupils and by the end of that year the number had increased to fifty six. Enrolment steadily increased, particularly during the 1950s and 60s. One headmaster, Fred Wittber, gave many years service from 1922 to 1932. A headmaster's house was provided by the school until the mid 1960s when it was demolished. The increasing population led to a number of changes in the school with classrooms and teaching facilities being constantly upgraded. The name change from East Cannington to Beckenham occurred in 1970. At the same time one hundred and eighty pupils transferred to a new school in Gibbs Street in East Cannington, thereby reducing the population of Beckenham Primary School. Today the school is still involved in the education of Beckenham children, remaining one of the oldest schools in the region.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Education Department LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13801 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 226524 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Beckenham Primary School Booklet 1912-1987 Author/Compiler - Anon

Booklet


Place No: CV1

NAME OF PLACE Tom Hungerford House (fmr) Other names Address 75 Amherst Road Suburb/Town CANNING VALE Reserve No: n/a Lot 10 Plan 4865 Vol 1981 Fol 803 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1970s Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Tile Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Late Twentieth Century DESCRIPTION The single storey brick dwelling is elevated on the east side where the land slopes down to a wetland area. CONDITION Fair INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Tom Hungerford House (fmr) is significant for the association with the renowned author Tom Hungerford.



HISTORICAL NOTES This house on a large rural lot was occupied by author T. A. G. (Tom) Hungerford from around 1976 to 1993. Tom Hungerford was born in Perth in 1915. He served in the Army in WWII and then worked for a period as press secretary to Prime Minister Billy Hughes. He then worked as a journalist, travelling widely. He was a press officer for two WA premiers, John Tonkin and Sir Charles Court, until his retirement in 1978, following which he continued to write and to travel widely.

Tom Hungerford began writing in his late teens and his first published short story was in 1942, in the Sydney Bulletin. The Ridge and the River, the first of his four novels, was published in 1950, and his articles, poetry and short stories have been published widely in journals, newspapers and anthologies throughout Australia and overseas. His first collection of short stories was published in 1976 and he published Fremantle, Landscapes and People (with photographer Roger Garwood) in 1979, and three collections of autobiographical stories - Stories From Suburban Road, A Knockabout with a Slouch Hat and Red Rover All Over.

Literature prizes Tom has won include the Crouch Gold Medal for Literature in 1951, the Patricia Hackett Short Story Prize in 1962 and the WA Weekly Literature Prize for Fiction in 1964. Other works include travel books, anthologies, a children’s book‚ a stage play, radio plays, articles, documentaries and poems. In 1987 Tom Hungerford was made a member of the Order of Australia, and in 2005, at the age of 90, he was the Citizen of the Year for Arts, Culture and Entertainment.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE T.A.G. (Tom) Hungerford) Owner/occupant LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 226610

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Newspaper articles


Place No: G1

NAME OF PLACE Basham House (fmr) Other names Barnsley House Address 2103 Albany Highway Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: n/a Lot 2 Diagram 13798 Vol 2193 Fol 457 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1907 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Corrugated iron Hipped roof Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey brick and iron house is situated high above the river bank near the Gosnells Bridge opposite the City of Gosnells Administration Offices. The rectangular form house with hipped roof has a separate skillion hipped perimeter verandah supported by square timber posts. It has large sash windows flanking the central half glazed nine-panel door.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Basham's House (fmr) is significant for its representative architectural style and prominent Gosnells location.



HISTORICAL NOTES All the early records for this place were lost in the fire at the Gosnells Road Board offices. It would appear that the original owner was a Mr William Barnsley as the Subdivision map of the Cargeeg Estate of c.1905, indicates the property as 'Barnsleys House'. Contractor William Barnsley is recorded living at Gosnells in 1908, and may have built the house for himself or as a speculative project. Ownership has changed a number of times over the years. Alice Basham was the owner from 1928-1940. The house was previously part of a large property of 5.5 acres (Lots 10 & 11 of Canning Location 14), which has been subdivided over time, with the final subdivision occurring during the 1960s-70s.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE William Barnsley Original owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13810 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 202348 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Gosnells Rates Book Local government

records Subdivision map of Cargeeg Estate c1905 shows ‘Barnsley’s House’ Map Wise's Post Office Directory Microfilm


Place No: G2

Boardroom Amphitheatre

Albany Highway Road Bridge

War Memorial

War Memorial

Weeping Mulberry tree Banyan Tree

NAME OF PLACE City Council group Other names City of Gosnells Civic Centre building (boardroom)

Centennial Pioneer Park RSL Monument Banyan tree Weeping Mulberry tree (in Civic Centre Gardens) Road bridge

Address 2120 Albany Highway Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No. Lot 0 Diagram 1913 Vol 1691 Fol 376


Lot 6 (Playground) 10 (orchard) 51 (orchard) 4

D1913 D 44952 D 46171 D17107

C.T.Vol 1691 Fol 376 - 1389 / 963 1399 / 931

CONSTRUCTION DATE 1929, 1979 Original Use Rural and Road Board Offices Present Use Parkland, Board Room in City of Gosnells Council Offices Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Amphitheatre walls - stone Roof Tile Roof of Council offices Other Wooden board walks ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: DESCRIPTION The Board Room in the Council Chambers is situated to the rear of the building near the large function room. The walls are jarrah panelled; a large jarrah table is located in the centre of the room, surrounded by chairs. In 2010, the City’s administration office has been extended and upgraded and the Boardroom elements will be relocated.

Pioneer Park, declared in 1988, is a manicured park with landscaped gardens and natural vegetation along the banks of the Canning River. Within the park is an orchard surrounded by a post and rail fence. In another part of the park, near the Addie Mills Centre is a tiered amphitheatre, built 1993, and small stage for outdoor entertainment. Ornamental tiles with Aboriginal mosaic designs depicting the creation myth of the Darling Ranges decorate the tiered sections of the amphitheatre. Nearby metal silhouette sculptures depict pioneer motifs.

The RSL monument, built in 1921, is a tall granite obelisk, set on a circular stone plinth. It is located at the end of a cement path, with flanking landscaped gardens. Set in rolling lawns, with a backdrop of mature trees, the memorial has dramatic impact.

The old Weeping Mulberry tree stands in a prominent position in the middle of a grassed area close to the eastern wing of the City of Gosnells Administration Centre.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Pioneer Park has strong historical links with the early rural development in Gosnells. The orchard is a living memorial to the early pioneers, particularly orchardists. The park is scenically located on either side of the river and provides a setting for many visitors to enjoy both natural and landscaped parkland. The City of Gosnells Board Room reflects an understanding of historical continuity of a local government office. The interior décor is an uncommon representative example, elements of which will be relocated to the new building. The RSL Memorial is dedicated to the memory of those who died in service to Australia during wars in the Twentieth Century. The aesthetic setting has high impact and the park is a popular recreation area and community gathering place particularly at commemorative events such as ANZAC day. This mature Weeping Mulberry tree is a living memorial to the rural way of life that was once a major part of the economic development of the Gosnells district. The Banyan tree is rare to the Gosnells area and is significant due to its propagation and association with Perth Zoo.



HISTORICAL NOTES The administration of the Gosnells district was originally under the Gosnells Road Board, whose offices were located in Maddington. By 1961, when the Board became the Shire of Gosnells, a larger and more modern building was required. Disagreement over whether this should be located in Maddington or Gosnells delayed construction until the early 1970s. In 1973, the Administration Centre was opened in Gosnells on the site of W. J. Bone's orchard, which was purchased from the Caruso family in 1969. The jarrah panelled Board Room in the Council Offices is an assemblage of salvaged elements from the 1929 Roads Board building and 1955 Board Room. The windows from the 1929 Roads Board building were rehoused at the City of Gosnells Museum. On the walls of the Board Room are historical photos of past Road Board councillors. The large jarrah table in the Board Room is a later addition made for the Francis Brennan family on the occasion of their entertaining Prince Henry the Duke of Gloucester during a visit to Western Australia in 1934. Francis Brennan was the owner of Brennan's department store, which was a forerunner of Aherns/Bairds. Brennan became technically bankrupt during the Depression. The table was presented to the Shire by the Packer family in 1964. The Board Room was retained in the 1987 extensions of the 1973 Council Offices. Associated with the Centre are: Centennial Pioneer Park; RSL Monument; Road Bridge; Weeping Mulberry tree; and, Banyan tree. Pioneer Park represents the past in the establishment of an orchard and bushland along the river. Part of the celebrations of Australia’s Bicentenary was the establishment in 1988 (opened 26 November) of Pioneer Park. On 21 November 1993 the amphitheatre was opened. Over the years occasional Aboriginal artefacts have reported to have been discovered on the riverbank in the park area. In 2005, extensive works were undertaken as part of the Gosnells Town Centre Revitalisation Project which included removal of the rotundas, construction of a new public toilet and the new Federation Parade between Pioneer Park and the new Agonis building. Extensive regeneration work was carried out along the river and many trees were returned to the waterway to allow the Canning River to re-establish itself. The park was renamed Centennial Pioneer Park in 2007 when the Prime Minister John Howard opened it. The portion including the RSL monument, ponds and area adjacent to the administration building were deleted from the park and will be renamed in the future. In 2007, to commemorate the Centenary of the City of Gosnells, an aerial tree top walk was built that connected to a series of wooden boardwalks in Pioneer Park. The 1921 RSL Monument was originally erected on a site at the junction of Albany Highway and Mills Road. The memorial commemorated those people who lost their lives in WWI. Owing to the site being resumed by the Main Roads Department for road widening, the monument was relocated to its present position in the grounds of the City of Gosnells Administration Centre during the 1960s. Later the names of World War Two and Korean War casualties were recorded. Annual Anzac Day ceremonies continue to be held at the site. The Albany Highway Bridge near the Gosnells Hotel was originally built c.1868 in the time of Henry Passmore, the Engineer in charge of convict labour teams. When working locally, Henry Passmore developed the first artesian bore in WA while looking for coal deposits along the riverbanks. The Gosnells Bridge was also known as the Upper Canning Bridge. It has been renovated, resurfaced and rebuilt over the years so that this bridge bears little resemblance to the original 1868 Bridge. The Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) was planted in 1991 in the grounds of the City of Gosnells Administration Building. It was propagated at the Perth Zoo from a cutting taken from an enormous tree found in the province of Bengal, India. The canopy of the parent tree measured 1,000 square metres and was acknowledged as being of a significant size for the species. The juvenile propagated tree was a gift from Perth Zoo and it is believed that there are very few specimens of Banyan trees in Western Australia. W. J. Bone planted the Weeping Mulberry tree on his orchard in 1924. It was located at the rear of the homestead and was described by Mrs Ruth Bone as 'being like a tent you could sit under on a hot summer day. The branches cascaded down to the ground'. It was transplanted to its present position in landscaped gardens about 50 metres away from its original site in 1971.


ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE W J Bone Had an orchard on the site Brennan Family Original owner of board room table Packer Family Donated board room table to Council LISTINGS HCWA Database No. Pioneer Park: 13823

Road Bridge: 13837 RSL Monument: 13825 Weeping mulberry: 13841

Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 231338 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998 & Tree

Inventory (Weeping Mulberry) SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald and Cooper - 'The Gosnells Story’ Book Local Studies Collection Parks & Reserves Articles Local information Oral history Comment News Newspaper Articles Local Studies Collection Bridges Articles Information from Margaret Lefevre Oral history Information from Ian McNamara Oral history Information and photographs from J Stemmerik Photographs City of Gosnells – Wilkinson Homestead Archives Photographs Mrs Ruth Bone – wife of Mr Jim Bone (Weeping Mulberry Tree) Oral History


Place No: G3

NAME OF PLACE Gosnells Police Station Other names Address 2293 Albany Highway Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 4137 Diagram 193268 Vol/Fol N/A CONSTRUCTION DATE 1998 Original Use Police Station Present Use Police Station Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Steel sheeting Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Twenty First Century contemporary DESCRIPTION The single storey brick pavilion has a low pitch gable roof form and feature skillion. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Gosnells Police Station was part of a multi-million dollar program for improving police facilities in the southern suburbs and represents a significant law and order presence in Gosnells.



HISTORICAL NOTES The first police presence in the Gosnells district is recorded in 1859, when Constable Bishop was appointed to the Canning Police Station on 29 April that year. The station was located on Royal Street Kenwick, on a portion of Canning Location 12. However, there may have been an earlier site as an 1841 survey map records the site of a then defunct police building.

The police station, consisting of a four-room building with a shingle roof and verandahs on three sides, and a two-stall stable, was under construction in 1866. Prior to that there appears to have been temporary accommodation provided on the site. As in 1862, the station was found not to have been erected on the allocated reserve site, a not uncommon occurrence as the exact area was often difficult to pinpoint in the bush, so to solve this the reserve was enlarged by 20 acres so it included the building.

The police presence was established to provide protection for settlers from the convict and ticket of leave population, and there are reports of burglaries and of convicts escaping from the road gangs working in the district. The construction of the Albany Road also meant more travellers passing through the area. The Canning Police Station closed on 10 April 1878 and the property was gazetted for public purposes under the management of the Canning Road Board.

The present Gosnells Police Station was opened on 5 June 1998 as part of a multi-million dollar program for improving police facilities in the southern suburbs. The facility cost $1.7 million and was staffed with twenty eight officers who would provide a twenty-four-hour service to the local communities that made up the City of Gosnells.

The artwork in the foyer and forecourt is entitled 'Police and Community - A Partnership' and comprises eighty individually designed glass enamel tiles set in a central 'totem'. The artwork was provided under the State Government 'Percent for Art Scheme', which was instigated to improve the quality of the built environment and assist local artists. Students from local schools provided the inspiration for many of the final images.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE WA Police LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 17403 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 208809

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Don Pashley, Policing our state, 2000. Book Minister for Police, Media Statement, 5 June 1998. document McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book


Place No: G4

Royal Poinciana tree

NAME OF PLACE Addie Mills Centre and Royal Poinciana Tree Other names Address 4 Astley Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 3 Diagram 84821 Vol 2197 Fol 031 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1977, 1996 Original Use Senior Citizens' centre Present Use Senior Citizens' centre Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face brick Roof Clay tiles Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Late Twentieth Century Perth Regional DESCRIPTION The single storey expansive building is set on the bank of the Canning River behind the commercial centre of Gosnells. The light coloured brick walls are contrasted by the low pitched gable roof planes clad with terracotta tiles. There are two gabled entries differing in detail and informing of two periods of development. The street frontage is framed by trees and plantings with a car park and access between the landscape strip and the building. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Addie Mills Centre is significant as a facility for seniors in the City of Gosnells, a function it has served for over thirty years. The tree is significant because of its rarity and aesthetic value.



HISTORICAL NOTES The Addie Mills Centre was established in 1977 as a social centre for seniors and people with disabilities. The place was named for Addie Mills, wife of Mayor Arthur Mills who served as Mayor 1973-1979 and contributed forty two years to public service in Gosnells. Mrs Mills was well known for her commitment to the district and unselfish and kind attitude to others. She died in a motor vehicle accident in 1976.

The Centre provides a social club and support services including in-centre dining, podiatry, hairdresser, Meals on Wheels, information and referral services and free bus to the centre. The building was extended in 1996 at a cost of $1.2 million.

The Royal Poinciana (Delonix regia) is located at the front entrance of the Addie Mills Centre. This variety is also known as peacock flower or orchid tree. It is a native of Madagascar and has a spectacular show of orange / red orchid-like flowers all over the umbrella shaped canopy. Because it normally grows in subtropical conditions this specimen, while it flowers well, rarely produces seeds in its large long seed pods.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Addie and Arthur Mills Former Mayor and his wife LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 202728 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Tree Inventory January 2007

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE City of Gosnells website, 'Community celebrates 30 years with Addie Mills Centre', 3 August 2007

Online

McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book


Place No: G5

NAME OF PLACE Lander Farm Other names Address Lot 9501 Chamberlain Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 9501 Plan 49541 C.T. Vol 2616 Fol 684 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1945, 1968, 1976, 1993 Original Use Dwelling & outbuildings, duck farm, market garden Present Use Dwelling & outbuildings, duck farm, market garden Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Fibrocement sheeting Timber framed Roof Corrugated iron Other Concrete blocks Hand made ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Vernacular DESCRIPTION Lander Farm comprises Harold Lander’s first house, a c.1945 timber framed fibrocement clad cottage which Harold built and a freestanding shower room, rustic owner built sheds (1950s and 1960s), and a variety of equipment and machinery relating to the activities on the property, as well as a Nissan hut, transportable house and brick and tile main house. There is an extensive sprinkler system on the property to defend against bush fires. The property has many structures such as sheds and pens associated with the duck farm that were made on site using recycled and salvaged materials which was an essential agricultural practice. The duck farm produced meat and eggs and was very labour intensive. Charles later mechanised some of the work such as mixing feed as the farm grew in size. The farm was divided into sections with ducklings with and without mothers in rows of pens and nesting boxes, and adult ducks in another area. CONDITION Overall: good condition INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Lander Farm is a representative example of a diverse, small scale agricultural and market garden enterprise of the post World War Two era in Gosnells. It is a rare example of duck farm, and significant for the flexible working hours that facilitated women’s employment. Lander Farm is associated with Harold Lander who established the farm, and his brother Charles Lander.



HISTORICAL NOTES During the early twentieth century much of the locality was used for agriculture and market gardens. Many landowners in Gosnells on smaller properties had an orchard or livestock such as cow or chickens and worked in Perth, commuting by train. Later much of this land became subdivided for residential uses. Harold Lander’s parents George and Alice migrated from England in 1912 and established a farm in Southern River. In 1946 Harold Lander developed the property located on the Southern River as a Gladioli nursery from which he supplied cut flowers to florists in Perth. In 1949 Charles joined his brother on the property and developed a commercial duck farm which was in operation for forty five years. Charles employed local women at the farm on flexible working hours. George Lander, Harold and Charles’ brother, operated a firewood business from the property. Harold Lander was a respected member of the local community and was part of the Southern River Progress Association which campaigned for local infrastructure. The surrounding land has been subdivided in recent years for residential development. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Harold Lander Original owner Charles Lander Current owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13139 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 302474

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Heritage Council Documentation Assessment Local Studies Collection Articles Charles Lander Ancedotes


Place No: G6

NAME OF PLACE Corfield Street Road Bridge Other names Address Corfield Street (between Fremantle and Warton Roads) Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot Diagram C.T.Vol Fol CONSTRUCTION DATE 1996 Original Use Road bridge Present Use Road bridge Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Roof Other Concrete and Steel

structure stone abutments

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: DESCRIPTION The four-lane steel framed bridge spans across Southern River. The surface is asphalt as for the road connecting at each end. The sloping abutments are detailed in face random stone. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The bridges in the City of Gosnells have played a significant role in the development of the Gosnells district demonstrated by the vital service they provide, allowing fast and efficient traversing of the many streams and rivers in the area.



HISTORICAL NOTES The bridges in the City of Gosnells have played a significant role in the development of the Gosnells district. They have strong historic and social heritage significance. Their importance lies in the vital service they provide, allowing fast and efficient traversing of the many streams and rivers in the area, particularly on Albany Highway. Before the bridges were built, early settlers in the area travelled many miles to the nearest fords. These circuitous routes added hours to their already difficult journeys. Bridges in the Gosnells district include pedestrian and rail bridges. Pedestrian ‘bridges’ at first were logs across streams and precarious crossings were made by many children to get to school. Later the logs were replaced by purpose built pedestrian bridges. Some of the modern bridges in the district are replacements for older, smaller models that needed upgrading owing to the increase in road transport that comes with motorisation and urbanisation.

The name Corfield came from Norman Corfield Lissiman, the son of pioneer James Henry Lissiman. The Corfield Street Bridge was opened 9 April 1996. This new four-lane bridge replaced the old Fremantle bridge and crosses the Southern River. The planning of the bridge took a number of years, and it was partially funded by the State Government. The bridge has some special design features owing to consultation with the local Aborigines who did not want the river bed and banks disturbed with bridge pylons. The Fremantle Road Bridge, which was thirty seven years old, has been retained as a footbridge. The bridge was opened in a ceremony jointly attended by the State Government Transport Minister, Eric Charlton and the then Mayor of Gosnells, Cr Olwen Searle.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE No associations LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13831 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Comment News Newspaper Articles Local Studies Collection Bridges Articles Information from Margaret Lefevre Oral history Information from Ian McNamara Oral history Information and photographs from J Stemmerik Photographs City of Gosnells – Wilkinson Homestead Archives Photographs


Place No: G7

NAME OF PLACE St Munchin's Catholic Church (fmr) Other names Address 175 Corfield Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 300 Diagram 25760 Vol/Fol N/A CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1920 Original Use Church Present Use Meeting room Other Use School classroom CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Weatherboard painted Roof Corrugated iron gable Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar Carpenter Gothic DESCRIPTION St Munchin's Church (fmr) is a single storey simple form timber framed building with a gabled entry and a skillion roofed extension at the other end. The gable roof is clad with corrugated iron. The windows are of two types, with the original Gothic arched frames alternating with six paned vertical format awning windows.

The church was relocated from its original site on Albany Highway to the rear of Church of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in the grounds of St Munchin's Primary School. It is surrounded by car parks and a bitumen playground and backs onto the school oval.

CONDITION Fair. Roof is severely rusted. INTEGRITY Moderate degree: compromised by relocation AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE St Munchin's Catholic Church (fmr) represents the early development of Catholic churches in the Gosnells district. The subsequent relocation and development associated with the primary school and new church similarly represents the progressive approach that provides education, worship and social services to the Gosnells Catholic Community.



HISTORICAL NOTES The first Roman Catholic parishioners in the area attended services in the hall behind the Gosnells Hotel. In 1917 the Parish of Gosnells, Armadale and Jarrahdale was formed under the services of Father O'Grady. He had St Munchin's Church, a timber and iron building, erected on a site on Albany Road, close to the river. It was named after the first bishop of Fr O'Grady's home town, Limerick, in Ireland. St Munchin's was consecrated by Bishop Clune in 1919. The parish did not develop as expected and struggled for a number of years with low membership. In 1922 the parish was abolished and Gosnells Catholics, like their Anglican counterparts, were visited by clergy from Queens Park. During the 1940s, with an increase in population, the congregation began to grow. St Munchin's Primary School was established and a Presbytery was built. In 1963 a new church, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, was built next to St Munchin's Church, which then became an additional classroom for St Munchin's Primary School.

By the 1970s another new site had to be found to cater for the expansion of the church and school population. A new primary school and a second Church of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament were built in Corfield Street. St Munchin's Church was relocated to the new site and is used as a meeting room for the school and parish. The first church of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament and St Munchin's old school were bought by the City of Gosnells and used to house meeting rooms and the public library. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE No Associations LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13826 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 233787 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Local Studies Collection Ecclesiastical Architecture Articles Lawrance, N, Roman Catholic Diocese of Perth Heritage Inventory, 1998 Book


Place No: G8

NAME OF PLACE Captain Williams' House (fmr) Other names Church of England manse Address 29 Dorothy Street cnr Hicks Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 517 Plan 2569 Vol/Fol N/A CONSTRUCTION DATE 1907, c.1998 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use Church of England Manse CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Red brick Roof Galvanised iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Queen Anne DESCRIPTION This house is situated at the roundabout intersection of Dorothy and Hicks Streets. The brick perimeter fence/wall obscures views of the place. This double storey house is a brick structure with a predominantly hipped roof that is clad with corrugated steel sheeting. The roof features gables to both street frontages on the original ground floor roof area, and a Hicks Street gablet on the first floor roof. The street corner of the house has a facetted bay reflected in the roof form. A separate skillion verandah wraps that corner and extends along both street frontages. The brick chimneys are detailed with banding and vertical decoration. The face brick walls are detailed with rendered horizontal banding at door head height.

The second story addition is a significant impact on the place.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Low degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Captain Williams' House (fmr) demonstrates associations with Captain Williams, a member of the inaugural Gosnells Road Board, and the Gosnells Estate Co.



HISTORICAL NOTES Captain Thomas Williams had this house built in 1907. The property comprised three and a half acres made up of ten quarter-acre blocks, and a substantial orchard was developed on the land. Captain Williams was one of the inaugural members of the Gosnells Road Board, being first elected in 1907. He became a full partner in the Gosnells Estate Company after buying out Thomas James and C. Mofflin. Originally from Cornwall, Williams came to Western Australia via South Australia, working as a mine manager in both states. He obtained his title from the Cornish practice of calling mine managers 'Captain'.

Ill health resulted in Williams placing the house and other assets into his wife’s name in 1909. Thomas Williams died in May 1910. His widow, Margaret, sold the house to John Cleave in September 1910 and herself died in December 1912. Later owners included Chadwick and then Murray (station owners from the north of WA). It appears that the house was also used as the Manse for the Church of England at one time. In more recent years it was owned by Yvonne Henderson, a local Member of Parliament.

The house has undergone significant change since 1998, with the addition of a second storey. The surrounding brick fence has been rendered.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Captain Williams First owner, partner in the Gosnells Estate

Company and inaugural member of the Gosnells Road Board.

LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13811 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 204274 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Beer, Jock, ‘Thomas Williams' Typescript


Place No: G9

NAME OF PLACE All Saints Anglican Church & Parish Centre Other names Address 32 Dorothy Street (cnr Hicks Street) Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 4 Diagram 62225 Vol 1607 Fol 301 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1982,1988 Original Use Church & Parish Centre Present Use Church & Parish Centre Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Steel sheeting Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Late Twentieth Century Perth Regional DESCRIPTION Both the church and the hall face Dorothy Street with the hall considerably recessed with the side along the Hicks Street frontage and the parking area behind the church and to the side of the hall.

The double volume church is a red brick structure with vertical focus emphasised by the split skillion roof with clerestory and vertical window configurations. The Parish Centre is a light coloured brick with a gable roof and vertical emphasis formed by vertical brick pier elements and a glazed infill on the gable wall extending to the apex.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE All Saints Anglican Church & Parish Centre is significant in demonstrating the ongoing Anglican presence in Gosnells.



HISTORICAL NOTES The first Anglican services at Gosnells were held in the hall behind the Gosnells Hotel until the All Saints Church was built in 1913. It was a timber and asbestos gable building with timber dado, a belltower frame on the roof and an entry porch. It was dedicated by Bishop Riley, 20 December 1913. A parish room was added and opened 1 November 1951. Gosnells was originally part of the Cannington parish. The Parish of Gosnells was created 1 June 1950. The hall was built in 1958. The modern church was built in 1982, and the parish centre in 1988.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Anglican Church of Australia LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 11513 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 231367

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Anglican Church Inventory Report Rev E W Doncaster, Places of worship in Perth Anglican Diocese, 1954 Microfilm McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book


Place No: G10

NAME OF PLACE Jones House (fmr) Other names Amaroo Village Activity Centre, 'white house' Address 61 Dorothy Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 26 Diagram 84223 Vol 1957 Fol 789 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1912 Original Use Residence Present Use Activity Centre for aged care village residents Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Painted weatherboards Roof Galvanised iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Bungalow DESCRIPTION This house is located in a parkland setting within the aged care village. The single storey timber framed building has a hipped corrugated iron roof. The gable roof breaks pitch over several skillion extensions across the rear. The ‘front’ evidences a rectangular bay window on the asymmetrical veranda elevation. There is evidence of some interventions to facilitate the community use. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY Moderate degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Jones House (fmr) is significant for the associations with Miss Winifred Jones and the establishment of the Amaroo Village. It is a good representative example of a Federation period timber framed weatherboard clad house still extant in Gosnells.



HISTORICAL NOTES The former Jones family weatherboard house is part of the Amaroo Retirement Village. Built c.1912, it was located on part of five lots, each a third of an acre in area. Three of the lots fronted Holland Street and two adjoined them fronting Dorothy Street. The father of Winifred Jones operated ‘Gosnells Printery’ from the property. In 1970, the owner and occupant of the house, public servant Miss Winifred Jones, was about to retire and the Amaroo Village needed to expand. The Shire acquired the Jones property for $20,000 as the site for new independent living units. Miss Jones eventually became a resident of Amaroo. Her weatherboard house, known by residents as the 'white house', housed live-in caretaker Jack Shepherdson, as well as providing a meeting place for the Amaroo Committee and a venue for activities organised by the residents' social club. Picture evenings, bingo nights, dancing, birthday parties, afternoon teas and Christmas parties were held there for a number of years until the Village outgrew the facility. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Jones family First owner Miss Winifred Jones Later owner LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 231366

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Gillan, Michael A Quality of Life: the history of Amaroo, 1999. Book Council G.I.S Electronic Data Base


Place No: G11

NAME OF PLACE Amaroo Retirement Village Other names Address 67 Dorothy Street (Entrance: Stalker Road ) Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 98 Diagram 60408 Vol/Fol N/A CONSTRUCTION DATE 1982, 1987, c2000 extension Original Use Retirement Village Present Use Retirement Village Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick, render Roof Tiles, metal sheeting Other Steel framed entry statement ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Twentieth Century Perth Regional DESCRIPTION In 1982 the thirty six bed low-care Buckley Caring Centre was built; in 1987 a community centre was constructed. More recently an extension was built on the building’s entrance, on Stalker Road. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree; incremental development

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Amaroo Retirement Village is significant in establishing an expansive aged care facility in Gosnells.



HISTORICAL NOTES Amaroo Care Services (known as Amaroo Village) was founded in the late 1960s in response to concerns about the lack of suitable residential accommodation for seniors in the Gosnells district. The name 'Amaroo' was suggested by Lucy Wilkinson, a founding Committee Member. It is an Aboriginal term meaning 'beautiful resting place'. Amaroo was developed by a local Committee of residents with the assistance of the Gosnells Shire and many local organisations and groups in fund raising and practical assistance. Units were available for purchase, but some rental units were also provided for those who could not fund their own unit, and government subsidies provided further finance.

The first development provided eighteen independent living units built by Clifton Building Company and was officially opened on 26 September 1971. Expansion was ongoing as more property was acquired including the former Jones family residence at 61 Dorothy Street with associated land. The Jones House was used as a social centre and meeting venue. By the later 1970s, it was clear that a care facility was required but it was 1980 before a government grant provided the necessary funding for the thirty six bed low-care Buckley Caring Centre at 60 Stalker Road, which was officially opened on 11 September 1982. By November 1983, Amaroo had provided one hundred independent living units.

When Committee president and Gosnells businesswoman Mrs Nancye Jones died in a car accident, the new community centre opened in 1987 was named for her. It was located beside the former Jones' House, which had become too small for use as a social centre for the growing village. In 1993, funding was finally acquired for the construction of a high-care nursing home. Two blocks in Lissiman Street owned by the Lewis family were acquired and the forty-bed nursing home, the McMahon Caring Centre, 64 Lissiman Street, was opened in 1994.

Due to the demand for the independent living units another village has been situated on Astley Street overlooking the river, and there are further units between Terence Street and Hicks Street, close to the Administration block in the main Village.

Amaroo Care Services is a community-based organisation, now run by an honorary Board of Directors. The organisation relies heavily on community sponsorship to provide additional services to residents. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Jones Original landowner Lewis Original landowner LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 307265

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Gillan, Michael, A Quality of Life: the history of Amaroo, 1999. Book Amaroo Village website www.amaroovillage.com.au Online Council G.I.S Electronic Database


Place No: G12

NAME OF PLACE Gosnells Hotel Other names Ogden’s Bar and Grill

Ogden’s Hotel Address 1 Fremantle Road cnr Albany Highway Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 4 Diagram 78746 Vol 1941 Fol 917 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1907-1908, c1990 Original Use Hotel Present Use Hotel, restaurant, nightclub Other Use Community meeting place CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Corrugated iron Other Timber verandahs ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Filigree DESCRIPTION Gosnells Hotel is a large two storey brick building with a steep pitched corrugated roof. The complex hipped roof features distinctive gables to the streets frontages. The gables are detailed with vertical contrasting timber over roughcast stucco, supported by decorative timber corbels. Tall distinctive chimneys punctuate the roof profile. The face brick walls are finished with horizontal rendered string courses. The timber balustrade on the first floor south and east verandahs evidence turned timber posts and valances. The c.1990 single storey extensions on the north side are of the same style, form and materials as the original building. However, the bottle shop on the rear (or south east) is a brick construction with a flat roof. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Gosnells Hotel is a fine example of Federation Filigree architecture. Built in a commanding position on Albany Highway adjacent to the Canning River on a major intersection, it is a significant landmark. Since 1908 it has provided a continuous hospitality.

MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATION Category A: City of Gosnells ‘Heritage List.’ TPS: Development Application. Retain & conserve. Refer to Heritage Council of Western Australia.


HISTORICAL NOTES The Gosnells Hotel was built beside the Canning River in 1907-08 to a design by well-known Perth architect Louis Bowser Cumpston. It was well known for its extensive 'Pleasure Grounds', its large and draughty shed called the 'Assembly Hall', and its first class accommodation for weekenders. It was built by the Connell family whose hotel interests were widespread. For many years, together with the Gosnells State School, the hotel was one of the two major social centres of the district. Catholic Mass was regularly celebrated in the Assembly Hall and the local football team and many other sporting clubs used the paddock behind the hotel. Parry's Circus performed there at least twice a year. The following comment, made by a former proprietor of the Gosnells Hotel, appears on the back of a photograph from advertising literature:

This hotel is beautifully situated on the Canning River, commanding splendid views of the Darling Ranges only 12 miles from Perth. Every convenience for the accommodation of boarders and visitors. Attached to the Hotel are extensive Pleasure Grounds, Assembly Hall (with excellent floor) for picnic parties. Only the best of liquors kept. Tariff moderate. H Y Wise (Proprietor).

In 1907, Gosnells horticulturalist Oscar Lauterbach planted trees on the road reserve on Fremantle Road as a personal project to beautify the area and commemorate the establishment in that year of the Gosnells Road Board. Among the trees planted were six Port Jackson Fig Trees (Ficus rubiginosa) located on the boundary of the Gosnells Hotel. The trees developed into large specimens where patrons would leave their horses in the shade while they went in for refreshments. Mr Lauterbach had come from Germany as a child c.1885, and eventually settled in Fremantle Road, Gosnells where he began growing carnations in 1905. He became known as the Carnation King and won many medals in exhibitions for his prize winning blooms, including a special Centenary Medal from the Royal Show in 1929. The Port Jackson Fig Trees were threatened in 1960 when increasing traffic along Fremantle Road necessitated the widening of the roadway. At first the trees were to be removed but in the 1970s every effort was made to retain them by first pruning the roots and also resuming land on the Gosnells Hotel side of the trees, to make a dual carriageway. The cost to the Gosnells Council of the preservation of the trees was considerable, but the expenditure was well planned and succeeded in retaining some of the landscape of ‘old’ Gosnells. A series of renovations and additions were carried out to the Hotel during the 1960s and 1970s to cope with increased patronage. In the early 1990s hotelier Geoff Ogden restored the hotel and also added a four hundred seat restaurant. Ray Dixey has been the licensee since c.1970. Gosnells Hotel changed hands again in 2008. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Louis Bowser Cumpston Architect LISTINGS HCWA Database No. Hotel 1126:

Port Jackson Fig Trees 13838: Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 211631 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998 and Tree

Inventory (Fig trees)

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Gillan, Michael A Quality of Life: the history of Amaroo, 1999. Book Western Mail, 9 November 1907 Newspaper Battye Library Photo Collection Photographs


Place No: G13

NAME OF PLACE Fremantle Road Bridge Other names Address Fremantle Road Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot Plan C.T.Vol Fol CONSTRUCTION DATE 1959 Original Use Bridge - road Present Use Bridge - pedestrian Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Roof Other Timber construction

with asphalt surface

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: DESCRIPTION The two-lane timber framed bridge spans across Southern River. The surface is asphalt. CONDITION Fair-good INTEGRITY Moderate degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The bridges in the City of Gosnells have played a significant role in the development of the Gosnells district demonstrated by the vital service they provide, allowing fast and efficient traversing of the many streams and rivers in the area.


HISTORICAL NOTES The Fremantle Road Bridge was built 1959. The bridge allowed people from Thornlie to gain access to Gosnells. In the early pioneering days of Gosnells the ‘Fremantle Road’ was a track leading to Fremantle. There was a small bridge over the Southern River on this track. However, over the years it fell into disrepair, and was then destroyed by fire. The track remained undeveloped. It was not until the late 1950s that access over the river was sought again. For thirty seven years this bridge serviced an increasing amount of traffic. In 1994 a new four lane bridge was opened, rerouting the traffic down Corfield Street. The old Fremantle Road Bridge has been retained as a foot and cycle bridge. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Corfield Street Bridge


LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13834 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Gillan, Michael A Quality of Life: the history of Amaroo, 1999. Book Western Mail, 9 November 1907 Newspaper Battye Library Photo Collection Photographs


Place No: G14

NAME OF PLACE 2 McNess Housing Trust Houses (fmr) Other names Address 208, 210 Hicks Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 286,

287 Diagram 2569 Vol 2061 Fol 54,

Vol 1512 Fol 862 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1931 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Timber Weatherboard Roof Corrugated iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar bungalow DESCRIPTION McNess Housing Trust Houses (fmr) are single storey timber framed houses with gabled corrugated iron roofs. The full width front verandah is under the main roof, supported by simple square timber posts. The rear extensions form break pitch skillions. The front of No. 210 is as constructed, and No. 208 has a facetted bay window on the north side, flanking the front door, with a double casement window (typical) on the other side of the front wall. CONDITION Poor to Fair INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The two McNess Housing Trust Houses (fmr) are significant for the associations with the well-known philanthropist Charles McNess who provided housing for people in need in the community. They represent the early recognition to supply housing for people in need, particularly widowed women. They represent few of the remaining small timber houses in the Gosnells district.



HISTORICAL NOTES The McNess Housing Trust built houses on land bought from Gosnells Estate Company in 1931.

Charles McNess established a successful tinsmith and ironmonger business (forerunner of the modern hardware store) in Hay Street in 1881, and was well known in later life for his philanthropic endeavours, especially during the Depression years. He supported the YMCA, Legacy, RSL, St John Ambulance Association and the Presbyterian, Wesleyan and Congregational churches. His gifts included generous donations to the State Government to provide employment in the development of the national park at Yanchep, and for the upkeep of the State War Memorial and Royal Perth Hospital, and £90,000 for the McNess Housing Trust to provide homes for needy families.

Charles McNess was knighted in 1931, and died in 1938. In his will he left a further £32,000 to charities, institutions and churches. His name, and that of his wife, Annie Poncy McNess, are commemorated in a number of memorials around Perth, including the McNess Memorial (Presbyterian) Hall in Pier Street, Lady McNess Drive, and the McNess Memorial (fountain), which stood for many years in the middle of Stirling Gardens, Perth.

The McNess Housing Trust house on Lot 286 (No 208) in the Gosnells Estate was occupied by Mrs Agnes Pages who came from an old Gosnells family, originally from Spain. Mrs Pages was left destitute with five children when her husband, who had fought in the Spanish Civil War, failed to return to Australia. Mrs Pages was given this McNess Housing Trust home until her youngest child became independent.

In 1939 Mrs Violet Hoare, a widow, became the new tenant. When her youngest child was approaching independence, Mrs Hoare borrowed £200 to purchase the property. The home was owned by her family until the early 1980s. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE William McNess Philanthropist who assisted the needy, particularly

women Pages family Well known Gosnells family LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13821 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 205761 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Information from Margaret Lefevre Oral History Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 10, 1891-1939. Book


Place No: G15

Almond tree Davis Graves Jarrah tree

NAME OF PLACE John Okey Davis Group Other names City of Gosnells Museum- Wilkinson Homestead

Wilkinson's Orchard (fmr) Frances Harriet Davis & John Okey Davis Graves Site of original Davis Homestead 'Chenies' Jarrah tree Almond tree

Address 8-34 Homestead Road Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 101 Homestead

& orchard Gravesite 1276 Tree 4147

Diagram 50481 NA 50481

Vol 1444 Fol 420 NA NA

CONSTRUCTION DATE 1830s almond trees c.1912 (homestead & orchard: 14 Citrus trees) 1983 Plaque (grave) 1980s (agricultural shed)

Original Use Residence, Grave Present Use Museum, Grave and Memorial Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick painted Roof Corrugated iron Other Timber– out buildings


ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow (homestead) DESCRIPTION The Museum consists of two main buildings - the c.1912 homestead and the agricultural shed. The Homestead is a single storey rectangular brick building with a steeply pitched corrugated iron hip roof with a surrounding verandah under the main roof. The windows are simple sash windows with projecting sills. The main chimney has decorative moulding. The left hand side brick chimney is more simple in design. Adjacent to the Homestead, is the 1980s timber framed weatherboard clad rectangular farm style building with a verandah to the east and west. The gable roof is clad with colourbond sheeting. The citrus orchard extended from the area near the homestead to the Canning River. Through the years the number of trees declined. Due to lack of water, fruit fly infestation, and poor condition, most of the remaining orchard trees were removed in 1997. A very old Jarrah tree (thought to be 500 years old) is a prominent feature of the park. It marks the location of the Wilkinson's first temporary farm structures.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE John Okey Davis Group comprises several significant places. Wilkinson Homestead (fmr) and orchard is a representative of rural development in Gosnells, particularly citrus orchards, and has historic links to the first settler in the Gosnells area, John Okey Davis. The museum function provides social significance as many people visit to experience a way of life that no longer operates today. The graves of John Davis and his wife Frances have considerable historic significance as representative of the struggle by the early pioneers of the Swan River Colony.

MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATION Category B: (park, grave, orchard and house site) City of Gosnells ‘Heritage List.’ TPS: Development Application. Retain & conserve. Category A: (homestead) Heritage Council’s Register of Heritage Places. (Permanent 2001). City of Gosnells ‘Heritage List.’ TPS: Development Application. Retain & conserve.


HISTORICAL NOTES The Wilkinson Homestead is situated on a 27 acre property, on a portion of the land allocated to John Okey Davis in 1829. Associated with the Homestead are the remains of the Wilkinson Orchard (fmr), the grave of Frances Harriet & John Okey Davis, and the archaeological site of the original Davis mud brick house. The Davis property, Location 16, was sold in 1862 to Charles Gosnell, director of a London perfume company, who purchased it for speculative purposes. Subsequently, after subdivision, the name Gosnells was adopted for the district. In 1905 John Wilkinson, with his wife Emma, bought the property. John Wilkinson was a tailor from Ballarat. He got a job as a cutter in Fremantle in 1896 and later, in partnership with W.W. Middleton, an old associate from Victoria, became the proprietor. He returned briefly to Ballarat in 1901, to marry Emma Tippett. His business flourished and he bought into a Perth tailoring firm as well. In 1905, he and Emma purchased Gosnells Lots 1130 and 1134 on the river’s edge. John built a small temporary structure on the place for his family and commuted to his Perth tailoring business. Wilkinson Homestead was built in 1912 by Mr Pope. The Homestead was associated with a successful citrus orchard and remained in Wilkinson family ownership until 1963. Citrus orchards, particularly oranges and lemons, once dominated the district and the produce was renowned for its excellent quality. Some of the trees have been transplanted to a location nearer the Wilkinson Homestead. Near the orchard are some almond trees thought to have been planted by the Davis family on the site of their mud brick home of the 1830s. In the current park is a very old Jarrah tree (thought to be 500 years old). In the 1980s the agricultural shed was constructed utilising the roof trusses from the old Maddington Centenary Hall and windows from the 1928 Gosnells Road Board offices. In 2002, the Homestead became known as City of Gosnells Museum – Wilkinson Homestead. It is well known for its education programs and activities representing lifestyles of the past. Several plaques are attached to the Museum, noting its development:

City of Gosnells Wilkinson Homestead Renovated under a joint project between the City of Gosnells and the Apex Club of Gosnells as a community resource centre opened by Mayor R D Harris, on Sunday 9 Nov 1980.

and: City of Gosnells Museum. This building was officially opened by Mayor Lyal Richardson, JP, Freeman of the City of Gosnells on Sunday 17 April 1988 as part of the Bicentennial Year Celebrations. In 1829, John Okey Davis was granted the 7026 acre Canning Loc 16, where he settled with his wife Frances and their seven children. The property was called 'Chenies'. The Davis' struggled to clear and develop their land, but amidst hardship and deprivation they managed to build a mud brick home and plant a vegetable garden. Frances Davis died on 14 March 1835, aged about 52, and a year later, on 5 March 1836, John Davis died, aged 59 years.

There is some doubt about the location of John Okey Davis' actual burial site as there is supposed to be another grave in the East Perth Cemetery with the name John Okey Davis. Whether it is simply a record in the Cemetery Register or not, has not been made clear, but a death recorded in the Register in the early years of the Colony did not necessarily mean a burial there, and it is considered unlikely that a body would have been transported to East Perth from the Canning district for burial in the heat of March. This is definitely the site of Frances Davis' grave and it is considered more than likely that John Okey was buried here as well. A search in the Perth Gazette failed to find a notice of death and burial, placing more evidence on this site. The gravesite was first officially secured in 1927. The force behind the gazetting of the site was Chief Inspector of Fisheries, C. F. Gale, who had earlier discovered that the grave was that of his great-grandparents. The gravesite had earlier been used as a poignant site of interest during the marketing of the area by the Gosnells Estate Company in 1903. In 1962 the Council created the John Okey Davis Park to protect the site against the encroachment of new housing development. A plaque marked the site during Foundation Day celebrations on 6 June 1983. Sponsored by the City of Gosnells Historical Society, City of Gosnells and Readymix Group (WA). The plaque reads:

This memorial near the site of their original home honours the districts first settlers John Okey Davis, his wife Frances Harriet and their seven children who on the 14th Nov 1829 were granted 7026 acres being Canning Loc 16.


ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Wilkinson family Original owners of the house John Okey Davis First landowner and settler LISTINGS HCWA Database No. Homestead:1127

Orchard: 13830 John Okey Davis park (inc gravesite): 13817

Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 234107 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998 Heritage Council of Western Australia: Register of Heritage Places permanent listing 1999

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Heritage Council P1127 Wilkinson Homestead Heritage Assessment


Place No: G16

NAME OF PLACE Shangri-La Other names Address 64 Homestead Road Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 551 Diagram 90975 Vol 2087 Fol 97 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1907, 1996 (extn) Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Weatherboard Roof Corrugated iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Queen Anne DESCRIPTION Set on an expansive site (subdivided in 1996), on the bank of the Canning River, the single storey house is timber framed and clad with weatherboard with a complex hipped roof featuring a distinctive conical spire and a gable street frontage detail. The place has developed and extended over its life, with the most recent extensions on the west side in 1996. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residence AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE 'Shangri-La' has a long association with the rural development of Gosnells. The incremental development of the place from a one-room building to a substantial home, provides evidence of development over time.



HISTORICAL NOTES This weatherboard and iron house began life as a one-room building, transported from Fremantle by train and located on its present site in 1907 by the builder of the Gosnells Hotel. It is likely he established it as his own temporary residence during the construction of the Hotel. Early owners included draper Fisher Beard, and the Coughlan family. Mr Lohrman lived there in the 1920s. The house has been considerably extended creating several internal floor levels. It was given its present name 'Shangri-la' by Mr Ackroyd-Stewart during the 1940s. The site was subdivided in 1996 and the house was sold. The subdivision separated the mature date palm and avenue of trees along the driveway from the house. There is a more recent gazebo, built with a pointed roof to the left of the house. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Fisher Beard First Owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 3950 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 221964 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Local Studies Collection - Gosnells Articles Information from previous owner, Roland Webb Oral history


Place No: G17

NAME OF PLACE Lewis House 'Australia Remembers' Memorial Avenue of Trees

Other names McMahon Caring Centre Address 64 Lissiman St (behind Railway Markets) Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 31 Diagram 85935 Vol 2176 Fol 61 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1910 Trees: 1995 Original Use Residence. Trees: memorial Present Use Amaroo Village facility. Trees: memorial Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Red brick Roof Corrugated iron Colourbond Other Decorative timberwork ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION The house is accessed along the avenue of trees parallel to the rear of the Gosnells Markets. A large privet hedge is south of the site and the lawn slopes down to the Canning River. The single storey brick residence has a perimeter verandah at break pitch under the expansive hipped roof. The tall face brick chimneys have rendered detailing including banded corbelling. The verandah timbers have been replaced with concrete. The chamfered verandah posts have decorative brackets and valance detailing.

The avenue of trees is located in the grounds of Amaroo Nursing Home off Lissiman Street. It consists of a row of London Plane trees along both sides of the driveway parallel with the rear boundary of the Railway Markets. At the base of each tree is a small memorial plaque. Each plaque bears the name of a local person who served in World War Two.



STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Lewis House (fmr) is significant for the association with Edward Thomas Lewis and the continuous ownership by the original Lewis family until 1995. The rural identity of Gosnells is represented in the property as the Lewis family specialised in citrus production.

The Memorial Avenue of trees is a significant commemoration of those who served in World War Two. The plaques provide a historical link to the community and the people from the Gosnells district who served during the War.


HISTORICAL NOTES The house was built by Edward Thomas Lewis around 1910. He was an orchardist specialising in citrus fruit. Mr Lewis also held a senior position in Western Australian Government Railways and was a capable architect and craftsman. The house remained in the Lewis family until 1995 when it was sold to the Amaroo Retirement Village.

Memorial Avenue is an avenue of London Plane trees (Platanus xhispanica) located within the grounds of Amaroo Village McMahon Caring Centre on Lissiman Street. The Memorial Avenue of trees was planted in a combined effort by the Amaroo Retirement Village and the Rotary Club of Kenwick to serve as a reminder of Australia's contribution to the war effort in World War Two, particularly those Australians who died giving service to their country.

The Avenue was dedicated at a ceremony in October 1995, marking the 50th anniversary of the ending of WWII, hence the name - 'Australia Remembers Memorial Avenue of Trees'. Each tree in the Avenue bears the name of a local person who served in World War Two.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Edward Lewis Original owner and orchardist Amaroo Village – McMahon Caring Centre Current landowner LISTINGS HCWA Database No., Lewis House (fmr) 13818

Avenue of trees 13819 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 218816 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Booklet written by M. Lefevre for Amaroo in 2004. Booklet Gillam, Michael, A Quality of Life: the history of Amaroo, 1999. Book Information from Jeff Collins, CEO of Amaroo Retirement Village Oral history Comment News Community, 31 October 1995 Newspaper article


Place No: G18

NAME OF PLACE Gosnells Railway Station Other names Address Lissiman Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot n/a Diagram n/a Vol Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 2005 Original Use Railway line Present Use Railway station Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Colourbond Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Twenty First Century Functional DESCRIPTION The three storey volume station building has a large gable which straddles the railway line and gables over each platform. There are single storey entries to Lissiman and Wheatley streets from the platforms.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Gosnells Railway Station is significant for the continuation of the critical Gosnells connection of the transportation provided by the railway.

MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATION Category C: Retain & conserve.

HISTORICAL NOTES The original Gosnells Railway Station was built in 1903 on a site further south. For seven years it was only a base platform with no shelter for the passengers. Improvements were made in 1910 with a shelter and a Stationmaster's house provided.

The Armadale line was upgraded and a new railway station was constructed immediately behind the commercial area of Gosnells town centre in 2005.


ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Transperth Owner LISTINGS No other listings

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Council G.I.S Electronic Data Base


Place No: G19

NAME OF PLACE Manning Ave Footbridge over River Other names Address Manning Avenue Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot n/a Diagram n/a Vol/Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 1926 Original Use Pedestrian crossing over the river Present Use Pedestrian crossing over the river CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Suspended concrete slab on steel frame. ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: DESCRIPTION The pedestrian bridge spans a narrow section of the river. The concrete pathways sloping down each side are edged with timber bollards. The concrete bridge has galvanised pipe railings. A pipe on concrete support mounts crosses the river parallel with the bridge. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Low degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The footbridge, crossing the Canning River from Martin, was important for local pedestrians and cyclists, as it provided access to the Seaforth Railway Station, schools and Albany Highway.


HISTORICAL NOTES Bridges played a significant role in the development of the Gosnells district. Their importance lies in the vital service they provide, allowing fast and efficient traversing of the many streams and rivers in the area. Before the bridges were built, early settlers in the area travelled many miles to the nearest fords, adding hours to already difficult journeys. Pedestrian ‘bridges’ at first were logs, later replaced by purpose built pedestrian bridges. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE No associations LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13833 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998



Place No: G20

NAME OF PLACE Gosnells Primary School Other names Address 16 May Street (cnr Hicks Street) Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: 24998 Lot 1629 Diagram n/a Vol/Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 1907, 1947-1953, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s Original Use School Present Use School Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face brick Rendered above dado Roof Corrugated iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation DESCRIPTION The Gosnells Primary School is set behind a row of mature trees. The complex is a combination of two different building styles and varying construction materials. The original school has been extended and altered and is no longer easily identifiable. An impression of consistency has been maintained, with the walls of most buildings being red face brick to sill height, and then rendered above. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree with incremental development

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Gosnells Primary School represents the establishment of a model school for country teachers, in Gosnells in 1907, highlighting the rural beginnings of the area. The school mirrors the development of Gosnells in the ongoing incremental development of the facility. It is significant for associations with generations of former students in the Gosnells area, and for the long association with the teacher Mrs Mary Carroll between 1923 and 1956. The school building is representative of the architectural style and form of schools of the period and the streetscape plantings are similarly typical of the site response. The influence on the population of the area is such that many people in the district have had some association with the school at some time over the years.



HISTORICAL NOTES The Gosnells Primary School, like many others, came about as a result of pressure placed upon the Education Department by parents. According to the Gosnells Estate maps, a school already existed in the Estate and many people moved to the area under that misconception. In 1904 a petition was sent to the Education Department requesting a school and in 1905 a provisional school started in the Methodist Church with 16 pupils. The first teacher was Arthur Hemeleers. The school soon outgrew the Church facilities, and in 1907, the Education Department built a brick school for 50 pupils and a house for the teacher on land provided by the Estate Company. In 1908, under the guidance of head teacher Robert Murdoch, the school became a Model School for country teachers, and the headquarters for the Nature Study Movement:

Within months, he [Robert Murdoch] had inspired his pupils to establish a garden and orchard, experimental agricultural plots, a coral fountain and a tennis court. The main showpiece; however was a landscape dominated by a working model of a volcano, ingeniously constructed to teach geographical terms through practical observation. People flocked to the school on Arbour Day, 1908, because, as the local correspondent wrote: 'The people of Gosnells are very proud of their school, the institution in every detail being regarded as a credit to the Head Teacher, Mr Murdoch. (The Gosnells Story, McDonald & Cooper, p. 162.)

One teacher who had a long association with the school was Mrs Mary Carroll who started teaching in 1923 and retired in 1956. (See entry for Mary Carroll Park, Verna Street, Gosnells).

Extra classrooms were provided during the 1947-53 baby boomer period and in the 1960s a new canteen was supplied, while the active P & C contributed to the constant improvement of the school facilities. The school continued to expand during the 1970s and 1980s with new classrooms and demountable buildings. In 1985 an historical booklet was produced, telling the Gosnells School story. Anecdotes from ex-students include the trials and tribulations of getting to school over flooded rivers and streams, and through the bush during heat waves. The story concludes that:

'.....throughout its long life the Gosnells Primary School has been an integral part of the Gosnells community. There are still many people in the area who have seen Gosnells grow from a little semi rural village to the modern city of today, and who can remember the many changes that have taken place at the school... It is encouraging to note that the number of parents supporting the school's endeavours is as great or greater than ever. The future of Gosnells Primary School is indeed rosy.' (Gosnells School 1905-85, Appendix, p. 7).

In September 2005, to celebrate the 100 years of the school opening, the City of Gosnells Historical Society donated a fountain, to replace the 'Coral Fountain’ that had long since disappeared. Cutting the ribbon was Norma Handmer (nee Brown) a past pupil of the school. The fountain was dedicated to the memory of Miss Grace Michel who attended the school in c.1912. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Robert Murdoch Early principal Mary Carroll Long serving teacher LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13816 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 210408

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Hunter, L. R. M. & Milligan, Ray. Some notes on the history of Gosnells Primary School, 1905-1995.

Booklet


Place No: G21

NAME OF PLACE Cargeeg Bridge Other names Address Station Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot Diagram C.T.Vol Fol CONSTRUCTION DATE 1906 Original Use Bridge Present Use Bridge Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Roof Other Timber construction

with asphalt

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: DESCRIPTION The single lane bridge with pedestrian lane is a timber-framed structure with asphalt road. Steel safety rails are in place along both sides. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The crossing over the Canning River is a significant link between the commercial centre of Gosnells and east of the river.


HISTORICAL NOTES Cargeeg Bridge, built around 1906, is a single lane wide and spans the Canning River. It has been rebuilt and resurfaced a number of times. The bridge was originally built to link up the railway station with the Cargeeg Estate. George Cargeeg had a large amount of land along the river bank to Maddington. Following the establishment of Gosnells he released his subdivided property to the market. The blocks along Mills Road and Albany Road were quickly sold. The bridge is still used today. It is one of the few single lane bridges in the Perth metropolitan area.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE George Cargeeg Original landowner LISTINGS


HCWA Database No. 13832 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998



Place No: G22

NAME OF PLACE Gosnells Oval, R.S. Sampson Memorial Grandstand &

trees Other names Gosnells Recreation Ground, Hicks Street Hockey Ground Address Entrance on Terence Street (Stalker Road) Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 3 Diagram 70716 Vol 1743 Fol 101 CONSTRUCTION DATE Oval 1923/24 - Grandstand 1959 Original Use Oval, Grandstand Present Use Oval, Grandstand Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Grandstand: Steel frame & brick Roof Grandstand: Steel frame &

Zincalume sheeting

Other Grassed oval ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: DESCRIPTION The grandstand is a substantial brick structure with cantilevered roof over the tiered seating that faces the grassed oval. The single storey brick and tile Gosnells Football Club room is located adjacent to the grandstand. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE R.S. Sampson Memorial Grandstand, Gosnells oval and Gosnells Football Club rooms form a significant sporting facility in Gosnells with considerable sporting and community associations since 1923. From the inception it has been strongly supported by community minded people who contributed land, labour and materials.



HISTORICAL NOTES When the Gosnells Oval was first planned during the 1920s, the members of both the Football and Cricket Clubs united to clear away the thick bush that covered the land donated by Roland Germon. A steam tractor lent by Major George Kemshall of the Seaforth Boys' Home was used for the clearing, which included the felling of many tall gum trees.

The brick and steel grandstand, built in 1959 to accommodate four hundred spectators, was named after Mr R. S. Sampson who bequeathed £1,000 toward a public utility for the district. Mr Sampson was the member for Swan in the Legislative Assembly from 1921 to 1944. The use of the bequest for a grandstand was decided at a public meeting and the Road Board borrowed the balance of approximately £5,000. In a newspaper article from the West Australian (23 September 1959) the grandstand was described as 'the most modern in the outer metropolitan area'. It was opened in November 1959 with a gala program including a band, marching girls and athletic races. The cantilevered roof was ripped off during a storm in 1965. The Gosnells Oval is well used by the Gosnells Football and Cricket Clubs and has a history connected to other sports such as hockey. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Roland Germon Donated the land R. S Sampson Member of Parliament, donated funds LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13815 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 210411 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Local Studies Collection - Sporting Facilities Booklet Local Studies Collection - Football Booklet


Place No: G23

NAME OF PLACE Swingler residence (fmr) Other names Address 15 Wheatley Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 69 Diagram/Plan 48879 Vol 2616 Fol 288 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1914 Original Use Residence Present Use Offices Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick/render/paint Roof Corrugated iron/colourbond Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION The site has been extensively developed in recent years with an expansive asphalt carpark forming the front setback framed by a double story multiple dwellings and commercial premises along the north boundary on the land once occupied by the garden and tennis court.

The single story brick rendered residence features a steep pitched hipped gambrel roof with symmetrical front double gable. The tall chimneys each side are rendered with brick corbelling. The full width front verandah has a separate bullnose roof supported by turned timber posts. The central front door is flanked by double hung window formations each side. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY Moderate degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Swingler residence (fmr) is a representative example of residential development by prominent families, in central Gosnells in the 1910s.



HISTORICAL NOTES The original owner of the place was Richard F. G. Paskett who took ownership of the land in December 1913. The building of the house was completed the following year. The residence was bought by Doug (known as Mick) and Edna Swingler in 1946. Mick was from an old Gosnells family who had come to the district in 1920. They developed a dairy in Southern River Road. Edna's grandparents, William and Kathleen Lepper, had set up an orchard in Gosnells in 1905. The Swingler's established a cabinetmakers and joiners business, which first operated in Hicks Street before relocating to the new industrial area on the former Canning Park Racecourse in the 1970s when the business was being run by son Mick. The Swingler’s were active community members; Doug was a Rotarian and Edna was involved with the Gosnells Horticultural Society.

In more recent years, the property was sold and developed. Edna Swingler passed away in 2005.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Swingler family Owners 1946 LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13829 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number :306624 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Local Studies Collection Swingler (Biography) Articles Information from D Swingler Title deeds


Place No: G24

NAME OF PLACE Germon Residence (fmr) Other names Address 27 Wheatley Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 211 Plan 2566 Vol 1406 Fol 554 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1910 Original Use Residence Present Use Women's Activity Centre Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick with rendered

banding, rendering

Roof Colourbond sheeting Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION The site has been developed in recent years with an expansive asphalt carpark forming the front setback with some perimeter plantings including the mature flame tree at the front.

The single storey brick residence features a steep pitched hipped gambrel roof with full width front verandah that has a separate bullnose roof supported by turned timber posts with arched valance between. The tall chimney is face brick with a simple corbel with render. The face brick features a horizontal rendered band at sill height with decorative elements below the windows. The symmetrical frontage shows the central door flanked by sets of three timber framed casement windows each side. The side walls have been rendered.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY Moderate degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Germon Residence (fmr) is a representative example of residential development by prominent families, in central Gosnells in the 1910s. The tree also has significance for associations with the Germon family. The Women's Activity Centre also holds some significance to the place.



HISTORICAL NOTES The original owners of this property, the Germon family, made a significant contribution to the Gosnells community. Roland Germon, along with George Griffiths, called a meeting of local residents in 1912 to engender interest and funding for a district hall to replace the meeting shed behind the Gosnells Hotel. Germon also transferred land to the Gosnells Football Club to build an oval. The land was cleared and prepared for competition by local people.

Mrs Blee, an owner of the house during the 1950s, taught piano to local children. The house is presently a Women's Activity Centre.

The Flame Tree (Brachychiton acerifoliar) in the front yard is believed to have been planted by the Germon family. A native of the eastern parts of Australia, this specimen is a rare and healthy example of Brachychiton in Gosnells.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Germon family First owners LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13814 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 214622 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998 and Tree

Inventory (Flame Tree) SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Gosnells Historical Framework and Draft Inventory - pilot study Booklet Research by Jock Beer on Williams & Germon families Typescript


Place No: G25

NAME OF PLACE Sutherland’s Shop (fmr) & dwelling Other names Sutherland's Icecream Parlour Croquet Club (adjacent on north side) Address 79 Wheatley Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 185 Plan 2569 Vol 1447 Fol 713 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1927 Original Use Shop & Residence Present Use Residence Other Use Croquet Club CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Timber framed

Weatherboard clad painted

Roof Corrugated iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar functional vernacular DESCRIPTION Located opposite the site of the original Gosnells Railway Station the shop was in prime position. The single storey timber framed building comprises a shop front with canopy verandah over the pavement, and semi detached dwelling setback from the front boundary on the south side. Croquet lawns are immediately adjacent to the shop on the north side with an associated flat roof extension on that side for the Croquet Club. The building is painted weatherboard with a corrugated iron roof hipped over the residential section and the main shop roof and a break pitch skillion shop verandah. The entry to the shop is through a central door that is flanked by large shop front windows with highlight panels, each side. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY Moderate degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Sutherland’s Shop (fmr) & dwelling represents a way of life and location, associated with the railway station that is no longer practiced. The social significance as a place to meet, shop and socialise is significant and it represents a sense of place to generations of Gosnells people.



HISTORICAL NOTES This weatherboard house and attached shop was built around 1926 by F. L. Sutherland. Sutherland's Gosnells Store and Tearooms could supply 'anything from a lifesaver to a mousetrap', including groceries, patent medicines, Brunswick Gramophones, and a wide range of cool drinks from the newly installed soda fountain. F. L. Sutherland is listed as having a store in Wheatley Street from 1927 to 1935. From 1936 to 1939 Alfred Bodicoat's mixed business was operating from the place. George Krinks, a former Gosnells stationmaster in the 1940s and 1950s, is said to have lived in the house, and he is listed in Wheatley Street in the Post Office directories during the 1940s, until his death in the 1960s. Two stores are listed in Wheatley Street in 1949: Frank Breakell's mixed business and Diana's Handy Store mixed business, one of which almost certainly occupied the shop at No. 79. At least three hairdressers operated from the premises at various times, and in the early 1980s the place was Patches Craft Shop. The property was acquired by the City of Gosnells and in the late 1980s it housed the Gosnells Croquet Club with the shop area used by the local women's refuge. The place is also thought to have been linked to the Polain and Mazzucchelli families.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE George Krinks Stationmaster & former resident LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13828 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 234960 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Information from Margaret Lefevre Oral History Swan & Canning Times, 3-12-1926 Newspaper Comment News, 20 October 1987 Newspaper Wise's Post Office Directory. Microfilm


Place No: G26

NAME OF PLACE Cutten’s House (fmr) Other names Address 125 Wheatley Street Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 161 Plan 2569 Vol 270 Fol 1A CONSTRUCTION DATE c. 1914 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Decramastic roof tiles Other New bullnose verandah ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey brick residence features a protruding front gable, a side-facing gable over the setback side entry, and predominately hipped roof. The tall chimneys are rendered with brick corbelling. The verandah across the front and front sides is a reconstructed separate bullnose roof supported by timber posts. The windows are in sets of two separate vertical format timber framed double hung sash windows. There is a flat roofed carport adjacent to the side. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Cutten’s House (fmr) is a representative example of the Federation period and demonstrates associations with the stationmaster Cutten and the Germon family.


HISTORICAL NOTES The Stationmaster Mr Cutten resided in the house, opposite the railway station, post 1917. At some time members of the Germon family resided in the house.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE HB Cutten, Stationmaster Former resident Germon family Former resident LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13813


Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 208613 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Information from Margaret Lefevre Oral history


Place No: G27

NAME OF PLACE St John Ambulance Other names Address 138 Wheatley Street (cnr Verna Street) Suburb/Town GOSNELLS Reserve No: Lot 500 Diagram 68051 C.T.Vol Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 1959 Original Use Depot, office & meeting room Present Use Depot, office & meeting room Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face brick Roof Tiles Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Post War Perth Regional DESCRIPTION The single storey brick building has a low-pitched gable roof clad with cement tiles. The long rectangular pavilion’s horizontal form contrasts with a rendered vertical wall that breaks through the roof form at the end of the depot, and a lesser vertical element at the office entry. The windows and doors are timber framed vertical elements in sets of three. The office entry doors are also timber framed, and glazed with fixed sidelights and fanlights. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE St John Ambulance is significant for the critical community service it performs and the place represents a period of architecture.



HISTORICAL NOTES The Order of St John has an ancient history, dating back to the 6th century, when a hospital for Christian Pilgrims existed in Jerusalem. By the eleventh century it was run by 'The Poor Brothers of the Hospital of Jerusalem', who later became 'The order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem', with branches in other countries, including England about 1145 AD. In the nineteenth century, the Order created an Association to teach ambulance work, or 'first aid', and a centre was established for that purpose in Perth in 1892.

In Perth, the Fire Brigade transported people to hospital from street accidents but anyone else requiring transport to hospital still had to avail themselves of whatever transport was available. From the Gosnells district this often meant travelling by train. In 1922, St John's created the St John Ambulance Brigade specifically to provide on site first aid and transport to hospital. The Brigade was initially manned by volunteers trained by the Association, but over the years these have been replaced by professional ambulance officers.

St John's Ambulance has sub-centres and depots throughout the State, of which Gosnells is one.

Gosnells was opened by the Governor Sir Charles Gairdner and Lady Gairdner on 6 September 1959.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE St John’s Ambulance Service Owner LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 231392

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Kerrol Gildersleeve, A short history of the St. John Ambulance Association in Western Australia, 1968.

typescript, Battye Library

St John Ambulance Assoc, St John, Ambulances, and Western Australia: A centenary anthology, 1892-1992.

Book

Comment News, 20 October 1987 Newspaper Wise's Post Office Directory. Microfilm


Place No: H1

NAME OF PLACE Gay's nursery and house Other names Sunnyvale Plants Address 46 -62 Bullfinch Street Suburb/Town HUNTINGDALE Reserve No: Lot 2 Diagram 645183 Vol 1639 Fol 790 Lot 7 Diagram 64411 Vol/Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 1921, 1942 Original Use Nursery Present Use Nursery sheds and expansive operation Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Metal clad Roof Metal clad Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Functional DESCRIPTION Expansive nursery site with large scale sheds. The house is located on the other side of the road.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Gay’s is significant for the long-term associations with generations of the Gay family, and the development of a part-time ’backyard’ nursery business into an operation with worldwide markets.



HISTORICAL NOTES John Gay, with wife Dorothy and two sons, Spencer Fox and Bernard John, arrived from Canada in 1912. They established a dairy on Sutherland’s 9-acre farm, adjoining the farm of George and Alice Lander. Bernard Gay enjoyed gardening and he established Gay's Sunnyvale Nursery in 1921 as part of a mixed farm operation on his soldier settlement block in Bullfinch Street, initially growing pansies, which he sold to Bairds and later to Woolworths. In 1927 Bernard married Dorothy Lander. They lived first in Bullfinch Street, but moved into Gosnells to the corner of Southern River Road and Hicks Street when their children started school. The Nursery developed at the back of their block. Later they moved back to Bullfinch Street and the expansion of the Nursery commenced in earnest in 1942. Bernard died in 1956 and his sons George and Robert, and their sons Trevor and Kevin, continued the business.

Sunnyvale Nursery developed into a highly mechanised and specialised production process providing some 5 million plants for market gardeners and another 6 million for the retail trade, mainly in WA. Water was obtained from an artesian well. The company had some 36 employees (c.1980s) who were mainly local women, and an almost negligible staff turnover. In 2002, the nursery, then known as Sunnyvale Plants, launched 'Peacock Plume', a blue-green variety of kangaroo paw that the company had developed from seed in collaboration with Curtin University botanical researcher Dr Beng Tan.

From a backyard part-time operation, Sunnyvale has grown into an operation with world-wide markets and continues to be managed by the Gay family.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Gay family Established, developed and continue. LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 208837 (lot 2),

302471 (lot 7)

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Gay family history, Gosnells Local Studies Collection Biographical file AusIndustry innovation success story www.ausindustry.wa.gov.au


Place No: H2

NAME OF PLACE Southern River Bridge Other names Address Southern River Road Suburb/Town HUNTINGDALE Reserve No: Lot Diagram C.T.Vol Fol CONSTRUCTION DATE 1980s. Previous bridges: 1917, 1928 Original Use Traffic bridge Present Use Traffic bridge Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Roof Other Steel & concrete ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: DESCRIPTION Double lane vehicle bridge with pedestrian access along one side separated by the steel rails. The bridge is finished in asphalt and the pedestrian path is concrete.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The bridges in the City of Gosnells have played a significant role in the development of the Gosnells district in the vital service they provide, allowing fast and efficient traversing of the many streams and rivers in the area. Southern River Bridge is an example of a modern bridge that is a replacement of previous bridges due to the need for upgrading owing to the increase in road transport that comes with motorisation and urbanisation.



HISTORICAL NOTES Records show that an early bridge was built in 1917. A timber bridge was subsequently built by the Main Roads Department in 1928. With erosion of the riverbanks in the 1930s and 40s, work was done on the river, resulting in a slight change of depths and routes. Some stonework used to combat further erosion was included. The timber bridge was made obsolete with the construction of a new bridge alongside the old bridge in the 1980s.

Before the bridges were built, early settlers in the area travelled many miles to the nearest fords. These circuitous routes added hours to their already difficult journeys. Bridges in the Gosnells district include pedestrian and rail bridges. Pedestrian ‘bridges’ at first were logs across streams and precarious crossings were made by many children to get to school. Later the logs were replaced by purpose built pedestrian bridges. Some of the modern bridges in the district are replacements for older, smaller models that needed upgrading owing to the increase in road transport that came with motorisation and urbanisation.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE No associations LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13835 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Comment News Newspaper Articles Local Studies Collection Bridges Articles Information from Margaret Lefevre Oral history Information from Ian McNamara Oral history Information and photographs from J Stemmerik Photographs Comment News Newspaper Articles


Place No: H3

NAME OF PLACE Southern River Progress Association Hall Other names Address Southern River Road (cnr Bullfinch Street) Suburb/Town HUNTINGDALE Reserve No: Lot 2 D 14308 Vol 1140 Fol 113 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.2004 (rebuild of previous 1955 building) Original Use Community hall Present Use Community hall Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Weatherboard dado

Fibrocement cladding above dado

Roof Colourbond Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Vernacular DESCRIPTION The hall is located on a corner adjacent to the river with an expansive asphalt car park to both street frontages. The single storey hall is expansive with extensions along both sides. The gable roof breaks pitch over both side extensions. The corner front extension is recessed and forms an entry with double doors.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The hall is significant for the social events and associations on the site since 1955, and the sense of place for generations of Southern River residents.



HISTORICAL NOTES Opened in May 1955, the Southern River Hall was built by the Southern River Progress Association, formed in 1937 by Bernard Gay and six other Southern River residents, including Messrs Bellingham, Chapple and Lane. The Association worked towards getting made roads and telephone and electricity services in the district, on the south side of the Southern River. After World War Two, the Association turned its attention to providing social amenities, establishing a tennis court on land made available by a resident, Jack Chapman. After much fundraising, the Hall was built on land donated by Bernard Gay. Permission to acquire the building materials had to be obtained from the State Housing Commission as they were in short supply and under tight government control following the War. Members of the Association provided the labour for the construction. The building was clad with vertical corrugated iron above a weatherboard dado.

The Hall was a major social centre for the district and was occupied by the Association continuously. In recent years, dance evenings were held every second Saturday, the Physio Rhythm exercise class utilised the Hall twice weekly, and the place was hired out for private functions such as birthday parties, band practice, and meetings on a casual basis. The hall had recently been upgraded with internal ablutions with the assistance of the Gosnells Council. On 11 August 2002, the Hall was destroyed by fire set by vandals. It was rebuilt on the existing site c2004, in a similar style and size to the original building.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Southern River Progress Association Builders Bernard Gay Donated land LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 233503

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book City of Gosnells Council meeting minutes, 13 May 2003 Document City news, March 2008 Newsletter Council G.I.S Electronic Data Base


Place No: K1

NAME OF PLACE Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery Other names Canning Cemetery; Cannington Cemetery, Kenwick

Cemetery Address 1762 Albany Highway Suburb/Town Kenwick Reserve No. 11614 Lot No. 2558 Plan/Diagram n/a Vol/Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 1864 Original Use Church, School, Courthouse and Cemetery Present Use Cemetery (Closed)

Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Other Granite graves and

headstones Marble headstones

Stone pillars

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: DESCRIPTION The Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery is located on Albany Highway in the middle of a busy light industrial/commercial area. It is set amongst some mature gum trees, surrounded by manicured lawns. Graves and headstones are in family groups scattered around the cemetery grounds. Site access has been improved with added plaques and walkways within the spirit of the original layout. CONDITION Good: well maintained INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery has considerable historic significance established in 1864 as the main cemetery for the Canning area, until it was abandoned and the Church on the site was demolished in 1900. The Cemetery represents an important link to, and commemorates the early pioneers of the Kenwick district.



HISTORICAL NOTES The Kenwick Cemetery was first surveyed in 1864, on land donated by Wallace Bickley. A multi-purpose building to house a courthouse, school, police constable and place for church services was built on the site in 1865-66, with the church bell first rung on 7 January 1866. Burials in the cemetery also date from early 1866. In 1880 the building burnt down. A new stone church with an octagonal apse was designed by R. Bird and built by P. Reilly for £400. The foundation stone was laid by Lady Leake on 10 October 1883, and the church, known as St Michael's, was consecrated by Bishop Parry on 29 September 1884. A bible, prayer book and missal were presented on 1 July 1885 by Governor Sir Frederick Napier Broome and the font was given by the Sheriff, J. B. Roe. The church was capable of holding 100 people, but the foundations were not well done and the building was badly cracked by 1896. It was demolished in 1900, and the stone was used for road making. Some years later the foundation stone was accidentally dug up and was then lodged at St Luke's Church.

The Kenwick Cemetery continued as a public burial ground until 1914 when it was closed for a short period. In the 1930s, the Gosnells Road Board took over administration of the place from the local Cemetery Board. Over the years the poor state of the Kenwick Cemetery was raised by a number of residents. It was variously described as an 'eye-sore', 'dilapidated' and 'ugly'. In the 1990s the Cemetery was cleaned up and renamed Kenwick Cemetery Gardens. It was later renamed Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery.

The Cemetery was formally closed on 27 July 2001. The last person on the ‘right to burial’ list being interred on 11 September 2007. Those buried in the Cemetery include a number of representatives of the Gibbs, Harris, Morrow, Shepherd, White and Dellar families. There are approximately one hundred and eighty people buried in the Cemetery but not all graves are marked.

Today the Cemetery can be accessed from Albany Highway. It is situated in the middle of a commercial area, and is maintained by the City of Gosnells.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Wallace Bickley Original landowner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 3248 Other Reference Number GIS Property Number: 235243 Heritage Council of WA Assessed for Register of Heritage Places

(below threshold) City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

TPS National Trust Classified Dept of Environment & Heritage Register of the National Estate 1992

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Weiland, D (compiler) Community History of the Kenwick Cemetery

Notes

Lefevre, M. City of Gosnells Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery, 2003

Booklet

Local Studies Collection Cemeteries & Burials Notes Local Studies Collection Kenwick Notes National Trust Assessment Assessment documentation Heritage Council of WA Online database Rev E. Doncaster. Places of worship in the Perth Anglican Diocese, 1954.

Microfilm

List of burials at Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery, Jill Bickmore, 2006.

www.ozgenonline.com.aust_cemeteries/wa


Place No: K2

NAME OF PLACE Liddelow Homestead (fmr) and Fig Trees Other names Kenwick Park, Liddelow Homestead Museum and Arts

and Crafts Centre Address 7-9 Cooper Avenue Suburb/Town Kenwick Reserve No. Lot No. 11 Diagram 42704 Vol 614 Fol 156A CONSTRUCTION DATE 1884, 1995 extension at rear Original Use Residence Present Use Arts and Crafts Centre Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Rendered brick Roof Colourbond Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Victorian Georgian

DESCRIPTION The single storey brick building has been rendered and re-roofed with colourbond sheeting. The front verandah is an extension of the main roof with hipped sides. The verandah floor is concrete. The front windows, flanking the central front door, are replacement casements in sets of three with painted sloping sills. The side windows are four pane, horizontal glass.

To the rear of this building a covered way is connected to a new building of rammed earth with timber door and window frames. Other outbuildings have been altered and re-boarded with vertical timber panels and painted corrugated iron roofs.

A large Moreton Bay fig tree and a weeping fig tree are located on the street verge immediately adjacent to the place. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Low degree: roof, windows and verandah replaced, walls rendered, and extensions. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Liddelow Homestead is significant as a rare extant example of a homestead of the 1880s era. The fig trees are a living memorial to the first owners, the Bickley family. The long associations of two community minded families, the Bickley’s and the Liddelow’s, are significant. The adjacent contemporary building facilitates continued use as an Arts and Crafts Centre, and provides an important social aspect of the Gosnells community.



HISTORICAL NOTES The former Liddelow Homestead is situated on part of the land purchased by Samuel Wallace Alexander Bickley in 1833 (Locations 3 & 12) and 1854 (Location 11). Bickley spent the years 1837 to 1851 in India before returning to WA. The property, of 2,555 acres, was known as 'Kenwick Park' and Wallace Bickley bred horses for the Indian remount trade and established an export business in Fremantle, handling sandalwood, whale oil and horses. The Bickley family lived in a weatherboard residence built on the site of the present Homestead.

The large Moreton Bay fig trees (Ficus macrophylla) and weeping fig tree (Ficus microcarpa Hillii) growing in front of the Homestead are said to have been planted by Wallace (Samuel) Bickley. A real estate map dated 1907 shows a photograph of these trees that were already large. They were referred to on the map as old Indian fig trees.

John Liddelow leased Kenwick Park from Wallace Bickley's estate in 1874 and acquired the title in 1883. After the timber house was destroyed by fire in 1883, Liddelow built the Homestead. Liddelow was a prominent wholesale butcher with premises on the corner of Barrack and Murray Street (in Perth), and used Kenwick Park to graze and slaughter the cattle brought down from the North-West.

The Liddelow’s were the centre of the social set of the area and their property became a popular gathering place for local residents. John Liddelow was a founding member of the Kenwick Church, St Michael's, and he also worked towards the formation of the Canning Road Board and the Canning Park Race Course. He was Chairman of the Road Board in 1891. His son Frederick was to inherit Kenwick Park, but he died of pneumonia, aged 39, in 1892, supposedly brought on by constantly fording the Canning River in winter to tend to his market gardens in Spring Road. When John Liddelow died the following year, Frederick's 10-year-old son, Beverley John Liddelow inherited, with his mother Eliza as trustee.

The property was leased out until Beverley reached legal age in 1904. Beverley Liddelow did not care for farming and in 1907 Kenwick Park was put up for auction. The description of the eight-room homestead at this time matches the building that currently exists. The property was sold and subdivided. Lot 1, comprising 42.56 acres with the Homestead with river and Albany Road frontages, huge dairy, workers' quarters, an extensive orchard and rose gardens, was purchased for £3,000 by Walter Robert Hayes. The Hayes established a dairy herd but the business was not successful. The workers' quarters were demolished and the materials used for construction of a shop on the corner of Royal Street and Albany Highway in 1915.

In 1923, Ada and Ernest Hicks from New Zealand ran a small dairy, producing butter for local consumption, with the milk used in a piggery. Several other unsuccessful ventures included a sawmill in a back paddock and an upholstery stuffing business in the dairy building. In 1929, Liddelow Homestead was divided into two residences. In 1941, brick makers L. Whiteman Ltd acquired the property for the clay deposits. Later owners further subdivided the land and the remaining outbuildings were removed. In 1972, the Homestead, on 0.824 acres (approx 3,330 square metres), was purchased by the Shire of Gosnells.

The building was restored in 1975 by the Shire in conjunction with the Commonwealth Government under the Regional Employment Development Scheme, during which some of the timber verandas were replaced with concrete. The Homestead was occupied as Liddelow Homestead Museum and Arts and Crafts Centre, which opened on 14 February 1976. In 1990 the Museum function was relocated to another site and a timber-clad outbuilding was added to cater for the growing function as an Arts and Crafts Centre. In 1995, a rammed-earth building was added, connected to the Homestead by a covered way at the rear.


ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Wallace Bickley First Owner - Kenwick Park John Liddelow Second Owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 11000 Heritage Council of WA Assessed for Register of Heritage Places

(2003- rejected as below threshold) Other Reference Number GIS Property Number: 220212 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Local Studies Collection - Liddelow Homestead Articles Local Studies Collection - Kenwick Articles Heritage Council of WA P1100 Liddelow Homestead and Trees

Heritage assessment


Place No: K3

NAME OF PLACE Kenwick School Other names Kenwick Primary School Address 1 Moore Street (Rupert Street) Suburb/Town Kenwick Reserve No: 37598 Lot 4106 P 192897 Vol 3108 Fol 104 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1937, 1970s Original Use School Present Use Education facilities Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Clay tiles 1970s: Metal cladding Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar Functionalist, Twentieth Century Modern DESCRIPTION The buildings include the main school building, manual arts building, and at least eight transportable classrooms. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree; incremental development

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Kenwick School demonstrates associations with education in Kenwick since 1937, and more specifically for specialist education since the 1980s.



HISTORICAL NOTES The first school for Kenwick students was at East Cannington, where a one-roomed building with teacher's accommodation was built in 1913. Despite the site being subject to regular flooding, the school continued to operate and it was not until 1937 that the Kenwick Primary School was built. It served the local community for forty years until, until 1981 when it was converted for use as a Special School for children aged four to eighteen, from Kindergarten to Year 12, with a diverse range of support needs and abilities. The replacement school was opened in East Kenwick (near Kenwick Library) in 1980.

The School serves about eighty students from a large catchment area covering Byford to Kenwick and Roleystone to Thornlie. One teacher and two assistants are supported by specialist teachers, social trainers, swimming teachers, Health Department nurses, and administration and office staff. The school has two ovals and three fenced playgrounds, basketball/volleyball court, indoor heated swimming pool, library, mini gym, and facilities for teaching life skills including a kitchen and laundry. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Education Department WA Owner LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 215839

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Dept of Education & Training, schools online report. Website State Records Office, Education Dept archives. Document McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988 Book Education Department, Schools online Internet


Place No: K4

NAME OF PLACE House Other names Address 78-80 Oliphant Street Suburb/Town Kenwick Reserve No: Lot 632 P 20416 C.T.Vol 2028 Fol 108 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1920s Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Stucco/Asbestos Roof Corrugated Iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey house is timber framed and clad with a stucco dado and battened asbestos above. The expansive corrugated iron clad roof is hipped and continues at break pitch over the perimeter verandah. The tall chimneys are stucco with face brick geometric detailing at the top. The verandah posts are rendered brick to dado with chamfered timber posts above. Part of the northeast corner is enclosed in brick.

The rear garden has large trees within it. CONDITION Fair INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE House, 80 Oliphant Street has some significance in demonstrating a style and period of development in Kenwick.



HISTORICAL NOTES The house located at 80 Oliphant Street was originally situated on a nine acre property. The earliest records available (1927) show the home was owned by Australian Homes Limited. Shortly after that it was sold to C. M. Watkins, the first of a long series of owners. It appears to have been rented for a period but was owned by the Carrie family in 1995. A subdivision of the property since 1998 has left the house on a 1,120 square metre block, with mature trees at the rear. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Australian Homes Limited Original owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13842 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 220268 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Rates Book of Gosnells Road Board. Researcher Margaret Lefevre 1997 Rates records


Place No: K5

NAME OF PLACE Catholic Church (fmr) Other names Address 13 Royal Street Suburb/Town Kenwick Reserve No: Lot 2 P 53536 C.T.Vol 1487 Fol 898 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1957 Original Use Church Present Use Drug support venue Other Use Church hall CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face Brick Painted front wall with mural,

painted side walls to high dado line Roof Tiles Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation DESCRIPTION The single storey church building is a brick construction with external engaged piers forming bays along both sides of the rectangular form. The gabled roof is clad with tiles and the front and rear walls form gabled parapets at both ends. There is a small enclosed porch at the front, also with a gable roof. The entry is an arched opening and front windows also evidence arched headers. The painted front wall has Indigenous influenced murals. The side walls are painted over the face brick to a high dado level. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY Moderate degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Catholic Church (fmr) is significant for worship and social associations since 1957 and continues to have social relevance in the services provided in 2010.


HISTORICAL NOTES The Catholic Church was opened in September 1957. The Hall is currently owned and occupied by Southern Districts Local Drug Action Group Inc. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Catholic Church of Australia Original owner and use


LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 231379

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988 Book


Place No: L1

NAME OF PLACE Church of Foursquare Gospel Other names White House Reception Centre, Riverview (fmr), Millawithey, Address 50 Nicholson Road Suburb/Town Langford Reserve No: Lot 2 D 58127 C.T.Vol 1578 Fol 904 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1898 Original Use Residence Present Use Church Other Use Function Centre CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Painted brick Roof Corrugated iron (painted) Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Bungalow White House Reception Centre comprises a building complex adjacent to the Canning River on Nicholson Road.

The original house is still discernable despite extensive additions and an extension of concrete block structures at the rear. The original brick house has been rendered and painted white. The frontage is symmetrical with bay windows flanking the central entry. The hipped roof has facetted detailing over the bay windows. The original front verandah has been replaced by a substantial concrete parapeted structure supported by classical columns on the concrete floor.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY Low degree AUTHENTICITY Low degree: extensive alteration and intervention.

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE White House Reception Centre is significant for the association with William Brookman. As a function centre it has provided hospitality to thousands of people and was well known throughout the Perth Metropolitan area.



HISTORICAL NOTES The original house was built in 1898 for William and Anne Brookman on their Riverview property. William Brookman had made his fortune on the Kalgoorlie goldfields when he and Sid Pearce discovered the gold reefs that made up the Golden Mile and launched the Coolgardie Gold Mining and Prospecting Company in London. From 1895 to 1902 the Brookmans lived an extravagant and often outlandish lifestyle with a mansion in Perth, liveried servants, a private yacht, a seaside home at Mandurah (Peninsula Hotel- now demolished), a country estate (Riverview) and considerable property investments. The rows of semi-detached houses that line Moir and Brookman streets in Northbridge are just one of his many property developments, and Brookman Street in Kalgoorlie is named for him.

Brookman's Riverview Estate has been described in McDonald and Cooper 'The Gosnells Story' as the 'creation of an exhibitionist'. Riverview was developed with 260 acres of grape vines and orchards with a variety of trees. In addition to the large residence, there was a manager's house, occupied by G. H. Hay, and eleven workers' cottages to accommodate the large workforce needed to run what had become the largest orchard in the State. By the turn of the century a large bore and reticulation system had been set up at great expense to water the orchard. Riverview was the scene of many extravagant social affairs where William Brookman and his wife lavishly entertained their guests.

Brookman had a short political career that included a term in the State Legislative Council (1900-1903) and a period of some eight months as Lord Mayor of Perth (1900-1901). His outlandish lifestyle saw him removed as Mayor prior to the Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of York following the opening of the first Federal Parliament. Brookman had the dubious honour of being the only capital city Mayor not invited to the opening ceremony in Melbourne.

By 1902 the Brookman’s were in financial difficulty and their properties and possessions were auctioned, including Riverview Estate. William Brookman returned alone to his family home in Adelaide where he died in 1910, aged 51, of pulmonary tuberculosis.

A variety of people have owned Riverview since 1902. At some stage Riverview was renamed 'Millawithey'. During the late 1950s or early 1960s the place became known as 'The White House' and for many years was a reception and function centre and a popular venue for weddings, birthdays and engagement parties. Over the years the place has been extended and renovated, but parts of the original homestead are still visible, including the Ballroom, which for its time was considered exceptional.

In 1998, the complex was sold to the Church of Foursquare Gospel in Australia Inc for use as a church meeting place. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE William Brookman First Owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13845 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 230451 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia, 1901, pp. 557-560, with photos.

Book

M. & A. Webb, Golden Destiny, p. 286. Book Information from J Hondros, General Manager 1997 Oral history


Place No: M1

NAME OF PLACE Maras Winery Other names Address 1921-1929 Albany Highway Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 190 Plan 3047 Vol Fol NA CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1930 Original Use Winery Present Use Winery Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Cement brick Roof Tiles Corrugated iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar vernacular DESCRIPTION The Maras Winery is located close to the front boundary of Albany Highway with a decorative pillar and dado masonry fence on the boundary. The sales building is a rectangular cement brick building with a tiled gable roof with timber trimming on the gables. A small cottage is located behind the winery building. The vineyard still exists adjacent to the buildings.

CONDITION Fair. Lean-to poor INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Maras Winery is significant for the continuous operation since the vineyards and winery were established in 1930 by the original owner, Mick Borich. The Maras family have survived the pressures for development in the area, and continue to represent the rural heritage of the district.



HISTORICAL NOTES In 1930 Mick Borich bought Lots 188-191 on Albany Highway in Maddington, planted a vineyard and started a winery. His brother Joe took up a block on Reservoir Road for the same purpose. The Borichs were among the influx of Southern European migrants that settled in the district in the inter-war years. Mick Borich's shop fronted the property on Albany Highway on Lot 190 and his residence was further to the rear. The rest of the property between Albany Hwy and Orr Street was planted with rows of vines. The place continues to operate under the ownership of the Maras family. The Maras' have developed some of the property along the Highway for commercial purposes as the district has developed.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Borich Original owner Maras Current owners LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13857 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 303728 / 303727 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Information from M Lefevre & McNamara’s Oral History


Place No: M2

NAME OF PLACE Maddington Fire Station Other names Address 1961 Albany Highway Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 201 Diagram 96455 Vol 2160 Fol 411 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1971 Original Use Fire Station Present Use Fire Station Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face brick Roof Tiles Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Late Twentieth Century Regional; on a residential scale DESCRIPTION The single storey brick building has a low-pitched hipped roof clad with tiles. The double roller door opening protrudes to the street frontage with the residential section recessed.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Maddington Fire Station is significant for its association with the provision of fire services in the district since 1971, until which time the Canning volunteers serviced the area.



HISTORICAL NOTES Fire was a constant danger in the bush summers of the district and there are numerous reports in local histories of buildings and crops being destroyed. In the early years of settlement it was a case of everyone available lending a hand in fighting a fire, and in the first half of the Twentieth Century, volunteers continued to play a large part in the manning of fire stations, as they do today.

The Maddington Fire Station site was acquired in 1968 for $1,400 and the WA Fire Brigade Board approved the building of a new station in 1970-71. The station was opened 4 October 1971 by R. H. C. Stubbs, MLC, Chief Secretary to the Minister Controlling Fire Brigades. The building was designed by architects Duncan, Stephen & Mercer. Keith Duncan had been commissioned by the WAFBB in 1926 to design most of their fire station buildings. He was also a volunteer fireman and held various positions in the Volunteer Fire Brigades’ Association. He was made a life member in 1937.

Maddington Fire Station houses a permanent fire brigade that attends fires in the City of Gosnells and surrounding districts. It is one of some seventy new fire stations built in the state between 1970 and 1995 as fire and rescue techniques and equipment have evolved to require more modern premises. Fire brigades have also traditionally played a part in emergency rescue situations and this is reflected in the current controlling body, Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA). An associated SES office is located in Gosnells.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Duncan, Stephen & Mercer Architects D. J. Andrews Pty Ltd Builder LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 14543 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 231458 Fire and Rescue Service of WA Heritage Inventory, August 1997.

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book


Place No: M3

NAME OF PLACE Cowan House (1) Other names Address 1993 Albany Highway Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 808 Diagram 31948 C.T. Vol 2520 Fol 560 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1913 Original Use Residence Present Use Ruin Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Rendered mud brick Roof Corrugated iron

(no longer insitu)

Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION Cowan house (1) is located centrally within an orchard setback from Albany Highway. The ruinous remains evidence the rectangular form with a perimeter verandah. The evidence shows that the house is rendered with heavily quoined corners, tall brick chimneys with stucco decoration. The verandah has disappeared on all sides.

CONDITION Poor INTEGRITY Low degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Cowan House (1) is significant for the associations with Robert Cowen, an early settler and Chairman of the Gosnells Roads Board.

MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATION Category C: Retain & conserve if possible. Record prior to demolition.


HISTORICAL NOTES Robert Cowen was joint owner of Stoke Farm and from 1908 to 1913 lived with his family in the original mud brick home (now demolished) on the property. When Stoke Farm was subdivided in 1913 the family relocated to this house in the orchard. The grave of John Thomas Helms, who died in 1879, is said to be on the property. In 1923, Cowen bought back a 10-acre portion of Stoke Farm and built a new house.

This house in the orchard was occupied by others into the post war years but has been unoccupied for a considerable time and is in derelict condition.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Robert Cowen Original owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13850 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 236328 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Information from McNamara and M Lefevre Oral History Local Study Collection - Biography Cowen Articles


Place No: M4

NAME OF PLACE Mulvay House Other names Olive Estate Bed and Breakfast (fmr) Address 2005 Albany Highway Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 101 Diagram 78579 Vol 1903 Fol 489 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1914, 1950s Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face Brick Tuckpointed frontage Roof Clay tile Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION Mulvay House, a single storey brick and tile residence is set back from Albany Highway, backing onto the Canning River. The front elevation features a distinctive gable detailed in Arts and Crafts style curved timbers on stucco relief. The high-pitched roof is clad with clay tiles and breaks pitch over the return verandah adjacent to the protruding gable feature. There are two simple square tall brick chimneys on either side of the house. The wrought iron verandah posts and balustrading are ornate in design that is typical of the 1950s. There is an extension on the south side of the house with a gabled corrugated iron roof.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Mulvay House is significant for the association with the Mulvay family and the representation of the early Maddington land divisions with the setting on a large rural block backing onto the Canning River.



HISTORICAL NOTES This house was once owned by the Mulvay family who were well known during the 1920s in the Maddington community. The house was built c.1914 by George Mulvay who owned considerable land in the area. Miss Lona Mulvay contributed to the music of the Maddington district by organising an orchestra and dance band. Her music skills were in great demand during the 1920s and her orchestra or dance band played at the St Patrick's Day Ball, the Easter Ball and Gosnells RSL Ball. She also provided music lessons to local residents. The Mulvay family sold the property during the mid 1940s. A beautiful rose garden used to be a feature in front of the house.

Remnants of an orchard are visible to the rear of the property.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Mulvay Family Prominent Community Residents LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13854 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 202152 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Local Studies Collection Biography Section Articles Information from Margaret Lefevre Oral History, Rates Books


Place No: M5

NAME OF PLACE Maddington Homestead Other names Maddington Park Address 9000L Burslem Drive Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 9000 DP 55708 Vol/Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1836 Original Use Residence Present Use Ruin Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Rendered mud brick, stone and brick Roof Corrugated iron Other slab hut, wattle and daub, and mud

brick and rough mortar on timber frame. outbuildings

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Old Colonial Georgian DESCRIPTION The two-storey rough rendered stone house had a corrugated iron clad double-hipped roof and a ground floor verandah wrapping around all four sides of the almost square house. The original shingle roof had been covered with corrugated iron. A fire and subsequent vandalism in recent times has resulted in a gutted roofless building in a ruinous condition. Outbuildings of significance include: a detached kitchen and dairy, tack room and machinery sheds. CONDITION Very poor (ruinous) INTEGRITY Low degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (HCWA) Maddington Homestead is an extremely rare, intact (until 2004) example of a substantial settler's house constructed prior to the convict era. It contributes to the community's sense of place by providing a link with the colonial development of the area and is associated with prominent figures including John Randall Phillips, Major William Nairn, Surveyor General John Septimus Roe, Richard and Jabez White, John Liddelow and Joseph Harris and his descendants. It is also associated with the earliest phases of rural development along the Canning River and with a subsequent market gardening enterprise illustrates the innovative and creative use of local materials to imitate houses in England at the time.

MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATION Category A: Heritage Council’s Register of Heritage Places. (Permanent 2001). Commonwealth of Australia Register of the National Estate (1978). City of Gosnells ‘Heritage List.’ TPS: Development Application. Retain & conserve.


HISTORICAL NOTES Maddington Homestead was first settled by John Randell Phillips in 1830. Phillips chose the land along with 'Stoke Farm'. Both properties proved to have very good farming prospects. In 1833 Phillips sold Maddington Park to William Nairn, an Infantry Major. When Nairn took over the riverside property Phillips had already cleared a good amount of the land and had built a house, shed and office. Nairn became an efficient farmer and a reputable sheep breeder. Nairn had a new house, the Maddington Park Homestead, constructed. Building began c.1836 but took a number of years to complete owing to the difficulty of obtaining materials, finding craftsmen, transport and ever increasing costs. By 1840 the ground floor was only just completed. It was said that, in the end, Nairn's dream was a compulsion that wore him down. Maddington Park was the scene of early conflict between the Aboriginal people and European settlers. In 1837 two shepherds, boys of nine and eleven years, set out with Nairn's sheep to distant pastures. An altercation with two Aboriginal men led to both boys being speared. Though both recovered from their injuries, many settlers were outraged and demanded the capture of Buoyen, one of the Aboriginals involved. He was caught and brought to Maddington Park for identification by Charles Hokin, one of the shepherds. Buoyen was subsequently tried and sent to Rottnest Island for life. In 1843 Nairn mortaged the property to Surveyor General J. S. Roe, whose family took possession of the property in 1847. It was leased and worked by a variety of people including Jabez White, John Liddelow and Joseph Harris. A 'To Let' advertisement in the Perth Gazette of Feb 8th 1856 described Maddington Park as:

3280 acres, extensively cleared and improved with good double stone dwelling house, large barn, stable and other buildings, cattle and cart sheds, sheep yard, garden and field enclosures and about 150 acres in and partly under cultivation. The many excellent and varied qualities of this fine estate are too well known to require comment.

In 1910, the Harris family took ownership and occupied, and operated the orchard. In 1983, a fire damaged the sitting room. At the time 81-year-old Miss Amy Harris lived there. After the fire the place was then boarded up and left unoccupied. In 2001, when the Homestead was entered on the State Register of Heritage Places, it was described as being in sound condition but in need of renovation. At the time, the property was described as:

[A] two-storey stone residence, nine rooms in all and a cellar. Adjacent is a wattle and daub tack room, a detached kitchen and dairy, and two corrugated iron sheds. The site is surrounded by 150 acres (60.75ha) of established market garden and orchard.

A 2004 conservation report by Blackwell & Associates noted that: 'two large post mature Schinus molle - Pepper Trees flank the garden path to the north/east boundary. The trees are significant and would appear to have been planted in the early stages of the garden development'. Maddington Park bounds the Canning River where the common Flooded Gums (Eucalyptus rudis) have flourished and are particularly dense. In 2003, Maddington Park was acquired by new owners. On June 6, 2004, the Homestead was gutted by fire and on March 1, 2005, another fire destroyed several of the trees at the rear of the buildings, charred the dairy, and damaged the Pepper Trees. The current owners have a proposal for the Homestead, as part of subdivision and redevelopment of the site. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE William Nairn, James Roe, Harris family Prominent Community Residents Miss Amy Harris Last of the Harris family to live in the homestead LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 1132 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 305971 National Trust Register of the National Estate Heritage Council of Western Australia Register of Heritage Places permanent listing 2001 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998, & Tree Inventory

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Notes from the McNamara’s File Historical Notes Heritage Council P1132 Maddington Homestead Heritage Assessment


Place No: M6

NAME OF PLACE Maddington Community Kindergarten Other names Helm Street Kindergarten (fmr)

Helm Street Pre School (fmr) Address 24 Helm Street Suburb/Town Maddington Reserve No: Lot 3003 DP43367 C.T.Vol 3131 Fol 186 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1970 Original Use School Present Use Community school Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Tiles Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Contemporary DESCRIPTION The single storey building is a brick construction with an expansive hipped tile roof. The square building features extensive glass areas and is surrounded by wide covered ways.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Maddington Community Kindergarten demonstrates significant community involvement and commitment to provide educational facilities for four and five year old children. It was the first kindergarten to feature a small road system with crosswalks and traffic lights to teach road sense.



HISTORICAL NOTES In March 1968 Gosnells Shire Council called a ratepayer's meeting to discuss the need for a kindergarten in Maddington due to the influx of English migrants to the area. A working committee was formed and found that there were at least twenty children who would use the facility immediately. The Kindergarten Association of WA advised on the design and layout and Council provided a block of land in Helm Street. A building to accommodate thirty six children in morning and afternoon sessions was built in 1970. A feature was a small road system with crosswalks and traffic lights to teach road sense, expected to be the first of its kind in WA.

In 1973, the Kindergarten Association was superseded by the State Government's Pre-School Board, and kindergartens became pre-schools. In 1977, the Board was abolished and all pre-school education was placed under the Early Childhood Branch of the Education Department. Existing kindergartens were given the choice of becoming pre-primaries under the local headmaster, or remaining as they were under a Community Kindergartens Association. The Association consisted of parents who desired to play a greater part in the running of their children's education. The Helm Street Kindergarten/Pre-School became Maddington Community Kindergarten.

The Maddington Community Kindergarten is run by the parents and the local community and works with four to five year olds, including special needs children. In January 2006, members of the local Community Leadership Network (CLN) and local businesses joined forces to give the place a facelift. The dozen or so volunteers armed with paint and plants donated by Bunnings, Crystal Coatings and SERCUL, painted fences, planted garden beds and raked sandpits. A new carpet was laid, funded by the local branch of the Bendigo Bank and Maddington Rotary Club, and one of the Rotary members donated fabric for new curtains. An Open Day was held on 11 May to showcase the makeover. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Education Department of WA Present use LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 211815

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE West Australian, 6 March 1968, 4 January & 18 February 1970. Newspaper articles City of Gosnells Annual Report, 2006 Document Community Kindergartens Association records, Battye Library, ACC5074A. Archives


Place No: M7

NAME OF PLACE W. W. Alcock House (fmr) Other names Address 13 Kelvin Road (rear view) Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 37 DP 55946 Vol 1529 Fol 643 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1905 Original Use Residence Present Use Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face Brick Roof Corrugated iron painted Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey red brick building with a hipped corrugated iron roof is set back from Kelvin Road, and access is down a gravel driveway, edged by grape vines and fruit trees. The house faces away from the road and the front elevation has a prominent wing, with a verandah under separate roof across the rest of the front. The verandah is supported by chamfered timber posts on rendered brick piers. The tall brick chimneys have rendered corbel detailing.

CONDITION Fair INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE W. W. Alcock House (fmr) is significant for the associations with the first Chairman of the Gosnells Roads Board and the rural development of the Gosnells District.



HISTORICAL NOTES This house was built for Walter W. Alcock in 1905 near the railway line, on a 10 acre portion of the 2,200 acre property owned by his brother Frank Morley Alcock. The house faced into the property with its back to the street and the railway line.

Walter and Frank Alcock were solicitors who came to the Maddington area seeking a rural lifestyle. Their aim was to work a small farm while continuing to commute to Perth for their professional work. They managed to do this quite successfully with the help of hired labour to run their dairy. Frank Alcock's home was located at the other end of the property beside Bickley Brook, on what is now Madrid Place.

Walter Alcock became involved in local politics as the first Chairman of the Gosnells Roads Board in 1907. He was instrumental in the location of the Roads Board Office to Maddington in 1908. He also acted as spokesman for the Dairymen and Cattle Owners' Association, and initiated the Burswood-Armadale Association to watch over matters of common interest, for example flooding and the state of Albany Road.

Walter Alcock's government appointments, first as Assistant Public Service Commissioner and later as Chairman of the Licensing Appeal Board, took him out of the district in 1914. The property has been subdivided for residential and industrial use.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE W W Alcock First Owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13846 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 207026 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Local Studies Collection - Biography Alcock Articles McDonald and Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1984 Book Wise's Post Office Directory Microfilm Landgate, aerial photo Photo


Place No: M8

NAME OF PLACE Butler House Other names Address 226 Maddington Road Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 15 Diagram 56105 C.T.Vol 1535 Fol 796 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1921 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick (Coulthard’s)

render

Roof Clay tile Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar Arts & Crafts DESCRIPTION The single storey brick rendered house has a gable clay tile roof. The hipped roof features a gable frontage detailed in vertical timber contrasting with roughcast infill. The dominant gabled section protrudes and features a central rectangular bay window. The windows throughout are timber-framed casements in sets of multiple casements with leadlight glazing. An extension to the house has been built on the eastern side.

It is set amongst trees, obscuring streetscape views, on a large block in a now predominantly industrial area on Maddington Road near the Tonkin Highway. Located on approximately 2 hectares, there is a creek at the rear of the property.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Butler House is a fine representation of the period, and demonstrates continuous associations with the Butler family, commencing with Richard Butler who designed and built the home in c.1921.



HISTORICAL NOTES This house was designed by the owner, Richard W. H. Butler and built in 1921-22. In 1922 Richard Butler was listed in the Post Office Directory as a draftsman at Maddington. By 1928, he was listed as an architect. The house was greatly admired as an architectural showpiece in its day, and of particularly fine quality for the area.

Richard Butler designed St Luke's Church, Maddington in 1926 for the Cannington Anglican parish.

In 2010 the property is still owned by the Butler family.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Butler Family Builder and owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13858 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 207811

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Information from Margaret Lefevre Oral History Wise's Post Office Directory Microfilm Rev E W Doncaster, Places of worship in Perth Anglican Diocese, 1954. Microfilm


Place No: M9

NAME OF PLACE Kiely Homestead (fmr) Other names FM Alcock House Address 10 Madrid Place (in salvage yard) Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 227 Diagram 91486 C.T.Vol 2085 Fol 992 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1905 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Rendered painted dado Roof Colourbond Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey brick residence has an expansive hipped roof extending over perimeter verandahs at break pitch. The roof is clad with colourbond sheeting and the face brick walls have a rendered band at window head height, and have been rendered to dado height. The symmetrical frontage has a central front door flanked by French doors with fanlights. The side windows to the front rooms also have French doors. The other rooms have double hung sash windows. The lean-to to the rear has been enclosed with fibrocement cladding and louvre windows.

CONDITION Fair INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Kiely Homestead (fmr) is significant for the associations with F. M. Alcock and the long association with the growth and development of Maddington from a rural area to the semi-industrial suburb.



HISTORICAL NOTES This house was built for Frank Morley Alcock c.1900 beside the Bickley Brook. The property at that time consisted of 2,200 acres, stretching from the railway line to the foothills. Frank and Walter W. Alcock were solicitors who came to the Maddington area seeking a rural lifestyle. Their aim was to work a small farm while continuing to commute to Perth for their professional work. They managed to do this quite successfully with the help of hired labour to run their dairy. Walter Alcock had his house built in 1905, near the railway line at the opposite end of the property. In 1910, Frank Alcock's legal practice required him to move to Peppermint Grove.

The Phillips family occupied this house for a period and in 1912 the Sampson family rented it while their house was being built. The Kiely family owned the property for some years and operated a dairy on the surrounding land.

The Alcock property has since been subdivided and the Homestead is located in the middle of an industrial area.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE FM Alcock First Owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13852 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 222065 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Information from Margaret Lefevre Oral history Wise's Post Office Directory Microfilm


Place No: M10

NAME OF PLACE Tarling House (fmr) Other names Address 24 Phillip Street Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: Lot 159 Plan 3047 C.T.Vol 1549 Fol 290 CONSTRUCTION DATE C1911 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Timber framed Weatherboard Roof Corrugated iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Bungalow DESCRIPTION Tarling House (fmr) is a single storey timber framed house with a hipped corrugated iron roof and bullnose verandah to three sides. The full width front verandah is under the main roof, supported by simple square timber posts. Double casement windows with fanlights flank the central front door. There is a detached double storey ‘extension’ at the rear at forty five degrees with a covered link connection. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Tarling House (fmr) is located in one of the earliest residential land releases in Maddington and represents associations with the Tarling family who were community minded residents.



HISTORICAL NOTES Tarling House (fmr) was built c.1911-13 for Philip and Annie Tarling who came to the area from the goldfields, where they had lived since migrating from the United Kingdom, in 1908. Tarling worked as a postman as well as working to develop their 3-acre property, where they planted fruit trees. Water had to be carted in kerosene tins each summer morning to water the trees. The Tarling family was community minded and Philip Tarling served on the Gosnells Roads Board, while daughter Alice was a member of the golf club that played on a rough bush course on an unused section of Charles Harris' farm. The Tarling family were still in residence in Phillip Street in 1949. The house has been renovated in a similar style to the original. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Tarling Family First Owners LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13856 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 210929 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Information from M Lefevre Oral history


Place No: M11

NAME OF PLACE Cowen House (3) Other names Address 21 River Avenue Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 6 Diagram 11974 C.T.Vol 2183 Fol 674 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1928 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Painted brick Roof Clay tile Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar California Bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey painted brick house has a gable clay tile roof. The roof features gable frontages detailed in vertical timber contrasting with roughcast infill on a decorative bracketed horizontal support. The dominant veranda section protrudes. It is supported by face limestone support piers with double square timber posts from dado height. An entry is located on the side identified by the side facing gable and support pillars as for the front verandah. The windows comprise six timber framed casements and each window set has a timber framed tiled awning over.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Cowen House (3) is representative of the period, and comparative to Cowen House (2) directly opposite on River Avenue. It demonstrates links with the original owner, Robert Cowen, who contributed significantly to the community as a local Road Board member and as a leader in the rural practices of the district.



HISTORICAL NOTES Robert Cowen was joint owner of Stoke Farm and from 1908 to 1913 lived with his family in the original mud brick home (now demolished) on the property. Stoke Farm was subdivided in 1913 but the family bought back a 10-acre portion in 1923 and built Cowen House (2) in the middle of the orchard.

In 1928, the Cowens built Cowen House (3) (21 River Avenue) but continued to operate the orchard. Robert Cowen died in 1933 and his wife sold the orchard with Cowen House (2).

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Robert Cowen Original owner LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 223829

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Information from Mrs McNamara Oral History


Place No: M12

NAME OF PLACE Cowen House (2) Other names Stoke Farm Address 22 River Avenue Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 501 Diagram 64596 C.T.Vol 1651 Fol 691 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1923 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face brick Roof Clay tile Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey brick house has a clay tile roof. The roof is predominantly gable except for the main protruding section that has verandahs to three sides. The roof is hipped over that section with break pitch skillion verandahs and a dominant gable detailed in vertical timber contrasting with roughcast infill. The verandah is supported by simple timber posts on rendered brick piers. The carport on the side has a side facing gable roof and is supported by simple timber posts.

The house is set back from the road with gravel access past the orchard in front and a low white picket fence surrounding the front garden. The property backs onto the Canning River.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Cowen House (2) is representative of the period, and comparative to Cowen House (3) directly opposite on River Ave. It demonstrates links with the original owner, Robert Cowen, who contributed significantly to the community as a local Roads Board member and as a leader in the rural practices of the district.



HISTORICAL NOTES This house was built for Robert Cowen in 1923. Robert was joint owner of Stoke Farm and from 1908 to 1913 lived with his family in the original mud brick home (now demolished) on the property. When Stoke Farm was subdivided in 1913 the family relocated to a house in the orchard (1993 Albany Highway). In 1923, the family bought back a 10-acre portion of Stoke Farm because of the good water supply for a citrus orchard (a permanent creek used to run through the area) and this new house was built in the middle of the orchard.

Robert served for a time in the early 1920s as Chairman of the Gosnells Roads Board. He instructed many people in orcharding and experimented with many crops such as peanuts and apples, but recommended oranges be grown in the district.

In 1928, the Cowen’s built another house on the opposite side of the street (21 River Avenue) but continued to operate the orchard. Robert Cowen died in 1933 and his wife sold the orchard with this house to the Noack family. Later owners have been the Russell’s, who owned race horses, the Black’s and then the Chiera’s. The house has been faithfully restored by recent owners.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Robert Cowen Original owner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13851 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 210197 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998



Place No: M13

NAME OF PLACE Cowen House (4) Other names Address 49 River Avenue (cnr Phillip Street) Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 1 Diagram D13643 C.T.Vol 2060 Fol 830 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1960 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Clay tile Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Post War austere DESCRIPTION The single storey brick house has cement tiled hipped roof. Simple in form, the place has a timber-framed pergola along both street frontages. The windows are sets of three timber-framed casements.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Cowen House (4) provides a comparative to Cowen House (2) and Cowen House (3) at 22 and 21 River Ave respectively as the Cowen family established this, the fourth house in the immediate vicinity.


HISTORICAL NOTES Robert Cowen was joint owner of Stoke Farm and from 1908 to 1913 lived with his family in the original mud brick home (now demolished) on the property. Stoke Farm was subdivided in 1913 but the family bought back a 10-acre portion in 1923 and built Cowen House (2) in the middle of the orchard. In 1928, the Cowen’s built Cowen House (3) (21 River Avenue) but continued to operate the orchard. Robert Cowen died in 1933 and his wife sold the orchard with Cowen House (2). Cowen House (4) was constructed later for a member of the Cowen family.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Robert Cowen Original owner LISTINGS


Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 211074



Place No: M14

NAME OF PLACE Orr Home (fmr) & Avenue of Trees Other names Address 55 River Avenue (cnr Phillip Street) Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 3 Diagram 65724 C.T.Vol 1664 Fol 711 CONSTRUCTION DATE House 1929-1930 Trees planted 1929 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face brick dado with roughcast above. Roof Zincalume Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey brick house has a clay tile roof. The roof is predominantly hipped except for the side protruding gable section facing River Avenue. The main Phillip Street frontage has a central protruding section that has verandahs to three sides. The verandah floor is concrete, the roof is hipped over that section with break pitch skillion verandahs and a dominant gable detailed in vertical timber contrasting with roughcast infill. The verandah is supported by simple timber posts. The windows comprise sets of three timber-framed casements.

This avenue of mature trees along River Ave is made up of a variety of Peppermint, Flame, Kurrajong and Box trees. The trees line both sides of the road.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Orr House (fmr) is significant for the associations with prominent local identity William (Billy) Orr who was involved in politics and sport at both local and state levels. The trees planted in the avenue have significance in their own right as fine, mature trees, and also as a result of their association with William Orr. Environmental awareness has led to the recognition of the trees on the City of Gosnells Tree Register.


MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATION Category C (house): Retain & conserve if possible. Record prior to any development. Category B (avenue of trees): City of Gosnells ‘Heritage List.’ TPS: Development Application. Retain & conserve.

HISTORICAL NOTES This house was built in 1930 for William (Billy) Orr and his wife Thelma (nee Cowan). It was located on land given to them as a wedding present by Thelma's parents, Mr and Mrs Robert Cowan. Billy Orr came to WA in 1906 from Sale, Victoria. He was an active member of the Gosnells Roads Board for many years and held the position of Chairman for nine years until his resignation in 1936. He was appreciated for his strong leadership qualities and was described as one of the finest and most progressive citizens of the period.

Billy Orr was an excellent sportsman, particularly as a footballer, and was a member of Perth's premiership team in 1907 and Subiaco's premiership teams of 1912 and 1913. Service in World War One probably cut short his football career, which was spectacular enough to see him featured on cigarette cards. He was for many years Secretary of the West Australian Football League. He later played lawn bowls.

The Avenue of Trees was planted by Billy Orr at the corner of Phillip Street and River Avenue in 1929 to beautify the street corner where his house was being built. In 1989 a plaque was unveiled in a ceremony dedicating the historical value of the trees.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE William Orr Well known local identity LISTINGS HCWA Database No. House: 13855,

Avenue of trees: 13848 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 220951 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998, and Tree

Register SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Local Study Collection Biography Orr Articles Local Study Collection - Trees Articles


Place No: M15

NAME OF PLACE Brennan House (fmr) Other names Address 15 Serenity Court Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 25 D100700 Vol/Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1914 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face brick Roof Colourbond cladding Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey residence is symmetrical with ‘bachelor windows’ flanking the central front door. The expansive roof extends over the perimeter verandahs at break pitch. Square timber posts support the verandahs and the floor is concrete. A small gable delineates the central front entry with a decorative timber infill in the design of a rising sun. There is a separate building connected. It has a gambrel hipped roof with break pitch verandah visible. The place has been impacted upon by adjacent residential subdivision that has resulted in the front of the residence being close to the new road (cul de sac), with a brick garage also on the frontage. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Brennan House (fmr) is significant for associations with the Brennan family and the development of the property on the banks of the Canning River.



HISTORICAL NOTES John Hay Blight owned the property in 1927/28. The 1927 Post Office Directory lists Mr Blight as a railway clerk. James Gerald Brennan, an accountant, owned the property in 1946/47. He worked in the Brennan and Male accountancy firm, located in St Georges Terrace, Perth. The house was situated on a five and a quarter acre property which has since been subdivided. At this time many people who owned land in Maddington and commuted to Perth for work.

As the house is situated near the river it would have been likely that it was used to irrigate the property and any crops such as citrus trees, like many other properties in the locality.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Brennan family owners LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13849 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 209151

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Information from Margaret Lefevre Verbal Information from McNamara family Document


Place No: M16

NAME OF PLACE Lankester House (fmr) Other names Ettamogah Address 78A River Avenue (off Serenity Ct) Suburb/Town MADDINGTON Reserve No: n/a Lot 40 P 3346 Vol 2086 Fol 422 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1913 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Timber weatherboard

and fibre cement board

Roof Zincalume Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar Bungalow DESCRIPTION The house is located at the rear of the block, overlooking the river and is located on a slope with the rear of the building on stilts. It is built using timber framed construction and is clad on two walls with timber weatherboards. There have been additions to the front and rear of the building which have been clad with fibre cement boards, with the house’s south west side windows replaced with modern fittings. The zincalume roof is hipped with gablets. The house has a central passage from the front door to the back door with four rooms opening off it, the kitchen and dining room, bedroom, lounge and study. There is a sleepout constructed on the back verandah. The back door is original and has a transom leadlight window. There are timber steps which lead off the back verandah towards the river. Citrus trees surround the house, extending towards the river. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Lankester House (fmr) is significant for the long associations with the Lankester family. The place also has associations with other orchard properties in the locality and the development of the orchard industry on the banks of the Canning River.



HISTORICAL NOTES This house was built in 1913 at the rear of the orchard property on River Avenue for Alfred Ernest Lankester, his wife Emily, and family. Alfred Lankester was born in Sydney in 1868. In 1896, he was working in WA as Inspector of Orchards with the Agriculture Dept. In 1898 he married Emily McLean from Bendigo. They settled first in Subiaco, where their children were born. In 1913, they took up the property on River Avenue, built the house and planted a citrus orchard. The property was named 'Ettamogah' for Alfred's boyhood home in Albury. The Lankester’s had six children but one died as an infant and two died in their 20s, including their only daughter.

Alfred was involved in local connections as secretary of the South Suburban Fruitgrowers' Association. He retired from the Agriculture Department in 1928 around the time his wife Emily passed away. Son Keith helped run Ettamogah while also managing his own orchard property at 2031 Albany Highway, Maddington. After Alfred died in 1951, Keith added another adjoining property to Ettamogah and occupied the place. In 1958 Keith sold Ettamogah due to ill health and took a position as orchard inspector with the Agriculture Department, in a reverse image of his father's working life.

The Lankester’s were one of the noted families of the area and had association with other orchardists in both Maddington and Gosnells, such as the Brennan’s, McNamara’s and Wilkinson’s.

A more modern house, No. 78, has been added at the front of the property.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Lankester family Original owners LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 209151

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Gosnells Local Studies Collection - Lankester history Correspondence


Place No: MAR1

NAME OF PLACE McKenzie House (fmr) Other names Harry Hunter Rehabilitation Centre Address 2510 Albany Highway (east side of Canning River) Suburb/Town MARTIN Reserve No: Lot 5034 Diagram 29594 C.T.Vol Fol CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1890 masonry house, c.1910 McKenzie House, c.1925

Chapel & timber house Original Use Residence Present Use Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre Chapel Other Use Boys' home CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: McKenzie House c.1910 Chapel c.1925 Walls Stone & brick quoins Stone & brick quoins Roof Clay tile Colourbond Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Masonry house: Victorian regency

McKenzie House: Federation bungalow Chapel: Interwar Timber house: Interwar bungalow


DESCRIPTION McKenzie House is located off the Albany Highway 800 metres or so, across the Canning River. Set on a rise overlooking grassed and landscaped river floodplains, it is a single storey stone and tile building. The granite stone walls feature red brick quoining to door and window openings. A verandah runs around three sides and the front corners each have facetted bays (not the same) that project from the rectangular form and are reflected in the roofing. There are extensions at the rear, the central front entry door has been ‘bricked’ up and there is a separate more recent building on the southeast corner, connected by verandahs.

In close proximity, east across a flat grassed area, is the Chapel. Constructed from coursed stone with brick quoins at the corners and openings, it has a gable roof at two levels, suggesting two periods of development. There is a small gabled porch at the entry (north), and on the ‘rear’ gable wall coloured obscure glass in vertical panels with horizontal transoms is staggered across the five bay windows.

A hundred metres or so southeast of the chapel is another house that evidences a masonry construction with a hipped corrugated iron roof, gable at the symmetrical protruding ends with a verandah between at break pitch. The form of the building suggests it possibly predates McKenzie House. It now seems to provide a storage function.

A c.1920s timber framed weatherboard clad house with perimeter verandahs and a hipped tiled roof is evident on the west side in proximity to McKenzie House.

There are more recent buildings to the south and north of McKenzie House. There is a large dam to the northeast of McKenzie House.

CONDITION Fair- good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE McKenzie House is significant for the associations with the prominent McKenzie family and the Salvation Army who have provided community services at the site since 1921, with distinguished services by Helen Jenkin and Harry Hunter. The sense of place and social significance for generations of people who served or resided at the place is valued.



HISTORICAL NOTES McKenzie House has associations with the McKenzie’s, once a prominent family in the district. James Ross McKenzie settled on 2000 acres in Gosnells in the early 1900s when the property stretched from Martin through to Ranford Road. McKenzie named his estate 'Seaforth Park', the name of the ancestral family home in Seaforth, Scotland, established in 1623. McKenzie was born in Victoria, moved to Queensland then to WA in search of pastoral land. Attracted to the WA goldfields in 1893, he became a successful mining entrepreneur. He developed a mixed farm on his land in Gosnells, married Dahlia Lohrmann and they had two children. He went on to become a director of Emu Brewery, a committee member of the WA Turf Club, and Vice President of the Royal Agricultural Society of WA. His community service included two years as Chairman of the Gosnells Roads Board from 1913 to 1914. After his death in 1915 the family moved to the city.

In March 1921 the eastern portion of Seaforth Park was sold to the Salvation Army on the proviso the name 'Seaforth' be retained. McKenzie House became the Seaforth Boys' Home which housed orphans and intellectually disabled children, and which also had a reform section. During World War Two, under threat from bombing, the Nedlands Boys' Home residents were moved to Seaforth. The boys of Seaforth worked on the surrounding farm lands, successfully producing crops considered outstanding by the local agricultural society. The boys were trained as farmhands and were much in demand for employment on local farms.

Salvation Army officer, Major Helen Jenkin had a long history of service with Seaforth Boys' Home and, after retiring in 1962, continued to live in Gosnells for many years.

During the 1920s a large building program expanded facilities for the Home. It involved new accommodation units, a school house, workshops, a gymnasium and a library. In the early 1950s the Salvation Army decided to close the Boys' Home and it re-opened in 1961 for the rehabilitation of alcoholics. Since the mid 1980s it has operated as the Harry Hunter Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre with approximately forty-five residents. Harry Hunter was a Salvation Army Officer.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE James McKenzie Owner Salvation Army: Helen Jenkins, Harry Hunter Community service LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 209402 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Local Studies Collection – ‘The Naming of the Suburb “Seaforth” ‘ Compiled by Margaret Lefevre

Notes

McKenzie family Oral history Plaque on wall at McKenzie House entry (bricked up) Plaque


Place No: MAR2

NAME OF PLACE RSL Memorial Hall and Tennis Courts Other names Address 1 Gosnells Road West (cnr Mills Road West) Suburb/Town MARTIN Reserve No: Lot 17 Plan 2714 C.T.Vol 1300 Fol 101 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1946, 1960s extn Original Use Hall and tennis courts Present Use Hall and tennis courts Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Concrete block Roof Cement tiles Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar functional DESCRIPTION The single storey concrete block building is simple in rectangular form. The roof is hipped and clad with tiles. Asphalt tennis courts enclosed with chainlink mesh fencing are immediately adjacent to the hall. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE RSL Memorial Hall and tennis courts is significant for the RSL associations and recreational facilities and social venue it provides.



HISTORICAL NOTES The Gosnells RSL Hall was built by the Returned and Services League (RSL) around 1946 for the Gosnells Sub-Branch. The building was extended by the members in the 1960s.

The RSL was established to serve the interests of its members, veterans, the ex-service community and members of the Australian Defence Force. Its objects include advocacy, welfare, representation, commemoration, remembrance and a social function.

In 1948, the annual RSL smoke social was held in March, with Bob Hatch on the piano and Arthur Packer providing a cornet solo.

At some point in time, the City of Gosnells took over maintenance for the place, which was also rented out to the public and to other organisations. In 2004, the City took over full management of the RSL Hall, with the Branch having priority of use. The site also has four tennis courts.

The Gosnells War Roll of Honour for the Great War 1914-1918 is housed in the RSL Hall. It lists the names of eighty veterans of the conflict. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Returned and Services League Original builders and owners LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 12821 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 210412

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE City of Gosnells Council minutes, 9 November 2004. Minutes document Anzac.dpc.wa.gov.au/index website Local Studies Collection. Newspaper item


Place No: MAR3

NAME OF PLACE Hillside Farm Other names Gibbs Farm; Fratico Farm

Site of gold mine Address Hayward Road (northeast end) Suburb/Town MARTIN Reserve No: Lot 51 Plan 38365 C.T.Vol 2226 Fol 199 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1880 Original Use Farmhouse Present Use Farmhouse – private residence

School – education purposes Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Formed rammed earth (pise) Cement brick Roof Corrugated iron Other Wooden verandah posts ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Victorian bungalow DESCRIPTION Hillside Farm is a 93.54 ha property in Martin, set on undulating land, with some vegetation. The farm has a series of buildings located on the property. The major buildings are the farm dwelling, old corrugated iron machinery sheds, a corrugated iron and brick barn, and a timber and fibrocement clad school that has been relocated to the property. The original farmhouse has insitu rammed earth walls to the exterior walls except the front wall that has been replaced with concrete blocks. The corrugated iron clad gable roof breaks pitch over the front verandah that is supported by timber posts.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY Low to moderate degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The original homestead at Hillside Farm is significant for associations with the Gibbs family and its long association with the rural development of the district and more recent educational use.



HISTORICAL NOTES The original Hillside Farm was associated with the family of Stephen Gibbs who was a pioneer in the Gosnells district. His parents William and Eliza Gibbs arrived from England in 1834 and Stephen was one of four sons. He was a teamster in the 1860s and during the 1870s he was the publican of the 47 Mile Inn on what was Albany Road, now Albany Highway. Stephen Gibbs married Eliza White and it is thought that they lived on Hillside Farm around 1880, when he began to take up extensive properties, mainly for dairying. He found a piece of quartz with gold traces in 1888, but nothing was done about the find until 1909, when others tried to establish a gold mine.

Gibbs concentrated on his farming and other activities. He established an orchard in the 1890s, built the Forest Inn near the Victoria Reservoir construction works in 1890 and was involved in establishing Cannington’s second hotel, the Hotel Cecil. He also had quarrying interests. In 1907 he was elected to the Gosnells Road Board. Stephen Gibbs had left the district by 1914 to take up residence in East Perth, where he died in 1928 at the age of 80. His son William married Hilda Dellar and they lived at Hillside.

The former Gibbs farmhouse has been used for residential purposes for over 100 years. The property falls within the Ellis Brook Valley Reserve and is under the ownership of the West Australian Planning Commission. After this change in ownership proposals for development were considered such as a golf course, but the plan was not viable as there was not enough ground water or capacity to store water. Another proposal to use the land for a cemetery was refused

In the early 1990s, the Education Department was granted a 40% share of the property, with the rest to be used by other groups. In a Draft Concept Plan drawn up by the Education Dept in May 1994, Hillside was to be managed by several committees but this was later simplified to management by the Hillside Farm Management Committee. The philosophy behind the management arrangement was to provide a community farm that promotes ecological and sustainable living practices through education and recreation opportunities. User groups included the Aboriginal Koomarl Association and the Girl Guides.

For some time the property was known as Fratico Farm. A change of name back to Hillside Farm was made in 1996 and work on the property was carried out in conjunction with a LEAP program (Linking Education and Parents Program). A 1920s school building was relocated from Tuart Hill Primary School, to be used as a classroom for an Education Department agricultural school.

Hillside farm is currently leased to the Education Department by the City of Gosnells, with a clause to permit community access. Most of the 54 hectare farm is used as a training facility to impart agriculture based skills to young people with urban backgrounds, with one of the teaching staff serving as a live-in caretaker resident in the homestead. A paddock on the downhill side of the farm is sublet to the Darling Range Wildlife Shelter for the purpose of rehabilitating native fauna.

As well as the former Tuart Hill school building, which is hired out for meetings and an added camping facility, there is a straw bale shelter used by community and commercial groups and a former school lunch shed, relocated from Orange Grove Primary School, which is used as an interpretive centre. The place has camping facilities for groups of up to thirty. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Stephen Gibbs Original landowner LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13861 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 302795 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Local History Collection Booklet Fratico Farm Management Plan Report McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book


Place No: MAR4

NAME OF PLACE Martin House (fmr) Address 99 Mills Road West Suburb/Town MARTIN Reserve No: Lot 100 Plan 71379 Vol 1760 Fol 662 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1908 Original Use Residence/farm house Present Use Residence CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Painted weatherboards Roof Corrugated iron ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Vernacular Bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey timber framed building is simple in form with a corrugated iron clad roof. The house is situated in the middle of the property and has a verandah at the front with a skillion roofed extension at the rear. A gable roofed shed is located close to the road. There is a small orchard located along Station Street. The Mills Road West facing part of the property is used for grazing for livestock. The property is raised from the road on Station Street. CONDITION Fair INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Martin House (fmr) is significant for associations with Richard and Mary Martin and their son Vic Martin who made a substantial commitment to the Gosnells Roads Board and Shire Council.


HISTORICAL NOTES Richard and Mary Martin moved to Gosnells from the goldfields in 1907 with their two children Edward Victor (Vic) and Edith. The family took up land in Mills Road. Richard was suffering miner’s silicosis, from which he eventually died. Son Vic established an orchard and poultry farm in Station Street in 1931 and inherited the property in 1939 when his mother died. Vic Martin served on the Gosnells Roads Board and Shire Council for forty two years, was a Freeman of the City, and the Martin locality is named in his honour. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Vic Martin Community identity and Road Board Chairman LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 208915


SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Local Studies Collection: Martin family Articles


Place No: MAR5

NAME OF PLACE Moran House (fmr) Other names Address 108 Mills Road West Suburb/Town MARTIN Reserve No: Lot 101 Plan 73502 C.T.Vol 1818 Fol 530 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1911 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Hardiplank fibrocement

sheeting

Roof Corrugated iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation vernacular bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey timber framed building has been reclad with hardiplank fibrocement wall lining. The roof is mostly hipped, and clad with corrugated iron, and illustrates at least three periods of development (extensions). There is a verandah across part of the street frontage and along the west side, enclosed from the southwest corner and the side. The verandah posts are simple stop chamfered timber posts. The south east corner shows a truncated rectangular bay window with facetted hipped roof over. Most windows have been replaced with aluminium framed sliding glass windows.

CONDITION Fair INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Low degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Moran House (fmr) is significant for associations with artist Eleanor Moran.



HISTORICAL NOTES This house is strongly associated with artist, Eleanor Emily Moran. Mrs Moran was born in New Zealand in 1870, moved to New South Wales in the 1890s and came to Gosnells in 1911. She was largely a natural self-taught artist. After starting formal classes at Perth Technical College, family commitments led to her withdrawal from the course. Despite this Mrs Moran reached the height of her career in the 1930s and held her own exhibition in Newspaper House, Perth in June 1934. One of the twenty eight exhibition paintings, that of Sir James Mitchell, hung for many years in Government House in Perth. She has other notable works in nationally renowned collections. Mrs Moran was known locally as a quiet gentle person who taught painting to a number of local children and adults. She was also well known for small paintings on gum leaves and gum nuts. Her father was also a painter and French polisher. He painted the background scenery for the Picture Shows held in the Gosnells Hotel. Mrs Moran died in 1948 aged 78 years. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Mrs Eleanor Emily Moran Owner and artist LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13863 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 206733 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Local Studies Collection Notes


Place No: O1

NAME OF PLACE Bickley Brook Reservoir group Other names Bickley Dam

Recreation Camp (Bickley Camp; Bickley Youth Camp; Bickley Outdoor Recreation Centre) Hardinge Park Pipe Track was from Victoria Dam

Address Hardinge Road Suburb/Town ORANGE GROVE Reserve No: Lot 4768 DP 31407 Vol 31 Fol 2600918 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1891:13”main pipe installed, 1900: 22” main pipe installed,

1921: Dam, 1945: Camp, 1993, 1994: Park Original Use Dam: Water supply

Camp: First State Youth Camp Present Use Dam: Water supply, recreation

Camp: First State Youth Recreation area

Other Use Dam: Recreational use - no swimming Recreational use - swimming

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Dam: concrete

Camp: fibre cement sheeting

Roof Camp: iron sheeting Other Pipe track: concrete

pipe supports

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Camp: Post War Bungalow


DESCRIPTION The Bickley Brook Reservoir has a concrete wall 191 metres wide and 13 metres high. It impounds a reservoir of approximately 106,000 cubic metres capacity.

The Bickley Recreation Camp is located at the foot of a thickly wooded hillside on the south-eastern end of the Bickley Reservoir. Set on sloping ground, some parts of the landscape have been tiered. Bickley Brook runs through the valley and on the west bank are facilities for campers. The complex consists of a number of separate buildings linked by pathways. Some of the original weatherboard buildings are still evident while some have been upgraded and/or enlarged. There is a kitchen and dining area and accommodation bungalows with ablution facilities linking them. Originally there were four buildings but these have been combined to form two. The old school from Carilla (Pickering Brook) was relocated to the site. There are still some freestanding older toilet blocks. The site has some landscaping, grassed areas, and facilities for barbecuing, canoeing and hiking. A rope course and bush walk trails complete the campsite. In one section, the Gould League have built some commemorative stone seats and ornamental features in an area known as the T. S. Edmondson Sanctuary.

Hardinge Park is located on Hardinge Road to the west of the Bickley Reservoir. The Park has been terraced and landscaped. The facilities include a playground for children, concrete walkways, shaded timber benches and tables, timber railing fences, and well designed toilet facilities that blend into the surrounding landscape.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Bickley Reservoir, built in 1921, provided an important water source for a number of years before Churchmans Brook was activated. Since its construction it has been a destination for social gatherings for picnics and camping. The pipe track is significant as the remnants of the connection between the reservoir and the water supply to the city.

Bickley Recreation Camp, which opened 3 June 1945, was an initiative of the National Fitness Council to promote national fitness, especially among young people. The camp has provided recreation and education facilities for many community groups since 1945. Walking trails in the area allow people to enjoy and interpret the natural environment.

Hardinge Park attracts a number of people seeking natural surroundings (with some facilities) for relaxation and social outings in a limited area around the dam. The Water Authority set aside this park to protect the environment around the dam from damage and pollution by human activities. Hardinge Park is therefore a beautiful and precious remnant of bushland in an urban area.



HISTORICAL NOTES Bickley Brook Reservoir was built in 1920-21 as a stopgap measure to alleviate the ongoing issue of an adequate water supply for Perth. It supplemented the water supply to the city via the Bickley Pipe Track. The Pipe Track was located along what is now Hardinge Road, Maddington Road and Bickley Road, through Orange Grove, Maddington, Kenwick and Beckenham. Throughout the early 1920s, the water mains were gradually laid from the Pipe Track to the residential areas in East Cannington, Maddington, and Kenwick. Up to that time, people relied on rainwater tanks and wells for their domestic water and on the river and creeks for irrigation for the orchards, vineyards and market gardens. The Victoria Reservoir, built in 1891, was inadequate by 1898, but the government was unable for many years to reach a decision on where to build a large new dam. The presence of E.coli in the water from the Bickley Reservoir led to the decision to resume all land in the catchment area. Bickley Reservoir was taken out of service in 1936, when the Canning Dam was put into service, and the water was used for irrigation until 1944. The area was then set aside for recreational purposes and Bickley Recreation Camp was established During WWI, many conscripts were unable to meet the standards of fitness and health required by the armed forces so in the latter half of the 1930s, unrest in Europe and the rise of Fascist powers and their prominent youth movements caused the Commonwealth nations to look at measures to address this issue in the event of another war. The National Fitness Council was established in 1938 with the aim of promoting physical fitness, especially among the young. A Camps and Hostels Committee was formed in 1942 and the first State Youth Camp was established at Bickley in 1945. The initial work was done by committee members and volunteer workers and included cleaning up the site, laying paths and erecting buildings, including a lecture hut, kitchen, store and shower block. Accommodation was in tents at first and later in bungalows. The camp was opened by the Minister for Education and Social Services, John Tonkin. A number of community groups were involved in the place - Scouts, Girl Guides, YMCA, YWCA, many church groups, the Junior Red Cross, Rural Youth Movement, Gould League and Football Clubs. More buildings were erected and in the mid 1960s, the old school from Carilla, near Pickering Brook, was transferred to the site. A 50m swimming pool was created in the reservoir, jetties were built by two local men, George White (grandson of Jabez White) and Bill Webster, and an amphitheatre and several memorials added. Commemorative stones, seats etc were built by Hans Jenal. The Gould League have contributed enormously to the understanding of the area by laying trails. Facilities have been constantly improved for the greater enjoyment and appreciation of the beautiful setting and the flora and fauna. In 1978 the Reservoir was drained and cleaned to make it safe for swimming. Fifty years of use were celebrated in 1995. Over the years activities held at the camp have included among other things swimming camps, social functions, water polo, athletic groups, Scout and Guide groups, youth drama and art groups. A manager resides on the site. In 1993 Bickley Pump Station was constructed to pump water through to the new Victoria Dam Reservoir during the wetter months, and a recreation area (Hardinge Park) was established below the catchment area. This meant the return of the Bickley Reservoir to at least partial use to supplement Perth's water supply and with that came concerns for the health of the catchment area. Plans were announced by the WA Water Authority together with the Gosnells City Council, to upgrade facilities at Bickley Reservoir below the upstream area, thereby reducing pollution problems. Work included rehabilitating degraded areas and constructing new recreation facilities such as tables and benches, walk trails, a car park, playground and toilets. City of Gosnells’ duties included rehabilitation and landscaping, lawn mowing, weed control and reticulation. The new area was named Hardinge Park after T. H. Hardinge, whose land higher up the valley had been resumed for the water supply in 1920. The road to the area was named after him many years ago. T. H. Hardinge died in 1929 but his daughter attended the opening of the Park. The Hardinge Park facilities are now well used by local people and visitors to the area. Access to the Reservoir and catchment are now controlled in an effort to reduce pollution. Permission can be obtained to enter the fenced area or access is available via the Recreation Camp. There are carefully planned sign posted bridle paths in the catchment area, while the nearby Mason and Bird Heritage Trail also attracts visitors to the area.


ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Wallace Bickley Named after one of the early landowners in the district National Fitness Council - Voluntary workers

Initiators and builders of the camp

Ernie (Richard) Halliday (Honorary Director)

first Director of the National Fitness Council of W.A.

T. H. Hardinge Early owner of farm catchment land LISTINGS HCWA Database No. Dam:13868,

Recreation Camp: 13869, Hardinge Park:13870

Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 237107 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Information display at recreation camp Display Le Page, J.S.H., Building a state: the story of the Public Works Department of Western Australia 1829-1985.

Book

Environmental Protection Authority, Proposed Victoria-Bickley Redevelopment Scheme, 1990.

Booklet

West Australian 1 July 1959 Newspaper article Gosnells Local History Collection Booklet The Origins of Bickley Camp - Pat Cornish Booklet David Maunders, Keeping them off the streets, 1980. Book Comment News, 12 October 1993 Newspaper


Place No: O2

NAME OF PLACE Jadran Winery Other names Address 87 Reservoir Road Suburb/Town ORANGE GROVE Reserve No: n/a Lot 456 Diagram 3327 C.T. Vol Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 1927 Original Use Vineyard/Winery Present Use Vineyard/Winery Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick/render Roof Tiles Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Interwar Functional DESCRIPTION Jadran Winery is situated in the foothills of the Orange Grove area. Many hectares of vines are planted to supply grapes for the wines made by the Radojkovich family. The Winery/Cellar and store are situated close to the road on the boundary of the property. The brick and tile building is long and rectangular with a small sales office built on the side. In the facade of the building are two round wheel 'windows' that give the building a Mediterranean feel.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Jadran Wines and the Radojkovich family has a long association with the Orange Grove area. The vineyard and winery business was established in the late 1920s, and with no interruptions, continues to operate today.



HISTORICAL NOTES Wally Radojkovich bought land in Orange Grove in 1927. While still working at Dunstan's Mountain Quarry he developed the land by planting grapevines. He set up a winery and eventually left the quarry to work on the land. The Australian preference for beer at this time required Wally to work on alternatives to supplement his income, which he did by growing peas and potatoes between the rows of vines in spring.

During World War Two a shortage of beer created a demand for wine. This helped the local wineries, particularly Wally Radojkovich's Jadran Wines. Demand was such that Wally was able to abandon his vegetable growing.

Jadran Wines, run by the Radojkovich family, is still a successful business today, with award winning wines sold throughout Australia. Fortified wines are the speciality and Jadran is now renowned for its White Port.

A recent traveller review (30 July 2008) of Jadran Winery appeared on the Total Travel website, posted by Douglas Gray of Bathgate, UK.

“Easy to find, just off Tonkin on the other side from Maddington. A quiet little oasis, ideal for a stop off on your journey or as a trip to sample some excellent wines (and buy as well). Friendly staff answered our questions and were very patient as we pondered our choices. Make sure you have a designated driver or be ready to call a taxi!”

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Radojkovich Family First and only owners LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13872 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 302609 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Information from the Radojkovich Family Oral History Total Travel website www.totaltravel.com.au


Place No: O3

NAME OF PLACE Jabez White's Cottage & Mill site Other names Canning Dale Address 26 White Road Suburb/Town ORANGE GROVE Reserve No: n/a Lot 331 DP 42192 Vol 2614 Fol 34 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1860s Original Use Residence, mill, dairy Present Use residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Mud brick Roof Corrugated iron Timber shingles Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Victorian rural vernacular DESCRIPTION This small hand built cottage was originally consisted of two rooms with a verandah. It was built out of mud brick and was rubble rendered. The central door leads into the main room and has one window at the front and a large fireplace at the end. The false flat ceiling has been removed to reveal the original raked ceiling. The other room off the main room was smaller with a single window with nine panes. The verandah around the house was enclosed and has been altered over the years, to accommodate a growing family. In later years a bathroom and kitchen were built at the left hand end with tiles on the concrete floor. The boarding around the verandah is painted weatherboard with small casement four pane windows. To the rear at the right hand side there is an old external metal chimney that was added at a later date than the original. The chimney is a simple rendered rectangular design.

CONDITION Fair INTEGRITY High degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Jabez White’s Cottage is significant for the associations with Jabez White who owned and built the cottage and developed the area of Orange Grove. The cottage is representative of the Nineteenth Century pioneers and early agricultural success in the Gosnells district.

MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATION Category A: City of Gosnells ‘Heritage List.’ TPS: Development Application. Retain & conserve. Refer to Heritage Council of Western Australia.


HISTORICAL NOTES In 1860 Jabez White, a former ships carpenter, acquired Canning Locations 50 and 51 on Bickley Brook, which is now Orange Grove. This was to become the nucleus of his farm, called 'Canning Dale'. With his wife Sarah and growing family (eleven children) Jabez developed a successful farm, building a mud brick cottage, growing grapes for wine (established in 1875), as well as being involved in extensive cropping, using irrigation, and stock grazing. During the 1870s he built a water powered flour mill which operated until construction of the Victoria Reservoir in 1891 reduced water flow. This left the mill stranded without its power source. The mill was burnt down in a bushfire in 1951.

Jabez White's entrepreneurial skills also saw him in the timber industry. With his family connection to the timber merchants, J & W Bateman, and the nearby Mason & Bird Timber Mill, Jabez also became involved by obtaining a local timber licence in 1865. He became a prominent citizen of Orange Grove and in the Gosnells district. After Jabez White's death in 1899 the land was divided amongst the four surviving sons. Their farming practices led to slower production and eventually much of the land was sold.

The house property has been subdivided into three lots.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE White Family First owners LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 13871 Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 209589 City of Gosnells Municipal Heritage Inventory 1998 Classified by the National Trust On Heritage List

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE The Western Australian Naturalist, Vol 18 1-3. 1991. No 6. Article by Dodds Kendrick Roe and Lefevre

Articles

McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book


Place No: T1

NAME OF PLACE Crestwood Community Centre Other names Address 27 Coronet Court Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot 297 P 9678 Vol 1671 Fol 210 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1970 Original Use Community Centre Present Use Community Centre Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Tile Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Paul Ritter design (also evident at Rockingham Park) DESCRIPTION The distinctive hexagonal building with facetted roof has a clerestory highlight window and facetted pagoda roof above. It is adjacent to the community swimming pool and open space park area that backs onto residences and links through the Crestwood Estate with no vehicular interruption, via pedestrian underpasses.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Crestwood Community Centre is an integral element of the innovative Crestwood Estate of the early 1970s, designed by Paul Ritter.



HISTORICAL NOTES Part of Walter Padbury's Thornlie Park estate was sold in 1937 to Nathaniel Harper. The 1,715-acre property owned by the late Nathaniel Harper was auctioned in 1954. The first development took place in 1957. The area was aimed mainly at middle-income earners and inner city dwellers. In the 1960s the more up-market Crestwood Estate began to be developed by Ron Sloan.

The architect planner was Paul Ritter who based Crestwood on the Garden City and American residential developments that followed the Radburn Technique, which was a 'separation of man and motor, providing peace, safety and security'. This approach meant unfenced communal living; shared facilities, parks connected to every house, underground power, and reticulated water supplies. Homeowners were to pay $2.90 a week for the maintenance of surroundings and all community facilities, which included a swimming pool and sporting facilities.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Paul Ritter Architect LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 227628



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Place No: T2

NAME OF PLACE Crestwood Estate Other names Address Regency Drive, Coronet Court, Princeton Court & Grenadier

Drive Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot n/a Plan/Diagram n/a Vol/Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 1970s Original Use Residential precinct Present Use Residential Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Mostly brick Roof Tile – gabled and

skillion roofs

Other Mostly two storey ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Late Twentieth Century Perth Regional DESCRIPTION Each house was individually designed, some through a design competition organised by the Institute of Architects. Most homes were two storey with simple roof planes and clerestory windows. The homes on the smaller than usual lots were set close to the road with landscaped gardens to the roads edge with no front boundary delineations (fences). The homes opened onto community open space at the rear. The open space is linked through the entire estate which was designed to separate cars from pedestrians,via pedestrian underpasses.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Ron Sloan is significant as the visionary landowner who initiated Crestwood Estate as an experiment in providing fully-integrated facilities and services to home-owners. Paul Ritter the architect planner, based Crestwood Estate on the Garden City philosophy and American residential developments that followed the Radburn Technique. The Estate design was a great contrast to surrounding suburbia with its grid pattern of streets, and subsequently became a significant influence of suburban planning in new developments that included curved roads, more parkland connecting areas and underground power.



HISTORICAL NOTES Part of Walter Padbury's Thornlie Park Estate was sold in 1937 to mine-manager and investor, Nathaniel Harper. The 1,715-acre property was put up for auction in two lots in September 1954. The first development took place on 228 acres (0.92 km²) of Lot 1, purchased by D. and M. O'Sullivan, with forty houses completed by March 1957. The area was aimed mainly at middle-income earners and inner city dwellers, but it was the more up-market Crestwood Estate, begun in the late 1960s, that caught the imagination. Crestwood was an experiment in providing fully-integrated facilities and services to home-owners. While only a small residential development, Crestwood is notable for being decades ahead of its time. In an advertising brochure the developers stated that:

Crestwood Estates sent forth its manager and an architect planner to seek out the very best features of the finest developments in twenty countries of the Western World. Travelling over 20,000 miles across America, Scandinavia and Europe many hundreds of the most wonderful projects were visited - and out of this intensive investigation, and a desire to contribute to the permanent welfare of Western Australian families, has come exciting advances not yet achieved elsewhere...

The developer during the 1960s and 1970s was Ron Sloan. The architect planner was Paul Ritter who based Crestwood on the Garden City approach to planning and on American residential developments that followed the Radburn Technique, which was a 'separation of man and motor, providing peace, safety and security'. This approach meant unfenced communal living, shared facilities, parks connected to every house, underground power, and reticulated water supplies. Homeowners were to pay $2.90 a week for the maintenance of surroundings and all community facilities, which included a swimming pool and sporting facilities. Covenants were established to maintain a high standard of design and maintenance, with each home to have a minimum value of $14,000. The blocks where smaller than the usual quarter acre and each house was to be individually designed. The Royal Australian Institute of Architects approved the participation of its members in a competition for residential design solutions. Many of the homes built were two-storey. Crestwood Estate was officially opened at a buffet dinner in the Members Pavilion of Claremont Showgrounds by Minister for Housing D. H. O'Neil MLA on 16 October 1969. While eight villages were planned (Royale Ridge, Castle Glen, Explorer Glades, Regal Grove Ridge and Realm Ridge, and the higher density villages of Sovereign Heights, Knights Brook and Monarch Lodge) only one, Royale Ridge, was actually developed. It comprises the streets of Regency Drive, Coronet and Princeton courts and Grenadier Drive complete with parkland strips, a central Community Centre with swimming pool, and pedestrian underpasses. Houses in the surrounding streets that back onto Royale Ridge, such as Cavalier Court, Lachlan Road and Ovens Road, enjoy the benefits of the Crestwood design with a lack of streets to cross, and all have the same direct parkland access to Thornlie Senior High School and South Thornlie Primary School. The design of the development was a great contrast to surrounding suburbia with its grid pattern of streets, and it was to be some time before the principles that Ritter applied to Crestwood , such as curved roads, more parkland connecting areas and underground power, were implemented across new suburban developments. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Paul Ritter Crestwood designer (Architect/planner) Nathanial Harper Land owner of Thornlie Park Ron Sloan Developer of Crestwood Estate LISTINGS HCWA Database No. 17518


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SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Crestwood Estates, Royale Ridge development. Advertising brochure Real Estate Institute of Western Australia, Suburb Profile, Thornlie, 2007. Online McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book


Place No: T3

NAME OF PLACE Thornlie Community Centre Other names Remnants of Thornlie Homestead, Olive trees Address Glenbrook Road (cnr Connemara Drive) Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: Lot 3878 Diagram C.T. Vol Fol 26227 - Park 43216 - Community Centre

Lot 1821 Lot 3878

P 7580 P191606

LR 3102 LR3093

686 147

CONSTRUCTION DATE 1977, extension 1990 Original Use Thornlie Homestead - residential Present Use Community Centre and interpretive site Other Use Remnants of Thornlie Homestead and plantings CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face brick Homestead evidence of brick

construction Roof Colourbond sheeting Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Community centre: Late Twentieth Century Perth Regional DESCRIPTION The Community Centre is a double storey expansive building set on the bank of the Canning River, with a single storey street frontage. The low-pitched gable roof planes contrast with the barrel vault entry. The street frontage is framed by trees and plantings with a car park and access between the landscape strip and the building. Expansive parkland slopes down to the river on the northwest and rear (northeast) side of the building, with the homestead remnants on the northwest side. CONDITION Homestead remnants: poor Community Centre: Good INTEGRITY Homestead remnants: low degree Community Centre: High degree AUTHENTICITY Homestead remnants: high degree Community Centre: High degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Thornlie Homestead remnants and plantings represent the original Thornlie settlement from which the current name of the surrounding suburb is derived. Associations with Walter Padbury are significant. It is likely that the site has archaeological significance. Thornlie Community Centre is significant as a facility for the community in Thornlie.



HISTORICAL NOTES Thornlie Homestead Park is the site of the homestead of the Thornlie Park Estate owned by Walter Padbury.

Walter Padbury had arrived in the colony at the age of 10 with his father, in February 1830. Shortly afterwards, his father died and Walter survived during the next few years by working at a series of jobs, including shearing, reaping, cutting firewood, fencing, mowing and shepherding. In the better economic conditions of the convict era he laid the foundations of a substantial fortune in pastoral properties, Indian Ocean trade and various business ventures.

In 1883, he purchased 2,000 acres of Thomas Bannister's Woolcombs property. He and his wife, Charlotte, had just returned from a world trip, where he had been especially interested in agricultural developments in America. This may have encouraged him to buy the land on the Canning River. The Padbury's had no children so they took particular interest in their nieces and nephews. Niece Amy Ougden was about to marry farmer Frank James, and Padbury arranged for them to manage the new estate. He had a homestead built on a slope above the narrow Canning River flood plain, with views across the rivergums to the hills. The house, erected by contractor Brusher Lewis, was built of bricks made from clay dug from pits on the property, and laid with lime mortar burnt from deposits from nearby Marl Hill. All the timber for beams, floors and the shingle roof was cut on the property. Frank and Amy James were married on 11 June 1884 and moved into the unfinished homestead. The property was named 'Thornlie' after a business house in Madras run by Frank James' grandfather.

A farming enterprise was established on the property, with the clearing done by Chinese labourers. In its first years, the property was run on an experimental basis, with a wide variety of fruit trees and vines being planted. James also tried various strains of wheat, oats and vegetables, and developed an excellent milking herd and piggery. In time, a number of buildings were added including barns, cattle sheds and dairy, underground water storages and workers' accommodation. By the turn of the century, James was winning cattle prizes regularly at local shows, and the estate had emerged as one of the agricultural landmarks of the Canning. Ownership of Thornlie passed to Amy James on the death of Walter Padbury in 1907 and she and Frank, with their family of seven children, continued to work the farm until the late 1920s. After Frank died in 1929 and Amy three years later, the estate was managed by their youngest son Selby, until it was sold in 1937 to Nathaniel Harper. Some time later, having long outlasted all of the other riverside estates, it was subdivided to become the suburb of Thornlie.

The Homestead site beside the river was reserved for parkland. Many of the brick outbuildings, and possibly some of the farm machinery, were pushed into the underground water tanks and covered with earth. The Homestead was converted into a civic centre with a caretaker's flat. In November 1974, the Homestead was severely damaged by fire started by vandals. The surviving brick walls were in danger of collapse and were pushed into the cellar, which extended under the whole of the building, and the space filled with sand. A new community centre was then built in the Park.

There are four large and ancient olive trees lining Glenbrook Drive and another located at what was the rear of the Homestead. The tree behind the Homestead site was damaged in the fire but has substantially re-established itself.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Walter Padbury Original owner of homestead (1883) Amy & Frank James Managed and developed the property LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 239498

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnell's Story, 1988. Book Thornlie Rotary Club, Community Riverside Project: Thornlie Community Park Centre, [198-]

Report


Place No: T4

NAME OF PLACE House Other names Address 21 Pegus Street Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot 35 P 6786 Vol 1195 Fol 82 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1954-1958 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Tiled Gable (pavilion) Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Post War Bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey simple rectangular form is one of six standard designs available at the time of construction. The simple pavilion roof, timber framed windows and balanced façade are typical of the developments.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree (garage addition on the side)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE 21 Pegus Street is representative of the Thornlie development that was one of only two privately conceived suburbs in Australia at the time. It was one of the first houses built in the area in 1956 and it represents the beginning of residential Thornlie in the mid 1950s, which set the foundation for the further development of Thornlie as a commuter suburb.



HISTORICAL NOTES The 1,715-acre property of the former Thornlie Park Estate, was put up for auction in two lots in September 1954, and the first development took place on 228 acres of Lot 1, purchased by D. and M. O'Sullivan. The area was aimed mainly at middle-income earners and inner city dwellers There were forty houses completed by March 1957 and one hundred by May 1958. This included Pegus Street, Thornlie Avenue, Bernice Way and Martindale Avenue, and was later extended to include Wynyard Way and Rangeview Way. After initial problems with winter flooding had been dealt with, the second development went ahead rapidly, bounded by Spencer Road and Thornlie and Berehaven Avenues. The rapid growth of the suburb was a result of modestly designed homes in the £2,600 to £4,000 range and the availability of bank finance.

All the houses were of brick construction, in the triple-fronted style favoured in the 1950s, and there were six basic plans to choose from, for both two- and three-bedroom homes. Thornlie was one of only two privately conceived suburbs in Australia at the time. It was a commuter suburb where a car was essential as public transport had not yet reached it.

Pegus Street was named for Captain Peter Pegus, who was allocated Canning Location 18 on 3 November 1829. This ribbon grant was situated between the present-day Pembury Road and Wilfred Road in Thornlie. The house was one of the first built in the area in 1956.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE No associations known LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 200210

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Real Estate Institute of Western Australia, Suburb Profile, Thornlie, 2007. Online. McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988.


Place No: T5

NAME OF PLACE House Other names Address 21 Range View Way Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot 147 P 6876 Vol 1210 Fol 587 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1958 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls brick Roof Tiled Gable (pavilion) Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Post War Bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey simple rectangular form is one of six standard designs available at the time of construction. The simple pavilion roof, timber framed windows and balanced façade are typical of the developments. Some additions have taken place.

CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree (garage addition on the side)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE 21 Rangeview Way is representative of the Thornlie development that set the foundation for the further development of Thornlie as a commuter suburb. The place is significant for the associations with Patricia Morris AM JP Honorary Freeman who served as a Councillor and Mayor for many years.



HISTORICAL NOTES The 1,715-acre property of the former Thornlie Park Estate, was put up for auction in two lots in September 1954, and the first development took place on 228 acres of Lot 1, purchased by D. & M. O'Sullivan. The area was aimed mainly at middle-income earners and inner city dwellers. There were forty houses completed by March 1957 and one hundred by May 1958. This included Pegus Street, Thornlie Avenue, Bernice Way and Martindale Avenue, and was later extended to include Wynyard Way and Rangeview Way. After initial problems with winter flooding had been dealt with, the second development went ahead rapidly, bounded by Spencer Road and Thornlie and Berehaven Avenues. The rapid growth of the suburb was a result of modestly designed homes in the £2,600 to £4,000 range and the availability of bank finance.

All the houses were of brick construction, in the triple-fronted style favoured in the 1950s, and there were six basic plans to choose from, for both two- and three-bedroom homes. Thornlie was one of only two privately conceived suburbs in Australia at the time. It was a commuter suburb where a car was essential as public transport had not yet reached it.

Patricia Morris AM JP Honorary Freeman is the original owner and resident, with her family. She served as a Councillor and Mayor for the City of Gosnells.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Patricia Morris Councillor and Mayor of City of Gosnells LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 200210

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Real Estate Institute of Western Australia, Suburb Profile, Thornlie, 2007. Online. McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Information from Cr Patricia Morris AM JP Honorary Freeman Oral History


Place No: T6

NAME OF PLACE Thornlie Square Shopping Centre Other names Address 318 Spencer Road Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot 1 D 69807 Vol 1735 Fol 985 CONSTRUCTION DATE 1970 and incremental development and upgrades since then Original Use Shopping Centre Present Use Shopping Centre Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Concealed behind parapets Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Enclosed mall shopping centre DESCRIPTION The single storey simple rectangular form with perimeter parapets. Entries on three sides access the central mall.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Thornlie Square Shopping Centre is significant for the association with the rapid development of Thornlie as a commuter suburb, and is reputedly the first enclosed mall shopping centre in Western Australia.


HISTORICAL NOTES The first homes were built in the suburb of Thornlie in 1956 and the suburb developed at a rapid rate. This was an era where families had only one car, if any, and public transport had not reached the new area. Shopkeepers and services from the surrounding suburbs made regular deliveries to the area, where many women with young children were largely housebound. The first section of the Thornlie Shopping Centre was opened in 1970.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Merifield & Stokes Projects Pty Ltd Developer


LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 212345

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Real Estate Institute of Western Australia, Suburb Profile, Thornlie, 2007. Online.


Place No: T7

NAME OF PLACE House Other names Address 13 Spring Road Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot 24 P 8157 Vol 1371 Fol 169 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1950 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick/render Roof Tile Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Post War Bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey brick residence has a hipped tile roof. The verandahs are under the main roof and supported by brick piers. Typical of the period, the windows are in sets of three, and one is a corner configuration to capture river views. There is another building located to the rear of the property. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate to high degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE House, 13 Spring Road, is a good representative example of the period and style showing the development adjacent to the river, outside the Thornlie development of the 1950s.



HISTORICAL NOTES The 1,715-acre property of the former Thornlie Park Estate, was put up for auction in two lots in September 1954, and the first development took place on 228 acres of Lot 1, purchased by D. and M. O'Sullivan. The area was aimed mainly at middle-income earners and inner city dwellers There were forty houses completed by March 1957 and one hundred by May 1958. This included Pegus Street, Thornlie Avenue, Bernice Way and Martindale Avenue, and was later extended to include Wynyard Way and Rangeview Way. After initial problems with winter flooding had been dealt with, the second development went ahead rapidly, bounded by Spencer Road and Thornlie and Berehaven Avenues. The rapid growth of the suburb was a result of modestly designed homes in the £2,600 to £4,000 range and the availability of bank finance. All the houses were of brick construction, in the triple-fronted style favoured in the 1950s, and there were six basic plans to choose from, for both two- and three-bedroom homes. Thornlie was one of only two privately conceived suburbs in Australia at the time. It was a commuter suburb where a car was essential as public transport had not yet reached it.

Spring Road was named for the local springs and was developed after the other areas between Thornlie Avenue and Spencer Road.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE No associations known LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 201475

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Real Estate Institute of Western Australia, Suburb Profile, Thornlie, 2007. Online. McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book


Place No: T8

NAME OF PLACE House Other names Address 20 Spring Road Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot 56 D51572 Vol 1457 Fol 727 CONSTRUCTION DATE c. 1910 Original Use Residence Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Timber framed Painted weatherboard Roof Corrugated iron Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Bungalow DESCRIPTION The single storey brick residence has a hipped corrugated iron roof. The verandahs are under the main roof at break pitch, and supported by square timber posts. A face brick front boundary fence obscures views of the place in addition to a mature jacaranda tree within the front setback. CONDITION Good INTEGRITY High degree: continual residential AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree (verandah enclosures are visible)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE House, 20 Spring Road, is a representative example of which there are few, prior to the subdivision and development of Thornlie.



HISTORICAL NOTES This was one of the houses built in Thornlie, before it was developed in the 1950s and called Thornlie. The locality consisted of rural properties and natural bush. Spring Road was named for the local springs. Later the 1,715-acre property of the former Thornlie Park Estate, was put up for auction in two lots in September 1954, and the first development took place on 228 acres of Lot 1, purchased by D. and M. O'Sullivan. The area was aimed mainly at middle-income earners and inner city dwellers There were forty houses completed by March 1957 and one hundred by May 1958. This included Pegus Street, Thornlie Avenue, Bernice Way and Martindale Avenue, and was later extended to include Wynyard Way and Rangeview Way. After initial problems with winter flooding had been dealt with, the second development went ahead rapidly, bounded by Spencer Road and Thornlie and Berehaven Avenues. The rapid growth of the suburb was a result of modestly designed homes in the £2,600 to £4,000 range and the availability of bank finance. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE No associations known LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 201483

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Real Estate Institute of Western Australia, Suburb Profile, Thornlie, 2007. Online. McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book


Place No: T9

NAME OF PLACE Sister Kate's Kenwick Boys' Home (fmr) Other names Address 35 Spring Road Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot 702 DP 41894 Vol/Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 1946 Original Use Dormitory accommodation Present Use Residence Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Fibrocement Roof Steel sheeting Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Postwar Functional DESCRIPTION The single storey building is a rectangular pavilion parallel with the side boundaries. The low pitch roof is gabled with the frontage having a fibrocement sheet gable infill.

CONDITION Fair INTEGRITY Moderate degree AUTHENTICITY Moderate degree

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Sister Kate's Kenwick Boys' Home (fmr) is significant for the Sister Kate associations.



HISTORICAL NOTES This property was acquired by Sister Kate's Children's Homes Inc in 1946.

Sister Kate's Children's Homes had been established by Sister Kate Clutterbuck, an Anglican nun. Its main premises were at Parkerville and Queens Park. It catered for part-Aboriginal children from infants to eighteen, and was the first children's institution in the State to adopt the idea of cottage homes instead of the large impersonal buildings that had been the usual for such places. Walter Padbury, owner of the Thornlie Estate, was a financial supporter of the Parkerville Home.

The property originally consisted of 8-acres of Lot 9, between Spring Road and the Canning River. Accommodation was in an 80ft x 40ft asbestos clad building, which was relocated from Fremantle after World War Two, where it had been an observation ward for the United States Navy. The land was sandy and poor and a vegetable garden located on the lower land by the River was subject to flooding.

In 1956 the place was under the management of Mr & Mrs Wilkes and there were twelve boys, aged twelve to sixteen, in residence, a large fowl yard with 80 fowls and a dairy, but only one cow. The Kenwick and Busselton Virgilians adopted the Kenwick Boys' Home, assisting with repairs, providing a parcel of clothes for each boy at Christmas and arranging outings.

After Sister Kate's death in 1946, the organisation was managed by the Presbyterian Church and later the Uniting Church.The Kenwick Boys' Home was closed and the property sold in 1961.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Sister Kate's Children's Homes Original owner and use LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 236006

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE City of Gosnells Indigenous oral history – Ted Kilmurray Oral history


Place No: T10

NAME OF PLACE Thornlie Child Health Centre Other names Thornlie Infant Health Centre Address 1 Culross Avenue (enter off Thornlie Avenue) Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot 1874 n/a C.T. Vol/Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 1963 Original Use Infant Health Centre Present Use Child Health Centre Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Metaldeck Low pitched gable Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Late Twentieth Century Perth Regional DESCRIPTION The single storey simple rectangular form with full height glazing balanced with full brick façade wall is typical of the residential design of the period and in Thornlie.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Thornlie Child Health Centre is representative of the provision of infant health centres in the residential areas where the post War baby boom was prevalent. It is representative of architecture form and materials of the period and the surrounding Thornlie residential area. It has strong associations with the local community as funds to build were raised by the community who lobbied for its construction.



HISTORICAL NOTES Interest in mother and child health dates from the turn of the Twentieth Century when there was much concern about the high levels of maternal and infant mortality. A pilot infant health clinic was established in Perth by the Children's Protection Society around 1920 but it was recognised that a state wide infant welfare service was needed. The Infant Health Association of Western Australia was formed in 1923 to work in conjunction with the Public Health Department and Infant Health Centres began to be established in metropolitan and rural areas.

The work of the Infant Health Nurse included weighing babies, discussing their progress and any problems with their health and development with the mother, and referring sick babies to a doctor or hospital. The Infant Health Centre was seen as an educational institution for mothers and one of the main aims of the clinic was to help and teach mothers how to provide for the good health of their infant ‘hoping to help her to produce a happy, healthy, well-adjusted Australian citizen’. After twenty years of operation, statistics showed that the infant mortality rate had been cut by 48%. The establishment of Infant Health Centres continued through the 1950s, in response to the post-war baby boom.

The suburb of Thornlie was established in 1954 and developed rapidly. Several shops including a pharmacy were opened in Martindale Ave by 1958 and an Infant Health Centre was soon operating in a room behind the pharmacy.

The Infant Health Centre was opened by Dr E. M. Gibson of the Public Health Department on 16 February 1963. A new committee of ‘young married women’ was formed in 1963, to raise money for the facility.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Public Health Department Ongoing use of building LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 214621

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Holman, D’Arcy, Report of the Special Consultant on Community and Health Child Services, 1991.

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Health Dept, archives. Document


Place No: T11

NAME OF PLACE Thornlie Tennis Club Other names Address 38-48 Thornlie Avenue Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot 1793 Plan/Diagram n/a Vol/Fol n/a CONSTRUCTION DATE 1959 Original Use Tennis club Present Use Tennis club Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Face brick Vertical shadowline Asbestos

sheeting Roof Metaldeck or asbestos Low pitched gable Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Post War Vernacular DESCRIPTION The single storey simple rectangular form with low-pitched gable roof is typical of the residential design of the period in the Thornlie area.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Thornlie Tennis Club is representative of the development of recreation and sporting facilities in the residential areas where the post war baby boom was prevalent.



HISTORICAL NOTES The first houses were built in Thornlie in 1956, and there were one hundred in the first development of the suburb by 1958. Sporting facilities were soon provided. In 1959, three tennis courts were built on Thornlie Ave and the Thornlie Cricket Club was founded. Within the following decade a bowling club, a par-three golf course on Spencer Road, the Thornlie Oval in Berehaven Avenue, the Thornlie Swimming Pool and the Thornlie Football Club were all established.

ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Thornlie Tennis Club Ongoing use of building LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 210405



Place No: T12

NAME OF PLACE Thornlie Baptist Church Other names Address 24A Wynyard Way Suburb/Town THORNLIE Reserve No: n/a Lot 205 P6876 Vol 2092 Fol 95 CONSTRUCTION DATE c.1970 Original Use Church Present Use Church Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls Brick Roof Zincalume Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Post War Functional DESCRIPTION The single storey simple rectangular form features a gabled entry and additional gabled porch area. The main gable roof is a pavilion form.


STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Thornlie Baptist Church is representative of the development of church facilities in response to the post war baby boom and commuter suburban development of Thornlie.



HISTORICAL NOTES The Baptist Church congregation began by meeting in local residents, the Holland’s, living room. Land was bought within the residential area and the church building was self built by members of the congregation. It was the first church built in Thornlie. Wynyard Way was one of the roads which was in the first precinct of development for the new suburb in the late 1950s. A plan of the subdivision shows the church property as a special use site. The 1,715-acre property of the former Thornlie Park Estate was put up for auction in two lots in September 1954, and the first development took place on 228 acres of Lot 1, purchased by D. and M. O'Sullivan. The area was aimed mainly at middle-income earners and inner city dwellers There were forty houses completed by March 1957 and one hundred by May 1958. This included Pegus Street, Thornlie Avenue, Bernice Way and Martindale Avenue, and was later extended to include Wynyard Way and Rangeview Way. After initial problems with winter flooding had been dealt with, the second development went ahead rapidly, bounded by Spencer Road and Thornlie and Berehaven Avenues. The rapid growth of the suburb was a result of modestly designed homes in the £2,600 to £4,000 range and the availability of bank finance. ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Baptist Union of WA Owner LISTINGS Other Ref No. GIS Property Number: 231393

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Real Estate Institute of Western Australia, Suburb Profile, Thornlie, 2007. Online. McDonald & Cooper, The Gosnells Story, 1988. Book Information provided by the Thornlie Living History Group Verbal


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