Tag: Perth
Capital city of Western Australia located at the intersections of the Swan and Canning rivers. Not to be confused with Perth, capital of Perth-shire, Scotland or Perth, a tiny town in northern Tasmania, OR the one in Canada.
The discovery of gold changed everything in Western Australia.
There was nothing particularly unusual about the citizens of Perth suing each other in the civil courts during the 19th Century. It was more out of the ordinary not to be embroiled in some sort of legal action at any given moment.
During the early 1840s, Western Australia experienced its first modern economic boom. This both contributed to and was fed by a sudden expansion in the white settler population….
The story of the corner of King and Murray Street in the city of Perth, Western Australia, continued.
The corner of King and Murray Street in the city of Perth, Western Australia
The fairly grand former General Post Office building on the corner of St Georges Terrace and Barrack street, the the exact site of which had once been the original soldier’s barracks for Perth, Western Australia.