Collection: Local History Collection

Today's heavy haulage is done on our roads. Big trucks move goods from one major centre to another and the drivers are given a special place in the pantheon of Australia's workers. A hundred and fifty years ago that role was filled by the many small vessels which plied the sea roads of our coast....

The Strategic Community Plan 2016 - 2026 set the City's direction and lists our strategic aspirations. It reflects the priorities of our community and builds on our history and the previous plans we have to shape our community. This document contains our major achievements and awards since the la...

The Cockburn story in pictures with captions. Indigenous connections, pioneers, ethnic market gardeners.

Worldwide Timber Traders is a proud Western Australian owned and operated business supplying the building and construction industry. The company is located in Bibra Lake, Western Australia. This book outlines the past, present and future of the company.

Celebrate culture, history, food, hot cars and the arts in this special first anniversary Christmas issue of Freo Streetwise. Focused on people, places and events in Fremantle, Cockburn and Melville, this souvenir issue showcases the 'greatest hits' since the launch of the quarterly magazine in D...

This special edition celebrates 183 years of horse riding heritage - starting on the coastline where WA held its first horse race on what is today part of CY O'Connor Reserve in Cockburn. It celebrates riders, trainers and, of course, horses.

The history of the Mission Hall and the Anglican Parish of Spearwood is long and convoluted. As part of the Parish of Beaconsfield originally the Spearwood area was served by visiting ministers who held services in private homes. The construction of the Mission Hall was an outreach into the area,...

George Webb lived in Perth from April 1839 until January 1848, working in the commissariat building (where the Supreme Court now stands), and progressing from Assistant Clerk to Deputy Assistant Commissary General by December 1845. He was a 'young man about town', organising Assembly balls and Fo...