This is the last of 3 walks around the Perth CBD under the guidance of the downloaded mp3 file. The weather is still outstanding, except for putting water into the dams. Kathryn joined me for the train ride into town. She did her own exploring and waited to have a coffee with me after I had completed the walk.
The walk once again commenced at the Perth Town Hall. The walk predominately looked at locations along St Georges Terrrace as far as the Old Barracks Arch. The Barracks were orginally built to house the soldiers whose duty it was to look after the convicts in the 1850s and 60s. The Arch of the Old Barracks is all that remains, as the bulk of the buildings were removed for the creating of the Mitchell Freeway in the late 1960s.
There was a detour to look at the Weld Club, an excelusive men's club on Barrack street. Not far away is the Karrakata Club, Australia first women's club, established in the early 1900s. Also on St George's Tce there is the WA Club which was established for men in the 1890s, a product of the economic boom from the goldrush in the late 1800s. There wasn't a mineral boom like the goldrush era for WA, until the iron ore developments to the north of the state in the 1960s.
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| Weld Club - Gentleman's Club |
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| Old Perth Boys Government School |
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| Hale School built by Bishop Hale c1850s. Now know as The Cloisters |
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| Remains of Old Barracks, now just an arch |
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