Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
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Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby HappyHumber » Wed Jul 23, 2014 3:37 pm
Perth Metro Land Aerial Survey from March 1965
Punch in your address, or Point of Interest in 'Enter Location' and zoom in and around. For all the stuff that's changed, the funniest things are those that haven't in my browsing of it. The High Road Tav/Motel in what is now Riverton/Parkwood for one.... I can almost imagine scenes from a Sergio Leone Western Movie being filmed there; considering the desolation otherwise around it!
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby WarbyD » Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:21 pm
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby HappyHumber » Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:39 pm
Ah.. the serenity
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby tomness » Wed Jul 23, 2014 7:12 pm
It is certainly interesting to see what has / has not changed.
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby wexford » Thu Jul 24, 2014 11:14 am
Landgate have something similar with mosaics dating back to 1953 (and many in between then and now). Hopefully Google will pick those up as well, because the Landgate one is pretty clunky compared to this.
Check out https://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/bmvf/app/mapviewer/# (you'll need Java...gah...)
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby redned » Thu Jul 24, 2014 6:01 pm
Is this Perth's first piece of cycling infrastructure?
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby Thoglette » Thu Jul 24, 2014 11:47 pm
I'm old enough to remember Kingsley being ripped out of the bush. That road was the original road in and had (what we thought were) old farm houses on it - the photos show subdivision along the road.redned wrote:In my neck of the woods, a narrow road west from Lake Goollelal in Kingsley sits right where the shared path runs from Montessori Ave to the freeway PSP.
Is this Perth's first piece of cycling infrastructure?
As Hepburn avenue and Kingsley drive were completed the road was pensioned off, but became a popular walking path. It must have been part of "the plan" back in the early eighties as the Kingsly Drive underpass was there from "day one".
I remember Greenwood being held up as a icon of "green design" due to the (then) many parks all interconnected by underpasses supposedly allowing pedestrian travel to the schools and shops. So I imagine that's what caused the retention of the road (whose name currently escapes me).
It's a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. (Can you imagine the uproar if someone were to go hunting for rabbits on that path today?)
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby WarbyD » Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:32 am
Thoglette wrote:I'm old enough to remember Kingsley being ripped out of the bush. That road was the original road in and had (what we thought were) old farm houses on it - the photos show subdivision along the road.redned wrote:In my neck of the woods, a narrow road west from Lake Goollelal in Kingsley sits right where the shared path runs from Montessori Ave to the freeway PSP.
Is this Perth's first piece of cycling infrastructure?
As Hepburn avenue and Kingsley drive were completed the road was pensioned off, but became a popular walking path. It must have been part of "the plan" back in the early eighties as the Kingsly Drive underpass was there from "day one".
I remember Greenwood being held up as a icon of "green design" due to the (then) many parks all interconnected by underpasses supposedly allowing pedestrian travel to the schools and shops. So I imagine that's what caused the retention of the road (whose name currently escapes me).
It's a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. (Can you imagine the uproar if someone were to go hunting for rabbits on that path today?)
Spending most of my early childhood growing up in Greenwood, I was somewhat amazed when I moved into other suburbs and found those underpasses weren't "the norm" - As a kid, they were great. It was terrific to be able to hurtle around so much of the suburb with minimal road interaction.
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby Thoglette » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:16 pm
Doesn't quite make it to Mandurah - but the cover photo from The Triffids "Born Sandy Devotional" shows the inlet c. 1961HappyHumber wrote:Just love this.
(thanks to 'Evil' Graeme Lee - there's a bigger version there too)
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby HappyHumber » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:48 pm
Nice! I hadn't made that connection, but I have recently discovered the Triffids; I was pre-teen and cut off from culture in a small town WA when they were at their peak. I love all the WA references in their stuff.Thoglette wrote:Doesn't quite make it to Mandurah - but the cover photo from The Triffids "Born Sandy Devotional" shows the inlet
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby wexford » Sat Jul 26, 2014 12:30 am
Greenwood was a brilliant place to grow up with a bike. I could get all the way from Warwick Road through the Coolibah Drive shops at the bottom of the hill without barely touching any road. Laneways, underpasses and paths everywhere!
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby wellington_street » Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:45 am
I've been wondering for a while why that dead straight shared path corridor exists through what is otherwise a cookie cutter suburb - thanks for posting those recollections. Ditto wexford.Thoglette wrote:I'm old enough to remember Kingsley being ripped out of the bush. That road was the original road in and had (what we thought were) old farm houses on it - the photos show subdivision along the road.redned wrote:In my neck of the woods, a narrow road west from Lake Goollelal in Kingsley sits right where the shared path runs from Montessori Ave to the freeway PSP.
Is this Perth's first piece of cycling infrastructure?
As Hepburn avenue and Kingsley drive were completed the road was pensioned off, but became a popular walking path. It must have been part of "the plan" back in the early eighties as the Kingsly Drive underpass was there from "day one".
I remember Greenwood being held up as a icon of "green design" due to the (then) many parks all interconnected by underpasses supposedly allowing pedestrian travel to the schools and shops. So I imagine that's what caused the retention of the road (whose name currently escapes me).
It's a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. (Can you imagine the uproar if someone were to go hunting for rabbits on that path today?)
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Re: Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965
Postby wellington_street » Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:49 am
The route through Mundaring ceased operation in 1954, the route through Swan View/Parkerville 1966 iirc.BaldPatch wrote:What is now the Railway heritage Trail in the hills is visible, think the track was decommissioned sometime in the 1960's.
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