Perth Aerial Photo Survey from 1965

[HappyHumber]

Just love this.

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!

[casual_cyclist]

That's great! Belmont Forum was a paddock. I have share in a rental house near there and it's on the 1965 aerial but it was a dirt road back then, and on a dead end. Sealed and no dead end now.

[Baalzamon]

Where I've lived was bush, my old shopping centre which I go to occasionally was market gardens (Phoenix shopping centre). Garden City shopping centre and area around it was bush.

[CXCommuter]

To be living in Greenwood at that time I would have to have been camping!

[WarbyD]

Everywhere I've ever lived was either bush or paddock lol

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[HappyHumber]

Yes, I love how progress has turned thousands of hectares of desolate, sandy scrub full of nothing but white snails and wild oats into vast urban wastelands full of Midland brick McMansions, roll on lawns and discarded ab-rollers and treadmills sitting on kerbsides waiting for the next bulk rubbish collection.

Ah.. the serenity

[tomness]

That is great. About half the places that I have lived in were there in 65. The CBD has certainly changed. Dumas House is under construction, but the freeway has not cut the city in half yet.

It is certainly interesting to see what has / has not changed.

[chuckchunder]

ah the memories - Weaver & Locke and Noonans factories on Mill Point Rd in South Perth, Bristile knocking out Wembley Ware in Subiaco, the ammo dumps in Byford, A B C D E F and G sheds at Fremantle Harbour all in their rightful places.......

[Trepidious]

That's brilliant, thanks for posting.

[wexford]

Great post!

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...)

[redned]

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?

[Thoglette]

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?

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.

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?)

[WarbyD]

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?

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.

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.

[Thoglette]

Just love this.

Doesn't quite make it to Mandurah - but the cover photo from The Triffids "Born Sandy Devotional" shows the inlet c. 1961

(thanks to 'Evil' Graeme Lee - there's a bigger version there too)

[HappyHumber]

Doesn't quite make it to Mandurah - but the cover photo from The Triffids "Born Sandy Devotional" shows the inlet

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.

[wexford]

The road from Lake Goollelal to Kingsley and the freeway PSP was Robertson Road from the 60s (possibly earlier). My mum learned to drive there - it was sealed at the time. When the suburbs swallowed it, it was isolated from the local road network and left to rot, at which point it was a useful bike path. Later in the 90s it was resealed and made into what I believe is now named Robertson Walk.

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!

[BaldPatch]

What is now the Railway heritage Trail in the hills is visible, think the track was decommissioned sometime in the 1960's.

[wellington_street]

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?

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.

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?)

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.

[wellington_street]

What is now the Railway heritage Trail in the hills is visible, think the track was decommissioned sometime in the 1960's.

The route through Mundaring ceased operation in 1954, the route through Swan View/Parkerville 1966 iirc.