Origins of Lovegrove - Doctor Lovegrove's Home, St Clairs Hospital, Bunbury Girls Grammar School (photos) Dr Lovegrove built a house on the site in the 1880s, which later became a girls' boarding house and then a private hospital - named St... Read more
Cententary Pavilion was relocated to the site in 1995, the pavilion marks the site of the meeting between Governor Stirling and Lieutenant Henry St Pierre Bunbury on 21 December 1836, after Bunbury’s party crossed the Preston River at the... Read more
Discuss origins of Tree Streets Area In the 1890s, during the Western Australian gold boom period, the growth of the timber export trade from Bunbury transformed the economy of the town. Bunbury made rapid progress following the opening o... Read more
115 Beach Road Craigie Lea, 115 Beach Road, a single storey brick and iron house (now opthomolgists) is a late representive example of the Victorian Georgian style of residential housing common to Perth, Fremantle and the South West of We... Read more
Victorian Italinate period style The area was surveyed by W B Mitchell in 1896 and it is thought that 99 Beach Road was built soon after. The exact date of construction has not been determined as the lot could not be found in available Mun... Read more
In 1962, a twenty year project plan was proposed create a landfill (rubbish dump) and to reclaim the Big Swamp wetlands for community use. The dumping of refuse closed in the 1970s and the ‘rubbish hill’ has since been rehabilitated to ... Read more
40, 42, 44 & 52 Tuart Street & Eustace Cohen 40 Tuart Street - Lot 48, on which Lilydale is situated, was created in 1892, with the subdivision of approximately fifteen and a half acres (6.35ha) of Location 26 owned by Thomas Ha... Read more
76 Stockley Road is a single storey timber and iron house designed in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards. The roof is hipped with gablets and clad with corrugated ir... Read more
Picton Cresent and the significance of the street names in the paving By 1910, there had been a further sub-division to the west of Jarrah Street, comprising Banksia, Palm and Wattle streets, but there appears to have been very little devel... Read more
6 & 11 Jarrah Street including Brick vs Timber Construction, etc 11 Jarrah Street is a single storey timber and iron house constructed during WWI (c1915) it has elements of both the Federation Arts and Crafts and Federation Bungalow s... Read more
16 Jarrah Street is a single storey, brick, rendered masonry and iron house with an asymmetrical facade designed as an example of the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are rendered masonry. The roof is hipped and gabled a... Read more
54 Beach Road and Subdivision of larger Beach Road blocks 54 Beach Road is a single storey timber and tiled house constructed as a late example of the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with tim... Read more
Myrniong, 50 Beach Road is a large single storey, brick and tile house with an asymmetrical facade designed as a late example of the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. Myrniong is located on the north-east corner of the junction of ... Read more
44 William Street and ... 44 William Street was built c 1903, is a single storey weatherboard and iron house originally with an asymmetrical facade designed in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are timber framed and c... Read more
16 Tuart Street From 1937, retired school teacher John Blair, and his wife, Mary, made their permanent residence at 16 Tuart Street, named Brae Neuw (meaning Brand New).45 He served as Mayor of Bunbury (1939-43), and is commemorated in Blai... Read more
