Mills Pottery
Brickworks and pottery on the Peninsula Several enterprises operated in the broader peninsula area. Among them were: Mills Pottery, producing ceramics and clay products brickworks in areas extending towards Tranby on Swan smaller extraction and firing operations These industries continued into the mid-twentieth century, though activity gradually declined as transport improved and alternative […]
Mephan Ferguson pipe foundry
The Mephan Ferguson pipe foundry on Caledonian Avenue manufactured and supplied some of the pipes for the Goldfields Pipeline Scheme devised by C Y O’Connor. That 560 kilometre pipeline supplying water from the coastal range to the Kalgoorlie region was constructed in five years, opened in 1903 and is regarded as a masterpiece of engineering. […]
Maylands Yacht Club
The Maylands Yacht Club building is next to the East Street jetty. The present Yacht Club started in 1943. Its current clubhouse was built in 1970. The club has produced sailors who have won state and national titles. See our Maylands Yacht Club Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.
Maylands Waterland
Located at 2 Clarkson Road on the Maylands Peninsula and overlooking the Swan River, Work on the original water playground began in 1979. It was 1980 before it was assigned the name Maylands Waterland. In the 2014-2015 season, Waterland had to be shut down twice for urgent maintenance and water quality control. In 2016, the […]
Maylands School for the Blind
An art deco building on Whatley Crescent created to house the West Australian Institute and industrial School for the Blind was opened on 28 July 1937 by the Premier of Western Australia, the Hon. J.C. Willcocks, M.L.A. The site had been donated specifically to house and train blind people. Blind workers produced cane items and […]
Maylands Railway Station
Maylands Station is located 4.5 kilometres from Perth Station on the Midland Line. The Eastern railway from Fremantle to Guildford that opened in March 1881 offered a transport system far superior to the colonial roads. The 1899 Maylands Railway Station site plan shows the station master’s house. Although the original tender was for Falkirk Station, […]
Maylands Primary School
When the Maylands Primary School on the southern side of Guildford Road between Peninsula Road and Sixth Avenue opened in 1903, it had only a single classroom. Additional classrooms and building were added between 1904 and 1916. Classrooms of the 1915 Infants School opened onto wide verandahs. In 1917, the Maylands public school had a […]
Maylands Park Shopping Centre
Maylands Park Shopping Centre is on Guildford Road from Ninth Avenue to Falkirk Avenue, Maylands. See our Maylands Park Shopping Centre Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.
Maylands Hall
1920s The opening of Maylands Hall resulted from two years of concerted effort and lobbying by the Maylands Progress Association (forerunner of the Maylands Residents and Ratepayers Association). Land on the corner of Eighth Avenue and Guildford Road was purchased and cleared. The 1920 competition held to design the building stipulated that the total cost […]
Maylands Christian Spiritualists Church
Maylands Christian Spiritualists Church is at 123 Caledonian Avenue, Maylands. See our Maylands Christian Spiritualists Church Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.