Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Church
Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Church was being constructed at Seventh Avenue, Maylands in 1924. This church was designed by M. Mullen and built by B. McMullen. Its foundation stone was blessed by Most Rev. P.J. Clune C. SS, R.D.D., Archbishop of Perth on 29th June 1924. Its large stained glass window is highlighted […]
Old Post Office building
The Old Post Office building on the corner of Whatley Crescent and Seventh Avenue, Maylands was built in 1910. it was the first permanent post office in Maylands and was built at a time when the State of Western Australia still built post offices on behalf of the young Commonwealth Government. Silvercock & Hayes built […]
Old Bakery Cafe and Gallery
The Old Bakery Cafe and Gallery occupied a site on Eighth Avenue next to the gunsmiths. The Old Bakery has one of Perth’s largest wood fired ovens. The oven was in use from 1903 Our Association has an image of the First Baker, Georg Rossbach (Rorschback?) with his family in 1939. Ted Aldridge was the […]
Mills Pottery
Mills Pottery was: a family-owned pottery that began in 1907 and made pipes, located near the site now occupied by Maylands Waterland, one of the early manufacturing businesses on the Maylands Peninsula, among the first to use the clay from the Maylands Peninsula, and sold to Wunderlich. See our Mills Pottery Flickr Album for digitised images […]
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 […]