MAYLANDS HISTORICAL AND PENINSULA ASSOCIATION

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John E McLennan is one of our 2017/2018  and 2016/2017 Committee Members and a member of our research sub-committee.

Born in KEMH in 1944 and taken home to Crawford Street which was then in Maylands. Dad did the farm labouring thing after WW2 and took us all around with him. Finished High School in 1961 at Kent St High and started working as a Laboratory Assistant at UWA, went into the Public Service as a clerk and then into Sales and office administration.

Spent 17 years as a spouse carer (Liz survived, I’m still not sure I did). Ten years in the Great Sandy Desert on Indigenous Communities rounded out my working life. Three children and ten grand-children later the family is still growing.

My interest in history began when Liz and I took up Genealogy and my interest was in the back stories of the relatives we were researching. That research is ongoing (it’s an incurable disease) and has led to the publication of four books, so far. Now that I am retired, I can spend much more time researching and delving into the origins of our State and its people.

MHPA mini-exhibitions on Maylands history curated by John include:

  • Maylands Post Office
  • Early transport in Maylands
  • Maylands Old Businesses
  • Building a Home – 4 Susan Street, Maylands (about Inga Troitzky and her husband building their home. )
  • Mephan Ferguson Foundry
  • Death on George Street

John has given MHPA the use of his photographs of Maylands and has been making our video recordings available on the MHPA YouTube channel.

We have DVDs of two 2016 presentations by John E McLennan:

  • S J Dawe (Dawe’s Corner)
  • Murder in Maylands

We also have videos of John’s 2017 presentations about:

  • the Wright’s Ltd sign  revealed when the Bike Shop on Guildford Road was demolished.
  • Sporting Heroes of Maylands.

John E McLennan and Marie-Louise McDermott co-authored two papers that Marie-Louise presented in Sydney at the July 2017 conference of the Australian Society for Sports History:

  • Tin canoes on Perth’s rivers, lakes and swamps
  • Rise and demise of a river baths

See our John E McLennan Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.

Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association acknowledges the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live, and learn. We acknowledge that we tell the stories of Noongar Country and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website may contain images or names of people who have passed away.