A very sparse looking turn-of-the-century Hyde Park, a 1913 look at family life in West Perth and the excitement of the opening of the Woolworths Variety Store in Leederville (right)are amongst the winners for Vincent’s local history photographic awards.
Debbie Saunders, who operates the Oxford Street cafe 50mL, won an award for submitting photographs of the strip from 1958 when excited punters packed the footpath waiting for the opening of the new supermarket (the building now operates as Greens & Co, the cafe HQ of fellow council scrutiniser Stuart Lofthouse).
Jeannette Gaebler submitted a 1905 photograph of a father and son in a stark Hyde Park. Works on the park started six years earlier, and this is the earliest photo of the park in the Vincent collection.
The local history collection at Vincent now has about 4000 images of the city’s history. There are details of all winners on the library website.
by DAVID BELL
Perth Voice Interactive 
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