Perth Voice Interactive
Your free, independent newspaper
Author: Your Herald
-
AN ancient tradition dating back to the Roman republic plays out in the CBD this weekend as the crew of HMAS Perth (III) is granted Freedom of Entry into the City of Perth. It’s the highest accolade a local government can confer on a military unit. It stems from Rome’s strict rules against armed soldiers…
-
A ROOF is on the way to protect an exposed heritage cottage at 54 Cowle Street and will be installed “shortly”. Last week we reported the 137-year-old home, one of the five oldest in the City of Vincent, which had gone topless during this rainy winter after owner Palazzo Homes removed the old iron-over-timber shingle…
-
Drained REFERRING to the letter in the Perth Voice, August 5, 2021 from former City of Perth councillor and City of Vincent resident Reece Harley (“Speedy response”). It seems all you have to be is in the ‘purple circle’ and within 24 hours some non-offensive graffiti is removed and Mr Reece hands out compliments. Yet…
-
OUR series of tales from the Vincent Local History Centre returns this week with Julie Anglesey’s ‘Recollections from My School Years at St Mary’s 1971-1978’, one of the entries from this year’s local history awards. I ARRIVED at St Mary’s, as the Aranmore College girls’ school was then known, as a nine-year-old in 1971. What…
-
I decided to try Lupo Lab for lunch, but don’t worry it’s not a themed diner where you drink out of test tubes and eat from petri dishes. It’s actually a stylish Italian restaurant on Scarborough Beach Road. Situated opposite the Mezz shopping centre, the interestingly named Lupo Lab is part of a nice row of…
-
CHOPPER’S back. The classic Australian movie has been digitally remastered for a 20th anniversary edition with bonus footage and a limited release in cinemas across Australia. Chopper has never been shown on streaming services in Australia, adding to the myth and cult following it has attracted since hitting the big screen in 2000. Featuring a…
-
IF you are looking to get on the property ladder, this Maylands villa could be just the ticket. With EOI for this two bedroom one bathroom property at $319,000, it’s nicely priced and a good in-road into the suburb. Part of a stylish complex, the graceful arches on the villas and the rising gateway at the entrance…
-
Council fudges on deal to make ‘under-performing’ playground more attractive, then plans to sell it off VINCENT council is planning to sell off a Leederville playground it undertook to landscape and open up more to the public a year ago. Back in 2020 the council picked up a 539sqm lot at 26 Brentham Street in…
-
BY fire, flood, and wrecking ball, Cowle Street’s historic strip of cottages has been all but obliterated. Now the oldest cottage on the street, number 54, has just endured a rainy winter without a roof after the new owners pried off the old tin and wooden shingles that had kept the inside dry since 1884. …
-
MAYLANDS foreshore regulars James Kozak and June Winsome-Smith usually remove garden-variety trash from the Swan River shoreline, but this weekend they stumbled across a safe carefully hidden on the bank. The pair remove rubbish about three or four times a week for Keep Australia Beautiful, usually collecting “fishing line, fishing hooks/lures, drug paraphernalia, and other…
Perth Voice Interactive 