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Perth Road Board

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The Perth Road Board was created in 1871. It was one of 18 original Road Boards established pursuant to the Road District Act, 1871. The main functions of which were to construct and repair roads and bridges and to carry out drainage works within their districts. The first election of members of the Perth Road Board took place at a public meeting of owners and occupiers of rateable property with the district. When gazetted in 1871, the area of the Perth District comprised almost 600 square kilometres, surrounding the City of Perth, and extending north of the Swan River to include Wanneroo, west to the coast, and about 5 kilometres east of Perth. The size of the Perth District was considerable reduced and its boundaries altered over the next 30 years. By 1910, the area of the Perth Road District had been reduced to just over 100 square kilometres, roughly the City of Stirling's current size (although many boundary adjustments have occurred since then). The Perth Road Board became the Shire of Perth on 1 July 1961, then on 24 January 1971, the Shire of Perth was reconstituted as the City of Stirling.

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Overland car

Studebaker car registered to the Perth Road Board

Perth Road Board portrait with W.E Robinson centre

A group of road workers

Surfacing Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley

Dr Manuel Starke, Councillor Lawley Ward

Guildford Road, Mount Lawley road works by Perth Road Board

Harry Vivian Shearn photographed outdoors

Official portrait of Harry Vivian Shearn

Harry Vivian Shearn

James Michael O'Malley

John Bearne Hawkins

John Scaddan

Official portrait of John Scaddan

Len Easton, Shire of Perth Assistant Clerk

Surfacing Old Guildford Road in Mount Lawley

Perth Causeway Bridge

Perth Road Board inspection tour

Perth Road Board outside brick building

Perth Road Board ready for a road inspection

Robinson, Hawkins, Stockdale and Alexander Perth Road Board member portraits

Former Perth Road Board chairmen at the opening of the new Shire of Perth Offices

Perth Road Board

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Perth Road Board chair 3

Perth Road Board chair 2

Perth Road Boad chair

Perth Road Board table

Heritage site marker for Perth Road Board

Tranby House Centenary of Western Australia plaque

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Shire of Perth

City of Stirling

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Easton Lane

Birralee Reserve

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Len Easton collection

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Oral history interview with Marguerite Reilly

Perth Road Board chair, part of the City of Stirling Civic collection

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