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Perth Esplanade
It was reclaimed (1921-35) from the river and most of it has now been returned, as Betty Jetty, aka Elizabeth Quay, a monument to the conservative government of the time.
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Queen's Birthday review. Alfred Pickering, 1898, courtesy SLWA, call number 011503D (Facebook).
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1948. On the Esplanade are cricket pitches and the greens of the Perth and Tattersalls Club, founded 1895, the oldest lawn bowls club in the state. Its greens are now on Plain Street, East Perth.
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Photo from Battye's 1912-13 Cyclopedia, showing bowling greens below the Esplanade Hotel.
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Betty Jetty, former premier Colin Barnett's monument to himself, next to the Bell Tower, one of Richard Court's two memorials to himself as premier (the other being the Maritime Museum). Google Maps 2022.
References and Links
Page for Alfred Pickering.
Wikipedia page for Elizabeth Quay.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 17 December, 20120 and hosted at freotopia.org/parks/esplanadeperth.html (it was last updated on 24 April, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.