Aberdeen Street, Perth Explained

-31.9472°N 115.8606°W

Road Name:Aberdeen Street
State:wa
Type:street
Length:1.6
Direction A:East
Direction B:West

Aberdeen Street is a street in the Perth suburbs of Perth and Northbridge that runs from a cul-de-sac west of Lord Street in the east to a cul-de-sac between Fitzgerald Street and the Mitchell Freeway in the west. The street has 42 locally listed places of significance, 18 of which are also listed on the State Register of Heritage Places.[1]

Tannery

It had been the location of The Perth Tannery at number 257.[2]

History

Aberdeen Street was named after the Earl of Aberdeen, who was Foreign Secretary in the Duke of Wellington's Cabinet when Western Australia was founded. A separate Aberdeen Road in East Perth was shown on the first street map of Perth issued in 1838,[3] but a later survey by John Septimus Roe of this part of the Swan River Colony had removed that thoroughfare by 1845,[3] and the name was transferred to the present Aberdeen Street.[4]

Aberdeen Street originally extended from Beaufort Street in the east to Charles Street in the west, after which it continued west as Duke Street (which extended west to Sutherland Street, continuing as Stone Street).[5] By 1925, Duke Street had been incorporated into Aberdeen Street.[6]

A bill was introduced in 1913 to extend Aberdeen Street eastward from its previous terminus at Beaufort Street to Pier Street and make it continue east as an existing street, Short Street, which ran from Pier Street to Lord Street.[7] However, this extension was ultimately not constructed until the mid-1970s.

As part of the construction of the Mitchell Freeway in the 1970s, overpass bridges were constructed over Aberdeen Street for the Charles Street freeway entry and exit ramps. As the Mitchell Freeway reached Leederville in the late 1970s, Aberdeen Street was extended westward to Vincent Street.[8] In the mid-2000s, this western section of Aberdeen Street was renamed to Leederville Parade.[9]

The 1999 replacement of the Lord Street level crossing with a road bridge required the severance of Short Street from Lord Street, with Short Street becoming a cul-de-sac before Lord Street.[10] [11] Some time after this, the entire remaining stretch of Short Street was subsumed into Aberdeen Street.

Due to the construction of the Graham Farmer Freeway from 1996[12] to 2000,[13] Aberdeen Street was severed into two discontinuous sections on either side of Charles Street: the eastern side terminating at a cul-de-sac in front of St Brigid's Church, just west of Fitzgerald Street; and the western side terminating at a cul-de-sac just west of the Charles Street northbound exit ramp from the Mitchell Freeway. West of Fitzgerald Street, the short cul-de-sac was redeveloped into Piazza Nanni, a parkland piazza, which opened on 27 June 1999.[14] [15] [16]

By November 2004,[17] the surviving Duke Street portion of Aberdeen Street had been renamed to Old Aberdeen Place.[18]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Our Heritage places . inHerit - State Heritage register . Heritage Council of Western Australia . 3 June 2018.
  2. The Tannery had also been located in Duke Street -News: THE PERTH TANNERY. . . XXXIII . 4,721 . Western Australia . 21 May 1917 . 3 June 2018 . 8 . National Library of Australia., and News: SEEING A THRIVING LOCAL INDUSTRY: THE VISIT OF THE GOVERNOR (SIR WILLIAM CAMPION) AND LADY CAMPION. TO THE PERTH TANNERY. WEST PERTH. . . XLII . 2,134 . Western Australia . 23 December 1926 . 3 June 2018 . 8 (Western Mail) . National Library of Australia. before being located in Aberdeen Street News: THE PERTH TANNERY. . . 50 . 9,969 . Western Australia . 13 June 1934 . 3 June 2018 . 12 . National Library of Australia.
  3. Book: Western Australia: An atlas of human endeavour: 1829 - 1979. Government Printer. Western Australia. 1979. 48.
  4. Web site: PERTH NAMES. Aberdeen of Aberdeen Street. The West Australian. 21 May 2018. 17 December 1938.
  5. Web site: Department of Lands and Surveys . Plan of the City of Perth . State Library of Western Australia . 11 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200129164615/https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b1959705 . 29 January 2020 . 1-2 . en . 1902 . live.
  6. Web site: Department of Lands and Surveys . Plan of the City of Perth . State Library of Western Australia . 11 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191228025843/https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b1959717 . 28 December 2019 . 1-2 . en . 1925 . live.
  7. Western Australia . Bill - City of Perth Improvement: Second Reading . PDF . . 11 November 1913 . 2446 . . Colonial Secretary . https://web.archive.org/web/20210417164619/https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard1870to1995.nsf/83cc4ce93b5d4e0b48257b33001cfef6/EA123222236B721E48257A53000AE326/$File/19131111_Council.pdf . 17 April 2021 . live.
  8. Web site: City of Vincent . PLA 0098 Olive Trees: Heritage Assessment . The City of Vincent . 20 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221120031922/https://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/profiles/vincent/assets/agenda/2009/20090210/att/pbshamhi002.pdf . 20 November 2022 . July 2008 . live . 5-7,16.
  9. Web site: City of Vincent . No. 629 (Lot 100) Newcastle Street, Leederville: Heritage Assessment . The City of Vincent . 9 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221109120035/https://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/profiles/vincent/assets/agenda/2011/20110913/att/pbsrr629newcastle004.pdf . 9 November 2022 . March 2007 . live . 2,5,10.
  10. Web site: Criddle . Murray . Official opening of the Lord Street reconstruction project . Media Statements . 4 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200930114007/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Court/1999/12/Official-opening-of-the-Lord-Street-reconstruction-project.aspx . 30 September 2020 . 21 December 1999 . live.
  11. Web site: Main Roads Western Australia . Lord Street Railway Crossing Grade Separation: Environmental Assessment . Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions . 4 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221104143205/https://library.dbca.wa.gov.au/static/StaffOnly/629196.pdf . 4 November 2022 . August 1997 . live.
  12. Web site: Court . Richard . Progress on Northbridge Tunnel inspected on first public open day . Media Statements . 21 November 2022 . 1 March 1998 . 21 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221121083804/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Court/1998/03/Progress-on-Northbridge-Tunnel-inspected-on-first-public-open-day.aspx . dead .
  13. Web site: Court . Richard . Graham Farmer Freeway to open on April 23 . Media Statements . 21 November 2022 . 12 February 2000 . 21 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221121083806/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Court/2000/02/Graham-Farmer-Freeway-to-open-on-April-23.aspx . dead .
  14. Web site: Kierath . Graham . New Northbridge piazza renamed 'Piazza Nanni' . Media Statements . 20 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221120133729/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Court/1999/06/New-Northbridge-piazza-renamed-%27Piazza-Nanni%27.aspx . 20 November 2022 . 27 June 1999 . live.
  15. Western Australia . Northbridge Tunnel - Work Near St Brigid's Church, Noise Problems. PDF . . 12 November 1996 . 8101 . . Minister for Transport . https://web.archive.org/web/20210324142509/https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard1870to1995.nsf/83cc4ce93b5d4e0b48257b33001cfef6/93FB5E8AD71D592E48258435001E0211/$File/19961112_Council.pdf . 24 March 2021 . live.
  16. Web site: Heritage Council of Western Australia . St Brigid's Group: Register of Heritage Places Assessment Documentation . Stage Heritage Office . 21 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221121054458/http://inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Admin/api/file/60e4af6f-34ae-1672-da80-008495217929 . 21 November 2022 . 12 . 23 November 2004 . live.
  17. Web site: Automotive Holdings Group . Submission by Automative Holdings Group: MRS Amendment No 1082/33 . Parliament of Western Australia . Department for Planning and Infrastructure . 19 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110319063008/https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/publications/tabledpapers.nsf/displaypaper/3812233a6fcb4617330694884825775000133869/$file/2233+-+mrsa+1082-33+-+vol.+3.pdf . 19 March 2011 . 142 . 11 November 2004 . live.
  18. Web site: City of Vincent . Pickle District Place Plan: Volume 7 . The City of Vincent . 11 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221102010208/https://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/documents/1987/volume-07-pickle-district-place-plan . 2 November 2022 . 3 . 18 August 2021 . live.

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