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Maylands Historical and Peninsula Assocation:
John Henry Gregory, his wife and five children moved to Allotment Y on the Swan River between Perth and Guildford in the 1830s. The area became known as Pineapple Bay, because Gregory managed to grow a pineapple he had reportedly bought with him from England.
Gregory created the Pineapple Inn on Guildford Road and sold it in 1839.
In 1840, the Pineapple Inn and adjacent farms were advertised for lease.
Killowen was built on land that once formed part of the Pineapple Estate.
See our Pineapple Estate Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.
John Gregory's Pineapple Inn, Guildford Road is mentioned by Tuckfield (1971):
John Gregory of the Pineapple Inn on the Guildford road, Maylands, petitioned [the Colonial Secretary] that he was unable to provide bread for his family.
Tuckfield doesn't give a date for this petition, but another event in the same paragraph has 1932, so presumably this was also in the early 1830s.
As far as I can tell atm, Swan Location Y was half in what is now Maylands and half in Mt Lawley, so the Pineapple Inn was possibly on or not far from the corner of what is now Central Avenue - as it is the border between the suburbs.
Tuckfield, Trevor 1971, 1975, 'Early colonial inns and taverns', Early Days: Journal and proceeedings of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, Part 1, 7, 3: 65-82; Part 2, 7, 7: 98-106.
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