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.
Queen's Birthday review. Alfred Pickering, 1898, courtesy SLWA, call number 011503D (Facebook).
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.
Photo from Battye's 1912-13 Cyclopedia, showing bowling greens below the Esplanade Hotel.
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.
Page for Alfred Pickering.
Wikipedia page for Elizabeth Quay.
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