Save Perth Hills and St Georges Cathedral

As you may be aware there was a Rally outside St Georges Cathedral on Sunday organised by Save Perth Hills.

Looking through our early history files we can confirm that the land that was a government grant to the Anglican Church in the 1800’s. This has been reduced in area over the years when part of it became the Padbury Boy’s Farm School teaching boys farming skills and supplying other Anglican Swan Homes with produce.

Around 1960 the government bought the farm and renamed it Hillston, also known as Stoneville Boys Home.

Later some of the land was subdivided and called La Grange Estate, including the streets Woodlands, Wildberry and Clutterbuck.

The area coloured yellow is the Parkerville Children’s Home. The area between Roland and Stoneville Road marked 2038 acres 3 roods 13 perches is the original government grant.All the other blocks are privately owned.

The area coloured yellow is the Parkerville Children’s Home. The area between Roland and Stoneville Road marked 2038 acres 3 roods 13 perches is the original government grant. All the other blocks are privately owned.

St Georges Cathedral was built and consecrated in 1888. Materials used were: Rottnest Island Limestone. local bricks and jarrah timber from White and Keane’s Timber Mill in Mt Helena the area was then known as White’s Mill.

Picking citrus at Hillston

Chapel at Hillston which was built by the boys and staff in the 1950s with local rock and scrap meta

Collecting and packaging eggs at Hillston