Which airport is this?

[JessicaTam]

What a great thread. Really liking the old photos of some places I have been.

 

[samh004]

In June 1929 the Rotary Club of Perth presented the Perth City Council with a replica of the statue of Peter Pan, that is found in Kensington Gardens in London, as a gift to the children of Western Australia to mark the centenary of the State.

The reproduction was produced by the sculptor of the original statue, Sir George Frampton and autographed by the creator of Peter Pan, Sir J. M. Barrie.

It is located in Queens Gardens, Perth, a 3.3 hectare park on a former brickworks and clay pit site in the eastern end of the Perth Central Business District. The park is bounded by Hay Street to the south, Plain Street to the west, Nelson Crescent to the north and Hale Street to the east.

Concur, it looks like Queens Garden in Perth. Check out the pic in the wikipedia entry Queens Gardens, Perth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I haven't been to either, but from satellite pics, it looks certain to be Perth as there's water behind his head. While in London the water is in front of him, not behind.

 

[jastel]

Yes, from memory the wall was just near the entrance through to immigration. I seem to recall there was some telphones or headphones that you could listen into ATC as well. THere was of course the orbit inn bar upstairs as well.

Good to know I am not losing it yet....
I was only a kid then so no bars for me, feeding the swans was more fun, but I remember the observation area and the clocks.

 

[Warks]

RE: "Another view of The Narrows - I thought this was Canberra when I first saw it."

Warks - your first thoughts were actually right. That is a picture of Canberra - Commonwealth Avenue Bridge - probaby in the early 60's.

Perth Airport was virtually the same as those photo's when I worked there in the mid 70's - the most important feature was the Orbit Inne - to the left of the Swan Lake - open basically 24 hours a day if you knew the "alternate" entrances.

Yes you're right - it has to be Canberra with those mountains behind - nothing like that near Perth! I assumed it had to be Perth after that other photo of The Narrows bridge was in the same box - similar bridges. There weren't any other Canberra pics in there so I don't know how it got there. The era is around 1963 for all these photos I think.

I'll find some more of the airport if I can.

 

[Simo]

Thanks,

I always enjoy looking at the old photo's.

 

[Warks]

Here's another angle on Peter Pan. My mother and older brothers and a family friend (my father taking the shot). The earlier post had me wondering about them all going to London before I was born!

I've got another one of some sort of natural stone bridge by the sea which has people on it but no fences. It's not the one that collapsed but I don't know where it is. Each time I post it the pic rotates from portrait to landscape no matter what I do so I haven't posted it. (Still not an airport - sorry!)

 

[barneynorman]

What great photos! I'd love a thread like this about Brisbane.

 

[OZDUCK]

You mentioned having photo's of Albany so I wonder if the "stone bridge" is the Natural Bridge at Albany - not far from the Old Whaling Station.

Photo attached.

 

[Warks]

Yes that's it - there are people right in the middle of the bridge near the edge. It's a lot bigger than it looks in the above pic. Can you actually walk out there any more?

As for old QLD photos I did find some of the Surfers Paradise Hotel beer garden in the early 60s. I had heaps of the 100th anniversary of QLD parade in 1959 but threw them all out. Am sure there's plenty in the archives though. Must find out if I have any of airports to keep this on topic though...

 

[Warks]

Then there's this strangely empty "nursery rhymes" park which is in WA. Reminds me of Paradise Gardens in Sydney but a lot earlier. Any ideas? There was the big shoe, the three little pigs etc. I imagine it's long gone.

 

[OZDUCK]

Hi, my wife wants to reply to this one:-

"This playground is long gone, it was moved in the mid to late 1960's to add more residential accommodation for the
nearby University of Western Australia in Nedlands. We lived in the area and I remember playing there. The various nursery stories - a house from Three Little Pigs , Old King Coles Castle and Humpty Dumpty were built in brick. I think it was a display village for the brickworks Brisbane and Wunderlich."

(people still or at least up till a few years ago walk across the Natural Bridge - Google images of it show people around it.)

 

[Warks]

Wow! Thanks. I should post the rest of the pics to Lost Perth then.

 

[Warks]

Found this shot on Lost Perth:

 

[OZDUCK]

Found this shot on Lost Perth:


Warks

That photo, obviously at peak period, is looking towards the "International End" of the old terminal. The Swan pond and the runways were on the left of the photo beyond the large windows. The Customs Hall was behind the World Times Clock. The Qantas offices were at the end of the building where a person is standing at a counter.

The silver plane on the clock panel was a Comet as befitted an airport getting ready for the 1962 Commonwealth games. Though I don't believe a Comet was ever on a scheduled run to Perth.

I must admit it is nice being taken back some 40 years for me.

 

[jastel]

Yes ..the clocks I remembered.

Looked through my parents old slides...which I digitised a few years back... and dad had some pix of the swan pond similar to the one on here, and ones from Kings Park, cityscapes etc.
Also the old Swan/Bond Brewery which had a lit up boat or swan on it.

One thing that has remained the same (well until last year anyway) is the St Georges Arcade dragon clock in the city.
Still has tourists lining up to watch it.