PHOTOGRAPH: LAKE JUALBUP SHENTON PARK, NATIONAL ESTATE SURVEY COLLECTION
1985Black and white photograph of the Jualbup lake in Shenton Park. The image shows the lake surrounded by grass and large trees. There are birds seen in the water.
Reverse: Written on the reverse in pencil '? Lake Jualbup Shenton P. Lake' and in blue pen 'from West'.
From a series of photographs taken by Ian Molyneux for the National Estate Survey of Subiaco in 1985.
The lake was constructed from 1960.
Originally, the area was a favourite gathering place for Aboriginal people. From the time Shenton Park was settled the area was temporarily the base for the Subiaco football club, and after 1908 treated as a rubbish dump, until it was developed as a park and lake. Retilculation was installed and lawns were planted in the late 1950s. Wildlife was threatened for a time in the 1960s, until conservationists helped retain it as a sanctuary for birds and tortoises. (Ref: Spillman, Ken, Identity Prized: A History of Subiaco, City of Subiaco, UWA Press, 1985, pp. 312-314.)
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Ian Molyneux
From a series of photographs taken by Ian Molyneux for the National Estate Survey of Subiaco in 1985.
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