PHOTOGRAPH (DIGITAL): LAKE FAMILY PICNIC AT THE DARLING RANGES, CIRCA 1900

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1897 - 1910

Overview

Mounted black and white digital photograph of the Lake family picnicing at the Darling Ranges in the early 1900s. The image shows a large group of men, women and children standing sitting and laying on the grass in the bushland. There is a picnic basket in the lower left corner.

Historical information

The Lake family were one of the earliest families to come to Subiaco. Joseph Lake was one of 20 local members nominated for the first Subiaco Roads Board. He was not successful in winning a place in the election but hhis continued hard work was recognised with his favoured candidacy and successful election to the inaugural Subiaco Municipal Council the following year.

By 1896, Joseph's family arrived from Melbourne and at first, they camped in the tent. Their first house was built on the south-west corner of Rokeby and Barker Roads. It was made of hessian on a wooden frame, the hessian dipped in a cement slurry so it dried firm. The cloth windows swiveled at a point mid-way down the frame so that the top half of the window swung in and the bottom half swung outwards. Harold would later say that his was one of the first half dozen houses in Subiaco.

In 1899, Lake family moved into their own weatherboard house in Bagot Road Subiaco. Joseph built the house and it still stands at the corner of Bagot and Salisbury Road, Subiaco.

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