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STREET SIGN - SOLDIERS ROAD ROLEYSTONE

Overview

Rectangle yellow metal sign with raised text on both sides, text is [SOLDIERS RD]. Six holes stamped through one end where sign attached to pole. T shaped aluminium bracket along top and bottom edge of sign. The letters are a darker yellow to the background of the sign

Historical information

Street name sign placed at the Roleystone end of Soldiers Road by the Shire of Armadale Kelmscott in the 1970s.
The road was named Soldier Road in c1919 as a number of WWI soldier settlement properties were located along it.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-33-COA2021.49
Material
Metal
Width
20 mm
Height or length
660 mm
Keywords
Soldiers Road Roleystone
Soldiers settlement Scheme
Shire of Armadale Kelmscott
Roleydtone
Statement of significance

MEDIUM
Soldiers Road got its name in 1919 around the time that returning World War I soldiers were purchasing land along the road through the government Soldier Settlement Scheme. It was the role of the Armadale Kelmscott Road Board to name and maintain the road.
Some time in the late 1900s the yellow street sign was installed at the Roleystone end of Soldiers Road by the local government where it stayed until it was replaced in c2020 by the City of Armadale.

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