APPROACH TO LORETO CONVENT FROM STIRLING HIGHWAY
1950B/W copy print of framed photo of driveway from Stirling Highway and remains of ornate garden developed in front of original hotel building. A group of teenage girls in uniform of long-sleeved white blouses under dark pinafore dresses, worn with dark stockings, are on the tree-lined drive which curves around the garden. Another is leaning on a wooden fence, one is lying on the lawn with one standing beside her, and two are perched on what has been a fountain. In the foreground are the tops of two similar fountains which appear to be working.
Mother de Salis Fieldhead of Loreto Convent school in central Perth saw a good opportunity for suitable new premises when the Osborne Hotel came on the market in 1900. It was sold to the Loreto nuns for 12,000 pounds for a boarding school. The school was for 'the education of young ladiess' with music and etiquette parts of the curriculum. The hotel bar became a school library (known as St Thomas'), the dining room the convent reception hall. Honeymooner's cottage on river side of Richardson Ave (opposite main buildings) became Loreto Primary School. Osborne Hotel was demolished 1962 to make way for an administrative wing. Loreto Primary school building demolished in 1971, replaced with a new open plan building named Koolyngarra, 'meeting place for happy children'. The school amalgamated with St. Louis Jesuit Boys School in 1976 to become John XX111 College. In 1986 the school moved to a new location in Brockway Rd, Mt. Claremont.
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