East Perth is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located next to the Perth CBD.
Primarily an industrial area in the early twentieth century, it was the location of the East Perth gas works, East Perth Power Station (which was decommissioned and the building is being renovated for other purposes), the East Perth railway yard, and East Perth engine sheds.
A considerable number of industrial and run down residential properties in this suburb, eas...
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East Perth is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located next to the Perth CBD.
Primarily an industrial area in the early twentieth century, it was the location of the East Perth gas works, East Perth Power Station (which was decommissioned and the building is being renovated for other purposes), the East Perth railway yard, and East Perth engine sheds.
A considerable number of industrial and run down residential properties in this suburb, east of Lord Street, have been changed to modern residential units, although the administration by the East Perth Redevelopment Authority has protested against these alterations.
East Perth is the location of Perth's significant early colonial era cemetery, which contains graves of many early colonial families. Its condition is marginal due to the loss of many headstones and lack of adequate record of graves, only 800 of the estimated 10,000 grave sites have been identified.
From the early 1980s, virtually all of the residential properties on the...
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