Published on Tuesday, 27 May 2025 at 10:51:05 AM
Welcome to #TimeWarpTuesday! This week we bring to you the next part of our mini-series on heritage places from the Town’s Municipal Heritage Inventory (MHI) published in June 2000.
Heritage Places - Part 15
Former East Victoria Park Post Office
Address: 879 Albany Highway, East Victoria Park
PH00255-01 The former East Victoria Park Post Office, circa 1998.
Photographed by HeritageToday for the Town of Victoria Park Municipal Heritage Inventory, that was published in 2000.
“Historical Notes
“The East Victoria Park Post Office was set up as ‘temporary’ premises in 1946 on the corner of Canterbury Terrace and Albany Highway. The Post Office remained on this site until April 1995. A new Post Office was opened as Australia Post in the Park Centre in that month. Today [2000] the old Post Office is a Post Shop, supplying cards and office stationery.
“The historic red Post Box on the footpath outside the old Post Office was found after a two month search by the East VictoriaPark Townscape Committee. They wished to include the mail box in the urban art designed by Malcolm McGregor which included the surrealistic sculpture ‘Bicycle’.
“Description
“This circa 1960 Post Office building, located on the corner of Albany Highway and Canterbury Terrace, is typical of the type of utilitarian building constructed throughout Perth during that period for the Post Master General (now Australia Post).
“It has a simple rectangular plan form with a wide prominent verandah facing Albany Highway. It is a lightweight framed, metal-clad structure with a low pitched gabled roof and wide projecting eaves. The symmetrical verandah is a generous space raised about one metre above the footpath and is accessed by a wide central flight of concrete stairs. A flat, light weight canopy is suspended over the stairs. The verandah roof is a separate low pitched gable below the main gable. The main entry is unsymmetrically placed on the left hand side of the verandah.
“The Canterbury Terrace elevation has large glass areas shaded by the projecting eaves and horizontal sun-controlled louvres that may well have been retro-fitted.
“Statement of Significance
“The former East Victoria Park Post Office has historic and social heritage significance. It represents an era of custom built Post Offices which have now been replaced by service outlets in shopping centres or agencies in other stores.” (1).
Do you have memories or photos of the former East Victoria Park Post Office? We’d love to hear about it and see photographs if you have any. Please get in touch via telephone: 08 9373 5500, email: vicparklibrary@vicpark.wa.gov.au or in person at 27 Sussex Street, East Victoria Park.
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Reference:
- Heritage Today 2000, ‘Town of Victoria Park Local Heritage Inventory’, Heritage Today, Mount Lawley, pp. 148-151.
PH00255-02 A heritage letter box made in 1912, outside the former East Victoria Park Post Office, circa 1998.
Photographed by HeritageToday for the Town of Victoria Park Municipal Heritage Inventory, that was published in 2000.
PH00255-03 Street art outside the former East Victoria Park Post Office, circa 1998.
Photographed by HeritageToday for the Town of Victoria Park Municipal Heritage Inventory, that was published in 2000.
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