ROBERTSON PARK


January 2019

​Urgent: quickly follow this link and comment on

Plans to build huge tennis facility in the park


Location
The park is less than 2 km /  1.2 miles northwest from the middle of Perth city (GPO), Western Australia.

The Robertson Park Artists Studio is on the city side of the park, in the middle of the open lawn,  between the renovated house (opposite the  Carr and Fitzgerald Streets corner) and the WA Veteran Tennis Club's tennis courts (in the  northwest corner of the park).

In 2009 the factories to the south of the park were converted into housing.

Indigenous Significance 
Robertson Park / Lake Henderson / Boojormelup has been, and still is, a gathering place for the Noongar People. 

Recent History
Robertson Park is also part of a series of wetlands through the city which are both part of a walking tail and connected by an underground drain system.

In 2004 the Town of Vincent spent $500,000 on improving the Park, with new trees, gardens, paths, lighting, public art, seating and a winter lake, which is in the southeast corner of the park.

A Green Belt
"W.E. Bold, City of Perth Town Clerk (1901-44) proposed a ‘green belt’ around the city.  On his recommendation, from 1913, the City purchased and reclaimed the inner city market gardens for conversion to parks and reserves, including land for the future Robertson Park...    Some of the land continued to be leased to Chinese market gardeners through into the late 1920s, and the stables and dwelling also remained for some years."

source and recommended reading. WA Heritage records (start on p.5)
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Random photos from the park, over the years.