Story by JENNY D’ANGER
TERRY PIROVETSIS took out the top gong in Vincent council’s Local History awards this week for his The Premier Bakery Story.
It’s a colourful account of a migration and growing up in the family bakery on Carr Street, West Perth.
Anita Matherson took out second prize for her account of Oxford Street, Leederville: “Chasing chooks, climbing orange trees, sleeping on the grass and helping with cooking made for an absolutely blissful childhood,” she said in her nostaligic look at her home town.
This is the 10th annual history awards and the entries go into the town’s local history collection creating a rich pool of information about the town’s past, mayor Nick Catania said.
“After 10 years we continue to receive a good variety of entries which provide a valuable record of, and insight into, the history of our town.”
Valerie Everett took first prize in the written research section for Thomas lesley Axford VC MM: A
Life Remembered, and Trish Andrews earned second place for The Thompson Family: Leederville residents from 1891.
In the History of a House category Beryl Long’s That funny little Street…the story of Peach Street, North Perth, 1897 – 1980 – a little cul-de-sac, with only two houses and two palm trees won took a first.
Florence Lehmann came in second with 95 years in Leederville: The story of Florence Lehmann and her family at 189 Loftus Street.
In the Photographic Memories stakes EC Van Biezen won a double gong for The Band of Hope, 1920s and cyclists riding past the general store in Cleaver Street, West Perth the same year.
So did Bill Woodthorpe with a 1920 photo of the Woodthorpe’s Butcher shop, on the corner of Angove and Fitzgerald Streets, North Perth and a photo of a butcher’s delivery bike in 1939.
Trish Andrews photo of a young girl modelling her dress in Hyde Park in 1932 and Ian Atkins’ photo of at trolley-bus in Newcastle street, near the Leederville Hotel in 1959 also got a guernsey.
