Balmanup Post Office - Site of

Author

City of Kwinana

Place Number

12116

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Location

Clementi Rd Hope Valley

Location Details

Local Government

Kwinana

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1920

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
(no listings)

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type	Status	Date	Documents
RHP - Does not warrant assessment	Current	27 Sep 2019

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Local Heritage Survey	Adopted	01 Feb 2022	D	D Recognition of places which achieve the minimum threshold cultural heritage significance to the Town of Kwinana.
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	13 May 1998	C	C Retain and conserve if possible, places of some cultural heritage significance to the Town of Kwinana.

Parent Place or Precinct

12125 Mandogalup Townsite

Statement of Significance

Historic Value: The site is valued for its association with the 1920s establishment of the farming community in the region and the subsequent Peel Estate Settlement.
The site is valued for its association with the provision of mail services to the community by the state and federal government.

Level of significance: Historic Site

Physical Description

There are no visible remains of the former post office building, although it was believed to have been constructed south of Grassy Swamp, a small wetland just north of the Large Eye of the Spectacles. This area is near the intersection of Clementi Road and Anketell Road, a section of cleared crown land.

History

The area of Wellard and Mandogalup was previously known as Balmanup, and was considered ideal for dairy farming and became part of the larger Peel Estate scheme.
This site is understood to be the location of the first Post Office in the area constructed in the early 1920s.
In the mid 1920s, the post office was relocated further east where the majority of the community services were located at the junction of Anketell Road and Mandogalup Road.
The name Balmanup was gazetted in 1923 for the townsite and amended to Mandogalup in 1926.
Typical of many simple and temporary buildings of the period the post office is believed to have been a small weatherboard and iron building raised on stumps.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: Low
Authenticit: Low

Condition

N/A

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	Town of Kwinana MHI,		1997

Place Type

Historic Site

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	Transport\Communications	Comms: Post or Telegraph Office
Present Use	OTHER	Other

Historic Themes

General	Specific
TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATIONS	Mail services

Creation Date

11 Sep 1998

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

09 Feb 2023

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This information is provided voluntarily as a public service. The information provided is made available in good faith and is derived from sources believed to be reliable and accurate. However, the information is provided solely on the basis that readers will be responsible for making their own assessment of the matters discussed herein and are advised to verify all relevant representations, statements and information.