Local Government
Melville
Region
Metropolitan
Cnr Canning Beach Rd & Flannagan St Applecross
Site only. 11 Canning Beach Rd lot 1003
Melville
Metropolitan
Constructed from 1897
Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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RHP - Does not warrant assessment | Current | 28 Nov 2008 |
Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | |
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Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 19 Dec 1994 |
The site is important as the location of the former Boatshed, Wharf and Slipway servicing the immediately local community at Applecross and Canning Bridge from 1897 to 1924.
The site now contains remnant metal sliprails in the Canning River and a metal plaque on a concrete pedestal.
Coffee Point was used by the Beeliar Nyoongars for hunting and camping. A boat slipway and wharf were constructed on the site on the foreshore of the Canning River at Coffee Point to improve communications and to support the Melville Water Park Estate housing venture. The first paddle steamers ‘Helena’ and ‘Harley’ were assembled at the site in the boatshed to provide a regular ferry service to Perth. In 1924, the ferry service was superseded by a regular bus service and activities at the yard gradually declined.
Site only and site marker.
Historic Site
Epoch | General | Specific |
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Other Use | Transport\Communications | Water: Boatshed |
Present Use | PARK\RESERVE | Park\Reserve |
Original Use | Transport\Communications | Water: Other |
Type | General | Specific |
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Other | TIMBER | Other Timber |
General | Specific |
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TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATIONS | River & sea transport |
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Land allocation & subdivision |
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