Mill Street (Perth, Western Australia)

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Mill Street

Looking down Mill Street.jpg
Mill Street, with buses about to turn into St Georges Terrace. The Perth Convention Centre building is at the rear.
Mill Street (Perth, Western Australia)
General information
TypeStreet
Length190 m (600 ft) [1]
Major junctions
North end St Georges Terrace
South end Mounts Bay Road
Location(s)
Suburb(s) Perth

Mill Street is a short street at the western end of the central business district (CBD) of Perth, Western Australia. It runs between St Georges Terrace and Mounts Bay Road.

Contents

History

The street was named after a mill built in 1833 by Samuel Kingsford. [2] Its name appears for the first time on maps of the Land Department in 1859. [3]

Prior to extensive landfill since the 1950s, the street ended close to the Swan River. As late as 1845 the southern end reached the river. [4] [5] It is now separated from Perth Water by a hotel, the Perth Convention Centre, on and off ramps for the Mitchell Freeway, and Riverside Drive.

In the 1890s it was the site of a brewery and jetty. [6]

In the 1930s the Australian Broadcasting Commission was considering developing a property to house its Perth base for broadcasting. [7] [8]

Mill Street is the main connection for buses leaving the Elizabeth Quay Bus Station, and moving along St Georges Terrace before leaving the CBD. On the corner of Mill Street and St Georges Terrace, number 181 was known as Hamersley House; it is now known as Parmelia House. [9]

It is the location of the Parmelia Hilton hotel, where a significant number of conferences and events have been reported and published as being conducted in Mill Street. [10] [11] [12]

Intersections

LGALocation [1] kmmiDestinationsNotes
Perth Perth 00.0 St Georges Terrace Traffic light controlled
0.190.12 Mounts Bay Road Traffic light controlled; no right turn from Mounts Bay Road westbound to Mill Street; Mill Street continues south as Perth Convention Centre and Elizabeth Quay Bus Station access
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Mill Street". Google Maps. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  2. "The Origin of Perth's Names: City Streets". Stephen Yarrow. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  3. "PERTH STREETS". Sunday Times (Perth) . No. 1645. Western Australia. 4 August 1929. p. 12 (Second Section). Retrieved 21 August 2020 via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Perth 18F. Copy of Plan of Perth Townsite Map 18E (see Map 18E for details) added notation of Fieldbook 2 p. 9 by W. Phelps, 1859-60 [scale: 6 chains to inch, Tally No. 005728]". State Records Office of Western Australia. Series S235 Original Plans - Townsites, Item 297. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  5. Western Australia: An atlas of human endeavour: 18291979. Western Australia: Government Printer. 1979. p. 48.
  6. HRRC (1905), Mounts Bay, Stanley Brewery and jetties at Mill Street, Perth , retrieved 3 April 2017
  7. "6WF NEW STUDIO". The West Australian . Vol. 51, no. 15, 379. Western Australia. 8 October 1935. p. 20. Retrieved 3 April 2017 via National Library of Australia.
  8. "LAND IN MILL-STREET". The West Australian . Vol. 54, no. 16, 242. Western Australia. 21 July 1938. p. 18. Retrieved 3 April 2017 via National Library of Australia.
  9. Woldendorp, Richard; HRRC (1994), Mill Street and St. Georges Terrace intersection , retrieved 3 April 2017
  10. The New corporations law : the changes : papers presented at a seminar on "The New corporations law, the changes", held on Tuesday 19 March, 1991 at the Swan Room, Parmelia Hotel, Mill Street, Perth, Western Australia, Law Society of Western Australia, 1991, ISBN   978-1-875204-48-9
  11. University of Western Australia. Law School; University of Western Australia. Postgraduate Legal Education Committee (1993), The High Court : a reflective view : Friday 26 March 1993, Perth Parmelia Hilton, Mill Street, Perth, University of Western Australia Law School, retrieved 3 April 2017
  12. Australian Centre for Geomechanics (1997), Seminar entitled: Tailings management for decision makers : sustainable development in practice, 17–18 April 1997. Venue: Parmelia Hilton Hotel, Stirling Room, Mill Street, Perth, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, retrieved 3 April 2017

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