place

Sherwood Court, Perth

Perth, Western Australia stubsStreets in Perth central business district, Western AustraliaUse Australian English from August 2013
View from Sherwood court toward constructions at Elizabeth Quay
View from Sherwood court toward constructions at Elizabeth Quay

Sherwood Court is a short sloping road between St Georges Terrace in Perth, Western Australia and The Esplanade with Allendale Square on the upper corner, and Lawson Apartments on the lower. It sits across from London Court and allows pedestrian access between the central business district and The Esplanade and Perth foreshore. Its context has been taken into consideration in planning of the Perth foreshore development in that it is claimed that planned structures on The Esplanade will not block the view to Perth Water.The images of former buildings on the St Georges Terrace corner provide context to the early architecture now lost.The Cecil Building at number 6 was frequently photographed, as was Sherwood House.During the second world war, various offices of services relating to the war effort were housed in Sherwood Court and before offices were made elsewhere, sections of the Perth Road Board were located there as well. The Atlas Building, although facing the Esplanade, takes up the south western side of the street across from the Lawson Apartments. The Allendale Square and Exchange Plaza buildings now take up considerable space of former structures in the street.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Sherwood Court, Perth (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Sherwood Court, Perth
Sherwood Court, Perth

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address External links Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Sherwood Court, PerthContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N -31.956 ° E 115.8583 °
placeShow on map

Address

Sherwood Court

Sherwood Court
6000 Perth (Perth)
Western Australia, Australia
mapOpen on Google Maps

linkWikiData (Q7495509)
linkOpenStreetMap (147667114)

View from Sherwood court toward constructions at Elizabeth Quay
View from Sherwood court toward constructions at Elizabeth Quay
Share experience

Nearby Places

Stock Exchange of Perth
Stock Exchange of Perth

The Stock Exchange of Perth or Perth Stock Exchange was a securities exchange in Perth, Western Australia, operating from its establishment in July 1889 until it merged with other five Australian securities exchanges into the Australian Securities Exchange on 1 April 1987. An initial meeting of people interested in forming a stock exchange in Perth was held in August 1888, and the inaugural meeting of the Perth Stock Exchange was held on 1 October 1888, with Alexander Forrest as its president. High entrance fees were stated as the reason why a second stock exchange in Perth was formed the following year, in July 1889, the Stock Exchange of Perth, with Hector Rason as its president. At the exchange's first annual meeting, on 7 July 1890, Henry Saunders was elected as its president. The Premier of Western Australia, John Forrest, laid the foundation stone for the new building for the Stock Exchange of Perth on 22 October 1896, located at 49 St Georges Terrace, Perth. In 1937, the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges was established. It originally consisted of the stock exchanges in Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney, with the Melbourne and Perth ones joining later. In 1972, the Australian exchanges adopted a uniform listing standard. In 1977, the Stock Exchange of Perth, in cooperation with the Education Department of Western Australia, introduced the share market game into schools, known as Capitaliser. Official records of the Stock Exchange of Perth are held by the J S Battye Library in Perth and the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra.