Padbury Buildings

Padbury Buildings is the name for a range of existing and former structures found in various localities in Western Australia. The Padbury family, mainly Walter Padbury, had a range of buildings, some of which now are heritage listed.

Sign at Padbury Walk in Murray Street, Perth

Buildings

In the Perth central business district the Padbury building was on the eastern side of Forrest Place.

In the eastern suburbs of Perth were a number of businesses and buildings in Bassendean, Guildford and Midland;[lower-alpha 1] the company that ran the stores - Padbury Stores - Ltd went into liquidation due to the costs of the Forrest Place building.[2]

In Bassendean, Padbury Buildings, also Padbury Store, were on Perth Road (now on Guildford Road) immediately across Guildford Road from the Bassendean railway station.[3][4]

In East Guildford, Padbury Buildings were on Terrace Road, just east of the Rose and Crown Hotel.[5] By 1949 the Guildford Padbury building was owned by C & C.[6]

Stores

The names of buildings and business did not necessarily have Padbury as the part of the name. The Guildford store is referred to in 1903 and 1908 as the Colonial Stores.[7][8]

Padbury Stores were also opened in Moora and Toodyay.[9]

Padbury House

A number of buildings in Perth were named "Padbury House" at different times.

Part of the Saint Charles Seminary in Guildford has been known as Padbury House.[10]

Padbury House was a building in 1929 on the corner of King Street and St Georges Terrace, Perth.[11]

Flour mill

On the Midland railway line east of Guildford and located in East Guildford, a siding had been in place for William Padbury's Peerless Flour Mill.[12][13]

Notes
  1. At the time Midland was known as Midland Junction.[1]

References
  1. "Our Business Directory". The Swan Express. XX (50). Western Australia. 4 April 1919. p. 2. Retrieved 18 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "News and Notes". The Southern Cross Times. VIII (572). Western Australia. 2 July 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 18 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Advertising". The Swan Express. XXXIX (49). Western Australia. 15 December 1938. p. 5. Retrieved 27 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. Illustrations Ltd; HRRC (1953), Bassendean-Rochdale Co-Op premises in the Padbury's Building, 202 Perth Road, Bassendean, retrieved 18 November 2017
  5. "Big Guildford Fire". The West Australian. XXXIX (6, 549). Western Australia. 22 May 1923. p. 6. Retrieved 27 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. Western Australia. Government Photographer (1900), Padbury's Stores, Guildford, retrieved 18 November 2017
  7. "William Padbury". The Daily News. XXII (8, 780). Western Australia. 22 October 1903. p. 2. Retrieved 18 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. "W. Padbury". Sunday Times (Perth) (573). Western Australia. 27 December 1908. p. 5 (Second Section). Retrieved 18 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. "The Padbury Stores, Ltd". The Swan Express. XIV (49). Western Australia. 20 December 1912. p. 10. Retrieved 18 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. John Taylor Architect; Heritage Council of Western Australia; St. Charles Seminary (1999), Conservation plan for St. Charles Seminary (formerly 'Garden Hill') : Padbury House (c1893 & c1920s), former ballroom & servants quarters (c1918) and Aquin House (1903) : lots 25 & 26 and pt. of lots 27 & 28 Meadow Street, Guildford, Western Australia, distributed by the Heritage Council of W.A.], retrieved 27 October 2017
  11. "Padbury House". The Daily News. XLVIII (16, 907). Western Australia. 11 July 1929. p. 12 (Home Final Edition). Retrieved 18 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. "William Padbury's Exhibit". Sunday Times (Perth) (670). Western Australia. 6 November 1910. p. 31. Retrieved 27 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. Article about Walter Padbury suggests it was Walter not William
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