Barracks Arch
Brick archway, lone survivor of an eighteen-sixties barracks, saved from demolition by public vote.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Barracks Arch in Perth follows the single archway left of an eighteen sixty-three barracks built for the pensioners who once guarded Britain's convict ships to the Swan River Colony. It traces the building's later life as a Public Works Department office, including the engineer who worked in the room directly above this gate, and the nineteen sixty-six standoff over a new freeway that decided whether the arch would survive at all. Look up as you pass beneath it.
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