Old Court House Law Museum
Stone Georgian courthouse from eighteen thirty-six, the oldest survivor in the city centre.
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This guide to the Old Court House Law Museum in Perth goes back to the colony's early years, when engineer Henry Reveley drew a plain stone building on a tight budget and the town used it for nearly everything. You'll hear how it served as church and grammar school as well as courtroom, and about the 1842 trial of a Binjareb Nyungar man named Weewar. Best heard standing by the entrance, looking in at the small cream building.
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