South Perth Foreshore
Riverside promenade with skyline views, parkland, and a nineteenth-century stone windmill nearby.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the South Perth Foreshore in Perth, Western Australia turns on William Shenton, the English engineer who raised the stone windmill still standing at Point Belches in eighteen thirty-five. It traces his family's milling trade back in Winchester, his early years at Fremantle, and the gamble he took on a stretch of river where the wind could not be trusted. You will hear about the settlers who depended on his flour, and the very different lives the mill lived on after him. Best heard standing near its stone walls, looking out over the river he bet on.
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