Stirling Gardens
Shaded colonial garden beside the colony's first courthouse, planted from an early vineyard grant.
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This guide to Stirling Gardens in Perth starts at the small Georgian building on its edge, built in eighteen thirty-six as the colony's very first courtroom. You will hear how that one hall served in turn as chapel, school, and finally the seat of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, hearing the colony's gravest cases for sixteen years. It also follows the plot beside it, planted as a colonial vineyard in eighteen forty-five, as it slowly grew into today's gardens. Stand near the old courthouse wall to feel how close the two stories really sit.
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