Mandurah - Part 1

[maewyn_2]

We've just experienced  Perth's driest and hottest summer on record. Last Sunday we decided to get out of the house for the day and go somewhere a bit cooler.  We caught a train into Perth, then another on to Mandurah (pronounced Man-joor-ah).

Mandurah sits at the entrance to the Peel Inlet/Harvey Estuary, about 80km south of where we live.  It was

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[collpepper]

I FOUND A LINK ABOUT THE BRIDGE!! http://www.noehill.com/glenn/nat1982004614.asp . I didn't even know the whole story behind it. The Alta California Sugar Beet Company refinery is now. My Dad took photos too, as they were working on the new bridge as he drove over it most days to work. The old bridge was soooo stressful to go over Maewyn. While it had two lanes, they were very narrow 2 lanes,probably because when it was built in 1911 the cars were smaller. I hated that old open slatted metal bottom, that "moaned" when you drove over it. I found it odd that it took so long to build a new one as it was a main bridge connecting counties.....not to mention connected those counties to the main road to to our main Freeway, Interstate 5 that runs completely through CA, OR and WA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_5 . closed. I too am always saddened when old buildings and structures are torn down. I do have a happy story on that subject, a reallllly old building in our main part of town, a two story building that used to have apartments and had had fires and was boareded up? Someone fixed it up. We as a community are soooo very happy! I'll try to see if I can find info on that for you too. This is fun! Thank you Maewyn for sharing all this, I'm so enjoying it!

[maewyn_2]

That would be weird hearing that noise as you passed over the bridge! Sounds a bit creepy if you ask me!

What an interesting history it had. It seems that money talks!

That's a good story regarding the restoration of the old building. It would be interesting to see it. It's easy to tear something down, but sometimes it's important to honour the past.

I'm interested in this sort of thing, probably because I grew up in one of the older houses in the state. Perth was founded in 1829. Our family arrived from England in 1831 and the house was built in the mid 1830's. Members of our family lived there almost continuously until 1975. I sometimes wonder what my ancestors' lives were like living in that house.