This trail through Perth City explores historic buildings and areas influenced by the gold rush in the 1890's. The surge of growth, wealth and prosperity that followed the discovery of gold retains an enduring presence in the city today. Perth Railway Station is one of the oldest operational train stations in Australia. The original building built in 1881 soon became inadequate and a new building was constructed in 1894 with additional wings added in 1897, creating the buildi

There are a couple of hot spots for street art in Perth CBD and while we were exploring these we also ducked down various other alleyways and back lanes to see if we could discover more and were delighted with some of our off the grid finds. This has been a blog many months in the making as we had to return a few times to take in areas or artworks which we had previously missed. The very nature of street or urban art means the trails are very fluid as artworks fade, are dem