Local Government
Derby-West Kimberley
Region
Kimberley
Cnr Loch & Johnston Sts Derby
Derby Tennis Courts
Derby-West Kimberley
Kimberley
Constructed from 1990, Constructed from 1964
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 01 Dec 1995 | Category 6 | |
Significant as a project developed by a community effort in 1964 and exhibiting civic pride in the town. Social and aesthetic significance.
The park includes relics from the S.S. Colac that ran aground off Derby in 1910. These include an anchor and a propeller screw which contains a time capsule placed there in 1983 at the time of the town's centenary celebrations. The gardens contain three majestic boab trees, a selection of native Kimberley eucalypts and a number of introduced species. Picnic facilities are also provided. Site believed to have been site of the town's first tennis courts.
The Derby Lion's Park provides a foreground for the Derby Civic Centre and was established through a Lions Club project in 1964 at the same time as the opening of the Civic Centre. The ANZAC Memorial was added in 1990.
Urban Park
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| SOCIAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES | Sport, recreation & entertainment |
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