Local Government
Broome
Region
Kimberley
1 Anne St Broome
Bedford Park, Weld St, cnr Hamersley St
Broome
Kimberley
Constructed from 1938
Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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Heritage List | Adopted | 28 Aug 2014 | |
State Register | Registered | 02 Jun 1995 | HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument, HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument |
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Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | |
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Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 28 Aug 2014 | Grading A | |
Classified by the National Trust | Classified | 07 Jun 1983 | ||
Register of the National Estate | Permanent | 18 Apr 1989 |
26192 BEDFORD PARK/DAMPIER MEMORIAL/WAR MEMORIAL
Dampier Memorial is of considerable significance for the commemoration of William Dampier and for the association with Marshall Clifton, an esteemed architect of the Interwar period.
Concrete with Dampier’s coat of arms
In 1938, a memorial was installed in Bedford Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast in the Roebuck in the early 1700s. It was originally accepted that Dampier had landed at Roebuck Bay, but this has since been proved incorrect. The memorial is in the form of a sea chest and bears the inscription: 'This memorial chest was presented to the Town People of Broome by the Commonwealth Government and the Western Australian Historical Society and unveiled by Commander R.R. Dowling R.A.N. HMAS Swan on the 30 October 1938'. An inscription by John Mansfield reads: 'We little guess which deed a future year may mark to mortals from our passing here'. Bedford Park was named after Governor Bedford and opened by him in 1924. In 1938, a memorial was installed in the Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast. The Broome War Memorial and the pearl divers' decompression chamber are also in the park. The chamber was donated to Broome by English firm E. E. Heinke & Co, manufacturers of diving suits. The use of the chamber reduced the number of deaths from the bends from thirty-three in 1914 to one in 1918. In 1990, the Broome Historical Society sent the decompression chamber to Fremantle Maritime Museum for restoration. It was returned in 1992 and is now displayed in the Museum. Other memorials in the park include one honouring Hugh Davis (Pa) Norman, one of the pioneers in the pearling industry and another honouring his son, Edward (Ted) de Burgh Norman, and his wife Catherine Mary (Rene), who was the first Commissioner of Girl Guides in the north-west from 1932-1941. In 1938, a memorial was installed in Bedford Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast in the Roebuck in the early 1700s. It was originally accepted that Dampier had landed at Roebuck Bay, but this has since been proved incorrect.
Modifications: None
Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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Shire of Broome's Municipal Inventory. | 1996 | ||
Heritage Council:" Assessment Documentation place 2669" |
Other Built Type
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Present Use | MONUMENT\CEMETERY | Monument |
Original Use | MONUMENT\CEMETERY | Monument |
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Other | STONE | Granite |
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PEOPLE | Famous & infamous people |
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