Pillar Box

Author

National Trust of Western Australia

Place Number

00495

Location

256 Stirling Hwy Claremont

Location Details

Other Name(s)

Site of Halfway Tree

Local Government

Claremont

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents
Heritage List Adopted 07 Jul 2015

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type Status Date Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management
Category
Register of the National Estate Permanent 11 Aug 1987
Municipal Inventory Adopted 31 Dec 1995
Classified by the National Trust Classified 02 Jan 1981

Statement of Significance

An item of original Victorian street furniture still in use and representing an earlier colonial postal service.

Physical Description

A cast iron pillar box dated 1868 now mans (sic) the site where the 'halfway tree' once stood and where mails from Perth & Fremantle were once exchanged by horsemen.

History

Assessment 1981 dated 1868

Place Type

Historic site

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Original Use Transport\Communications Comms: Other
Present Use Transport\Communications Comms: Other

Creation Date

30 May 1989

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

24 Jan 2022

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