Some of Perth's General Post Offices
Perth, Western Australia
The first Post Office in Perth, in St George's Terrace, East
This sketch is from A Story of a Hundred Years: Western Australia 1829-1929 edited by Hal Colebatch. The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal of the 2 March 1833 noted "A mail is now open for England, via India, per Cygnet, at the General Post Office, Perth" and it is not known if this sketch is of that GPO or an earlier Post Office.
The complete G.P.O Staff, 1863
This photograph of the staff is taken from Jesse E Hammond's book Western Pioneers: The Battle Well Fought published about 1936. At the time Western Australia's Postmaster General was Franz Anthon Didrich Christian Helmich (1824-1900). He is the third from the left in the photograph.
General Post Office, Perth, W.A.
This is an early post card of the former Perth General Post Office, built before Federation. It was formally opened on 27 August 1890 by the Administrator of WA, Sir Malcolm Fraser before the process of moving the GPO to the new premises was completed. The building is located opposite the Stirling Gardens (then known as the Government Gardens) in St Georges Terrace.
A similar picture of the former Perth GPO taken in 2012.
After the new GPO opened in Forrest Place, this building housed the WA State Treasury and other government offices. Since this picture was taken the site has been redeveloped and includes a hotel "Como, The Treasury".
Post Office and Town Hall, Perth.
Zero point 2012
The south-east corner of the building is the zero point for calculating road distances from Perth. According to the information on the building this was adopted about two years after it had ceased to be Perth's GPO. Australia changed from using miles to kilometres on road signs in 1974.
Zero point plaque 2012
Perth's Zero Marker 2012
Forrest Place P.O.and Commonwealth Bank on right. About 1940.
A view of the Perth GPO built by the Commonwealth Government in Forrest Place. The GPO is the middle building on the right hand side of the street between the Commonwealth Bank building and the Central Hotel (with the balcony). The building was commenced in 1914 but for various reasons construction was not completed until 1923. It is no longer used as a Post Office.