{"id":761759,"date":"2026-06-26T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761759\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:59:09","slug":"untold-history-fascinating-images-show-how-perth-has-changed-in-the-past-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761759\/","title":{"rendered":"Untold History: Fascinating images show how Perth has changed in the past 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Images offer a glimpse into Perth at the beginning of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">St Georges Terrace is wide and lined by elegant low rise buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Vehicle traffic is horse and cart. Well-dressed men in suits and hats can be seen standing to one side, watching the passing parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The photo, taken in 1905, presents a stark contrast to an updated image taken this week by The West Australian \u2014 along with other new images around the city \u2014 featuring historian Richard Offen standing in about the same place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">But the constant is that St Georges Terrace remains the city\u2019s premier street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The old Terrace is but one of the fascinating images of Perth and surrounds from the State Library of WA and Royal WA Historical Society which draw the eye back through the years in Mr Offen\u2019s book Perth Then and Now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Read the <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thewest.com.au\/news\/untold-history-of-wa\/untold-history-images-offer-fascinating-insight-into-perths-development--c-22474417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">full story on The West Australian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Images offer a glimpse into Perth at the beginning of the 20th century. St Georges Terrace is wide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,45],"class_list":["post-761759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}