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catalogue description: Map of Perth City
Council's Darling Range Quarry (Statham's Quarry) showing the quarry face with contours, railway and sidings, buildings, fences, telephone lines, pipes, formation of Canning Jarrah Timber Company's old line, Ridge Hill and Stathams (old) sidings, watercourses,
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Established by Thomas
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Stathams Quarry from the top of the south wall looking north — another quarry in the distance at the top of the picture is the old
Government Quarry now known as the Hudman Road Quarry in Boya at the border with
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during the time of its operation (which closed in 1949), and was finally put out of operation by a bushfire in 1957. The location has been susceptible to bushfires, the most recent being in the early 2000s.
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The quarry's importance as a safe easily accessible and well maintained climbing and abseiling location close to the metropolitan area of Perth can be found in the climbing records.
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operated the quarry following
Statham's death and material from the quarry was used as street paving in Perth during the early 1900s. The rocks for the groyne at
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heights above sea level, boundary of Perth City
Council reserve. Battye accession number 009255.
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providing facilities and maintaining the site. Dangerous areas are signed and fenced off.
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Allen, M. W.(1928) Darling Range Quarry : City of Perth. Perth, W.A. Scale 1:792 (
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Description of granite quarry owned by
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Notes in the
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The quarry is the claimed location of one of the most extensive
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There was also a clay quarry operation known as
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Register of Heritage Places in the City of Kalamunda
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395:24 August
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