James Street, Northbridge

Coordinates: 31°56′53″S 115°51′25″E / 31.948°S 115.857°E / -31.948; 115.857 James Street in Northbridge, Western Australia is the main east-west road in the centre of the suburb.

The eastern end of the street has been closed and modified as the James Street Mall in the Perth Cultural Centre - with the Western Australian Museum, Alexander Library Building and older government buildings contained within the culture centre area.[1][2]

The central section between William Street and to the western end at Russell Square, is a streetscape with a colourful and extensive history of crime, and notoriety.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Western Australia. Government Photographer (1900), Perth Boys High School, James Street, Perth, January 1951, retrieved 27 October 2017
  2. ↑ See as an example of the early stages of the development of the Cultural Centre: - Western Australia. Dept. of Planning and Urban Development; Perth (W.A. : Municipality). Council; Donaldson and Warn Consultant Architects (1992), Northbridge study : final report 1991 (1st ed., repr. with addendum ed.), Dept. of Planning and Urban Development], retrieved 27 October 2017
  3. ↑ "SEIZURE OF OPIUM". Geraldton Express. XXX. Western Australia. 25 March 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 27 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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