Our Local History Collection includes a large number of items. Many of these are available for viewing, watching or listening to online.
Researching people and buildings
Want to do some of your own research?
View our Guide to Researching People and Buildings for help when searching for people or places.
The Local History Collection contains:
Books and reports
Published and non-published material and covering a wide range of subjects such as school, church and sporting histories, biographies, town planning, traffic, heritage and environmental studies and railway history.
Photographs
Of people, places and events are arranged in numerical order.
Newspapers
Copies of current newspapers published in the City of Swan are kept and indexed for items of local interest. The "Swan Express" newspaper, published from 1900 to 1978, is available on microfiche.
Ephemera
Pamphlets, programs, leaflets and cuttings are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Oral history
There are recorded memoirs of long-term City of Swan residents, as well as recordings of the Westrail Workshops History Project and the Guildford Primary School history.
Maps
Maps, real estate agent's plans and street directories are available.
Photos from the Local History Collection
First Mayoral Ball at Midland Town Hall 1912
Interior of Midland Railway Workshop 1910
Council Club Hotel c1925 After a cycling event
Halliday's Blacksmith and Wheelwrights, Spring Park Rd, 1917
Baskerville property owned by Hardwick and then Feutrill families featuring the barn later used as Upper Swan Soldiers' Memorial Hall, c1898
Upper Swan Hall Committee 1928