The Victoria Park Street Directory (1895-1949) is a compilation of data from Wise's Post Office Directories. The MS Excel spreadsheet that contains the Directory has a ‘tab’ for each street, lane and road (as work progresses). Within each tab you can scroll from the column for 1895 through to the column for 1949 and see when the street was first established and watch as more people move into the street over the years. In some areas you can see the change of use of properties in the streets, from being farming, to residential and businesses etc.
In general, street numbers don’t appear in our streets until circa 1914.
A screenshot of the ‘Berwick St, Victoria Park’ tab in the Victoria Park Street Directory (1895-1945)
Wise’s are the postal directories for Perth and Western Australia, and they have been digitised and made available via the State Library of Western Australia's web page. You can find the digitised version of Wise's Post Office Directory, from which our street directory is compiled at: https://slwa.wa.gov.au/collections/collections/post-office-directories.
The names listed in Wise's postal directories, it should be noted, are the names of the person who was registered at the GPO to receive mail at that address. The person listed therefore, is not necessarily the owner of the property, they may have been renting. The directory works by area first then alphabetically by street. It also contains an alphabetical listing of people by surnames and other indexes to government services, trades and businesses, etc.
Please note the Victoria Park Street Directory is a work in progress and not all streets are complete.
A sample of the scanned images of Wise's Post Office Directories as they appear on the State Library Website.
This page is from the 1925 edition of Wise’s Post Office Directory, pp. 296-297.
