History and Heritage Award Winners Announced

The incredible efforts of people across the community striving to preserve local heritage are in the spotlight this week with the announcement of the 2020 City of Stirling History and Heritage Awards winners.

Held every two years, the awards call on City of Stirling residents, business owners and groups to enter projects that preserve or promote local heritage in the community. The City presented awards in the following categories:

• The Heritage Category honoured conservation of built environment including houses and private gardens, as well as the education and promotion of heritage across the community
• The History Category showcased pre-1990 photographs taken in the City of Stirling.

City of Stirling Mayor Mark Irwin said this year’s awards delivered another impressive selection of entries, but also provided an insight into how today’s community continues to preserve and promote the City’s heritage for future generations.

“Our rich and diverse history is one of the reasons the City of Stirling is such a vibrant and interesting place to live, work and visit and I’m proud to call this community home,” Mayor Irwin said.

“These awards continue celebrate the gifts that the past has given us to enjoy today and I would like to thank everyone who took the time to enter. Congratulations to the worthy winners.”

When it came to submissions, this year’s awards offered one of the most diverse collections yet ranging from Federation era villas in Mount Lawley to a modernist icon from the 1970s in Karrinyup.

Other entries showcased new infill developments, home extensions, community-run facilities and small businesses.

The Heritage Category

Category 1: Conservation of the built environment and streetscape 

Joint Winner - 49 Clotilde Street, Mount Lawley - The renovation of this iconic property was delivered with expert quality craftsmanship and attention to detail. It is considered a benchmark standard for home renovation in the City’s Heritage Protection Area.

Joint Winner - Featherby House, 41 Summerhayes Drive, Karrinyup - Regarded as an extraordinary restoration of a rare and highly significant Iwan Iwanoff designed residence, this has preserved the heritage significance of the property.

High Commendation Award - 17 Inverness Crescent, Menora - This renovation was acknowledged for retaining and conserving the original intent of the home’s interwar character. The owners also received a Commendation Award for their garden design.

Commendation Award - 3 Wenberi Lane, Mount Lawley - This home won praise for a design and infill development that respected the adjacent streetscape character.

Category 2: Education and the Promotion of Heritage

Winner - Osborne Park Uniting Church, 164 Edward Street, Osborne Park - A remarkable story of community-led heritage restoration. For more than 100 years, the congregation has taken great care in maintaining the building and educating the broader community on the value of heritage conservation.

Barrie Baker Special Recognition Award

Winner - Margaret Summers for all the loving care that she has dedicated with her family to preserving Windsor Hall at 36 Queen’s Crescent in Mount Lawley. The same family has owned the landmark property since the 1930s and it has become a significant piece of our community’s social history and heritage. 

The History Category

Stirling Memories Category - A photograph with a story
A photograph taken in the City of Stirling before 1990 with a short story (up to 200 words)
 
Winner - Ben Saraceni for his entry ‘Setting up camp - Yokine Bushland, circa 1953’ that shows a group of friends at a bush clearing in Yokine and a story that recalls a time when Australians were adjusting to life after the war.

Runner-up - Brad Lambert for a photo and story about his dad Gerry Lambert who is pictured crossing Seventh Avenue, Inglewood in the late 1940s or early 1950s.

Stirling Memories Category - A photograph with a caption
A photograph taken in the City of Stirling before 1990 with a caption (up to 10 words)
 
Winner - Giuseppe D’Alonzo, who shared a photo that pictured him walking to St Kieran Primary School in Tuart Hill on his first day of school in February 1959.

Runner-up - Marcia Farris for her photo of Scarborough Senior High School students leaving for a sports camp in 1961.

Youth Award Category

The category encouraged entrants aged 16 to 18 to submit a photo of a building, place or event in the City of Stirling with a story (up to 150 words) about why it is special to them.
 
Winner - Livia Mangione for a current day photo of a classic car outside her family home. Her accompanying story pondered what it might have been like growing up without modern devices such as iPhones and whether life was more family orientated back then.

Runner-up - Mirinda Papertalk for her photo and story that captured the importance of Mirrabooka Softball Complex. With a photo of Miranda and her teammates, the entry focused on the enjoyment and friendships that the sport had given her during the past decade.

For more information, head to www.stirling.wa.gov.au/historyawards.