Innaloo, Western Australia: Difference between revisions

Land near Innaloo was first granted to Thomas Mews in 1831. In 1898, Town Properties of WA subdivided the lands around Njookenbooroo Swamp for sale as market gardens, and drained the swamp into [[Herdsman Lake]] over the following years, digging channels through the area to facilitate agriculture. They offered rent-free lease of the lots, with an option to later purchase at £100 per hectare if the occupants cleared them and brought them into production. The area between Hertha Road, Oswald Street and King Edward Road and Herdsman Lake was gazetted as the Njookenbooroo Drainage District, and by 1912, local market gardeners were turning off 25 tonnes of produce each week.<ref>{{cite book |last= Cooper |first= W.S. |author2=G. McDonald| title= Diversity's Challenge: A History of the City of Stirling |publisher= City of Stirling |year= 1999 | pages=155–157}}</ref> The Njookenbooroo School on Odin Road (then called Government Road), linked to the city by a [[plank road]], was built in 1915. Although subdivision for southern Innaloo was approved in 1916, by the 1920s only ten houses had been built, with the majority of the land used for grazing.<ref name=cos-innaloo>{{cite web|url=http://www.stirling.wa.gov.au/home/council/Suburbs/Innaloo.htm|title=Suburbs - Innaloo|accessdate=2006-09-29|author=City of Stirling|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060918151407/http://www.stirling.wa.gov.au/home/council/Suburbs/Innaloo.htm|archive-date=18 September 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> Residential development accelerated during [[World War II]], and in the 1950s, [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (MGM) built a drive-in cinema in nearby Liege Street.