PLAQUE, Dianella Reserve, Bicentennial

Black and silver plaque reading "DIANELLA REGIONAL / OPEN SPACE RESERVE / SWAN LOCATION U / THIS PROPERTY IS WITHIN SWAN / LOCATION U, AN ORIGINAL CROWN / GRANT OF 1000 ACRES WITH FRONTAGE / TO THE SWAN RIVER. IT WAS GIVEN / AND GRANTED TO ROBERT THOMSON / BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE COLONY, / SIR JAMES STIRLING, ON THE 20TH / SEPTEMBER 1838 IN THE REIGN OF / QUEEN VICTORIA. / ROBERT THOMSON, BORN 1806, / ARRIVED IN THE COLONY OF WESTERN / AUSTRALIA 19TH OCTOBER 1829 ON / THE 'ATWICK' FROM KENT, ENGLAND. / R. THOMSON SURRENDERED THE / GRANT AND IT WAS GIVEN TO WILLIAM / HENRY DRAKE BY THE THEN / GOVERNOR OF THE COLONY, JOHN / HUTT ESQUIRE, ON THE 13TH / W.H. DRAKE, BORN 1812, ARRIVED IN / THE COLONY 28TH DECEMBER 1831 / ON THE 'EGYPTIAN'." A map is appended and across the base of the plaque, "BICENTENNIAL CROWN GRANT AND LOCALITIES PROJECT / JOINTLY FUNDED BY THE AUSTRALIAN BICENTENNIAL AUTHORITY AND THE / CITY OF STIRLING TO CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA'S BICENTENARY IN 1988." The plaque was a prototype in a series of commissioned commemorative plaques produced by Distinctive Signs under Robert Purser. For details of the business see H90. 211, associated objects include H90. 212 to H90.220.

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