";s:4:"text";s:3166:" The land had been acquired by Henry Manning of High Holburn, London, in 1856, and Manning's grandson, John Daniel Manning had a dairy here.
Exactly who gave these features their unusual names is unknown and only one of these names was shown on maps, ie 'Bangup Lake'. The Aboriginal meaning of the name has been derived from 'Gwelgannow' which means to 'shift the position' and 'step aside' and would therefore probably be 'the lake that shifted position'.The name of this rural suburb was approved in 1972 and derives its name from the feature of the same name. She once lived in Osborne Park and suggested Joondanna as this was the name given by a Mr. Banks to his property. In 1897 this was found to be incorrect, and the name was changed to Mundijong. The name Palmyra was chosen from a competition run by the Melville Road Board and the street names chosen, eg Zenobia, Cleopatra, Solomon, Aurelian, Antony etc, are names associated with Ancient History in the Middle East area.The railway line that once ran between Bellevue and Mount Helena, via Parkerville, was opened for traffic in 1896. Land for the Armadale - Jandakot Railway link was resumed in 1907 and a station was constructed. Levi Green, a well known Perth businessman, had moved into the district in 1844 and the siding was named after him. Originally named Success (1968) and renamed Henderson with approval for the name 22The suburb of Henley Brook takes its name from one of the earliest named areas in Western Australia. The founder of the company, Hamilton Ross, had been born in Galway, Ireland in 1775, into a family that had moved from Scotland about two generations prior to his birth. East Fremantle was declared a municipality (comprising the old Fremantle suburbs of 'Plympton' and 'Richmond') on 2 April 1897.Another descriptive name, this was being used for the suburb from at least the 1880s.
He was Mayor of Subiaco in 1903-04 and 1906-07. The name was approved on 5th March 1998.CALM advised that the name Ashendon was made up by combining the initials of the first names of two early foresters, Alan Cuthbert Harris and Don Stewart Moore. One possible origin is that the name relates to the purchase of the land in the month of May by Mr E W Hamer, the other origin is that it was named by Mr Mephan Ferguson after his daughter, May. Wungong Brook flows through it, and adjoining suburbs end in 'Dale' (Forrestdale, Armadale, Bedfordale). An airfield was constructed and operated from the school during WWII until the 1950s.Development of the suburb of Ferndale commenced in 1964 and the City of Canning proposed to name the area Shearnstead after an early landowner.