Perth - University of Western Australia, Winthrop Hall - postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  University of Western Australia [Perth, Western Australia] [looks like Winthrop Hall from picture on Wikipedia]
• Publisher:  The University - photo - Colin Murphy
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s):  n/a
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• Notes / condition:  slightly larger modern card

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The University of Western Australia (UWA) was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the Group of Eight, as well as the sandstone universities. UWA was established under and is governed by the University of Western Australia Act 1911.^[3] The Act provides for control and management by the university's Senate, and gives it the authority, amongst other things, to make statutes, regulations and by-laws, details of which are contained in the university Calendar.^[4] One of Australia's best and most prestigious universities, UWA is highly ranked internationally in various publications; the 2011 QS World University Rankings^[5] placed UWA at 73rd internationally. To date UWA has produced close to 100 Rhodes Scholars^[6] and a Nobel Prize winner.^[7] UWA recently joined the Matariki Network of Universities as the youngest member, the only one established during the 20th century.

The original campus was located on Irwin Street in the centre of Perth, and consisted of several buildings situated between Hay Street and St Georges Terrace. Irwin Street was also known as ""Tin Pan Alley"" as many buildings featured a corrugated iron roof. These buildings served as the university campus until 1932, when the campus relocated to its present-day site in Crawley.

The founding Chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett, died in 1916, and bequeathed property which, after being carefully managed for ten years, yielded £425,000 to the University. This allowed the construction of its magnificent main buildings on the present-day campus. Many buildings and landmarks within the University bear his name, including Winthrop Hall and Hackett Hall. In addition, his bequest funded many scholarships, because he did not wish eager students to be deterred from studying because they could not afford to do so.

A remnant of the original buildings survives to this day in the form of the ""Irwin Street Building"", so-called due to its former location. In the 1930s it was transported to the new campus and served a number of uses till its 1987 restoration, which saw the original architecture restored and the building moved across campus to James Oval. Recently, the building has served as the Senate meeting room and is currently in use as a cricket pavilion and storage space for the University Archives. The building has been heritage-listed by both the National Trust and the Australian Heritage Council.

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period=1945 - present

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