Perth is a relatively young city, with a limited number of heritage buildings.  It is not uncommon to find older items on supermarket shelves.  Though just like most supermarket products, very few of our early buildings ever reached their effective "use by dates".

Much of Old Perth was unfortunately destroyed between 1960 and 1990.  The city expanded rapidly during these years. There was the Mineral Boom of the 1960's, followed by some greedy corporate empire building during the 1980's.  Most of our historic buildings were demolished by bulldozers, explosives, and those big iron balls they swing from cranes.  They were replaced by office towers, and modern shopping malls.