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Moorni Boorn Park
Moorni Boorn Park (aka Morniborn) is located on the corner of Paget Street and Rennie Crescent, Hilton Park. It was established in the 1950s, at the same time as the Paget Street Shops, Community & Child Health Centre.
Heritage Council History: Moorni Boorn Park (previously known as Black Stump Park) was established when the Hilton Park estate was subdivided in the late 1940s/early 1950s by the State Housing Commission. Hilton Park was planned on garden suburb principles articulated through the Garden Suburb planning movement, which had originated in England at the end of the nineteenth century. Garden suburb principles required that the design of housing estates be laid out with careful consideration given to the proportion of residential, commercial, recreational and public amenity space. Since September 1993 this park along with Fred Wright Homes has been granted to the City of Fremantle for the purpose of "Aged Persons Accommodation" (refer Certificate of title Vol 1957 Folio 32 Lot 3086).
Moorni Boorn Park is included in the precinct listing for Hilton Central Area Precinct. See that entry for more detailed information on the development of Hilton.
It's likely there used to be the blackened stump of a tree or xanthorrhoea on the piece of land. But see below.
References and Links
Wikipedia page for Black Stump: "Black stump is an Australian expression for an imaginary point beyond which the country is considered remote or uncivilised, an abstract marker of the limits of established settlement. The origin of the expression, especially in its evolved use as an imaginary marker in the landscape, is contested."
Neville Shute wrote a novel called Beyond the Black Stump.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 9 March, 2024 and hosted at freotopia.org/parks/moorniboorn.html (it was last updated on 24 April, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.