Talk:Beechboro, Western Australia

A fairly detailed article over all, particularly compared to some of the ones on other suburbs, for example the few lines on neighbouring Morley, or the two line stubb on Bedford! I did like the general discussion of the various subsections of Beechboro. However, we can do without comments like "Beechboro residents know that these Morley residents really wish they were in Beechboro and might even petition for a suburb name change". Have you any polling to suggest this? Is there an actual campaign for such a name change? How exactly is it out of character? Is the housing that much different to those in the newer part of neighbouring Morley, to the south of Benara Road and east of Beechboro Road? Personally I do think the Beechboro boundary should be Benara Road and Beechboro Road (that would, however, make Timberlane not part of Beechboro), but personal opinions are not the same as facts, particularly when you impose them on others.

From memory, the way this odd situation came about was that there was a proposal by the City of Bayswater (led by the notorious D'Orazio) to club together with Bassendean and Swan, and calve off the eastern part of Morley, that section of Beechboro, and the western part of Lockridge and form a new suburb (overlapping different shires) called Carramar. It was strongly objected to by the residents in the then Morley section, and so it was dropped. I think that the hived off part of Beechboro still changed it's name, but was Morley rather than Carramar.

As for that bit with the Beechboro Primary School. If it's the school motto, please state that it is. If it isn't, and just some parochial pride, please remove it, as it isn't really part of an encyclopaedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.39.162.130 (talk) 09:41, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

The bit about Morley is personal opinion and absolutely not true (I used to live in that part). Actually that area of Morley was always called that since it was changed from 'Hampton Park' many years ago. The boundary was set many years before suburban development on either side. SDavies (talk) 16:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Indeed. "Morley Park" used to be a vast area, then as residential development increased, parts adopted other names. The whole article's a bit of a mess - there's hardly a reference to be seen and there's a lot of personal opinion. It may make an interesting project for someone to fix and turn into an encyclopaedic article. Orderinchaos 09:42, 28 September 2011 (UTC)