Queens Gardens, Park and heritage site in Perth, Australia
Queens Gardens is a park and State Registered Place in the heart of Perth, Australia. It features winding paths, open lawns, and old trees that form a green space within the city center.
The site was a clay pit and brickworks from 1860 to 1890, producing bricks for Perth Town Hall, The Cloisters and The Barracks. After public protests between 1880 and 1890, the City of Perth partly filled the pits to form ponds and set the land aside for a botanic garden. The park opened to the public on 9 October 1898 and was formally named Queens Gardens by Mayor Alexander Forrest in October 1899.
The park sits in a central part of Perth and is easy to reach on foot from nearby streets. It is open year-round and works well for a short walk at any time of day.
A bench in the park is a replica of the seat from the 1999 film Notting Hill, given to the City of Perth by a resident known only as Rodd. It carries the inscription "For June who loved this garden From Joseph who always sat beside her". Until 2019 it was believed to be the film's original bench and had a plaque saying so, since removed.
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