City Hall, King Edward Street, Perth

]] and King Edward Street prior to the construction of St John's Square. Meal Vennel and St John's Square were replaced by St John's Shopping Centre]] In the mid-19th century the administrative centre of the town was the old city chambers at the east end of the High Street. However, civic leaders needed a public hall in which to hold concerts and other public events and the first city hall, designed by William Macdonald Mackenzie, was built on the site of the old flesh, butter and meal markets in what became King Edward Street in 1844. By the turn of the century the first city hall was in a very dilapidated state and, after a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling injuring several people,…