History
Statham's Quarry is considered a rare example of a stone quarry which has retained physical evidence of its operations and is associated with the development of the quarry industry in Western Australia.
The quarry was established by Thomas Statham and William Burton in 1894 until Statham's death in 1920.
The Perth City Council operated the quarry following Statham's death and material from the quarry was used to as street paving in Perth during the early 1900s. The rocks for the groyne at City Beach also came from the quarry
There was also a clay quarry operation known as Statham's in Glen Forrest which was a brickworks.
The quarry is the claimed location of one of the most extensive dolerite dykes on the Darling Scarp.
The quarry was serviced by the Kalamunda Zig Zag section of the Upper Darling Range Railway during the time of its operation (which closed in 1949), and was finally put out of operation by a bushfire in 1957. The location has been susceptible to bushfires, the most recent being in the early 2000s which was severe and very hot, reducing the ground cover around the quarry and adjacent country severely.
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