Calling all young historians!

Are you a student who lives or attends school in the City of South Perth? Do you like taking photos and learning about history? Enter the Phillip Pendal Young Heritage Award (PPYHA) and you could turn your passion into cash and book prizes!

To enter, take a photo or use an existing historical photograph of an interesting person, place, object or building in the City of South Perth. Write a factual story about the photo to explain its relationship to the history of the local area.

Be quick! Entries close Monday 8 May, 2023.

Visit the City of South Perth Historical Society website for more details, including suggested topics, guidelines and entry form.

About the Philip Pendal Young Heritage Award

The PPYHA is a competition run by the City of South Perth Historical Society. The Award provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the importance of photographs as a historical record of people and places in the City of South Perth.

The PPYHA encourages excellence in historical writing and honours the work of the late Phillip Pendal, politician, historian, writer and founding president of the City of South Perth Historical Society.

The competition aims to attract the City’s students to participate in the recording and research of our heritage and has been run annually since 2010.