page_title: Boans
hierarchical_section_title: Boans
caption_attribution_description: Boans Department Store, Wellington St, Perth.
context_page_description: Boans is the name of a department store that operated in Perth, Western Australia between 1895 and 1986.
  It was located between Wellington Street and Murray Street and had the Padbury Buildings between it and Forrest Place.
  The store was founded by Harry Boan and his brother Benjamin who both came to Perth in 1895 from Broken Hill in western New South Wales. Harry and another brother, Ernest, had previously established a successful drapery known as "Boan Bros. Ltd." in that town.
context_section_description: Boans is the name of a department store that operated in Perth, Western Australia between 1895 and 1986. 
  It was located between Wellington Street and Murray Street and had the Padbury Buildings between it and Forrest Place.
  The store was founded by Harry Boan and his brother Benjamin who both came to Perth in 1895 from Broken Hill in western New South Wales.  Harry and another brother, Ernest, had previously established a successful drapery known as "Boan Bros. Ltd." in that town.
caption: The Boans Building in Wellington Street, shown here in 1936, was built in 1912 and demolished in 1987. Padbury Buildings and Forrest Place just visible in lower and mid right portion of picture
exif: {"Image Software": "GIMP 2.4.5", "Image ExifOffset": "50", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "256", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "6624", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0210", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "126", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "ada34b952afd7e070d8d6152026a7b6d"}