Madora Bay

The first stage of the original Madora Bay residential locality was subdivided in 1960 with Madora Beach Road being constructed during 1959.

Over the following years other stages were developed both north and south of Madora Beach Road. The name of the estate was changed during the 1970s by the developers from Madora Beach to Madora Bay as it was considered more attractive from a marketing perspective.

The name Madora was chosen for the estate by the late Harry Perry being a variation of Chadora, a timber siding east of Dwellingup and Mandora, a cattle station near Broome. He also named the street names after early sailing ships that conveyed settlers to Western Australia.

During the 1950’s the Mandurah Road Board conducted the town’s sanitary tip on the land situated on the south west corner of Karinga Road in modern day San Remo. In those days Karinga Road was known as “Perfume Lane”. The land is still owned by the City and is designated as “Karinga Reserve”.

As the title was further subdivided the land to the west of Mandurah Road was owned in turn by Levi Butcher, Duncan Ross McLarty, later Sir Ross McLarty, a Premier of West Australia and Roy Adam a farmer of present day Ravenswood. The land was used as a “run off” block during winter for cattle farmers in the Murray district.

In 1958 the property was purchased by Harry and Nancy Perry, Estate Agents of Mandurah. At this time the land consisted of some 800 acres. This change of ownership initiated the commencement of residential development in the locality with holiday home block buyers and retirees followed by younger families being the purchasers.