[3] The Morley area was in the early days of the Swan River Colony developed with agriculture.

[4] Commercial icons appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the Wirrina Drive-In, the Morley Park Hotel and the Boans department store.

These schemes especially catered to the needs of the home building companies whose style of large scale development was a new phenomenon of the 1960s.

[6] In 2015 the City of Bayswater adopted an activity centre plan for the improvement of the Morley commercial precinct.

In 2019, the last overseas Blockbuster store in Morley closed down, leaving only one remaining location in Bend, Oregon.