Swan Bells

[4] Due to be recast leading up to 1870 instead they were tuned and restored at London's Whitechapel Bell Foundry and donated to Western Australia, on the initiative of local bellringer and businessman Laith Reynolds.

The glass-clad spire is designed using spokes that radiate horizontally from a centrally positioned axle, declining in width as it rises to a point.

[5][6] In 2018, to commemorate the centenary of the World War One armistice on 11 November, a large 6.5-tonne (14,000 lb) bell was cast by VEEM Limited, Canning Vale.

[7] Since 2013 the area around Barrack Street Jetty has undergone redevelopment; this included removal of part of the reflecting pool and creation of a boardwalk in front of the Bell Tower.

[8][9] The A$5.5 million building was said to be built to commemorate the new millennium, but at the time the government and the Premier of Western Australia, Richard Court, received a fair amount of criticism from locals who opposed it, calling it a wasteful expenditure.