Heritage-listed · Over a century old · First
The memoirs of Escape This Northbridge, as told by the building itself. A century on Lake Street, the first Escape This venue, a pandemic, nine tenants who scream for a living, and a growing family of younger, shinier siblings. Wipe your feet.
From the memoirs
Today
Nine rooms, eight of them horror and one pirate, and a family that stretches from Perth to Melbourne, with Brisbane on the way. I have more siblings than I ever expected and more visitors than I can count, although somebody counts them for me.
Legend of the week
Forty-Eight, depending on its mood
Ask Forty-Eight what it was before it was an escape room centre and you will get a different answer every night: a grand house, a boarding house, a warehouse, a theatre, once a bakery. The fan club has written them all down. None of them are confirmed, and the building seems to like it that way.
Heritage-listed and more than a century old is all the record says. The rest is the building showing off.
From The Northbridge Night Owl
Fiction. The building’s voice, the rivalry, the letters and the legends are invented. The dates are real.
The Northbridge Night Owl · No. 1 ·
After a quiet spell in 2020, 48 Lake Street opens its doors and immediately starts creaking.
The heritage building at 48 Lake Street welcomed visitors back this week after a quiet spell, and told the Night Owl it had “not enjoyed the silence at all”.
The Northbridge Night Owl · No. 2 ·
New escape rooms under Hay Street Mall; the original is “delighted”, it says, through its teeth.
Escape This’s rooms under Hay Street Mall have begun taking bookings, five to ten minutes’ walk from Lake Street.
The Northbridge Night Owl · No. 3 ·
Calico Jack’s shanty stays put on Lake Street as the rest of the adventures sail for the city.
As Lake Street’s adventure rooms moved on, one pirate stayed: Pirate Island, which has played at Northbridge since Boxing Day 2021 and now sits among eight horror rooms.
The house
Every room at 48 Lake Street, in the order it moved in, from the Butcher’s cold room to Frankenstein’s laboratory. No spoilers.
Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street: eight horror rooms and one pirate island, five to ten minutes’ walk from Perth Station.
