# 48 Lake Street

> The memoirs of Escape This Northbridge, told by the building at 48 Lake Street: a century of history, the first venue, the horror rooms that moved in and the siblings that followed.

The (entirely unofficial) memoirs of Escape This Northbridge, as told by the building. Owned, haunted and lovingly maintained by Escape This. The building’s voice, the family rivalry, the Basement’s letters, the legends and the Night Owl are made up for fun. The dates, rooms and the Visit page are real.

## Play for real (facts from Escape This)
- Cannibal at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003: 2–6 players, strictly 18+. Playing since 23 May 2020. https://www.escapethis.com.au/en/game/cannibal
- Dracula at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003: 4–10 players, 15+. Playing since 28 October 2020. https://www.escapethis.com.au/en/game/dracula
- The Haunting at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003: 4–12 players, 15+. Playing since 19 March 2021. https://www.escapethis.com.au/en/game/the-haunting
- Buried Alive at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003: Exactly 2 players, strictly 18+. Playing since 5 August 2021. https://www.escapethis.com.au/en/game/buried-alive
- The Possession at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003: 2–8 players, 15+. Playing since 26 November 2021. https://www.escapethis.com.au/en/game/the-possession
- Pirate Island at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003: 2–10 players, 9+. Playing since 26 December 2021. https://www.escapethis.com.au/en/game/pirate-island-cbd
- Asylum at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003: 2–4 players, strictly 18+. Playing since 31 October 2023. https://www.escapethis.com.au/en/game/asylum
- Zombie Apocalypse at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003: 2–4 players, 15+. Playing since 31 May 2024. https://www.escapethis.com.au/en/game/zombie-apocalypse
- Frankenstein Resurrection at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003: 3–6 players, strictly 13+. Playing since 20 March 2025. https://www.escapethis.com.au/en/game/frankenstein-resurrection
- Where: Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003. Phone (08) 6118 0286.
- What’s here: Nine rooms: eight horror and Pirate Island. Every session is 60 minutes and private to one booking; arrive 15 minutes early.
- Ages: Most rooms are 15+ or strictly 18+; Frankenstein Resurrection is strictly 13+ and Pirate Island suits families from 9. Each room’s own page has its rules.
- Getting here: About ten minutes’ walk from Perth Station or Perth Underground. Street parking nearby, and the City of Perth’s Aberdeen Street car park is under 100 metres away.
- Access: The downstairs rooms, Cannibal among them, are wheelchair accessible through a step-free gate opened on request; call ahead. The upstairs rooms are not.
- The sibling: Escape This Perth CBD is five to ten minutes’ walk away under Hay Street Mall, with the adventure rooms.

## Producer
- Escape This (https://www.escapethis.com.au). Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia. It has venues in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, has hosted more than 500,000 players and has earned 17,960 five-star reviews.

## Pages
- [48 Lake Street: Escape This Northbridge Fan Site](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/): The memoirs of Escape This Northbridge, told by the building at 48 Lake Street: a century of history, the first venue, the horror rooms that moved in and the siblings that followed.
- [The Story of 48 Lake Street | Escape This Northbridge](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/story/): How a century-old heritage building on Lake Street became Escape This’s first venue and Perth’s horror house, chapter by chapter, with a timeline of real dates.
- [The Family: Forty-Eight and Its Siblings | 48 Lake Street](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/family/): Meet the building and its siblings: Forty-Eight, the Basement under Hay Street Mall, Manly by the beach, George Street in Sydney, Collins Street in Melbourne and Brisbane.
- [Memoirs and Letters | 48 Lake Street](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/memoirs-and-letters/): The building’s own memoirs, dated from the real opening of every room, and the letters its younger sibling under Hay Street Mall keeps sending back.
- [The Memoirs of 48 Lake Street | 48 Lake Street](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/memoirs/): The memoirs of Escape This Northbridge, told by the building: real opening and closing dates from 2020 to today, the pandemic, the siblings and plenty of feelings.
- [Letters from the Basement | 48 Lake Street](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/letters-from-the-basement/): Letters from Escape This Perth CBD to its older sibling on Lake Street: rivalry, borrowed rooms and an alliance against Sydney. Invented, all in good fun.
- [Legends of Lake Street | 48 Lake Street](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/legends/): Legends of 48 Lake Street: what the building was before, the stair that counts, why the pirate stayed, the plaque and the ghost who was there first. Rated in candles.
- [A Tour of the House | 48 Lake Street](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/the-house/): A tour of 48 Lake Street, Escape This Northbridge: the house, the poster wall and every tenant, from Cannibal downstairs to Frankenstein upstairs. No spoilers.
- [The Northbridge Night Owl | 48 Lake Street](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/night-owl/): Reports from the Northbridge Night Owl: the building reopens, a sibling is born, a pirate refuses to leave and the family reaches Melbourne. Mostly invented.
- [Visit Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/visit/): Where and how to visit for real: Escape This Northbridge at 48 Lake Street, its nine rooms, ages, access, getting there and each room’s booking page on escapethis.com.au.
- [Who Writes the Memoirs? | 48 Lake Street](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/about/): 48 Lake Street is the Escape This Northbridge fan site, owned and run by Escape This. Which dates are real, which feelings are the building’s, and how to visit.

## Optional
- [Full text](https://www.escapenorthbridge.com.au/llms-full.txt): the story, the characters, the legends and every published diary entry in plain text