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23.01.2022 Great to see so many at our first meeting back. Big thanks to Tim Wright for his great talk on Arundel St and to the folk at Freo Doctor Liquor Store for hosting us.

23.01.2022 In late April 2020 the state government committed $230m for a replacement for the Fremantle Traffic Bridge built as a temporary structure in 1938. Rail options will also be considered as part of the project. Read about the drama of the collapse of the second railway bridge in this timely piece by Heather Campbell at the link below. https://fremantlehistorysociety.wordpress.com/... Photograph courtesy Fremantle History Centre LH003049

22.01.2022 The Bubonic Plague in Fremantle Dr Michelle McKeough

18.01.2022 On this day in July Have you ever wondered what happened in Fremantle over the years? The link below takes you to snippets of information about people places and events which occurred in the month of July. Some have images relating to the story. https://fhs.org.au//07/02/on-this-day-in-july-in-fremantle/... On the 1st of July 1919 this photograph was taken of 20-year old nurse Ivy Preddy. She worked at the No. 8 Australian General Hospital in South Terrace during WWI. Image courtesy Fremantle History Society No. 2814

12.01.2022 Hillcrest, North Fremantle Were you, or was someone you know, born at Hillcrest in North Fremantle? This beautiful home, built for Francis and Emma Pearse in 19...02 now houses Regis Aged Care. Find out more about the history of the place at http://fhs.org.au/2020/05/04/hillcrest-north-le-by-anne-brake/ Hillcrest from Turton St. Undated/unsourced image on the Regis site sign (2020)

11.01.2022 This isn’t the first time Western Australia’s isolation has protected it from the worst of a pandemic. The Bubonic Plague killed millions over a 6 year period at the beginning of the last century but WA remained reasonably unscathed. Fremantle was the main point of infection though. Read more about it in Michelle McKeogh’s fascinating piece. See the full story here https://fremantlehistorysociety.files.wordpress.com//bubon The view of Cliff Street in c1905 and March 2020. ... Photograph dated 1905 courtesy of Fremantle History Centre Image No. 1781. 2020 image Pam Harris

08.01.2022 Have you ever wondered about the story behind the Explorer's Monument in Esplanade Park? Check it out at the link below in an article by the Society's Vice President, Judith Robison. https://fremantlehistorysociety.files.wordpress.com//a-cas Photographer Judith Robison

08.01.2022 Tuesday 26th November at 6pm Freo.Social Parry Street, Fremantle https://www.freo.social/categories/story... We’d love to see you at this year’s Christmas party. We will be getting a behind the scenes tour of the recently redeveloped Artillery Drill Hall, now Free.Social. There will be a tour of the various information panels that have been installed throughout the building which capture the history of this significant place. We will be getting platters to share and drinks will be from the bar. $5/head to contribute to the platters. Please let me know if you are coming and how many in your party so we can order accordingly. https://goo.gl/maps/Wm9uRKY6i7zPLsCv5 I wonder if anyone remembers the aircraft outside the Artillery Drill Hall in 1985. Photograph courtesy of Fremantle History Centre

04.01.2022 A visual view of Fremantle in 1926 from the Western Mail Thursday 29 April 1926. Notice that there was an ANZAC service at the cemetery as it was before the War Memorial was built on Monument Hill.