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Streets of Fremantle

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24.01.2022 Have you seen a better photo of old Fremantle? Its like looking through a window back in time! This part of an 1891 panorama, taken from the top of the Fremantle Town Hall, looks down on the corner of Market and Bannister Street. The cottages on the corner would soon be demolished and a new building added to the existing Highams Building, extending all the way up to High Street. The large building in the distance under the Sandover Sign (which is on top of a building in Cli...ff St), is 19 Mouat St, now home to Notre Dame University. Halfway up Bannister Street, on the right hand side, you can see Soapsud Alley, where the wives of tradesmen would make a bit of money laundering peoples clothes, which you can see hanging out the back. The Long Jetty in the background extends out from Bathers Bay. The shorter jetty would later become part of the Fishing Boat Harbour, extending out to the South Mole. You can see how close the water line is, without the Esplanade Park! Nixon & Merrilees, 1891, SLWA 3973B/10

23.01.2022 A recent post in Warren Duffys Perth Reflects Facebook group featured Cottesloes magnificent Wanslea and Shannon Lovelady researched and wrote the following I would like to share with you. Taken from a childs height, it looked up 13 hospital-green steps up to the front door surrounded in beautiful leadlights in which are the initials IOOF (Independent Order of Odd Fellows ). The Perth branch of the IOOF, a mutual benefit society, was established in 1898. With a growing nu...Continue reading

23.01.2022 A coloured black and white image from John Lintons family collection taken by his great grandfather, photographer A.T. Beste. This view of part of South Fremantle doesnt show anything special, but gives an idea of how semi-rural properties quite close to Fremantle centre were in the early 1900s. This was taken looking north from his backyard, beside a building which is still standing, albeit it modernised and crammed into a surrounding townhouse development off Stevens St,... just west of Hampton Rd. The latter can be seen climbing the hill in the background. Welcome to The Streets of Fremantle.

22.01.2022 Mannings Folly, I was taken aback when I saw the massive structure and more so when I learned it was a private residence considering 1858 was just 29 years since the Swan River Settlement began. This lavish construction compared to the wives and children of the new settlers seeking shelter from a wetter than average winter using umbrellas and anything at hand due to the lack of preparedness of Stirling and his crew upon landing just 300 metres from Mannings new hall. Broug...ht to the fledgling colony by his brother Henry (The suburb of Manning is named after him) to manage his land holdings, but Charles with plenty of money himself went on to become the largest land holder in the area. Our extravagant home owner was Charles Alexander Manning, born about 1807 and and his cause of death 1st of December 1869 is listed as drink. Something he may have been indulging when shelling out the large sums of money to erect what really appears to be a mock up of the future South Fremantle Power Station or a greenhouse with the amount of glass employed. The observatory atop the three storey structure was to satisfy Charless hobby of astronomy and the views up and down the Swan River would have been a delight. Charles resided in Manning Hall until his death when Wallace Bickley moved his effects in. Arriving in Fremantle in 1830, Wallace began trading horses from India and emigrated there in 1837. Wallace returned in 1851 and built a successful business until his death at Fremantle on 30 June 1876. From then win and spirit merchants leased the building but by 1928 it had deteriorated to the point the authorities ordered its demolition. The building which took its place in 1929 was recently bastardised with the simple elevation remaining. Fremantle Harbour and Railway yards taken from Mannings Folly on corner of Short and Pakenham Streets. Images from Fremantle History Centre and Battye Library.

21.01.2022 Fremantle Town Hall, I never look at the building the same way anymore after I learned of the murder. There is so much to learn about the Streets of Fremantle if we look. The building remains almost unchanged since construction Fremantle Town Hall. The official opening, on 22 June 1887, coincided with the celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee and it was formally named by the mayor, Daniel K. Congdon and the state governor, Sir Frederick Broome, as the Town and Jubilee Hall....Continue reading

21.01.2022 1899 and will you look at the wet areas along Beach Street? The quay has staked it's claim along the banks of the Swan River and the gold rush is in full swing as the colony receives the manpower from the world over as convicts were no longer an asset.

21.01.2022 Manning's Folly, I was taken aback when I saw the massive structure and more so when I learned it was a private residence considering 1858 was just 29 years since the Swan River Settlement began. This lavish construction compared to the wives and children of the new settlers seeking shelter from a wetter than average winter using umbrellas and anything at hand due to the lack of preparedness of Stirling and his crew upon landing just 300 metres from Manning's new hall. Broug...ht to the fledgling colony by his brother Henry (The suburb of Manning is named after him) to manage his land holdings, but Charles with plenty of money himself went on to become the largest land holder in the area. Our extravagant home owner was Charles Alexander Manning, born about 1807 and and his cause of death 1st of December 1869 is listed as 'drink'. Something he may have been indulging when shelling out the large sums of money to erect what really appears to be a mock up of the future South Fremantle Power Station or a greenhouse with the amount of glass employed. The observatory atop the three storey structure was to satisfy Charles's hobby of astronomy and the views up and down the Swan River would have been a delight. Charles resided in Manning Hall until his death when Wallace Bickley moved his effects in. Arriving in Fremantle in 1830, Wallace began trading horses from India and emigrated there in 1837. Wallace returned in 1851 and built a successful business until his death at Fremantle on 30 June 1876. From then win and spirit merchants leased the building but by 1928 it had deteriorated to the point the authorities ordered it's demolition. The building which took it's place in 1929 was recently bastardised with the simple elevation remaining. Fremantle Harbour and Railway yards taken from 'Mannings Folly' on corner of Short and Pakenham Streets. Images from Fremantle History Centre and Battye Library.

21.01.2022 The South Fremantle Tram at the opening of the Fremantle Municipal Tramways, 30 October 1905 Eamonn Beahan asked if anyone has any information on the colour or model of this tram, or know who he could contact to find out? He plans on colourising and restoring this photograph, so it would be nice to know the actual colours! 'Published as cover of A ticket to ride by John Chalmers with description on p.19: The cover photograph shows Elias Solomon's daughter - in a white frock -... near the controls. It is believed that she was his youngest daughter, Stella, who would have been eight at the time. Her father is on her left with his hand on the accelorator.' Accessed via the State Library pictorial archive, call number 009587PD. Photo here is coloured from the original by a My Heritage computer program with no in put as to the truth whatsoever.

20.01.2022 Looking down over the harbour ,we witness the original railway bridge constructed in 1881 for the Fremantle to Guildford railway. Except for being damaged during the 1926 floods, the bridge performed until it's removal in 1966 to enlarge the harbour specifically for the construction of the container facility. It's rumoured the early planners assumed they could continue to push father up the river when they wished to expand the harbour but the bridges put a stop to that. The N...orth Quay s unrecognisable from what we know today. Sadly it seems the harbours days are numbered as a new facility is in the planning stages. What's next for our port city's docks, apartments I guess? Fabulous photo by John Linton. See more

20.01.2022 Riverside Road Richmond 1920, now East Fremantle and the Castlemaine Brewery on the riverfront. Touted to have made a fine brew she showed profits on the ledgers in the 1930's around 4000 pounds a year. Gelignite was used to remove the stealthy structure but maybe a little too much with rubble damaging a vehicle some 100 yards away.... Thanks to Christine Lawson and an old article or we would have no idea this beautiful building ever existed about where the Stirling bridge stands today is my guess.

18.01.2022 Heres a tale most will be unaware of from our port city way in 1876 that saw the Streets of Fremantle used in a daring escape worthy of a movie you will agree. From 1865 to 1867, British authorities rounded up supporters of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an Irish independence movement, and transported sixty-two of them to the penal colony of Western Australia. They were convicted of crimes ranging from treason-felony to outright rebellion. Sixteen were soldiers who were c...Continue reading

18.01.2022 Have you seen a better photo of old Fremantle? It's like looking through a window back in time! This part of an 1891 panorama, taken from the top of the Fremantle Town Hall, looks down on the corner of Market and Bannister Street. The cottages on the corner would soon be demolished and a new building added to the existing Higham's Building, extending all the way up to High Street. The large building in the distance under the Sandover Sign (which is on top of a building in Cli...ff St), is 19 Mouat St, now home to Notre Dame University. Halfway up Bannister Street, on the right hand side, you can see Soapsud Alley, where the wives of tradesmen would make a bit of money laundering people's clothes, which you can see hanging out the back. The Long Jetty in the background extends out from Bathers Bay. The shorter jetty would later become part of the Fishing Boat Harbour, extending out to the South Mole. You can see how close the water line is, without the Esplanade Park! Nixon & Merrilees, 1891, SLWA 3973B/10

17.01.2022 I have no idea what sent me down the curious path researching our history, but this is a fascinating item that intrigues me. From an early plan subdividing the land into plots from 1838, we see a sand spit extending out from where the railway station stands in Fremantle today. The station would be on the original shoreline of mouth of the Swan River. Our second image provided by the SRO WA also shows the large tract of sand (Hardly worth building on should a rush of flood wa...ter present itself from the upper reaches of the Canning and Swan River plus the Helena and Avon Rivers and many tributaries. All goods being exported overseas from the Long Jetty at Bathers Beach that are being received at the river mouth They had to be unloaded where the Maritime Museum stands today and transported in some manner several hundred metres past Arthur Head and to the ships unable to enter the harbour due to the limestone bar not removed until 1897 when the harbour received it's first large vessel. By 1899, the railway had opened to Guildford cutting the cost of forwarding produce for export. It used to cost as much to send timber from Helena Valley to Fremantle as it did from the port to London. You can see in the photos from 1899 before the local timbers were used in the construction of a brand new wharf, the sand bar is still visible across the river , also in 1900 as ships birth at the new wharf at Cliff Street and the railway bridge constructed across the river in the distance gives you an idea how much land was reclaimed from Shacks Holden out into the river. Pretty neat huh? See more

16.01.2022 The rail bridges of Fremantle fascinate me and I cannot get enough photos to please my curiosity. Greg n Jen Read's grand father took several photos from around Tuckfield Street 1962 as a new rail bridge was being constructed to allow the old bridge opened in 1881 to be removed to allow the current day container wharf to be built. An aircraft carrier,HMS EAGLE can be seen which dates the photo as February 1968. The row of pylons in the water on the right are the remains of th...e 1881 railway bridge in the process of being removed. We also witness the Fremantle wheat silos considered heritage before their demolition in 2000 built on the North Quay in 1948. Curious how the Fremantle traffic bridge was built as a temporary measure in 1938, redefines temporary don't you think? Wonderful seeing these old photos come to life taken by people just going about their hobby back in their day.

15.01.2022 This image is attributed to John Linton's great grandfather's (on his Mum's side) photography studio, Beste and Jaggs, and shows South Beach in the middle background What's more, he thinks that's Essex and Norfolk Sts crossing the foreground. If so, his grandmother on his Dad's side was born in a little row house just out of view behind the partial large building at far left. How lovely to be able to look back on your own families history with photos.

15.01.2022 The rail yards at Fremantle received much of what was exported that we produced in our state from sandalwood , wheat and huge quantities of wool. The wool stores were mammoth as was the passenger terminal to accept guests and new Australians. The rail yards today are bitumen as the tide has turned and the imports continue to arrive. It is sad to see the rail yards of Fremantle in the 60s captured by Jack Stanbridge, in the throes of death as times changed.

14.01.2022 Did you know the Fremantle railway station we use today wasnt the first? The original station opened 139 years ago next month at Cliff Street before a new station was constructed due the the influx of folk seeking their fortune on the Western Australian Goldfields. The new station opened in 1907 for the exceptional price of just 80 000 pounds.

14.01.2022 A.T. Beste often walked The Streets of Fremantle from his photographic studio on High St and today at lunchtime, he had strolled to the base of The Roundhouse and back to work up a hunger for the customary roast Sunday evening. Business was quiet this wet Sunday afternoon in 1913, so setting up his tripod almost outside his business premises (Beste and Jaggs, Photographers) to look towards the Town Hall, then in the opposite direction down past the many sightseers towards the Roundhouse. Not a lot of traffic about. Both photos give a somewhat gloomy appearance obtained when the photos owner and Great Grandson of AT Beste , John Linton coloured them for us to appreciate what once was.

13.01.2022 Did you know that Mills and Wares was established in Cottesloe in 1898 and shortly afterwards (1899) moved to a new factory in South Terrace, South Fremantle where many of us will remember them. The factory was the largest industrial employer of women in Western Australia until automation began to take over. It was acquired by Arnott's and finally closed its Fremantle operation in 1992. Have you still got a Mills & Wares case from the Royal Show?

13.01.2022 This early map of Fremantle dividing up the land when the settlers arrived launched me on a path of learning. I had no idea a large portion of land jutted out into the mouth of the Swan River due North of the second future railway station at Fremantle. Although the blocks were prepared on paper, I am unaware if any were ever taken up although it was 60 odd years until the harbour opened up in 1897 and Victoria Quay was constructed.

13.01.2022 The Fremantle Asylum built just after the completion of The Fremantle Prison is what many of us would remember as another school excursion many years ago. Twice they tried to knock it down and twice she was saved. The first mentally ill patients in Western Australia were cared for in temporary accommodation, including the wreck of the Marquis of Anglesey, the Round House and the Colonial Hospital. When convict transportation began in 1850, the numbers of people with mental il...Continue reading

13.01.2022 A coloured black and white image from John Linton's family collection taken by his great grandfather, photographer A.T. Beste. This view of part of South Fremantle doesn't show anything special, but gives an idea of how semi-rural properties quite close to Fremantle centre were in the early 1900s. This was taken looking north from his backyard, beside a building which is still standing, albeit it modernised and crammed into a surrounding townhouse development off Stevens St,... just west of Hampton Rd. The latter can be seen climbing the hill in the background. Welcome to The Streets of Fremantle.

12.01.2022 A coloured postcard from James Ball produced from a photo of HMS CAMBRIAN, then flagship of the Australian Station, on her first visit to Fremantle, 21st September 1907 approaching Victoria Quay. Nice to see a photo looking back towards Arthur Head and the Roundhouse for a change. The harbour was still young since being cleared to allow the big ships entry to the new docks, steam and sail , timber and steel of all sizes , the tugs, the cutters, sloops, ketches, the dredges do...ing their bit to enlarge the useful safe haven and the brave little pilot boats. The docks were stacked high with sandalwood, bags of grain, bales of wool, timber, minerals and many more items for export from the isolated port halfway around the world from the big smoke being handled by grabs on cranes dotted along the wharf. The town of Fremantle was bursting after the population exploded entering through the port 20 years earlier, the narrow streets were jostling as people performed business and sort lodgings and a meal. Trams trundled past horse and carts and new fangled machines called motor cars plus the faithful bicycles. Fremantle fascinates me and it's the 1850s I'd enjoy experiencing , I wonder what decade you would like to visit the port if you could? See more

12.01.2022 The first public building in Perth 1831 and scene of the settlements first execution. A lad who killed a farmers son was hung and buried in nearby sand dunes to the South. A tunnel was excavated by prisoners from the Round House using pick axes for the Bathers beach Whaling Company to gain easier access to High Street.... Image by SLWA b2558544

11.01.2022 Cooee City, sometimes known as Ugly Land sprung up as a result of WW1. In 1929, a disreputable amusement park on the banks of the Swan River was closed after an extended moral panic about gambling, wild dancing and interracial sex. Variously known as Ugly Land, Cooee City or White City during its lifetime, attractions included goat races, log-chopping contests, boxing tents, jazz bands and toboggan slides. Initially set up in the Supreme Court gardens, it later moved to the E...Continue reading

09.01.2022 Did you know the Fremantle railway station we use today wasn't the first? The original station opened 139 years ago next month at Cliff Street before a new station was constructed due the the influx of folk seeking their fortune on the Western Australian Goldfields. The new station opened in 1907 for the exceptional price of just 80 000 pounds.

09.01.2022 A recent post in Warren Duffy's Perth Reflects Facebook group featured Cottesloe's magnificent Wanslea and Shannon Lovelady researched and wrote the following I would like to share with you. Taken from a childs height, it looked up 13 hospital-green steps up to the front door surrounded in beautiful leadlights in which are the initials IOOF (Independent Order of Odd Fellows ). The Perth branch of the IOOF, a mutual benefit society, was established in 1898. With a growing nu...Continue reading

06.01.2022 A photo taken in 1924 of the Fremantle Post Office. We can thankfully say it is still there.

06.01.2022 We have all seen the well stacked mountains of Sandalwood at Fremantle Harbour and these are the type of men who scrounged for it. Anybody notice the poor fella might be missing a few bits? One can only imagine the manual labour involved in collecting and transporting this commodity back in the day.

06.01.2022 Captain Stirling had visited the shores on the West Coast of New Holland before returning to his homelands and spruiking what he found was wonderful beckoning the wealthy to follow with promises of land and wealth. The first settlers of The Swan River Colony must have wished they missed the voyage when they landed a stones throw from Arthur's Head which was surrounded by many swampy pools and sand enough for a lifetime of misery. You too will have witnessed by now what surpri...sed me also when I saw it from a photo taken where the Roundhouse was constructed in 1831. The spit protruding from what we know today as Victoria Quay which was then soon to be known as Willis' Point. A massive area so much so that the surveyor prepared maps with plans to subdivide the land area but sense prevailed. By the late 1800s, the wharf area reclaimed the foreshore for the movement of goods and the railways and much of Willis' Point was dredged being poured back behind the harbour walls. Soon C.Y. O'Connor would begin his plan in 1892 to open up the mouth of the Swan River and Fremantle Harbour began to appear the way we appreciate it to be today. See more

02.01.2022 Unmistakably High Street Fremantle on a damp Sunday morning in 1909. Nothing remarkable about the naming of High Street, it's a traditional name for a central thoroughfare. Photo thanks to John Linton.

01.01.2022 Here's a tale most will be unaware of from our port city way in 1876 that saw the Streets of Fremantle used in a daring escape worthy of a movie you will agree. From 1865 to 1867, British authorities rounded up supporters of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an Irish independence movement, and transported sixty-two of them to the penal colony of Western Australia. They were convicted of crimes ranging from treason-felony to outright rebellion. Sixteen were soldiers who were c...Continue reading