FREMANTLE, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

We spent a few days staying in Fremantle at the historic National Hotel.

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National Hotel, Cnr High & Market Streets, Fremantle, Western Australia

The National Hotel is on the corner of High and Market streets in Fremantle. Originally built as a shop in 1868, it was occupied by the National Bank in the early 1880s. When the bank relocated in 1886, the building became the National Hotel.

Stained Glass Doorway, High Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Side Door, Scots Presbyterian Church, Parry Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Doorway, 63 Market Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Relics of SS Xantho, WA Shipwrecks Museum, Marine Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia

Story of the SS Xantho


Anchors Exhibit, WA Shipwrecks Museum, Marine Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia


Arty Occy, Fishing Boat Harbour, Mews Road, Fremantle, Western Australia


Staircase, WA Shipwrecks Museum, Marine Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia


School of Medicine, Notre Dame University, 21 Henry Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Statue, John Curtin Place, Kings Square, High Street Mall, Fremantle, Western Australia

Perhaps the most iconic of Australia’s prime ministers, John Curtin is bound to ordinary Australians by his working class roots and trade union advocacy, but most importantly as Australia’s war-time voice. Although Victorian by birth, Curtin made Western Australia his home in 1917 where he became an editor for a union press. 
He joined federal parliament in 1928 as the elected Member of Fremantle. He became leader of the Labor Party in 1935 and prime minister in 1941 in the midst of war with Germany and Italy, with troops deployed in fronts in the middle-east and Europe. Weeks after his succession Australia was pulled into a war in the Pacific. 
Curtin’s decisions strengthened relations with the United States, as their interests were directly threatened by Japan who had attacked ports in Australian and allied ports around the pacific. 
Curtin died in office only weeks before the formal ending of the war in the Pacific. As Western Australia’s first and only prime minister, John Curtin is commemorated at King’s Square in Fremantle.

Statues, Kings Square, Queen Street, Fremantle, Western Australia

Top:

Air Commodore Sir Hughie Idwal Edwards

Bottom:

Pietro Giacomo Porcelli


The Drill Hall, 27 Mouat Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Sundown, Bathers Beach, Fremantle, Western Australia


The University of Notre Dame Australia, Malloy Courtyard, Mouat Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Tom Edwards Memorial Fountain, Kings Square, Adelaide Street, Fremantle, Western Australia

See Article 1919 Fremantle Wharf Riot


Tourist Wheel, Esplanade Park, Marine Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia


Town Hall from The National Hotel, Cnr High & Market Streets, Fremantle, Western Australia


City of Fremantle Town Hall, High Street Mall, Fremantle, Western Australia


Traffic in the Wet, Cnr High & Market Streets, Fremantle, Western AustraliaMarket Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Arcade, Adelaide Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Beer’s Buildings 1924, Cnr Parry Street and South Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia


“Beware of the Wife”, Essex Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Bistrot Café, Henry Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Bon Scott Memorial, Mews Road, Fremantle, Western Australia

Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott (9 July 1946 – 19 February 1980) was an Australian singer who was the second lead vocalist and lyricist of the hard rock band AC/DC from 1974-1980.

Brass Plates, Fremantle, Western Australia


Discarded Shoes on Lamp Post, Cnr High & Market Streets, Fremantle, Western Australia


Entrance Arch, Fremantle Markets, Henderson Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Façade, WA Shipwrecks Museum, Cliff Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle, Western Australia


Fishing Fleet, Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle, Western Australia


Flight Club Sign, South Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia

Former Newcastle Club Hotel, South Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia

aka The Newport and now The Flight Club

Foley Hall Gates, Mouat Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Fremantle Angel’s House, Cnr Essex Street & Essex Lane, Fremantle, Western Australia


High Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Historical Marker, Union Stores Building, Cnr High & Henry Streets, Fremantle, Western Australia

The building is now occupied by "New Edition Bookshop".

“Imperial Chambers”, Market Street, Fremantle, Western Australia

See in situ


Loading Door, Norfolk Hotel, Cnr Norfolk Street and South Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia

The Norfolk Hotel is located on the corner of South Terrace and Norfolk Street in Fremantle, Western Australia. The stone built hotel was originally constructed in 1887 before the 1893 Kalgoorlie gold rush, for George Alfred Davies, a vintner, local councillor and Mayor of Fremantle. For most of its life it was known as the Oddfellows Hotel; it was renamed when it was substantially renovated in 1985.

Original Construction

Night Safe, Former ANZ Bank Premises, High Street, Fremantle, Western Australia

Once used by business customers to lodge their takings outside of banking hours

Notre Dame University, Mouat Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Heritage Building, Cnr High & Market Streets, Fremantle, Western Australia


Penny Farthing Sculpture, Mews Road, Fremantle, Western Australia


Pool Tables, Bar Orient, Cnr High & Henry Streets, Fremantle, Western Australia


Pressed Tin Ceiling, High Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Recycle or Landfill, Market Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Heritage Signs, Court House, Marine Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia


“Absorbed by Light”, Newman Court, Fremantle, Western Australia

Created to encourage reflection on society's increasing reliance on technology, depicting three figures engrossed in what appear to be smartphones. - BRITISH artist Gali May Lucas

38 Adelaide Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


82 High Street, Fremantle, Western Australia

Now used by a chemist, this building was formerly occupied by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Wesley Uniting Church, Cnr Market & Cantonment Streets, Fremantle, Western Australia  [c.1888]


Under the Verandah, Market Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Turret, Cliff Street, Fremantle, Western Australia


Woodbridge/Guildford, Perth, Western Australia July 2020

Afternoon coffee at the “Riverside at Woodbridge” and then to Barkers Bridge over the Swan River at Guildford.


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“Woodbridge”, Ford Street, Woodbridge, Western Australia c.1885

Captain James Stirling took up land here in 1829, the same year the Swan River Colony was settled. He named his property ‘Woodbridge’ as it reminded him of the area around the home of his wife’s family in Surrey, England. Stirling had a small cottage built but spent little time there. At the end of his term as Governor in 1839, Stirling left the colony and leased the property to various tenants.

Charles Harper married Fanny de Burgh in 1879 and the following year took up a lease at Woodbridge. In 1883 land was purchased and the Harpers began the construction of a large family home. Two years later, Charles, Fanny, their three sons and one daughter moved into the completed house.

Jetty on the Swan River below “Woodbridge”

Fields around “Woodbridge”

Barkers Bridge, Swan River, Guildford, Perth, Western Australia

Riverside, Barkers Bridge, Swan River, Guildford, Perth, Western Australia