91 Preston Point Road
ARCHITECTURE
91 Preston Point road was known as 129 pre 1939. Now demolished.
HISTORY
1900 Fremantle- Robbing a Garden. John Moore, 16, was charged with the theft of some grapes from the garden of Chas. Gallop, at Preston Point. The informant stated that he detected the accused with three other boys robbing his vineyard. He pursued the pilferers, and captured young Moore without losing sight of him...reference)
1939 Mrs. Jane Gallop, of 21 May-street, East Fremantle, who died at her home on May 12, aged 83 years, was the second daughter of George and Sarah Woods. She was born in Ellen-street, Fremantle, in 1855. Her father arrived in this State in 1829, with his parents, when he was only three years of age. For some time they had to live in tents, with hostile natives camped around them. Her mother was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Willis, old colonists, after whom Willis's Point at Fremantle was named. The house in which Mrs. Gallop was born was built by her father, and ls still standing. She was educated at St. Joseph's Convent, Adelaide-street, Fremantle. In the early days her father, then a young man, conducted a church service on Sundays in a small room in Adelaide-street, somewhere near Fremantle Boys School. As there was no minister, Mr. Woods read the prayers and led the singing of the hymns. Throughout her life she was an ardent church worker, and as a girl sang in the choir and taught in the Sunday school at the Johnson Memorial Church, Fremantle, and later in life she was a keen member of St. Peter's Church, East Fremantle, and of the Ladies' Guild. As a schoolgirl Mrs. Gallop remembered seeing the "chain gang" working in the vicinity of the Fremantle Park, near her home. She also recalled the escape of the six Fenian prisoners in April 1876, and had in her possession the newspaper published at the time, containing the report of this incident. At that time a "curfew" was rung every night at 9.50, and anyone in the streets ten minutes after the bell had ceased ringing was challenged by the police. Naturally, most people were indoors before ten. Up to the time of her death Mrs. Gallop could thread a needle, sew and read without glasses. She was always a keen gardener and worker in the home, and before her last short illness used to make her own jams and chutneys. She had a phenomenal memory, and was never tired of relating incidents of early colonial life. Her husband, the late Charles Gallop, predeceased her by 20 years. Mrs. Gallop leaves four sons and 10 grandchildren. Two of her sons served in the Great War. (reference)
From 1919- 1980s this was the home of the KIdston-Hunter family. If you would like to read more about them especially Lila Kidston-Hunter please see her story under Notable People
1945. LOST, Gold Diamond Engagement Ring between 23 Fraser-st. East Fremantle and 129 Preston Point-rd. Please ring L1632. Reward. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1900 - 1918: Gallop, Charles W G, and wife Jane Gallop (m 1885) son Charles Clarence Victor born 1886. Charles CV married Mary Barnes in 1918. Died 1957.
1919: Hunter, Archibald & Gallop, Charles W G (died 1919)
1920 - 1934: Hunter, Archibald & Gallop, Mrs. Jane (died 1939)
1934 - 1949: Kidston-Hunter, Mrs. Elizabeth & Burtenshaw, Archibald . G.
