ARCHITECTURE
Late Victorian / Early Federation / Georgian Domestic Carpenter
No 16 East Street (was no 28) is a single storey house constructed in timber framing and weatherboard cladding with a hipped and gabled corrugated iron roof. It is a simple expression of the Federation Bungalow style. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a gabled bay to the south and a part width skillion roofed verandah to the north.
HISTORY
1908 Advertising Hooded Sulky for Sale, with lamps; also Set of Harness. £17. 28 East street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1910 Death. The Friends of the late Mr. John George Wrightson, of Fremantle Harbour Trust, are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the Church of England portion of the Fremantle Cemetery. The Funeral is appointed to leave his late residence, No. 28 East-street, East Fremantle… (reference)
1910 A Widow’s Claim. The Death Of A Breadwinner. A Fremantle Railway Fatality. Yesterday afternoon, at Fremantle, sitting as a Court of Compensation under the Workers' Compensation Act... in which the Fremantle Harbour Trust. Commissioners were cited as defendants. During April last an employee of the Harbour Trust named John' George Wrightson while, according to the evidence for the plaintiffs, in the execution of his duties was run down and killed by a passenger train on the North Fremantle railway river bridge. The plaintiffs to the suit yesterday were Bridget Wrightson, Mervyn Wrightson (12), Leslie Wrightson (5), and Doris Wrightson (3), wife and children respectively of the deceased, and they sought compensation under the provisions of the Act… (reference)
1954 Transfer Of Land Act. Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the direction of the Commissioner of Titles in this behalf. It is intended on the 10th August next to issue in the name of Bridget Wrightson of 16 East-street, East Fremantle, Widow, a new Certificate of Title to the land described below, the duplicate Certificate of Title having, as is alleged, been lost or destroyed. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1899 - 1910: McKeown, James
1911 - 1942: Wrightson, Mrs Bridget
1942 - 1944: Westergaard, Reginald E.
1945 - 1954: Wrightson, Mrs Bridget
