ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War, Bungalow w Arts & Crafts Influences
No 26 Dalgety Street is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War Bungalow style. The front elevation is symmetrically planned with a half -timbered gable at the centre of a skillion-roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on paired timber posts set over battered piers. A timber balustrade spans between piers. There is a central door and hopper light flanked by sidelights and casement windows.
HISTORY
1929 National House Purchase Ltd. Power of Attorney to J. Ranger, 100 Queen Victoria-street, Fremantle, C. W. Jerrat, 26 Dalgety-street East Fremantle... (reference)
1946 No Trams In Fremantle. Regular tramway service at Fremantle stopped at 9 a.m. today. After this the travelling public was catered for by a skeleton diesel bus service. Secretary C. W. Jerrat of the Fremantle Tramway Board said that this service would be maintained until it was possible to operate the regular tram service again. He was hopeful that current would be available to operate a normal service between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. today. (reference)
1947 Fremantle Board Shows Reduced Profit. Serious consideration will have to be given to the raising of fares on trams and buses in the Fremantle district, according to the report of the chairman (Mr. F. E. Gibson, M.L.C) and secretary (Mr. C. W. Jerrat) of the Fremantle Municipal Tramways and Electric Lighting Board, which was presented at the meeting of the Fremantle City Council last night. (reference)
1951 Tramways Appointment Criticised. Criticism of the appointment of Mr. C. W. Jerrat, the former secretary-accountant, as manager of the Fremantle Municipal Tramways. was expressed at a meeting of the East Fremantle Council last night by Cr. W. Glasson. He said that the vacancy had not been advertised and that the appointee was not an engineer. It was high time that the council, which was a shareholder in the tramways, was given some report of the activities of the Fremantle Municipal Tramways Board. Its minutes should be sent to the council for perusal. The board had been without a manager for many years. (reference)
1952 Buses Replacing Trams At Port. From tomorrow week the only trams running in High-street. Fremantle, will be those on the Bicton-Palmyra (East Fremantle) route. The manager of the Fremantle Tramways Board (Mr. C. W. Jerrat) announced yesterday that the board intended closing down the High-street car barn from Sunday week. (reference)
1952 Death on Oct. 1, at Fremantle, Thomas Craig Wilson, of 26 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, husband of the late Edith Wilson and loved father of Mrs. C. W. Jerrat; aged 80 years. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1928 - 1952: Jerrat, Claude W.
