ARCHITECTURE
No 29 Alexandra Road 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 Federation Queen Anne style. It is asymmetrically composed with a thrust gable bay and a full width return hip roofed verandah supported on turned timber posts with timber fretwork. There is a gable bay to the corner of the house. Both gable bays feature sets of double hung sash windows. The entry door is located on the south elevation under the return verandah. The roofscape features tall rendered chimneys. There are rendered quoins and sills which are decorative.
HISTORY
1927 Mesdames Fisher Beard and Digby Beard had quite an exciting time recently when they visited their husbands, who were camping on Garden Island. They went to the island in Mr. Digby Beard's fine yacht the Matalee. Deciding to go home by the Emerald, which they intended to catch at Rockingham, Mesdames Beard put off from Garden Island to catch the Emerald. Imagine their surprise when they met the Emerald going full steam for Fremantle, a couple of miles out of Rockingham. The result was that Mr. Digby Beard had to stop the Emerald on the high seas and transport his passengers by the yacht's Dinghy. (reference)
1932 Two ¼ -acre Blocks, Adrian-st., Palmyra. Apply 29 Alexandra-rd., East Fremantle. (reference)
1933 Death on June 17, at his residence, 154 Bagot-road, Subiaco, Cedric Althestane, dearly beloved son of Julian Alfred and Ellen Smith, of Tungamah, 29 Alexandra-road, East Fremantle and loving brother of Rowena, Reginald, Helen and Alex Smith; aged 28 years. (reference)
1935 Wanted for Farm, near Northam, Domestic Help, all duties. Mother and daughter. Apply mornings, 29 Alexandra-rd., East Fremantle… (reference)
1936 Mr. and Mrs. J. McMillan, of Alexandra-road, East Fremantle, are holidaying at Rockingham. (reference)
1939 Left at South Perth Oval on Saturday, La crosse Stick and Bag of Gear. Reward...call 29 Alexandra-rd., East Fremantle. (reference)
1941 Mr. and Mrs. Butchart, of 36 Petra-street, Palmyra, wish to announce the engagement of their only daughter, Dorothy Joan, to Norman Kingsley, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Gammon, of 29 Alexandra-road, East Fremantle. (reference)
1946 Bedroom Suite, dark oak, 3 pieces, Stretcher, Gramophone spring missing. 29 Alexandra-rd., East Fremantle. (reference)
1946 Boys Out of Control. Damage to Property. A father admitted to Mr. A. Schroeder, Special Magistrate, in the Fremantle Children's Court yesterday that he was unable to control his three boys, who were charged with being neglected children. Their ages are 16, 12 and 8 years. ...The two elder brothers were also charged with another boy aged 12, with having wilfully damaged a letterbox, the property of Thomas Edwin Gammon, at East Fremantle on June 23. (reference)
1952 Death on Sept. 3, at Fremantle, Wilf., dearly beloved husband of Ivy Nicholls, of 29 Alexandra-road, East Fremantle, loved father of Marjorie (Mrs. O. Williams), Corrine (Mrs. F. Hansen) and Dorothy, father-in-law of Owen and Fred and fond grandfather of Sheryl, Kent, Paul and the late Kerry; aged 57 years. My darling. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1926 - 1932: Beard, Mrs. Fisher
1933 - 1935: Smith, Julian A.
1935 - 1939: McMillan, John
1939 - 1949: Gammon, Thomas E.
1952: Nicholls, Ivy
