ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War, Bungalow w Federation Influences
No 30 Dalgety Street is a single storey house constructed in brick with a hipped tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Federation Bungalow style. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a full width, skillion roofed verandah. The verandah features a timber gable to the south. The verandah is supported on timber posts. There is a central door flanked by sets of casement windows. The roofscape features pairs of chimneys.
HISTORY
This beautiful old house was the family home of the Bull family for 63 years and then the home of the Taggart family for the last 40 years.
James Henry Bull (1889-1978) bought the land around 1916/17 and built the house that stands there now. James was born in Bunbury (one of 9 children of William Bull and Elizabeth Gibson). He came to Fremantle in 1912, where he found work as a clerk. In 1914 he married Delores Rose (1894-1978) in Fremantle, and the couple moved to 15 Dalgety St (renumbered 30 Dalgety in 1939) where they lived for 64 years.
James and Delores had three children: Walter James Bull the eldest son was born 13 Feb 1915. Gwendoline Rose was born 5 April 1916 and Golda Joan was born in March 1919. They were all born at 30 Dalgety St.
During WWll Walter served in the Defence Forces and the two sisters, who had trained as hairdressers used the family home to run a hairdressing and beauty salon from the front rooms on the north side of the verandah. You can read their story in the Notable and Notorious section- ‘Gwen and Golda Bull’.
James Bull died 15 June 1978 and was buried in Fremantle Cemetery. Dolores died later the same year (8 Dec 1978) aged 84. For many years James Henry Bull provided for his family by working as a brokers assistant and was well known in the local community. The property passed to Gwen Bull, who had lived in the house all her life- and who sold it on the death of both parents, in 1979- to S & N Barrett, before being sold to the present owner Joanne Taggart who has lived in the house since 1981.
The property contains some very special wooden sheds at the rear. These include an outside toilet c 1918, an outside laundry with original copper, a small outhouse room used by James Bull as his bedroom and another room which was used as a storeroom (sometimes used to hang meat that was brought up from family in the South-west and distributed amongst neighbours). It is also rumoured that there was once an air-raid shelter under the hills hoist washing line.
RESIDENTS
1918 - 1949: Bull, James Henry
1979 - Gwendoline Bull and Golda Gordon
1981 - Andrew and Joanne Taggert
