ARCHITECTURE
Federation / Gable Terrace w Gothic Influences
No 35-37 (previously know as No 71) Hubble Street is a duplex pair of single story cottages constructed in limestone and brickwork with gabled corrugated iron roofs and decorative gables. They are a fine expression of the Federation Bungalow style. The pair is symmetrically planned with a full width bullnose roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on timber posts on rendered masonry piers. Between the piers is a rendered masonry balustrade. Front doors are set either side of the party wall and are flanked by pairs of double hung sash windows. A parapet wall divides the pair.
HISTORY
1919 Fremantle Butcher’s Infidelity. Doris Carline Burge granted a dissolution of her marriage to Cyril Joseph Burge after overwhelming evidence of the latter’s adultery with a Mrs. Ada Wood was presented to the Supreme Court. reference
1919 Meat And Morals. “A Standing Arrangement”. A fuller report of the Burge divorce/dissolution case subtitled ‘Butcher Burge and Wood’s Wanton Wife’. This presents a detailed report of all the evidence, including re-assembling discarded letters, and salacious details of secret meetings. (reference)
1928 Death on April 20, at Fremantle Hospital, William Francis Stephen (Frankie), dearly beloved only son of William John and Mary Victoria O'Byrne, and brother of Roma, of 71 Hubble-street, East Fremantle; aged 5 years. (reference)
1945 Death. In proud and loving memory of our dear Brother and Uncle, Johnnie (AIW), who died whilst POW, Thailand, November 30, 1943, Inserted by his loving sister Alma, brother-in-law Jim and nephews, Jimmy and Ray Andrews (35 Hubble-street. East Fremantle). (reference)
RESIDENTS
1907 - 1914: Staton, Amos (builder & contractor)
1915 - 1919: Wood, Roland R.
1920: Stevens, Frederick
1921 - 1922: Green, John W.
1923 - 1924: Jones, Refus
1925 - 1926: Reardon, David
1927 - 1938: O'Byrne, William J.
1938 - 1949: Andrews, James W.
