ARCHITECTURE
Federation / Domestic Carpenter style
No. 49 (previously was no. 119) Duke Street is a single-storey cottage constructed in timber framing and weatherboard cladding with a hipped corrugated iron roof. It is a simple expression of the Federation Bungalow style. The front elevation is symmetrically planned with a central door and hopper light flanked by double hung sash windows.
The place is consistent with the pattern of development in Plympton and plays an important role in the pattern of development of a working class suburb.
HISTORY
1941 ‘Tough Over Here’. “Can't say when you will receive another letter, as you don't realise how tough things are over here,” said Private Harold John Woods, reported missing, in his last letter home to Fremantle. “I have not had any letters from you for at least a month,” he said, “All our mail was destroyed in Greece, also everything we owned. 'We are now eating out of tins. That's when food is available. We have been buying most of it out of our own pockets.” Private Woods, 20, enlisted the month after war broke out. His home is at 49 Duke Street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1945 POW Released. Official advice has been received by Mr. and Mrs. George Woods, of Duke Street, East Fremantle, that their second eldest son, WX 340 Private Harold John Woods, has been released from Stalag prison camp 13C and repatriated to England. 23 yr old Private Woods was captured in a hospital on Crete more than four years ago and letters received from him while he was a P.O.W. in Germany indicated that he was fit and well. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1909 - 1925: Morton, Henry
1926 - 1928: Brooke, Charles
1929 - 1945 Woods, Mr. George and Mrs. Margaret
1945 - 1949: Woods, Mrs. Margaret
