60 Dalgety Street

60 Dalgety Street (map)

ARCHITECTURE

Federation / Interwar / Bungalow w Queen Anne Influences

No 60 Dalgety Street is a single storey house constructed in limestone brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a thrust gable bay and a part width hip roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on square columns set on piers. A masonry balustrade spans between the piers. The gable bay features a set of casement windows under a tiled awning. There is a central door flanked by casement windows.

HISTORY

1918 Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Edmond street, Beaconsfield have received word that their sons S.Q.M.S. Will Williams and Sergeant Sylvanus Williams, have received Meritorious Medals. (reference)

1927 Charming Wedding. A beautiful wedding was solemnised last Friday evening at the Johnston Memorial Church, Fremantle, when Mavis Isabel, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Prince Bullmore, of Fremantle and Sylvanus Edward Williams, second son of Mrs. E. Williams, of Fremantle, were joined in holy matrimony, the Rev. Argyl Saxby officiating. The church had been charmingly decorated for the occasion by the girl friends of the bride, and during the signing of the register Mr. Peter Demasson filled the church with a vocal rendering "Beloved, It Is Morn." The bride, who entered' the church upon the arm of her father, was exquisitely  gowned in ivory white taffeta... (reference)

1927 Death on September 1, at East Fremantle, Philip Idris Williams, dearly beloved youngest son of Olive Frances Williams, of 60 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, and brother of Kathleen, GwiIym, Syl, Grove and Tom Williams; aged 16 years. (reference)

1931 Fremantle Courts. Parking Offences: Sylvanus Williams 10/ each… (reference)

1931  A bridge evening will be held in the North Fremantle Town Hall supper room on Wednesday, July 15. Proceeds will be in aid of the amelioration funds of the R.S.L. Women's Auxiliary. Tables may be booked by ringing FM-2713 or any member of the committee: Sylvanus Williams... (reference)

1938 Mrs. Sylvanus Williams and her two children will return to their home at the end of the week after a holiday spent at Rottnest Island. (reference)

1941 Death on September 30, at Fremantle Olive Frances Williams, of 60 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, widow of the late William Williams, loving mother of Gwilym (Collie) Kath, Syl, Grove and Tom, and fond grandmother of Wendy, Heather and Raymond; aged 74 years. (reference)

RESIDENTS

1917 - 1918: Skeahan, Mrs Emily

1919 - 1921: Prentice, Frederick S.

1922 - 1924: Williams, Sylvanus

1925: Upsom, Harold William & Williams, Sylvanus

1926 - 1929: Williams, Sylvanus

1930 - 1932: Williams, Grosvenor N. & Williams, Sylvanus

1933 - 1941: Williams, Grosvenor N.

1941 - 1942: Williams, Mrs Olive

1942 - 1943: Benson, Bert

1944 - 1946: Fowler, Thomas & Benson, Bert

1947: Fowler, Thomas

1949: Connelly, Edward F.

1950-1969 Robert Stewart (correspondence 2020)

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