ARCHITECTURE
Interwar Gable Porch House Bungalow w Arts & Crafts Influences
No 62 Oakover Street is a single storey house constructed in rendered brick with a gable tiled roof. It is an expression of the Inter-War Bungalow style. It is asymmetrically composed with an offset bay windows flanked by a casement window. The front facade features a full width skillion awning. A prominent timbered clad gable extends above the awning. Hip roofed verandahs flank the gable. The verandah to the south has been enclosed. The roofscape features a rendered chimney.
HISTORY
1932 Thoughts. Thoughts do not need the wings of words To fly to any goal. Like subtle lightnings, not like birds, They speed from soul to soul. Hide in your heart a bitter thought—Still it has the power to blight; Think love, although you speak it not, it gives the world more light. —Sent in by Dorothy Gambie, 62 Oakover-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1933 Out of My Post Bag. Dear Auntie Kitty, I am sending in the picture coloring, in which I hope to be successful. It has been a very dull day in Fremantle, and several times I thought we would have rain. We are at present having a holiday, and I am not very sorry. We have a little dog, and we call it Monty. Dad calls him Squibs, because he's so tiny, and how he'll hardly answer us to Monty. Our cat has two kittens now, and one was born with only three legs. But it doesn't seem to worry him much. I haven't seen any of my letters in print yet, so I hope this one will be. I have started to knit myself a jumper, though I doubt if I'll finish it -Your loving niece, Dorothy Gambie, 62 Oakover-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1939 The Fremantle branch of the Country Women's Association will hold its monthly meeting on Friday at 2.30 p.m. in the Women's Service Guild Room, Market-street, Fremantle. Country visitors and delegates to the annual conference are invited to be present, former members of country branches, now resident in the Fremantle district, are asked to send their names and addresses to the secretary (Mrs. E. A. Gambie, 62 Oakover-street, East Fremantle). (reference)
1940 Strayed from 62 Oakover St., East Fremantle, Black and Tan Pekinese Female Pup. Reward to above address. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1922: Walker
1924 - 1934: Ganbia, John
1934 - 1941: Gambie, E. J.
1941 - 1943: Nelson, A.
1944 - 1949: Ruddiman, Mrs. Jessie M.
