ARCHITECTURE
Federation Free Classical Style
No 66 George Street is a fine single storey shop constructed in rendered masonry with low pitched roofs behind a classically derived parapet wall. The shop is designed with separate entrances for the residence and shop. The entry to the residence is to the west and the shop entrance is in the centre of the shop façade. The shop entrance is recessed and is flanked by authentic display windows. Both entries sit under a bullnosed roofed verandah supported on turned timber posts with decorative post brackets and a frieze. Above the verandah there is a rendered parapet. The parapet is panelled with a pediment at the centre featuring a cartouche and topped with acroteria. The parapet is divided in plan by piers topped with orbs. At the rear of the shop there is what remains of the attached residence.
HISTORY
1905 I Say! I Say! I Say! C. E. Fordham is the Cheapest Bootman In Fremantle. Repairs and Measures Cheaply and Neatly Executed. Address 66 George Street, East Fremantle. A Trial Kindly Solicited. (reference)(see photo)
1908 Bankruptcy. In the Matter of Charles Edmund Fordham, Bootmaker, of 66 George-street, East Fremantle. Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the creditors of the above named Charles Edmund Fordham, of 66 George-street, East Fremantle… (reference)
1919 E. E. Evans, Cash Draper, 66 George-street East Fremantle, wants to inform you that his Stock is now replete with Novelties, including Voiles, Muslins, Silks, Cambrics, and Bengalines. Pretty Blouses and shapely Corsets, designed by leading makers, are well represented. And all selling at the usual low prices. (reference)
1924 Car Registration. 6145: Durant, E. T. Chapman, 66 George-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1929 Birth at their residence, 66 George-street, East Fremantle, to Mr. and Mrs. R. McLeod—a daughter (Helen Margaret). Both well. (reference)
1931 Crossword Puzzle. Third Prize, 10/-. Mr. H Lowth, 66 George-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1934 The western Suburban Churches Badminton Association invites application for affiliation from church clubs situated in Perth, Fremantle or between those cities. The next council meeting will be held on Friday, April 20, when it is proposed to arrange the pennant series for the current season. Those interested are requested to communicate with the hon. secretary (Mr. H. Lowth), 66 George-street, East Fremantle (Tel. FM1098) as soon as possible. (reference)
AIF Ernest James Zinnecker: Service Number - 81217 : Date of birth - 13 Dec 1909 : Place of birth - KAWANA WA : Place of enlistment - PERTH : Next of Kin - Mabel Zinnecker
1949 Racing Breeders, Owners & Trainers Association of WA. The name of the trustees: Albert McGilvray of 4 Short-street, Bayswater and Ernest James Zinneker of 66 George-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1912: Campbell, Miss D. (dressmaker)
1913 - 1920: Evans, E. E. (draper)
1921: Jones, Stanley
1922 - 1927: Chapman, Edward I. (draper)
1928 - 1929: Chapman, E. E. (draper)
1930 - 1938: Lowth, H. (draper)
1938 - 1949: Zinnecker, Earn J. (hairdresser & tobbacconist)
