ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War Bungalow w Arts & Crafts Influences
No 9 Oakover Street is a single storey house constructed in brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War Bungalow style. It is symmetrically composed with a full width skillion roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on paired timber posts set on piers with post brackets. A gable is located centrally over the verandah and marks the entry. The gable employs Arts and Crafts motifs. The entry door and hopper light is flanked by sidelights and sets of casement windows. The roofscape features brick chimneys.
HISTORY
1941 Marriage. A happy thought was expressed at the wedding yesterday of Miss Marjorie Joy Jenkins and Mr. Roy Harold Liddell, when the bride decided to send the top tier of her wedding cake to her brother, who is at present at Flinders Naval Depot. The three-tier diamond creation had been made by her mother, and top was suitably decorated with naval emblems. Bride is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Jenkins of “Toronto”, Oakover Street, East Fremantle, the groom, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Liddell of Lord Street, Perth. (reference)
1948 Death on July 7, at Subiaco, Raymond Clift Jenkins, loving younger son of William and Frances Jenkins, of 9 Oakover street, East Fremantle, fond brother of Keith and Joy (Mrs. R. H. Liddell), and brother-in-law of Alice: aged 27 years. (reference)
1953 Death on Friday, July 10 at Broken Hill, William Jenkins, of 9 Oakover-street, East Fremantle, loving husband of Frances and father of Keith (Broken Hill), Joy (Mrs. R. H. Liddell) and Ray (deceased). (reference)
RESIDENTS
1925 - 1953: Jenkins, William James
