55 Canning Highway

January 1, 2019

ARCHITECTURE

No. 55 Canning Highway is a two-story commercial building constructed of brick with rendered details. Low-pitched corrugated iron roofs are concealed by masonry parapets. It is a fine expression of the Federation Filigree style. The street elevations are arranged to accommodate the corner shopfront and display windows. A dominant feature is the skillion roofed verandah that runs along both street frontages. Above the verandah line is a rendered brick parapet with an articulated line that includes one top pediment.

HISTORY

1912 Caustic Comments on Affairs at Fremantle. Chemist Tom Owen, the organiser of the East Fremantle Band penned the following somewhat remarkable effusion: "Dear 'Pagan,' Many thanks for the splendid ad.you have given the East Fremantle District Brass Band, and incidentally myself. But in commenting on my disposition to advertise my ringworm cures on the band's concert tickets you create the impression that I am exploiting the band for my own benefit. As a matter of fact, I have to pay for the privilege of advertising on these tickets. ... I hope after reading this letter you will feel chasened (sic!) in spirit, and "forever always put the best and not the worst construction on people's motives." Friend Owen is barking up the wrong tree, but "The Pagan" hastens to assure him that he appreciates his well meant advice contained in the last portion of his epistle. (reference)
AIF 1915 Oswald Frank Strickland Owen (Regimental Number 3223) Occupation Painter, Single, Age at Embarkation 18. Next of Kin, Father, Tom Owen, 55 Canning Highway, East Fremantle, Western Australia. (NAA Record) (AIF Record)
1917 Mr. Tom Owen, the East Fremantle chemist, announces elsewhere that he is the agent for 'Rua-Tua,' a rheumatic cure, which has been tried by hundreds with satisfactory results. Mr. Owen's establishment, which is in Canning-road, near the Plympton Hotel, is equipped with all the latest in the apothecary's line, and his prices are on a par with those ruling in the city. The dispensing department is under his own supervision. (reference)
1931 Runaway Truck. Failure of the brakes caused a motor truck owned by Baker Bros., butchers, of East Fremantle, to coast down a steep hill in Hubble-street. East Fremantle, yesterday, and to crash into the premises of Mr. T. C. Owen, chemist, on the corner of that street and Canning-road. The impact was received by one of the brick walls of the kitchen, and besides extensive damage to the wall, the gas stove was dislodged, and a large quantity of crockery on a dresser was broken. Members of the Owen's family were absent from the kitchen at the time, but had the accident happened a few minutes later, it is probable that the family would have been seated at lunch, and somebody would have undoubtedly been struck by pieces of falling crockery or bricks. (reference)
1943 Death on January 12, at 55 Canning-highway, East Fremantle, Thomas Owen, loved brother-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Golder, Claremont, and D. Golder, (Chidlow), uncle of Victor, Edith, Lyla, Alf. Loved by all. (reference)
For more information on Tom Owen please go to Fremantle Stuff- Tom Owen (reference)
1947 Engagement: Mr. and Mrs. John Urquhart, of 55 Canning-highway East Fremantle, have much pleasure in announcing the engagement of their niece Vyonne Wenn, to George Smith, of 61 Silas-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1948 For having failed to comply with an order of the East Fremantle Municipal Council to repair a balcony and a verandah, Barush Floky and Myrteza Hysen Floky, of Canning-highway, East Fremantle, were each fined £5, in the Fremantle Police Court yesterday, Mr. N. Graham (for the council) said that the balcony and the verandah had become unsafe. (reference)

RESIDENTS

1909: Watson, John (greengrocer)

1910 - 1943: Owen, Tom (chemist)

1944: Owen, Mrs. Stella & Owen, Mrs. Katherine E., Golding, B. M., Hennessey, John M.

1945: Owen, Mrs. Katherine E., Knox-Peden, John, Hennessey, John M.

1946: Hogben, L. & Howlett, Henry John M.

1947: Urquhart, Charles

1949: Floky, Barush

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55 Dalgety Street

January 1, 2019

55 Dalgety Street (map)

ARCHITECTURE

Inter-War / Bungalow Porch House

No 55 Dalgety Street is a single storey house constructed in rendered brick with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a thrust bay and part width skillion roofed verandah. The verandah terminates at the thrust bay and is set on pairs of timber posts. The gable bay features a set of casement windows under a sunhood.

HISTORY

1930 Vehicle transfer. 26332: W. Robinson to Ernest Nicholas, 55 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, Chevrolet. (reference)
1942 Funeral Notices. The Friends of the late Mr. Walter Cary, of 55 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, late of North Fremantle, and formerly of the Loco Workshops W.A. Government Railways, Midland Junction, are respectfully informed that his remains… (reference)
1951 Silver Wedding. The son and daughters of Mr and Mrs. E. Nicholas, of 55 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, wish to announce the 25th Wedding Anniversary of their parents. (reference)
1951 Mr. and Mrs. E. Nicholas, of 55 Dalgety-street, East Fremantle, have pleasure in announcing the engagement of their younger daughter, Maureen, to Reginald, only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Curedale, of 35 Adelaide-street, Fremantle. (reference)

RESIDENTS

1927 - 1938: Nicholas, Ernest

1938 - 1940: Cary, Walter

1940 - 1943: Nicholas, Ernest & Cary, Walter

1944 - 1949: Nicholas, Ernest

late 1950’s - present- Pasquale and Rosa Martella (MARTELLA Rosa - Nationality: Italian - Arrived Fremantle per Flaminia 6 March 1958)

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55 Petra Street

January 1, 2019

55 Petra Street (map)

Architecture

Federation / Simple Federation Bungalow

No 55 Petra Street is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. It is a fine expression of the Federation Bungalow style. It is asymmetrically composed with a full width return skillion roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on timber posts with post brackets. The verandah has been extended north to act as a carport. There is a central door and hopper light flanked by sidelights and sets of casement windows with hopper lights. The roofscape features a pair of tall rendered chimneys.

History

1946 Little Boy Killed—Run Over by Truck. Perth, Oct. 21.—Run over by a truck this afternoon Murray John McMiles (4), of 47 Egham road, Victoria Park, was killed, probably instantly. The truck driver rushed him to a hospital in Belmont, where he was found to be dead. About 3.30 p.m. Joseph William Scaddan, of 55 Petra street, East Fremantle, parked a truck beside the road in Victoria Park close to the intersection of Howick street while he made some deliveries at the corner shop. As he left the shop, he told Traffic Constable G. Pettersson, he noticed some children, including McMiles who was on a tricycle, playing on the footpath. He entered his truck and had moved about 18 ft. when he heard a child cry out, so he stopped immediately. On looking back he found that a boy was lying on the road and that the truck had apparently run over his head. Scadden at once rushed him to a hospital in Belmont but the boy was dead. (reference)
1946 Missions to Seamen, Xmas prizes: 1st (3-tier cake), 247, J. Ricketts. 55 Petra-st., Fremantle... (reference)
1950 Dinner Suit, three-piece. 5ft. 10, 38, 34, good buy. £7. Apply 55 Petra-st., East Fremantle. (reference)

Residents

1925 - 1938: Murray, Walter Hope

1938 - 1940: Reid, Arthur

1940 - 1942: Hall, William

1942 - 1944: Drennan, Captn. David

1945 - 1946: Benson, Mrs Dorothy

1947: Scaddon

1949: Lanzini, Joseph

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55 Glyde Street

January 1, 2019

55 Glyde Street (map)

ARCHITECTURE

Federation, Domestic Carpenter Gothic

No. 55 (previously was no. 101) Glyde street is a single storey cottage constructed in timber framing, weatherboard and fibrous cement cladding with a hipped corrugated iron roof. It is a simple expression of the Federation Bungalow style. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with an entry porch that is off centre. The facade features a full width bullnosed roofed verandah supported on timber posts with a decorative timber frieze. The front wall has been modified to accommodate a small addition. The front addition is flanked by windows.

HISTORY

AIF 1916, Isaiah Wauhop (Regimental number 3478) Occupation Blacksmith, 55 Glyde Street, East Fremantle, Married, Age at embarkation 27. Next of kin Mrs. Elsie H. Wauhop NAA Record AIF Record

1928 Funeral. The Friends of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Laurie, of 105 Glyde Street, East Fremantle, are respectfully invited to follow her remains to the place of interment, the Fremantle Cemetery...The East Fremantle Football Club, W.A.N.F.L. The Members of the above Club are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Laurie, mother of our Member, Mr. Jock Laurie. (reference)
1928 Obituary. Mrs. Elizabeth Laurie, widow of the late Mr. John Donaldson Laurie, died on June 2 at East Fremantle at the age of 58 years. Mrs. Laurie, who was born in Victoria, was well known and highly respected in the East Fremantle district, where she had resided for over 30 years. She had been in ill-health for the last five years. The funeral cortege moved from the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. H. Jackson, 101 Glyde-street, East Fremantle… The chief mourners were Mr. J. Laurie (son), Mesdames G. Esmond, H. Jackson, and J. Langoulant (daughters), Mrs. J. Donovan (sister), Mr. W. Watson (brother)... The pall-bearers were Messrs. C. Doig (president), J. Dolan (captain) and J. McCabe (secretary, East Fremantle Football Club), L. Day and W. Rose (North Fremantle Football Club, Fremantle Suburban Association), J. O'Loughlan, E. Jackson, and J. M'Cleary. (reference)
1948 War Service Homes. E. U. W. Nash 55 Glyde-street, East Fremantle… (reference)
1949 Advertising: Bridal Gown: ...French figured satin, long train. Call or write 55 Glyde Street, East Fremantle… (reference)

RESIDENTS

1909: Stahmer, Ernest

1910 - 1912: Stahmer, John M. H.

1913: Laurie, Mrs. E.

1914: Anderson, Mrs. I.

1915 - 1916: Cragg, Frederick W.

1917: McMillan, Albert E.

1918 - 1920: Wauhop, Mrs. Elsie E.

1921 - 1925: Anderson, James D.

1926 - 1927: Jackson, Herbert & Laurie, Mrs Elizabeth

1928 - 1932: Jackson, Herbert

1933 - 1936: Hopkinson, William

1936 - 1938: Gallagher, Alfred J.

1938 - 1943: Mills, Mrs. Mary

1944 - 1949: Grainger, Frederick

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55 Fortescue Street

January 1, 2019

55 Fortescue Street (map)

ARCHITECTURE

Inter-War, Bungalow w Arts & Crafts Influences

No 55 Fortescue Street is a single storey house constructed in limestone brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War California Bungalow style. 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.

HISTORY

1941 When a motor car skidded, apparently on tramlines, along Canning-highway, near Salisbury street, South Perth, about 3.30 p.m. it collided with a tramway pole, bringing down several of the wires. The driver, Leslie Gibson, of the Naval Depot, Fremantle, was travelling north in the highway and pulled out to pass a car travelling in the same direction when his car skidded. Gibson's mother, Mrs. Emily Gibson (52), of Edmund-street, Beaconsfield, who was in the front seat of the car, received a broken shoulder. She was taken to Perth Hospital by the St John Ambulance. The driver of the car was uninjured. (reference)

RESIDENTS

1938 - 1949: Gibson, Leslie

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55 Sewell Street

January 1, 2019

55 Sewell Street (map)

ARCHITECTURE

Federation / Gable Terrace w Gothic Influences

No. 55 (previously was no. 115) Sewell Street is a pair of single story cottages constructed in limestone and brickwork with rendered decorative details. The place features a pair of gabled corrugated iron roofs. The gables are highly decorative. It is a fine expression of a duplex in Federation Bungalow style. The pair is symmetrically planned with a party wall flanked by full width bull-nosed roofed verandahs. The verandahs are supported on timber posts. The entry doors are equally offset from the part wall and are flanked by pairs of double hung sash windows. All openings have brick quoins. The brickwork to the walls to No 57 have been rendered.

HISTORY

1912 In sad and loving remembrance of my dear father, John James Williams, who departed this life on August 10, 1910, at 115 Sewell-street, East Fremantle. Gone but not forgotten. (reference)
1927 Death on June 14, at 115 Sewell street, Fremantle, Michael Penman, dearly loved youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Michael Penman, Victoria, loving brother Mrs. R. G. Collier, Fremantle, uncle Ethel, Ruby, Amy, Irine, Inet, Alma, Myrtle, and Eileen, after a short illness.The Friends of the late Mr. Michael Penman, of the Mt. Lyell Chemical Works, Rocky Bay, North Fremantle, are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the Church of England Cemetery, Fremantle. The Funeral will leave his late residence, 115 Sewell-street, East Fremantle...Member of The Metropolitan Super Phosphate and Chemical Workers' Industrial Union. (reference)
From 1913 - 1925: Andrew H Knox lived at 26 Glyde St.
1937 ‘’In my opinion the driver and fireman should have been able to see the obstruction on the line,' said Acting Coroner Christie, J. P., today. He delivered this rider at the termination of an inquest which he heard into the death of John Lightfoot, 35 year-old railway employee, who was killed on June 15 while trying to drag a rail tricycle from the path of an oncoming train at Cottesloe… An eye-witness of the fatality, Andrew Knox, told the Coroner that he was near the Napier-street crossing about 8.50 a.m. on June 15. While Knox was working on the railway lines he saw Lightfoot approach on his tricycle from the direction of Fremantle. He left his machine on the rails and came over to the ganger in charge of Knox's party, and spoke to him. 'I heard the ganger shout and the whistle of a train at the same moment,' Knox said. 'Then I saw Lightfoot struggling to shift his trike. The train struck the trike and the trike struck Lightfoot. 'Lightfoot somersaulted through the air, falling two or three feet away…’’ (reference)

RESIDENTS

1910: Williams, John James

1911: Gent, Francis

1912: Kelly, George

1913: Ostler, James T.

1914 - 1919: Fuller, Walter

1920 - 1925: Jarvis, Mrs. Mary A.

1926 - 1927: Penman, Michael

1928 - 1932: Penman, E. M.

1933 - 1949: Knox, Andrew

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55 Oakover Street

January 1, 2019

55 Oakover Street (map)

ARCHITECTURE

Interwar Gable Porch House Bungalow w Arts & Crafts Influences

No 55 Oakover Street is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick house with a gable tiled roof. It is an expression of the Inter-War Bungalow style. It is symmetrically composed with a full width skillion verandah supported paired steel posts. The southern half of the verandah has been enclosed in framed construction. There is a central gable over the verandah that marks the entry. There is a central door flanked by a set of casement windows. The lower walls are face brick and the upper walls are rendered.

HISTORY

1940 Death on August 31, at 112 John-street, North Fremantle, James Hossnan, of 55 Oakover-street, East Fremantle, late of Canning Dam and Sampson's Brook, loved husband of Lottie, and beloved father of William, George and Florence. (reference)
1942 Engagement. Marjorie June, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs P. Greer, of 55 Oakover-street, East Fremantle, to Pte Harry Chesterman, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hill, of Peel Estate. (reference)
1944 Marriage on March 25, at St. John's Church, Fremantle, by the Rev Holland, Harry Chesterman (AIF), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hill, Mandogalup, to Marjorie June second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Greer, of 55 Oakover-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1948 Utility Out of Control. Driver Killed; Four Persons Hurt. The driver of a utility truck was killed and four passengers were hurt when the vehicle got out of control and overturned in Fremantle Road, several miles from Armadale about 6 p.m. yesterday. Phibs Greer (58), of Oakover Street, East Fremantle. Concussion and lacerations. Detained at Royal Perth Hospital. (reference)

RESIDENTS

1931 - 1938: Greer, Phillip

1939 - 1949: Greer, Phibbs