Army Drill Hall
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| Built: | 1896 |
| Wikidata: | Q56062551 |
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Built in 1896. Between Holdsworth and Parry Streets, access by Richard Lane. Also known as the Artillery Drill Hall.
The Army(/Artillery) Drill Hall, Holdsworth Street (and now Parry Street), 1896 (building) was the premises of The Fly By Night Musicians Club, 1986-2015. The Club moved to [[../buildings/victoriahall.html|Victoria Hall]] 2015 and was wound up 2018. The heritage building is extant, and is now tenanted by Freo.Social.
Diane Oldman:
The building is an army drill hall built in 1896 for the use of what may have been at that time the Fremantle 1st Infantry Volunteer Regiment (aka Fremantle Infantry) which was the final form of the [[../organisations/riflecorps.html|Fremantle Volunteer Rifle Corps]] started by Captain [[../people/finnerty.html|Charles Finnerty]] in 1861, reformed as the Fremantle Rifle Volunteers in 1872, which became the Fremantle Rifle Volunteers Mounted Section … this, in 1893, was incorporated into the Fremantle Infantry.
References and Links
- Thanks to Diane Oldman for the details about the Infantry.
- Photo, 2011, from Wikipedia (by Gnangarra).
- Heritage Council page.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 26 July, 2023 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/armydrillhall.html (it was last updated on 26 July, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.