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    Fremantle History SocietyAbout · Events · Aims · Committees · Newsletters · Fremantle Studies (and Days) · Articles · Ron and Dianne Davidson Scholarship

    This page is a record of a journal volume relating to Fremantle.

    Volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

    This volume was launched by mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge at the AGM Tuesday 26 July.  

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    Contents


    Hart, Sheridan, 2022, 'Fremantle Arts Centre: contemporary programming in a historical site', Fremantle Studies, 11: 28-40. [presented Fremantle Studies Day 2017]

    McKeough, Michelle 2022, 'Repatriation: a debt of gratitude', Studies in Western Australian History, 32: 39-49; Fremantle Studies, 11: 23-27. [presented Fremantle Studies Day 2018]

    Meston, Natasha 2022, 'The City of Fremantle Symphony Orchestra: a history', Fremantle Studies, 11: 55-80. [presented Fremantle Studies Day 2017]

    McKeough, Michelle 2022, 'Repatriation: a debt of gratitude', Studies in Western Australian History, 32: 39-49; Fremantle Studies, 11: 23-27. [presented Fremantle Studies Day 2018]

    Pratt, Baden 2022, 'Hell for leather: North Fremantle Football Club and the Great War', Fremantle Studies, 11: 81-93. [presented Fremantle Studies Day 2018]

    Introduction

    Welcome to Volume 11 of Fremantle History Society’s Fremantle Studies. The volume contains papers from Fremantle Studies Days in 2017 and 2018.

    As expected, this publication adds new and valuable information on Fremantle’s past. Both years were based on themes: in 2017 the topic was Fremantle cultural institutions.

    '"Working class" organisations in Fremantle in the late nineteenth century', by Bob Reece, provides an insight into the early institutions which served to educate the working class in the late nineteenth century through access to literature and the opportunity to attend regular talks from experts in a wide range of topics. Bob's research included the Working Mans Association and the early Fremantle Literary Institute.

    Sheridan Hart's 'Fremantle Arts Centre: contemporary programming in a historical site' provides an interesting insight into the connection between heritage and art by discussing various exhibitions which have been produced at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Sheridan considers that intelligent and insightful interpretation of heritage sites is essential in ensuring the sites remain relevant and valued in society.

    'Four decades of Fremantle Press', by Jane Fraser, currently CEO of Fremantle Press. Jane discusses the history of Fremantle Press from its early beginnings as Fremantle Arts Centre Press and over time reimagining itself to become a unique publishing house with a commitment to publishing Western Australian authors. Fremantle Press has introduced many new successful Western Australian authors over the years including Elizabeth Jolley, Sally Morgan, Philip Salom, Craig Silvey and Kim Scott to name just a few.

    Natasha Metson won the Fremantle History Society Scholarship in 2017. Her paper, 'The amateurs of Perth: Fremantle Symphony Orchestra', provides an insight on the evolution of the orchestra from its early beginnings in Melville to its success as a musical institution in Fremantle. Natasha’s passion for the orchestra is evident in the enthusiastic way she analyses both the benefits of the orchestra to the audience as well as the benefits and support individuals gain from being a committed musician with the orchestra.

    The 2018 Studies Day provided an emotional program relating to the aftermath at the end of the World War I. The four speakers describe the personal, social and economic impacts of the war to the history of Fremantle.

    Leigh Straw’s paper, 'The suffering begins: returned soldiers, families and the aftermath of World War I in Western Australia', tells in detail the effects of the war on individuals and families. The statistics in terms of the soldiers who went to war are distressing with close to 60,000 not returning. Of the 23,700 soldiers who returned to Western Australia, many struggled to create a semblance of civilian life amidst their ongoing trauma of war. The examples of the after effects on the soldiers and their families is explained using her research through soldiers war records and Trove to bring to life many of the tragedies and pain which families experienced, including an ancestor in Leigh’s family.

    'The Fremantle hotel trade during World War One', by Allen Graham, is more about the social and economic impact of life in Fremantle during the war. As Australia’s only substantial port on the western seaboard it was the last part of Australia that many departing troops saw and the first that many maimed and wounded saw on their return to Australia. The people of Fremantle were, therefore, greatly impacted by the war, but perhaps no business class suffered as much from the war as Fremantle’s publicans, for at the outbreak of war the Commonwealth Government had enacted the War Precautions Act which amongst other things allowed the government to “either prohibit or restrict the sale of liquor in any licensing district” or the “power ... to alter the closing time for hotels.” Allen pointed out that Fremantle publicans lost trade due to this legislation being enforced and many travelled on to Perth where the restrictions were less severe.

    Baden Pratt’s, 'Hell for leather: North Fremantle Football Club and the Great War', is an emotive paper recounting the effect of the war on the club. The statistics relating to the football club are distressing: 43 players and officials walked off the North Fremantle Oval to volunteer to serve Australia - 12 died, 22 returned limbless, shell-shocked or brain impaired from gas attacks and the remaining 8 all received bullet wounds. So many enlisted in 1915 the team had to forfeit the final five games of the 1915 league season. Apart from the devastating effect on the soldiers and their family and friends it also had ramifications on the future of the North Fremantle Football Club in the Western Australian Football League and resulted in them being left out of the competition. Eventually they became part of the Amateur Football League where they still compete today. It is an moving story about the players and the history of the club.

    Michelle McKeough’s paper, 'Repatriation: A Debt of Gratitude', describes the return of wounded soldiers from 1915, bringing home to their communities the real impact of their ‘first physical and emotional experience of modern warfare’. The repatriation of these men asserted itself as one of the most important social and civil concerns of the post-war period. The response of governments; local, state and federal to the issue of repatriation was founded on a prevailing sense of gratitude. Michelle’s paper explains in real terms how government departments and community organisations worked together to provide social, economic and health support for the soldiers and their families. It highlights issues which faced the Fremantle community for some time after the end of the war.

    We thank the contributors who have given of their time, knowledge and expertise to produce significant papers relating to the history of Fremantle. Thank you to Shelley Campbell who prepared the index and Ian Chambers for his skills and patience during the laying out of Volume 11. Anne Brake, Heather Campbell, Pam Harris, and Jude Robison undertook the editing.

    We commend it to you.

    Contributors

    Jane Fraser

    Jane Fraser joined Fremantle Press in 2008 as a non-fiction publisher and has been its chief executive since 2010 with a portfolio that includes sales and custom publishing. She began her career in educational publishing in Sydney over 25 years ago before moving into editorial trade publishing. Jane spent five years in San Francisco heading up the editorial office of an international book packaging and co-editions publishing company. During this time she further developed her interest and expertise in the production of large-format photographic books, including landscape photography, art, history, cooking, gardening and natural history titles. For a decade prior to joining Fremantle Press, Jane worked in the corporate communications sector, expanding her business skills working with large international companies.

    Allen Graham

    Allen, who is the current President of the Fremantle History Society, is a long standing member of the Society and a lifelong resident of Fremantle, having been born and raised in Beaconsfield. Allen was a Councillor with the City of Fremantle during the heady days of the America Cup, serving on the Fremantle Council between 1985 and 1990. Allen has been researching and writing about Fremantle’s history for over thirty-five years with a particular focus on Fremantle’s hotels. He has won the City of Fremantle’s unpublished history award on three occasions and two of those essays have since been published in Fremantle Studies.

    Sheridan Hart

    Dr Sheridan Hart (née Coleman), is an artist and arts writer from Perth, Western Australia. She has been manager of front-of-house at Fremantle Arts Centre since 2011 where she also conducts research and works on editorial, exhibition and administrative projects for the Centre’s varied programs. Sheridan holds a PhD in contemporary art theory, with a particular focus on landscape art, museum archive organisation and small-scale community groups. She has written for Artlink, Art Guide, Art Monthly and IMPRINT and shown her artwork at Turner Galleries, Paper Mountain and John Curtin Gallery.

    Michelle McKeough

    Dr Michelle McKeough is an historian working in Western Australian history. Michelle is a contributing author of Voices of the West End (Fremantle: Maritime Museum of W.A, 2012) and author of Rescues, Rogues and Rough Seas: 150 Years of Water Police in Western Australia (Fremantle: W.A Water Police, 2000). Michelle’s doctoral thesis (Murdoch University, 2016) examined three times of crisis in Fremantle during the twentieth century: The Bubonic Plague; The Great War; and the Depression Era. She is currently writing a history of the pandemic of Bubonic Plague experienced in Western Australia between 1900 and 1906, which is due for publication later in 2022.

    Natasha Meston

    Natasha Milosevic Meston completed her degree in History at the University of Western Australia in 2016. Her Honours thesis concerned the fields of gender, biography and Australian history. Natasha was the Fremantle History Scholar for 2017. Her work has since been published in History Australia, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, and Damsel magazine. Natasha is currently working for the Australian Government, living in Canberra, and playing with the Australian Wind Symphony.

    Baden Pratt

    Baden Pratt lives in Fremantle and is a life member and former president of the North Fremantle Football Club. He is currently studying History at Notre Dame University (Fremantle). Two of his four published books, The Mighty Maggies of Gilbert Fraser Reserve, and Hell for Leather: The Forgotten Footballers of North Fremantle, trace the history of the football club. He is a former City of Fremantle Councillor, former president of the Fremantle Society, and has been a working journalist for 60 years.

    Bob Reece

    Bob Reece is Professor Emeritus in History at Murdoch University where he lectured from 1978 until 2010, apart from three years as Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History at University College Dublin. Widely published in Aboriginal history and Irish convicts in Australia, he has also written extensively on the history of Sarawak (Malaysia).

    Leigh Straw

    Dr Leigh Straw is the Deputy Head of the National School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She is a Senior Lecturer in History and teaches across the History program, specialising in Australian history, modem U.S history and crime studies. Leigh was the 2018 joint winner of the Margaret Medcalf Award for Excellence in Research and Referencing using the State Archives Collection (this was for the book After the War: Returned Servicemen and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I, published by UWA Publishing). She is the author of a number of true crime and social history books including her most recent publication The Petticoat Parade: Marie Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels (Fremantle Press, 2021).

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    Index

    Notes: Italics indicate titles of published works, art or musical compositions, and names of ships.

    Titles starting with The or A are filed by the next word (e.g. A Fortunate Life can be found under Fortunate Life, A).

    Surnames starting with Mc or Mac are interfiled as if spelled Mac.

    Aboriginal people see Indigenous Australians Absence of Evidence (art exhibition) 37–8 All British Association 15 Anchor and other poems (Hasluck) 3 Arbuckle, Ashley 70 art collections, City of Fremantle Collection 34 arts 28–40, 55–80 Asylum is no place for a werewolf, The (Cininas) 33–4 Australia Council 2 Backshall, Walter James 88 Bandy, Peter 60–1, 66 barrows and stalls, for returned soldiers 46 Bawoo stories (O’Brien) 7 Beadle, Jean 45 Benang (Scott) 8 Benevolent Asylum (Hibberd) 30–1 Blurton, George 84 Bostock, G.J. 100 Brady, Veronica, Soundings 3 Broken circles (Haebich) 9 Brown, William 102 Bunning Brothers 29 Byfield, William 86, 88 Campbell, Robin McKellar (Rob) 29 Carroll, Jeff 70 Carroll, William 121–2 Cat balloon (P. Morgan) 7 Charlton, Les 85 130Index children’s literature 6–7, 9, 10 Cininas, Jazmina, The asylum is no place for a werewolf 33–4 City of Fremantle Symphony Orchestra 55–80 Coffey, Ray 4–5, 7 Commercial Hotel 15 convicts 29, 30 Cook, Ada 121–2 Cookson, Samuel 83–4 Corse, Ernest 112 Crush (Walker) 6 Davies, Lloyd 3 Deep, The (Winton & Louise) 7 Destroying Avalon (McCaffrey) 9 Diggins, Alan 119 Docker, Peter 11 Down to earth: Australian landscapes (Woldendorp) 7–8 Driver, EL 45 Duhig, Tessa 67 Dunstan, John Leonard 88 Dux Building 10 ebooks 8 Edeson, Robert, The weaver fish 6 Ellement, Victor Ernest 88 Evan Davies Library 106 Facey, A.B., A fortunate life 4–5, 6 Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial 91 Fanfare for Fremantle (musical piece) 72 Federal Hotel 15–16 Fink, Karl 15 Five acre virgin and other stories ( Jolley) 3, 4 football, after WWI 81–93 Fortunate life, A (Facey) 4–5, 6 Franks, Albert 85 Fraser, Gilbert 86–7 Freemasons Hotel 17 131Index Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC) 1, 2, 28–40 40th anniversary 11, 34–5, 39 history 29–30 Fremantle Arts Centre Press see Fremantle Press Fremantle Base Hospital 44 Fremantle Eisteddfod 69 Fremantle Heritage Festival 72 Fremantle Literary Institute 103–6 Fremantle Lunatic Asylum 1, 29–30 Fremantle Mechanics’ Institute 96–8 Fremantle Press 1–12 Fremantle technical school 44 Fremantle Town Hall 72 Frost, Charles 106 Gates, Drewfus 70 Gaunt, Dave 4 Gethin, Jessica 69 Gilbert Fraser Reserve 86, 87 Gillam, Kevin, The Seasons 71 Grainger, Percy, The Warriors 71 Gravenall, Sam 85 Gresham Hotel 83 Grey-Smith, Guy 3 Grey-Smith, Sue 2 Gularabulu (Roe & Muecke) 5 Haebich, Anna, Broken circles 9 Hagemann, Helen 39 Hall, Jeremy 65–6 Hancock, David 103 Harmer, Steve 58 Harrison-Lever, Brian, In Flanders Fields 9 Hasluck, Nicholas, Anchor and other poems 3 Heinrichs, Alphonsus ‘Dolph’ 85 Herriman, Mandy 57 Herriman, Samuel 67–8 Hewby, William John 88 132Index Hewett, Dorothy 3, 11 Hibberd, Lily Benevolent Asylum 30–1 Take Me In 31 Hodgkins, Michael 70 Hoft, Cyril 82 hospitals Fremantle Base Hospital 44 Kalamunda Convalescent Home 114 Lemnos Hospital 114 repatriation 114 Stromness Hospital 114 hotels ban on Aboriginal people 20 Cleopatra Hotel 97 Commercial Hotel 15 Federal Hotel 15–16 Freemasons Hotel 17 Gresham Hotel 83 Orient Hotel 13, 14, 15, 21 Star Hotel 15 trading restrictions during WWI 13–26 Wellard’s Hotel 97 House of breathing, The ( Jones) 6 Hughes, Billy 47 Hungerford, Tom 6 Huning, Emmalena 69 I Belong to the Shadows (film) 71 In Flanders Fields ( Jorgensen & Harrison-Lever) 9 Indigenous Australians banned from hotels 20 footballers 84 literature 5, 7, 8–9, 10 Jacks, Ben 69 Jacks, Lawrence 67, 70 Johnston, Joseph 96, 100 133Index Jolley, Elizabeth 2, 3 Five acre virgin and other stories 3, 4 Jones, Gail, The house of breathing 6 Jorgensen, Norman, In Flanders Fields 9 Kalamunda Convalescent Home 114 Karmala (troop transport ship) 24 Keating, Paul 90 Kemp, James 97–8 Kinnane, Stephen, Shadow lines 9 Kinsella, John 5 Kopp’s Jewellery 15 Kwaymullina, Ambelin 10 Kyarna (hospital ship) 42 Langfranchini, Bill (Bill Lang) 85 Last sky, The (Nelson) 6 Lemnos Hospital 114 libraries, Evan Davies Library 106 Licensed Victuallers Association 13 Licensing Act 1911 (WA) 26 liquor duties imposed on 14 restrictions on sale during WWI 13–26 literature 1–12 London, Joan, Sister ships 5 Lost & Found (opera company), Médée 31–3 Louise, Karen, The deep 7 Lourens, Alan 56, 69 Lukin, Doris 117–18 Lukin, Guy 116–17 McAndrew, Fiona 32 McCaffrey, Kate, Destroying Avalon 9 McCauley, Shane 39 Mad About You: FAC 40th anniversary (event) 34–5 Maddern, William Thomas 88–90 Majid, Ellisha, A sausage went for a walk 6–7 134Index Manning, Charles Alexander 97, 99, 100 Marsh, Thomas 115–16 Matson, Phil 85 Médée (opera) 31–3 Melville Orchestral Society 60 Melville Symphony Orchestra 60–1 mental health 19th century treatment 29, 32, 33–4 PTSD 114–22 of returned soldiers 108–22 ‘shell shock’ 113–14 suicide of returned soldiers 114–21 midwifery 29 Mitchell, James, on employment of returned soldiers 48–9 Monaghan, Joseph 13–15, 21, 25 Moore, Peter 62, 63 Moorhouse, June 39 Morgan, Palo, Cat balloon 7 Morgan, Sally, My place 5 Muecke, Stephen, Gularabulu 5 Murphy, WA 15 music 55–80 My place (S. Morgan) 5 Nedlands Symphony Orchestra 61 Nelson, Alice, The last sky 6 New country 3 New Edition Bookshop 6 Newham, John ‘Jackie’ Drummond 86, 87, 88 Newman, Clive 3 Nikulinsky, Philippa 5 North Fremantle Council 83 North Fremantle Football Club 81–93 North Fremantle Oval 83 O’Brien, May, Bawoo stories 7 orchestras City of Fremantle Symphony Orchestra 55–80 135Index community 59, 73, 74 Orient Hotel 13, 14, 15, 21 Orr, Billy 85 Out of the Asylum writers’ group 39 Outridge, Tom 82 Owen, Terry 2 Parkinson, Helen 61, 67 Peace Celebrations (2-4 August 1919) 24 Pearse, William 103 Phelps, William 98 Pisarek, Henryk 61–2 Poad, Lewis 118–19 Podger, Samuel Thomas 88 Pope, Muriel 109, 119, 120–1 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in returned soldiers 114–22 prohibition 26 PTSD, in returned soldiers 114–22 publicans 13–26 publishing 1–12 Pye, David 58, 63, 71 Tangling 72 The Seasons 71 Raymond, Harry 103 Red dirt talking (Wright) 6 Redpath, Leopold 101–2 Rendle, Richard 104 repatriation hospitals 114 repatriation of soldiers 41–54, 108–25 returned soldiers employment for 42–4, 48–50 mental health of 113–22 training for 44–8 welfare of 47–50 Rhubarb (Silvey) 9–10 Richter, Georgia 10 Robinson, Doug 60 136Index Roe, Paddy, Gularabulu 5 Room Without a View, A (Wlodarcza) 35–6 Saggers, Albert (Bert) 60 Salom, Philip 5 Salter, Sarah 33 Samson, Frederick 29 Samson, Lionel 100 Sausage went for a walk, A (Majid) 6–7 Scherer’s Furnishings 15 Scott, Kim 6 Benang 8 That deadman dance 8 Seasons, The (Gillam & Pye) 71 Shadow lines (Kinnane) 9 shell shock 113–14 Shingler, Frederick Charles 88 Silvey, Craig Rhubarb 9–10 The world according to Warren 9 Simons, JJ ‘Boss’ 85 Sister ships (London) 5 Smyth, Rachel 32 Soundings 3 sports clubs, North Fremantle Football Club 81–93 sports grounds Gilbert Fraser Reserve 86, 87 North Fremantle Oval 83 Star Hotel 15 State War Council 44–7 Straw, Andrew John 109, 119–21 Straw, Grace 119 Stromness Hospital 114 suicide, of returned soldiers 114–21 Sullivan, Joan 2 sustenance payments, to returned soldiers 45, 47 Sutherland, Cate 10 Swan River Mechanics’ Institute 96, 97 137Index T.A.G. Hungerford Award 6 Take Me In (Hibberd) 31 Tan, Shaun 7 Tangling (Pye) 72 technical schools 44, 47–8 temperance movement 14, 16, 22, 23–4 Temple-Poole, George 29 Templeman, Ian 1–2, 29 That deadman dance (Scott) 8 Thomas, William Arnold Spencer 88 Toohey, Jim 85 Toohey, John Morris ‘Jack’ 88 training for returned soldiers 44–50 for ‘working class’ 94–106 Truscott, ‘Nipper’ 84 tuberculosis 112–13 Walker, Brenda, Crush 6 war memorials, Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial 91 War Precautions Act 14–26 war widows 117 Warriors, The (Grainger) 71 Weaver fish, The (Edeson) 6 West Australian Football League 81–93 Westergaard, William John 87 Westrip, Ian 61 White family 87 White, Tom 87 Whittle, Arthur Gilbert ‘Chum’ 86, 87, 88 Wilson, Josephine 38 Windhuk (troop transport ship) 24–5 Winton, Tim 7–8 The deep 7 Wise, Scott 10 Wlodarcza, Gosia, A Room Without a View 35–6 Woldendorp, Richard, Down to earth: Australian landscapes 7–8 138Index Wolfer, Dianne 10 women advocates for 45 artists 37–8 in institutions 29, 31, 32–3, 37–8 mental health treatment of 29, 31–2 temperance movement 23–4 war widows 117 Women’s Christian Temperance Union 23–4 Wooroloo sanatorium 113 working class organisations 94–107 Working Man’s Association 96, 99–103, 103 World according to Warren, The (Silvey) 9 World War I (WWI) in children’s literature 9, 10 footballers killed in 81–91 impact on Fremantle hotels 13–26 repatriation of soldiers 41–54 Wray, Ernest 41–2 Wright, Jacqueline 11 Red dirt talking 6 Wright, Paul 70

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