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Star Hotel
5 or 11 Essex Street (Heritage Council has 5; National Trust and Mingor 11), 1878 (Allen Graham has January 1879), rebuilt 1914.
William Fishwick was the licensee of the Star Hotel 1887-1893.
The Star Hotel, with the second-storey verandah with the advertisement for Swan Lager, is behind the horse in this c.1925 photograph taken in Essex St. This is Fremantle History Centre's photo #493C and comes with this caption.
Library:
Mr Alf Chate in Essex Street driving a horse and lorry from Port Mill, (then occupied by Henry Jones, IXL Jam Manufacturers and Foden and Bokenham, Motor Trimmers and Vulcanizers.) The horse was called "Old Bill" (Source: son of Mr Chate 7.08.1991). Note horse's feed bag and motor cars. The Port Flour Mill was built before 1870 and is classified by the National Trust. The land and property was originally owned by Anthony Cornish. He sold by auction on 16.07.1884. Note also the Star Hotel (Lot 1821/2); delicensed in 1924 and used as a boarding house.
The Star Hotel, with the second-storey verandah, is in the background in this 1918 photograph of Essex Street taken from the verandah of the Freemasons Hotel (Sail & Anchor). This is Fremantle Library photo #770B, with this title and caption.
Library:
First naval procession in Fremantle
Looking down Essex Street from the balcony of the Freemason's [sic] Hotel on 6 December 1918. On the right is Barrett's wood yard. On the left are Mills & Co., merchants and F. Instone & Co. Ltd., in a building constructed in 1906 by C. Moore to a design by J.F. Allen. In the background are the Port Flour Mill and the Star Hotel.
The Pirates Backpackers, formerly the Star Hotel, at 11 Essex Street. It was built in 1878, and rebuilt in 1914 and 1980. After losing its license in 1924 it was a boarding house (Heritage Council). Photo thanks to mingor.net.
John Beresford is cited in this blog as being the licensee. At the time of his death, by shooting suicide, in 1908, he was the proprietor and licensee of the Esplanade Hotel.
Cail:
From 1902-1903, [Albert Karl Buderus von Carlshausen] was the licensee of the two-year-old Bayswater Hotel. Following this he ran the Star Hotel in Essex Street Fremantle for four years. In 1908, the Post Office Commercial Directory lists him as a gardener out at Jandakot. This obviously did not work out as from 1908 he ran the Duke of York Hotel in Fremantle. Albert married again in Fremantle on 1.7.1909 to Wilhelmina Augustine Hedstrom, born 24 May 1867, Westmanland, Sweden.
References and Links
Cail, Bert, et al. 2005, Prepared to Pioneer: A History of Wubin 1908 to 1939, Wubin Progress Association.
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 1 September, 2014 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/star.html (it was last updated on 5 March, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.