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| Named after: | William Edward Parry |
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Parry Street is a mainly mixed-use street in central Fremantle. It is named after Rear-Admiral William Edward Parry, though he was never in the Colony.
From the northwest, Parry Street originally only went the three blocks from Adelaide Street southeast through Queens Square to Holdsworth Street. To the northwest, Edward Street (also named after the admiral) continues down to the river beach next to the Australia Hotel. Edward Street is often thought of as part of Parry Street.
Between Ellen and High streets, the most notable buildings on Parry Street are Legacy House at number 17, and the Music School at 21. Dalkeith House is prominent as well, behind the northern quadrant of Queens Square.
In the late 1970s, it was proposed to extend Parry Street southwestwards to join South Terrace. After a few years of consideration this was approved in 1984 and then carried out, cutting off the western end of Fairbairn Street, and passing close to the back of the Victoria Pavilion at Fremantle Oval. Passing between the Scots Church and Terrace opposite Norfolk St, which continues down to Marine Terrace.
Parry Street functions as something of a 'ring road' for Fremantle, together with Marine Terrace, Phillimore Street, and Elder Place.
References and Links
Notes about the Parry Street extension in >Fremantle, the newsletter of the Fremantle Society: [[../society/newsletter/1980-8-1.html#parryst|Vol 8 No 1 1980]], [[../society/newsletter/1983-11-3.html#parryst|Vol 11 No 3 1983]], [[../society/newsletter/1984-12-1.html#parryst|Vol 12 No 1 1984]].
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 7 May, 2016 and hosted at freotopia.org/streets/parry.html (it was last updated on 18 December, 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.