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East Fremantle Primary School
Plympton School was established in Marmion Street near the corner with East Street from 27 January 1898. Its postal address is now 8 Forrest Street.
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Library:
Marmion Street looking west from Duke Street, 1905.
Marmion Street showing wooden houses and limestone road. Plympton School is on the extreme left edge. Near the centre, on the corner of King Street, is M.J. France, Grocer.
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]]Photograph 813A (cropped) from the Fremantle Library Local History Collection, date September 1905. Text from the Library entry. Plympton School became the East Fremantle Primary School (tho technically not in East Fremantle, being south of Marmion Street).
The France grocery store building is extant, at 99 King Street. >
References and Links
Charlesworth, Helene 1997, Small but Strong: a Pictorial History of the Town of East Fremantle 1897-1997, Town of East Fremantle.
EFPS website, which gives the address as 8 Forrest St, Fremantle.
See also the subsite for East Fremantle.
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, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/schools/plympton.html (it was last updated on 7 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.