Skinner Street

Suburbs:	Fremantle (suburb)
Wikidata:	Q116311625
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Skinner street is a very short street running from the Tuckfield-Burt intersection, to the point where Burt Street and Vale Street meet. It gave or got its name to or from the Skinner Street Cemetery, which is now the main oval of John Curtain College of the Arts. The part of Skinner Street that used to run through to the southern boundary of the cemetery is now an unnamed access road inside the school grounds.

The street was mentioned in The Herald in 1881.

From Nomenclature of Fremantle Streets, 1931:

Capt. Skinner of the W.A. Military Forces. This street originally ran from Cantonment road to the southernmost boundary of the Cemetery, but latterly the portion from Cantonment road to Tuckfield street, was converted into Burt street.

Some sources have this street being named after Col James Tierney Skinner (CB DSO) who married George Walpole Leake's daughter Jessie Rose Ellen Skinner (née Leake), but he was born in 1845.

In 1979 & 1980 houses on the street were photographed as part of the Fremantle Society Photographic Survey.

The rear of Boondaroo flats, boarded up in 2017.

The east side of Skinner Street was until 2017 occupied by the three-storey Boondaroo flats. This was demolished and as of 2025 was in process of being replaced by the much larger, much more expensive flats called Artisan Place.