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- 13:13, 6 September 2024 Robert Fittock (hist | edit) [1,132 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{person | death_date = 2024-09-01 | death_date_precision = month }} '''Robert Fittock''' was a City councillor (for North Ward) and member of the Fremantle Society committee. He died in 2024. From Roel Loopers:<ref>[https://freoview.wordpress.com/2024/09/06/vale-robert-fittock/ VALE ROBERT FITTOCK], Freo's View, 6 September 2024 at 06:25</ref> {{quotation| Rob Fittock was a straight forward, no nonsense Councillor and human being, who loved North F...")
- 09:23, 3 September 2024 Annie Barnett (hist | edit) [222 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{person }} '''Annie Barnett''' was the wife of Colonial Surgeon for Fremantle and Superintendent of the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum Henry Calvert Barnett. In 1877 she petitioned for separation on the grounds of cruelty.")
- 09:11, 3 September 2024 The case of Annie Barnett v Henry Barnett (hist | edit) [1,676 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{fhs}} Monthly FHS talk, Tuesday 24th evening at 5.00 pm, by Lucy Hair and Ann Curthoys. As divorce became more available in the second half of the nineteenth century, an increasing number of women sought divorce or separation on the 'grounds of cruelty'. This term equates to what we now more commonly call domestic violence. In 1877, Annie Barnett petitioned for separation on grounds of cruelty. Annie was the wife of Henry Calvert Barnett, Colonial Surgeon for Fremant...")
- 00:47, 2 September 2024 Inns and Outs of Fremantle (hist | edit) [254 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{work | title = Inns and Outs of Fremantle: a Social History of Fremantle and its Hotels 1829-1929 | publisher = Xlibris | image = Freotopia books img innsandouts.jpg | authors = Allen Graham | date = 2023 }} Foreword by Peter Newman.")
- 13:13, 28 August 2024 Mercantile Stevedores Warehouse (hist | edit) [36 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{building | wikidata = Q66975616 }}")
- 12:14, 25 August 2024 Arthur Daniel Cockle (hist | edit) [505 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Arthur Daniel Cockle''' (1871–1943) was one of the divers working on removing the limestone bar from the mouth of the Swan River in the 1890s.<ref>{{cite work|Giant Lettered Sheds}}</ref> He was born in 1871, died on 4 November 1943, and is buried in Fremantle Cemetery.<ref>Find-a-Grave, [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213408157/arthur-daniel-cockle Arthur Daniel Cockle], Birth 1871; Death 4 Nov 1943 (aged 71–72); Burial Fremantle Cemetery, Plot Presbyterian-...")
- 08:47, 25 August 2024 Itsukushima (hist | edit) [2,135 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Wikipedia|Japanese cruiser Itsukushima}} thumb|Itsukushima. [[FHC photo #493D (or 1069?).]] FHC caption for the image at right: {{quotation| A 'protected' (as distinct from armoured) cruiser, built by La Seyne, France in 1891 for the emergent Japanese Navy, which at the time lacked the confidence to build and man battleships. This remarkable makeshift, one of a class of three, was designed to combat Chinese battlesh...")
- 08:34, 25 August 2024 Lady Forrest (hist | edit) [1,158 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Lady Forrest''', named after was a pilot boat in use by Fremantle pilots from 1903 to 1967. She was replaced by ''Lady Gairdner''. 25 July 1903, ''Evening Courier'':<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article257047276 THE LADY FORREST.] (1903, July 25). Evening Courier (Fremantle, WA: 1902 - 1903), p. 2.</ref> {{quotation| THE LADY FORREST. PILOT BOAT'S FIRST TRIP The new pilot steamer Lady Forrest made her first trip to-day. This morning at...")
- 13:52, 23 August 2024 Fremantle Court House (hist | edit) [882 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{building | wikidata = Q66975026 }} The '''Fremantle Court House''' was the third courthouse for Fremantle, and was built in 1884. It's located at '''22 Marine Terrace'''. Also known as '''Tanderra''', the '''Water Supply Office''', and '''Haven'''. In the 1950s it was leased<ref>{{cite work|Giant Lettered Sheds}}</ref> by the Uniting Church as a homeless men's shelter, and known as '''Uniting House'''.<ref>{{cite inherit|946}}</ref> It is now...")
- 13:44, 21 August 2024 11 Captains Lane (hist | edit) [393 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Building}} Got it's number from Carl Edwards' father, a photographer who moved to the property from 11 Phillimore Street and wanted to have a street number for advertising purposes. The houses on Arthur Head here nit numbered, so he just adopted his previous address, and Captain Trivett next door had to follow suit, and the others also.<ref>{{cite work|Giant Lettered Sheds}}</ref>")
- 13:11, 18 August 2024 Libraries (hist | edit) [349 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Libraries that are or have been in Fremantle: * Walyalup Civic Centre: ** Fremantle Library ** Fremantle History Centre * Notre Dame: ** Roy and Amy Galvin Medical Library, Henry Street ** St Teresa's Library, Henry Street ** Notre Dame Law Library, Croke Street * Fremantle TAFE Library, Slip Street")
- 12:36, 18 August 2024 Don Gillan (hist | edit) [224 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{person }} '''Don Gillan''' was a crane driver at Fremantle Port in 1950s and 60s.<ref>{{cite work|Giant Lettered Sheds}}</ref> {{reflist}}")
- 07:56, 18 August 2024 A Community Enterprise (hist | edit) [268 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{work | authors = Malcolm Tull | date = 1997 | title = A Community Enterprise: the History of the Port of Fremantle 1897-1997 | publisher = International Maritime Economic History Association | location = St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada }}")
- 12:51, 17 August 2024 Onion Lane (hist | edit) [206 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Onion Lane''' was the unofficial name for the alley between the Tarantella Night Club and the Howard Smith Building, on Mouat Street.<ref>{{cite work|Giant Lettered Sheds}}</ref> {{reflist}}")
- 12:32, 17 August 2024 Mills and Wares Warehouse (hist | edit) [36 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{building | wikidata = Q66975646 }}")
- 11:36, 17 August 2024 Horse troughs (hist | edit) [315 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{#linkcards: | image1 = Freotopia buildings img taylorfountain.jpg | link1 = Taylor Memorial Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough | title1 = Taylor Memorial Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough | image2 = Freotopia streets img phillimorest3.jpg | link2 = Phillimore Street | title2 = Phillimore Street horse trough }}")
- 14:06, 16 August 2024 WikiTree (hist | edit) [405 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{#cargo_query: tables=people |fields = _pageName, wikitree |format = table |group by = _pageID |order by = wikitree DESC }}")
- 01:13, 16 August 2024 Carl Edwards (hist | edit) [824 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{person }} '''Carl Edwards''' grew up in Fremantle in the 1950s, and in 2010 published his memoir about that time: Giant Lettered Sheds.")
- 13:29, 15 August 2024 Giant Lettered Sheds (hist | edit) [352 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{work | type = book | authors = Carl Edwards | title = Giant Lettered Sheds: Life in the Port City of Fremantle in the 1950s | date = 2010 | publisher = Book-Pal | location = }} Foreword by Peter Tagliaferri.")
- 13:23, 15 August 2024 Works (hist | edit) [217 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{#cargo_query: tables = works | fields = type = Type, YEAR(date) = Year, CONCAT('',title,'') = Title, authors = Authors, publisher = Publisher | format = table | order by = date ASC }}")
- 08:38, 12 August 2024 Fremantle Bunkering Service (hist | edit) [52 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "7 Amherst Street.")
- 00:22, 12 August 2024 Arthur Gilbert Howell (hist | edit) [3,532 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{person | description = <!-- (No parentheses.) --> | image = <!-- Without the 'File:' prefix --> | image_link = | caption = <!-- Only displayed if there's an image --> | birth_date = 1894-01-01 | birth_date_precision = year | birth_place = | death_date = 1949-07-25 | death_date_precision = day | death_place = | parent1 = T.J. Howell | parent2 = | partner1 = Alice Ray | partners = <!-- Free-form description, e.g. {{never married}} --> | children = <!--...")
- 12:47, 10 August 2024 The Lovers Twist (hist | edit) [244 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Lovers Twist''' is a public artwork on the corner of Wray Avenue and Little Howard Street, by Robby Lang (and pals). <gallery> The Lovers Twist 02.jpg The Lovers Twist 03.jpg The Lovers Twist 01.jpg </gallery>")
- 12:44, 10 August 2024 3 Nairn Street (hist | edit) [506 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{building | wikidata = Q56052835 }}")
- 05:08, 10 August 2024 The Evening Mail (hist | edit) [1,132 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Evening Mail''' was a newspaper published in Fremantle from about 1903 to 1910. It had various names in that time, including '''The Fremantle Mail''' and '''The Mail'''. Trove work IDs: * The Evening Mail (Fremantle, WA: 1905 - 1910) [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/1523 1523] * The Fremantle Mail (WA: 1903 - 1904) [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/1194 1194] * The Mail (Fremantle, WA: 1904 - 1905) [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspap...")
- 04:19, 10 August 2024 Evening Courier (hist | edit) [709 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Evening Courier''' was a newspaper published in Fremantle from about 1903 to 1904. In September 1903 their office moved to High Street, "immediately opposite the Economic drapery establishment."<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article257054692 Evening Courier New Offices] (1903, September 29). Evening Courier (Fremantle), p. 3. Retrieved August 10, 2024</ref> * Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118697981 * Trove: https://trove.nla.gov.au/ne...")
- 04:10, 10 August 2024 Rifle Club (hist | edit) [874 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Fremantle District Rifle Club''' was established before 1910. In 1910 some of its members were:<ref>1910 'Fremantle rifle Club', The Evening Mail (Fremantle, WA : 1905 - 1910), 25 April, p. 3. (THIRD EDITION), viewed 10 Aug 2024, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article256734263</ref> * H.S. Hodgson * J. Fisk * H.A. O'Brien * F. Simper * T.Q.M. Harvey * G.L. McDiarmid * F. Cann * H.A. Gordon * F. Clutterbuck * A.H. Ryder * E.T...")
- 02:24, 10 August 2024 Giuffre's Fuit & Veg (hist | edit) [353 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|The shop c.1978, photographed in the [[FSPS.]] '''Giuffre's Fuit & Veg''' was a grocery shop at 91 South Terrace. Possibly run by Salvatore and Carmela Giuffre, whose daughter Vincenzina married Antonio Galati and ran the Galatis grocery around the corner in Wray Avenue.")
- 01:23, 9 August 2024 John Arrowsmith (hist | edit) [446 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{person | wikidata = Q5560185 }} '''John Arrowsmith''' was a British cartographer who produced a number of maps of Western Australia. * Discoveries in Western Australia (1833 map) * The maps for George Grey's ''Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and Western Australia'' (1841) [https://archive.org/details/journalsoftwoexp0001geor Vol 1], [https://archive.org/details/journalsoftwoexp0002geor/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 2]")
- 00:57, 9 August 2024 Discoveries in Western Australia (1833 map) (hist | edit) [1,050 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Discoveries in Western Australia''' is an 1833 map of the south west of the state, by John Arrowsmith. The original is 494 x 586 mm. Catalogue record: [https://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1775631 SLWA b1775631] <gallery> File:Discoveries_in_Western_Australia_1833_SLWA_b1775631_1.png | Scan 1 File:Discoveries_in_Western_Australia_1833_SLWA_b1775631_4.png | Scan 2 </gallery> A couple of useful crops for Fremantle, from scan 2: <gallery> File:Discoveries...")
- 00:01, 9 August 2024 2017 (hist | edit) [12 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{timeline}}")
- 11:22, 8 August 2024 Caroline Jane Armstrong (hist | edit) [540 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{person | wikitree = Armstrong-28226 }} '''Caroline Jane Armstrong''' was born in about 1848 to Robert and Caroline. She died in 1917 in North Fremantle, aged 69.<ref>{{WA BMD |type=death | surname = Armstrong | given_names = Caroline Jane | gender = F | father = Robert MILLER | mother = Caroline COWLEY | death_place = North Fremantle | year_of_death = 1917 | age = 69 | registration_district = Fremantle | registration_year = 1917 | registration_number = 2700256...")
- 04:00, 8 August 2024 1972 (hist | edit) [45 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{timeline}} * Oriana Cinema demolished.")
- 11:43, 7 August 2024 2002 (hist | edit) [12 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{timeline}}")
- 11:43, 7 August 2024 2009 (hist | edit) [12 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{timeline}}")
- 11:43, 7 August 2024 2014 (hist | edit) [12 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{timeline}}")
- 11:43, 7 August 2024 2018 (hist | edit) [12 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{timeline}}")
- 11:43, 7 August 2024 2022 (hist | edit) [12 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{timeline}}")
- 11:42, 7 August 2024 2019 (hist | edit) [44 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{timeline}} * DaRawNature established.")
- 11:41, 7 August 2024 DaRawNature (hist | edit) [280 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''DaRawNature''' is an art gallery and café in Henry Street, located behind the old Workers Club building down the alleyway of number 5. It was established in 2019 by Dave Kafui Hans-Folly. Website: https://drnstudiogallery.com.au/") originally created as "Darawnature"
- 01:06, 7 August 2024 Honky Tonk (hist | edit) [714 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Honky Tonk''' is a American-themed bar that opened in June 2023 in Hicks Building (the former RSL Wyola Club). It's run by Ben Bell "who, with Joshua Paparo and Elvin Heng, also owns Jamaican rum and coffee bar Jungle Bird less than 100m from the soon-to-be-opened saloon."<ref>[https://www.perthnow.com.au/local-news/perthnow-fremantle/honky-tonk-saloon-style-dive-bar-set-to-join-fremantles-west-end-precinct-c-10987076 Honky Tonk: American saloon-style dive bar set...")
- 06:52, 6 August 2024 3 Inverleith Street (hist | edit) [66 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{building | wikidata = Q72999670 | streets = Inverleith Street }}")
- 05:56, 6 August 2024 Ellen Beard (hist | edit) [379 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Ellen Beard''' died in Fremantle in April 1899.<ref>{{WA BMD death | surname = Beard | given_names = Ellen | gender = F | father = Albert BEARD | mother = Ellen TWINEY | death_place = Fremantle | year_of_death = 1899 | age = 25 | registration_district = - | registration_year = 1899 | registration_number = 896 | access_date = 2024-08-06 }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}}")
- 00:53, 6 August 2024 5 Inverleith Street (hist | edit) [147 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{building | image = FSPS_Inverleith_Street_003,_No_5,_17-16-G,_1979.png | caption = 1979, Fremantle Society Photographic Survey | streets = | wikidata = Q72999674 }}")
- 00:42, 6 August 2024 1 Inverleith Street (hist | edit) [155 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{building | image = FSPS_Inverleith_Street_001,_No_1,_17-16-G,_1979.png | caption = 1979, Fremantle Society Photographic Survey | streets = Inverleith Street | wikidata = }}")
- 13:04, 5 August 2024 8 Inverleith Street (hist | edit) [155 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{building | image = FSPS Inverleith Street 008, No 8, 17-14-H, 1978.png | caption = Fremantle Society Photographic Survey, 1978 | streets = Inverleith Street | wikidata = }}")
- 13:03, 5 August 2024 10 Inverleith Street (hist | edit) [156 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{building | image = FSPS_Inverleith_Street_009,_No_10,_17-14-H,_1978.png | caption = Fremantle Society Photographic Survey, 1978 | streets = Inverleith Street | wikidata = }}")
- 12:49, 4 August 2024 Lance Holt (hist | edit) [2,038 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{person | image = Lance Holt, IMGP5084-1030x685.jpg | caption = Photo from the school's website. | birth_date = 1953-01-01 | birth_date_precision = circa }} '''Lance Holt''' founded the Lance Holt School in 1970. From the school's website:<ref>[https://www.lanceholtschool.wa.edu.au/our-people/founder/ Founder], Lance Holt School</ref> {{quotation| As a young teacher in the 1960’s specialising in reading difficulties, Lance Holt was frustrated with contemporary ed...")
- 12:40, 4 August 2024 10 Henry Street (hist | edit) [1,146 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{building | wikidata = Q66498428 }} The '''Federal Coffee Palace''' building at '''10 Henry Street''' has been the home of Lance Holt School since 1974.<ref>https://www.lanceholtschool.wa.edu.au/all-about/history/ History], Lance Holt School, retrieved 2024 August 4</ref> It is on Town Lot 78, and was built in 1892 by Philip Webster. He died a year later. According to the City of Fremantle heritage register,<ref>{{cite inherit|882}}</ref> the building was '...")
- 12:01, 2 August 2024 Early Days of Fremantle (hist | edit) [3,041 bytes] Samwilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Early Days of Fremantle''' is a series of articles written by Joseph Keane Hitchcock in 1921 in The Fremantle Times. * January 14: The First Good Templar Lodges ([https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/256643730 Trove link]) * January 28: Convicts Who Made Good ([https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/256643863 Trove link]) * February 4: /An Old Church and Its Pastor|An Old Church and It...")