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Baker Street
Baker Street was originally named Leah Street by Abraham Moise Josephson (after his second daughter) and John McCleery, Fremantle merchants who purchased Fremantle Lots 828, 829, 830, 23 March 1886, and subdivided them to create many smaller lots. Leah Street was created to provide road access to the new properties that were sold between 1886 and 1891. The name was changed from Leah to Baker in 1908/09. Josephson and McCleery both have streets named after them. Not at present known (by me) who Baker was. There was no Baker on the Municipal Council 1883-1929.
There is at least one building of interest in the street: the former Presbyterian Church.
Baker Street is only one block long (that's South Street down at the end) and only wide enough for one car at a time.
At its northern end it is blocked by steel poles, allowing only pedestrian access to the bottleshop drive-through of the Beaconsfield Hotel, so that a car can park in the middle of the street.
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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 10 May, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/streets/baker.html (it was last updated on 16 November, 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.