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Beach Street
The 'beach' was the river beach (which has become, after much 'reclamation') the South Wharf [Victoria Quay] of the Fremantle Port) and the track along the edge of it was made into a street. Modern Beach Street runs from the corner of Parry Street (the former Edward Street) to East Street, which is the boundary between Fremantle and East Fremantle. At the Fremantle end it is the continuation of Elder Place and before that Phillimore Street. At the East Fremantle end it continues as Riverside Road which eventually transmogrifies into Wauhop Road, after it has been all the way around Preston Point.
The first feature of the street is the Australia Hotel, on the corner of Parry Street (the former Edward Street). To the west is the Cold Stores housing complex, then the former Elders woolstore.
References and Links
The finely colourised photo is from Muzza Guzzisti's Facebook page called 'a frolic in colour'.
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 20 June, 2019 and hosted at freotopia.org/streets/beach.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.