Corner of Mouat and High Streets.
The earliest owner of Lots 29 and 30 recorded by Hitchcock (1929) was [[../people/bannister.html|Captain Thomas Bannister]] who arrived on the Atwick in 1829. On part of both lots now stands the building constructed in 1901 for the [[../banks/commercial.html|Commercial Bank]], at 20 High Street. Also on Lot 30, in High Street, are the former National Bank at 16, and the former Bank of Australasia at 18. Notre Dame University's School of Nursing & Midwifery is in the Commercial Bank at 7 Mouat Street.
Hitchcock, writing in 1919, describing that part of High Street, as he remembered it was in 1869: 'Next to the chemist’s shop was a small cottage occupied by a Customs tide-waiter named Moran, and from thence to the corner of Mouatt-street was vacant land carrying a luxuriant crop of castor oil trees.'
References and Links
Fremantle History Centre. Look for the PDFs called:
Purchasers of Fremantle Town Lots 1829-1837
Purchasers of Fremantle Town Lots 1855-1879
Hitchcock, J.K. 1919, [[../books/hitchcock1919.html|'Early Days of Fremantle: High Street 50 Years Ago']], Fremantle Times, one of a series of articles on 'Early Days of Fremantle' publ. 21 March - 20 June 1919.
Streets of Freo page for the 7 Mouat Street, including a list of occupants.
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 17 December, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/lots/29.html (it was last updated on 17 December, 2022), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.
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 2 December, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/lots/30.html (it was last updated on 17 December, 2022), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.