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A WikiTown project for Fremantle, Western Australia.

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This page is a project workspace that will change regularly - please do not apply main space style editing issues here - thank you.

This page is for subjects for potential as articles - in some cases blue links/commenced articles are included to give a sense of the range of a topic.

Please check for synonyms/parallel terms or subjects at other pages before starting an article, where possible Freopedia items.

Potential articles (people)[edit]

Businesses (historical and current)[edit]

  • Pearse shoe company in High Street (shoe shop since late 19th C. till now).
  • All "red-with-black-slash" buildings ("outstanding or unusual character and architectural significance") from the Fremantle Society's 1978 photographic survey:
    • View with Reasonator Ocean View, 134 Solomon Street

Inside Maritime Museum[edit]

  • Wrecks close to fremantle - details where Shipwreck Gallery and or books have details of nearby wrecks (see Rottnest wreck article for ideas)
  • Boats identified as Fremantle Based - whether long gone or still current
  • Features of maritime activity in Fremantle area otherwise not

Fremantle Harbour[edit]

  • Berths (numbered on north quay, letters on victoria quay)
  • Sheds
  • Customs Restricted area
  • Jetties and Landings (historic and current)
  • Shoreline
  • Old Cranes
  • New Cranes
Streets, lanes, areas not designated as roads but with traffic (pedestrian malls not the same)
  • Captains Lane
  • Croke Street
  • Croke Lane (formerly Dalgety Street)
  • Customs Place
  • Fairbairn Street
  • Finnerty Street
  • Fleet Street
  • Fothergill Street
  • Holdsworth Street
  • Knutsford Street
  • Little High Street
  • Mrs Trivett Place
  • Nairn Street
  • Peter Hughes Drive
  • Shuffery Street
  • Slip Street
  • Tuckfield Street

Organisations[edit]

  • Wharf - unions (former)
  • ethnnic - Italian and others
  • Political
  • Sporting

Pubs and hotels[edit]

Citations:

  • Cernecca, Dario; Harris, Mike; O'Sullivan, Tim; Zagari, Laurie (1981). Hotels: Architecture and Culture, A Building Type (Report). Copy held by the Fremantle Local History Centre.

List of Fremantle pubs on Wikidata:

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?streetLabel ?coords WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q212198 .
  { ?item wdt:P131 wd:Q606212} union { ?item wdt:P131 wd:Q604376 } .
  OPTIONAL{ ?item wdt:P669 ?street } .
  OPTIONAL{ ?item wdt:P625 ?coords } .
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }  
}

Run on Wikidata Query Service (also with map view).

Demolished Fremantle[edit]

  • First railway station (under customs house structure location)
  • Mannings Folly
  • Railway workshops
  • First Port Authority building {under current maritime museum)
  • Terrace houses (large number at various locations)
  • Second railway station original format (alluding to island platform and large roof)
  • Railway marshalling yard/tracks near quays - both sides
  • Port structures - Sheds ( sheds demolished on both sides )
  • Grain storage structures (mainly north quay)
  • First two railway bridges over river (1926 flood and subsequent ongoing repair of both bridges)
  • whole blocks (what was where the myer building exists)
  • North Fremantle buldings lost to stirling bridge development, and new railway bridge

Sources of redlinked articles[edit]