25-29 Henry St

25-29 Henry St (was 65-67 pre 1938)

Notre Dame University ND18 - School of Medicine - formerly Mercantile Stevedores Warehouse

Two storey rendered building with a zero set back from the pavement. There is a decorative parapet with a central pediment and decorative brackets. There are arched sash windows and a central entrance with drive through entrance to the left side.

Lot 66 was originally owned by Henry Willey Reveley (1788-1875) a civil engineer responsible for the earliest public works at the Swan River Colony including the Round House (1829-1837). The lot was then owned by the Roman Catholic church under Bishop Serra (1856-1859) and Bishop Griver (1876-1879), consisting of shops and a cottage. The cottage was for a time used by the Harbour Master's crew (c1886).

1911 - 1929 F. H. Faulding & Co was a pharmaceutical company founded in Adelaide, Australia, in 1845, began bisiness in Perth in 1890. One of the company's major innovations was the development of a process for distillation of eucalyptus oil, which formed the basis of an antiseptic marketed as ‘Solyptol’. F. H. Faulding & Co Ltd, wholesale druggists & manufacturing chemists had a business here from 1911 - 1929.

1913 At the Perth Police Court on Fri day next, Frederick James Wood, manager for Messrs. Felton, Grimwade and Bickford, and Walter W. Garner, manager for Messrs. F. H. Faulding and Co., will be charged with having on May 26 sold (1) Zambuk ointment, and (2) Indian root pills, two patent medicines, which it is alleged do not comply with the provisions of regulation No. 26 of the Health Act. (reference)

1930 Royal Show: Messrs. F. H. Faulding and Co. have a most attractive display in their pavilion. The dominating note, of course, is boronia, for the firm is renowned for its perfumes, face powders, etc.. made from the pick of our wildflowers. 'Faulded,' an insecticide, guaranteed to kill flies, and one of the latest products from the firm's laboratories, is given prominence, together with the popular 'Marion' sauce, a Worcester type of sauce made in Western Australia by F. H. Faulding and Co. A shilling bag comprising samples of 'Marion' sauce, Faulding's coffee essence, Solyptol soap, health saline, and the latest addition to the wide range of Fauldins cordials 'orange,' is finding great favor with bargain seekers. (reference)

The building was sold out of the church c1920. It was then a Stevedoring Company from 1930.

OCCUPANTS

Lot 66 owners:

1829 - 1837 Reveley, W

1855 Catholic

1856 - 1859 Serra, Bishop

1876 - 1878 Bishop Griver (R.C.)

No. 25 (was 65 pre 1938)

1902 - 1907

Tinsley, H, customs agent

Fimister & Co. J W, merchants & importers

1904 Roger & Co. J. MacLeod, mercantile brokers & general agents

1906 Ayles, A M (Roberts & A)

1908 - 1938 Collyer, A F, Indent, Produce & Shipping Agent (1936-1938 Dairy Produce Merchant)

1938 - 1939 Gadsden Pty Ltd J (bulk store)

1939 - 1949 Hood, Alex, sail & tent manufacturer

No. 27 (was 67 pre 1938)

1899 Melliday & CO. (John), produce merchants

1900 Tinsley, H, mining broker

1900 - 1901 Moore, J J, mining broker

1903 - 1906 Watson Bros. wine, spirit & general merchants

1907 - 1909 Hutton, J C, ham & bacon curer

1911 - 1929 Faulding & Co Ltd, F H, wholesale druggists (1924-1929 wholesale druggists & manufacturing chemists)

1930 - 1938 Fremantle Stevedoring Co Ltd (store)

1938 - 1939 Hood, Alex, sail & tent manufacturer

1939 - 1946 Collyer, A F, produce merchant & shipping agent

No. 29

1938 - 1939 Collyer, A F, produce merchant & shipping agent

1939 - 1949 Fremantle Stevedoring Co Ltd (store)

Alterations to the 1898 building were carried out in 1964 and 1968.

Notre Dame

2005 “The new Fremantle based Medical School was formally opened by the Commonwealth Minister for Health, Mr Tony Abbott, on 2 September, 2005. It was an exciting occasion. All present knew this was a very important milestone in the history of UNDA. The first Medicine intake – over 80 graduate entry candidates – began their course in January 2005. This new Medical School, under its Foundation Dean, Adrian Bower, and his deputy, Jenny McConnell, rapidly gained a reputation for the quality of its staff and curriculum, its clinical training experiences, and the excellence of its students and its graduates”. From the Founding and Establishment of Notre Dame, 1986-2014 by Peter Tannock 2014 (reference)

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25 High Street

P&O Hotel- Corner 25 High St and 20 Mouat St

Architecture- The P&O Hotel is a highly decorative and prominent two storey hotel; built in the boom of the gold period. The main entrance is on the corner of High and Mouat Streetss. The decorative parapet has balustrade, columns and five large pediments featuring stilted arches with columns and decorative stucco. The building originally had a clock tower and the corner of the parapet has the remains of a dome featuring the name The 'P&O Hotel' in decorative stucco.

History
The first building on this corner was a small hotel owned by the Pace family. This became the Victoria Hotel (c1870), a small hotel which stood on the site of the current P&O Hotel. Mrts Scott and Pat Hagan took over the Victoria Hotel in 1871. The bar was known as the 'Cockpit' and fitted out in nautical style.

1873 … Peter Docherty was charged with stealing Is. 6d., a tobacco pipe, and a piece of tobacco, from the person of Mr. Michael O'Grady, at Fremantle on the ll th February last. It appears that Mr. O'Grady went into the Victoria Hotel, Fremantle on the day in question, and laid down on a sofa in the parlour to enjoy his afternoon's siesta. The prisoner, who happened to be in the same room, observing him asleep, rifled his pockets, and was caught in flagrante delicie by Mr. Hagan, the landlord. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 3 years penal servitude.. (reference)

1877 Of the death of Mrs. Patrick Hagan, of the Victoria Hotel… Her many acts of unostentatious charity and true benevolence, her kind, motherly counsel, will indeed remain green in our memories… the deepest sympathy is felt for Mr. Hagan in his deep affliction, bereft thus early of his cheerful and beloved partner in life. The funeral, which took place yesterday afternoon, was probably the largest ever seen in the Port. All the vessels in harbor hoisted their flags half-mast as a mark of respect for the deceased. (reference)

New owners from c 1893 were Bernard O’Connor & Timothy Quinlan.

1893 Fremantle Municipal Council- A complaint of excessive rating by Mr. T. F. Quinlan, with regard to the Victoria Hotel premises was referred to the rating committee. (reference)

The Victoria Hotel was rebuilt by Cavanagh & Cavanagh c.1896 and the name changed to the P&O Hotel- it opened 1 July 1901.

The Bahen family owned the P&O from c 1932-1972. In 1938 architect Frank Rennie carried out alterations to the interior. Its verandas, removed in the 1960s, were reinstated in 2002. In 1972 outbuildings on the site were demolished.
New owners in 1985 carried out renovations, including in 1986, removal of three shopfronts on the ground floor (not original) and formation of a new entrance. In 1994, Revitalized Shopfitters carried out a refit of the interior.

1996: I lived for several months in the P&O Hotel in 1996.

The bedrooms were upstairs, the rent was fairly cheap and the room I stayed in was, thankfully, not a street side room. This meant that the hustle and bustle of Freo’s west end nightlife didn’t stop me from getting sleep. My room was small and sparse with a bed and wardrobe, a window and a door. Back then there was no wide, covered balcony like the hotel now has, instead the street side rooms had small individual balconies. Most of the street side rooms were large, had high ceilings and were well lit due to the windowed doors that opened up to their little balconies. Most of those on the High Street side used bed sheets to cover their windows due to the Sun’s propensity to heat up their rooms. 

Next to my room was a communal kitchen and down the hall was a communal laundry and bathroom. At the corner of the west end of the hotel, upstairs, was a large room that was known as the Captain’s Room, but was being used by the Caretaker. That room was very spacious and had its own beautiful bar and fireplace. Directly downstairs from the caretaker’s room was the main bar, a large room that I have many fond memories of. Towards the back was the Manager’s Room. The stairs connecting upstairs directly to the street were located on the Mouat Street side of the building and were the resident’s after hours entry. Those days the West End of Freo had a large number of hotels and customers that enjoyed them. It wasn’t unusual to do the “west end pub crawl” and meet up with blokes you’d seen at another pub an hour beforehand.  Beside the bar, on the north eastern end of the building was a restaurant- there was always the aromatic smell of good food wafting up. 

I met some characters living in that hotel; the neighbour who lived directly across from me had been living there awhile with his girlfriend. I recall she worked as a skimpy barmaid in Kalgoorlie. Another bloke was a barman at the P&O, who after a night off in Freo with his mates was not only nursing a nasty hangover, but also sporting two broken ankles after he’d decided to drunkenly jump off the wall beside South Fremantle Football oval on Parry Street. Having 2 broken ankles, hobbling around on crutches, being a barman AND living upstairs is a bad combination for anyone. During my time at the hotel I saw, and met, quite a few people from interstate just dropping in for a quick visit, some international backpackers enjoying their stay, a biker and his partner and even blokes who’d been there for years. I’ve lived in a few pubs since then, but none had quite the character that the P&O had back then. Dave Dowley 2021

Occupants

Lot 45 and 46 were originally owned by Walter Pace (1829-1837), transferred to Ann Pace (1856-1876), then Scott & Patrick Hagan (1877-)

1898 Victoria Hotel -Bernard O’Connor & Timothy Quinlan

1897 - 1972 P & O HOTEL

(1897 - 1912 —)

1913 - 1914 Andrew Elliott licensee

1915 Paul Reichardt licensee

1916 - 1917 R E Hummerston licensee

1918 Edgar H Fielder licensee

1919 - 1920 R C McCutcheon licensee

1921 - 1922 J V Dolin licensee

1923 Maurice Gunzburg licensee

1924 - 1926 William James Munro licensee

1927 - 1932 W. Malone, licensee

1933 - 1935 Edward Wachman, licensee

1936 - 1972 Clem Bahen, licensee

c.2002-2021 it was leased by Notre Dame University (ND5) and used for student accommodation. Notre Dame no longer uses the building.

21-25 Mouat Street

Notre Dame University ND2 & ND3 - formerly Bateman’s Warehouse

21 - 25 Mouat St (was 47-51 pre 1938)

21 - 23 Mouat Street (ND2 Courtyard) contains a landscape courtyard c. 1990s. A Post-Modern style brick and concrete screen wall stands on the front site boundary. A substantial brick warehouse in the Post-War Modernist style currently stands at 25 Mouat Street (ND3 Student Recreation). The two storey building is built up to the site boundaries on Mouat Street and Croake Lane and covers most of the site.

Originally the site of an old picture garden, access was via a lane way which ran past a row of six c.1880 cottages on the northern border of lot 37.

A stone warehouse, hardware store and plumbing supplies, part of the Bateman Co, occupied lot 38. J &W Bateman, hardware and plumbing supplies, warehouses, etc occupied both sides of Mouat St through to Henry St, including lots 37-38 Mouat St, lots 50-54 Mouat St and lots 67-72 Henry St. This warehouse was demolished c 1937 and the cottages were demolished in 1942.

1944 WANTED for L. V. O'Hara and Co, Fremantle Produce Store, strong willing youth, about 16 years, good chance improving position. Apply Boys' Section National Service Office, Perth. (reference)

1948 LOST between Belmont and Fremantle. Spare 32 x 6 Goodyear Tyre mounted on grey rim. Finder please contact L. V. O'Hara and Co., Fremantle. L2467, reward. (reference)

The brick Post-War Modernist Bateman's Warehouse was constructed at 25 Mouat Street for J. W Bateman c. 1966. 21 - 23.

The warehouses on 21-23 Mouat Street were demolished in 1996 for the development of Notre Dame University buildings.

OCCUPANTS

Lot 36 owners:

1829 - 1837 Chappell & Rogers

1855-1879 W. Chidlow

1856 - 1857 Hodges, Mrs

Lot 37 owners:

1829 - 1837 Chappell, Cleoph

1855 Chidlow

1856 - 1857 Hodges, Mrs

1858 - 1879 Chidlow, W

Lot 38 owners:

1829 - 1837 Dod, Philip H

1855 - 1879 Habgood, R

No. 21 - 23

1933 - 1937 Sadleir Ltd R C, customs, shipping & forwarding agents (bulk storage store)

1937 - 1938 vacant

No. 21

1939 - 1949 O'Hara & Co L V, product merchants

No. 25

1933 - 1934

Jones, W

Dewez, Joseph

Cowie, James

1933 - 1936 Bennet, William

1933 - 1937

Munro, J

Owen, W S

Kelly, Daniel

Love, George

1935 - 1937 Draper, Frederick

1938 - 1940 Stotters Yard, residential

1940 - 1949 Vacant

Liebler Facade

Reckitt & Colman Building, Facade / Liebler Building

21-29 Cliff St

Architecture Single storey façade only intact, has a zero setback from the pavement. The façade features arched openings (blocked) from engaged pilasters and a decorative parapet with highly decorative pediments.

History The Liebler Building façade is part of former buildings of Lionel Samson and Co, the oldest existing firm of merchants in the state. Lots 7 and 8 Cliff St were owned by John Lewis in 1880, as mixed commercial and residential use. New owners in 1881 were Mason and Liebler, with a residential house on Lot 8 and a shop on Lot 7. In 1882 the ownership changed to Mason and Samson and then in 1890 to Elias Solomon and Lionel Samson. At some time between 1890 and 1895 a facade was constructed in front of stone cottages on the site. The cottages were demolished in 1967 but the facade was retained- due to two Fremantle identities: Alec Smith, then owner of the Fremantle Hotel, and the cartoonist Paul Rigby (reference). The facade was classified by the National Trust in 1974. In 1980 the southern wing of the facade was demolished. In 2018 it was renovated, with the doors and windows openings restored. The site behind the facade is a now car park.

2017- High Tide Festival Fremantle- Artist Zora Kreuzer’s Arcade is deceptively simple. Appropriating the façade of the old Liebler Building she has chosen a palette of fluoro hues to paint to create a rainbow spectrum of spaces in the former arched window cavities. Not only do they re-energise the building but instantly she has created a photo booth for the thousands of visitors streaming through the historic site. (reference)

1897

Licensing Courts article mentions William. F. Samson of Cliff street, Fremantle being granted a renewal for a gallon license. (reference) 

Wanted, general servant.  Must be a good cook, light work , AM Josephson, Cliff street Fremantle. (reference)

1899

NOBELS' EXPLOSIVES Co. Ltd., GLASGOW. DYNAMITE, GELIONITE, DETONATORS,- FUSE, BLASTING GELATINE, GELATINE DYNAMITE, ELECTRICAL BLASTING APPLIANCES. MAGAZINES AT- Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Day Dawn, Menzies, Mt. Magnet, Fremantle. (reference)

… At the Queen’s bond, Messrs Lionel Samson and Son will sell cigars, tobacco, furniture and personal effects, in Cliff street, Fremantle. (reference)

OCCUPANTS

1829 - 1837 Lot 8: Lewis, Richard

1855 - 1859 Lot 8: Lewis

1876 - 1879 Lot 8: Lewis, John

1897

A.M. Josephson, pearl merchant, [Right of way]  Willshire, R J, commission merchant

1897 - 1898

Harper & Co. (ROBERT), importers, manufacturers & Eastern produce merchants & co. agents. for MELBOURNE CHILLED BUTTER & PRODUCE CO. and Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Bank of New South Wales (E A Cameron, manager)

1897 - 1900 Fowler D & J (1898: G. C. Knight, managing director), merchants (1900: merchants and shipping agents) agents for North China Insurance Company (1900)

1897 - 1903 Preston & Company (H. J.) (1897: wine, spirit & general merchants, indenting & commission agents; 1900-1903: manufacturers' agents & importers)

1897 - 1905 William Frederick Samson, Lionel Samson & sons, agents (1902-1905: Sun Insurance Office (London), wine & spirit merchants, wholesale grocers and government auctioneers

1899 Laurie, Robert (custom agents and stevedore)

1899 - 1900 New Zealand Insurance Company

1899 - 1901

Shenton, George, merchant shipping agent & importer of wines & spirits

Smith and Sons Pty Ltd, (William Howard) steamship owners & coal importers

1899 - 1905 Nobel's Explosives Company Limited (1899 - 1901: George Shenton, agents)

1900 - 1903

Harper & Company Pty Ltd (Robert) importers, manufacturers

Melbourne Steamship Company Limited (H R Reid, manager for WA)

1901

Mail Steamers Agency Ltd, (Charles Crewe, secretary )

Longbottom, Percival, estate agent

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation and Company Ltd (George Shenton, agent)

1901 - 1902

Thomas Horace P, shipping and insurance agent for Royal Insurance Company

Thomas Cook and Son, tourist agents

1901 - 1904 (no 25) John Stewart and company, produce merchant (1904: produce, merchants and mercantile agents)

1904 Goddard (H.A.), C J Ellershaw and company representatives

1904 - 1905

Calthorp Bros., general importers, produce merchants

Elder, Shenton and Company, merchants, importers & shipping, stock & station & general, commission agents

Firth and Sons Thomas, steel manufacturers

1905

Stewart & McDonald, produce merchants & mercantile agents

Lewis, Albert, mercantile agent

Barrow & Reynolds, produce merchants

Palatine Insurance Company Ltd, Elder, Shenton and Co Ltd, agents

Sheffield (Elder, Shenton and Company), agents

1904 - 1949 (23) ELLERSHAW & Co. Pty. Ltd. (C. J.), customs, shipping, forwarding, indent and manufacturers' agents

1909 - 1927 (25) McBean & Deason, commercial & shipping agents, bulk stores

1918 - 1920 (29) Evans & Co, George, ship chandlers

1919 - 1920 (27) Lester, J H, customs agent and carrier

1921 - 1922 (29) Drew, Robinson & Co (bulk store)

1924 - 1934 (29) Barnes Herbert, carrier

1928 - 1935 (25) Bunyip Soap Co. Ltd.

1934 - 1936 (29) Daly Bros, carriers

1936 - 1937 (27) Cook (Lionel S.), wool buyer

1935 - 1946 (27) Sadliers Ltd R C, customs agents

1936 - 1938 (25) Payne (John H.) bus manager

1937 - 1946 (29) Sadleir Angora Yarns Ltd., knitting depot, woollen yarn manufacturers

1947 (23-29) ELLERSHAW & Co. Pty. Ltd. (C. J.), customs, shipping, forwarding, indent and manufacturers' agents

1949 (25) Reckitt & Coleman (Australia) Ltd., blue manufacturers, mustard manufacturers & starch manufacturers