1 Pakenham Street, (pre 1938 - 19 Pakenham Street) Tolley & Co Warehouse, Office and Warehouse
This building is located on the western side of Pakenham Street between High Street and Phillimore Street. It is a rendered building which includes a half basement below street level, constructed in the Federation Free Classical style. The name 'Tolley & Compy. Limited Merchants' appears in stucco across the carriageway entrance on the right side of the building.
1893 AUSTRIAN Bentwood Furniture for Sale. Apply Tolley & Co., Limited, Fremantle. (reference)
It was built in 1897 for Tolley & Company, Wine & Spirit Merchants, who occupied the building until 1910/11. The store had two large floors which carried an immense stock of wines and spirits. Below was a spacious cellar, cool on the hottest days. A hydraulic lift and crane were employed to facilitate handling of stock. Tolleys also imported tobacco, cigars and glassware and were sole agents for McEwans' Edinburgh beer, Manikin Scotch ale, Schweppes soda, ginger ale etc.
1887 Tolley & Co., established but a few months ago in Fremantle have succeeded in forming a very large business connection throughout the colony, including this district. Their wine, spirit, and beer cellars at Manning's Hall, Fremantle, will well repay a visit, the stocks contained there being by far the largest, most varied and best In the colony. (reference)
1901 The Perth ‘Spectator' of last Saturday has beaten the record for up-to-date news. It tells us in a par that a Jack Fitzpatrick, who passed in his checks in the Fremantle Asylum last week by coming to an untimely end, is the well known and popular 'Fitz' who travels these fields for Tolley and Co, Ltd. It sums up his character thus: 'A jovial good fellow, having himself for his own enemy.' As the same old 'Fitz' walked into our office yesterday with a copy of the paper in his hand, we leave our readers to judge his feelings when he found that he had died in an asylum… (reference)
1910 Tolley and Co., Ltd., Fremantle, has bunged in its alley and decided to avail itself of the voluntary liquidation provisions of the Companies Act, 1893. Manager W. H. Paltridge is conducting the funeral obsequies. (reference)
1920 Miss Carrie Lewis will be called upon to say yea or nay to Mr. Cliff Saunders next Saturday afternoon. Cliff has just passed his final examination in chemistry. Mrs. Saunders-to-be was formerly a typist at Joyce Bros., Packenham street, Fremantle. Hope their path through life is devoid of—a—thorns. ( reference)
OCCUPANTS
1855 - 1879 Lot 95: Dempster, J
1897- 1910 Tolley & Company, Wine & Spirit Merchants
1913 - 1920 Joyce Bros, Ltd. bag & sack manufacturers. (W F Draffin, manager) ( in 1921 shifted to 15-21 Josephson St, Fremantle (reference)
1914 - 1938 Harper & Co. Pty. Ld. Robert (stores)
1921 - 1932 Berry & Co Pty Ltd, H. merchants
1936 - 1942 Jones & Co Pty Ltd Henryy, jam manufacturers
1938 - 1942 McKenzie Ltd D J, general merchants
1939 - 1942 Aust Jam Co Pty Ltd, jam manufacturers
1942 - 1946 Department of the Army (office)
1949 Russell Transport Co, shipping & forwarding agents
c. 2018 Whitespace Art Gallery,
2017 Old Faithful Bar and BBq-Current owner Rob Paolucci took over the venue (originally co-owned by his parents) in 2017
