34-36 Henry St

34-36 Henry St (was 66-68 pre 1938), Sadleirs

34 Henry Street has a stone and brick decorative façade featuring arches and a driveway (now a pedestrian pathway) that traverses from Henry St through to Pakenham St.

In 1891 a machinery warehouse was built on Lot 85 (no 34).

1992- On either side of the driveway are contemporary two storey apartments, designed by Brian Klopper.

36 Henry St W D Moore & Co.'s Stores operated on Henry St from 1862. In 1881 William Dalgety Moore purchased Lot 86, and built a new warehouse in 1883 (No. 36).

R.C Sadleir (correct spelling) was established in 1895 as Customs, Shipping and Forwarding Agents, on the corner of Cliff Street, Fremantle. Until 1925 Sadleirs relied largely on horse-drawn transportation. In 1925 they moved from horse to a fleet of motor lorries. In 1936 Lionel Samson acquired R. C. Sadleir, and by 1955 the company fleet consisted of 21 vehicles. By 2012 it was known as the Lionel Samson Sadleirs Group (LSSG).

18 August 1952 W. D. MOORE and Company's warehouse in Henry-st., Fremantle, was today sold for £25,000. The buyers were Fremantle Customs agents R. C. Sadlier Pty. Ltd. When the property was offered for sale at public auction an August 7, bidding stopped at £15,000. Since then the auctioneers J. J. and F. G. Higham have conducted private negotiations and the deal was finalised today. (reference)

1951 Mr. Schnaars today granted the union leave to amend an award which will give increases of up to £1 a week to female clerks employed by James Kiernan Ltd., R. C. Sadlier Ltd., Frank Cadd Co. Ltd., Millars Timber and Trading Co., Ltd., Bunning Bros. Ltd. and others. (reference)

1953 Thomas Bernard Duggan (28), truck driver, of Little Howard street, Fremantle, was fined £5 in the Fremantle Police Court for having stolen nine dozen spanners, the property of his temporary employers, R. C. Sadlier and Co. … (reference)

1954 Wanted-TRUCK DRIVER. Permanent position, must have knowledge of wharf work and city deliveries. R. C. SADLIER PTY. LTD..36 Henry-st., Fremantle. (reference)

2019 Darling Darling Bar, a small bar, complete with whaling gear, was designed by Ashley Sutton, and is based on a “seafarer’s tipple spot from the 1800’s, for weary sailors who spent years at sea travelling from overseas to Fremantle.” (reference) “Entering Darling Darling is like going below the decks of an 19th century pirate ship…” (reference)

Lot 85 & 86 owners:

1855 Curtis

1856 - 1859 Dyett

1876 - 1879 Dyett, M

OCCUPANTS

No. 34-36 (was 66-68 pre 1938)

1902 - 1936 Moore & Co W D, (grocery depot)

1938 - 1942 Moore & Co Ltd W D, (bulk store)

1942 - 1949

McKenzie Ltd D J, merchants

Jones & Co Pty Ltd H, jam manufacturers

Austin Jam Co Pty Ltd, jam manufacturers

1952 R. C. Sadlier Pty. Ltd

Prior to 1992 Edge Skateboard Rink and Shields' Warehouse

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Lilly's Building

Lilly's Building 34-42 Cliff St was designed by architect Herbert Nathaniel Davis and built in 1896.

Architecture Lilly's Buildings is a two storey stone building with rendered façade, bracketed parapet and a zero set back from the pavement. Engaged pilasters (ashlar effect on the ground floor) flank the doors and windows. The timber windows have stucco arches and keystone above transoms, on the ground floor. The first floor has stucco aedicule surrounds (there are alternating triangular and semi circular pediments), above the timber sash windows.

History Lots 23 and 24 were originally owned by W & P Chidlow (1829-1879). There was a stone house on the site as early as 1844. The first Customs House was built on these lots in 1853. A new Custom's House was built in 1903 on Phillimore St, and the old Custom's House became a warehouse (No. 40 Cliff St).

In the 1880s, the site was owned by Capt James Lilly who established a shipping office.

1896 To arrive on or about 31st December, by the Queen Adelaide From KARACHI. 400 EGYPTIAN CAMELS. The finest travellers and weight carried the world. This shipment comprises by far the selection of camels that, so far, have imported to this colony, being short and thick-boned animals, and, specially selected from districts climatic conditions are similar to this colony, will not be aflected by the weather experienced on our Eastern fields during the winter months. The Camels will be on view at the Quarantine Grounds, near Fremantle, during January, and the public are cordily invited to inspect same. JAMES LILLY & CO. (As Agents for Hassa & Mulchand & Co.), Fremantle. (reference)

1898 TRAGEDY AT FREMANTLE. BOY SHOOTS HIMSELF. SENSATIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES. A terrible tragedy occurred at North Fremantle last night, when a boy named Henry Mason, aged 16, a clerk employed by McIlwraith, McEacharn, and Co, shot himself. The deceased was a son of Frederick Mason, an old resident of the colony, and one of the wealthiest men in Fremantle, owning the greater portion of the main street and a large number of other properties. For many years Mr. Mason, sen., has been residing at North Fremantle with a woman who was supposed to be his wife and by whom he had five children, Henry Mason being one of them. Great surprise was caused to friends of the family, and a painful scandal was occasioned, when Mr Mason, about a month ago, married Mrs Hillmer, who had been renting a hotel from him, and when it became known that the woman he had lived with so long was not his wife at all. (reference) (divorce of Mr Mason & Mrs Hillmer 5-years later is reported here)

1902 Amongst the passengers by the steamer Paroo, which arrived at Fremantle from the East yesterday, was Mr. Matvson, of the Melbourne staff of M. Glassford Proprietary. Ltd., who has come to relieve Mr. James Murdoch, the local manager, who is leaving in the G.M.S. Barbarossa on a trip to Scotland. (reference) 

1908- UNWHOLESOME FRUIT. SILBERT AND SHARP SUED. At the Perth Police Court yesterday. before Mr. A. S. Roe, P.M., Silbert and Sharp were charged with having, on Dec ceinber 23, offered for sale six cases of fruit, to wit apples, which were unfit for human consumption and deleterious to human health. (reference) 

1927 The Institute for Catholic Seamen, established by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, at 36 Cliff-street, Fremantle, was blessed and opened by his Grace Archbishop Clune on Sunday last. (reference)

1914 See Image - CAMEL TEAM LEAVING BOULDER FOR EUCLA, WHERE MESSRS. JOYCE, RODDA AND WATKINS, PROPOSE TO START A CATTLE STATION (reference)

1921 Mr Joyce takes a trip to Singapore - Fremantle Fragments {By Marcus). Back from a business trip to Singapore, Mr. A. Joyce, of Joyce and Watkins, a big man of broad ideas, Mr. Joyce is a pioneer in the movement to open up trade with the Orient. (reference)

1903 THE SMOKE NUISANCE. The Waterworks Board received a letter from Mcilwraith, McEacharn and Co., Ltd., Fremantle, in which that firm points out that it is quite possible to obviate the smoke nuisance connected with the use of Newcastle coal, at a very trifling cost… 'Science has for some time considered the possibility of abating the smoke nuisance, and, if the report is not exaggerated, a means has at length been discovered which entirely does away with the evil…’ (reference)

1905 The Labor Gov. Renews a Coal Contract - Without calling for competitive tenders within the Commonwealth - Pays Mcilwraith & McEacharn on the Higher Figures - Though the Price of Coal Was Considerably Lower at the Time of the Renewal of the Existing Arrangement. (reference)

1905 Mcilwraith & McEacharn- Information has been received at Fremantle in connection with the new excursion steamer being built in Sydney for Messrs. McIlwraith, McEacharn and Co. for use on the Swan River. Owing to the fact that several new bridges will have to be passed under, special attention has had to be given to the arrangement of the new steamer's funnel and mast. (reference)

The building was bought by the Council in 1973 and then sold in 1977 to Peter Grace and renovated by architect Ric Longley. After public pressure, a covenant was put on the title to ensure the façade was protected and the facade was classified by the National Trust in 1977. It was used as an art gallery for two years.

Nos. 34-36 then became the Cliff Street Gallery and Winery, with a residence upstairs for Grace. The adjacent warehouse (No. 40) was converted to living for Ric Longley. A dental surgery separated the two.

OCCUPANTS

1897-1898 DIAMOND & SON, merchants, customs & forwarding agents.

Cavanagh M. F. & J. C. architects, Mcdowell J. contractor

ROCKLIFFE & CO. (H.), customs & forwarding agents, ironmongers, wine, spirit & general merchants

1897- 1898 MCILWRAITH, MCEACHARN & CO. LIM. steamship owners, coal merchants

First floor:  Rockliffe & Co. (H.), customs, shipping & forwarding agents

BELL'S ASBESTOS W. A. AGENCY LIM. manufacturers & importers of asbestos, packings, lubricants, Yorkshire iron, tools, portable railways, windmills, pumps & co

HARDCASTLE S. H. consulting engineer

Detmold & Co. (William) (Charles M. Hird, manager), manufacturing stationers

BELL & CO. (JAMES), merchants &c./ S.S. Co. (James Bell & Co. Agents) / Australian Alliance Assurance Co. (fire & marine) (Jas.Bell & Co.agts)

Lilly & Co. (James), accountants & shipping agents / Australian United S. Nav. Co. (Jas. Lilly & Co. agents) / Orient Steam Nav. Co. (James Lilly & Co. agents) / Currie & Co.'s (Archibald) Line of Steamers (James Lilly & Co. agents)

1897-1898 Right of way off Cliff St:  Knappstein J. H. produce merchant

Moorehouse & Co. (C. L.), carriers & forwarding agents

Rosser A. Gra. Pier Hotel 

1898

Orr & Forrest, commission agents,

McDowell, J. contractor

Watson Brother, merchants

Ferguson Mephan, consulting engineer

Bell's Asbestos W. A. Agency Lim. mfrs. & importers of asbestos & Hardcastle S. H. consulting engineer. / Bell & Co. (James), merchants

Detmold Limited (William), wholesale & manufacturing stationers

Lilly & Co. (James), accountants & shipping agents

1899 - 1904 (38) New Zealand Insurance Co. (1899-1904: L. Samson & Son, agents; 1904-1905: Irwin M. Moyes, agent)

1897 - 1907 (36) Glassford M. Proprietary Ltd.,  produce merchants, (J Murdoch, manager)

1902 - 1908 (34) Wigmore & Co. H. J., mercantile brokers , Wigmore, Fred E, customs agents

(40) Barrow & Reynolds, grain & produce merchants

South British Fire & Marine Insurance Co. (Frank Cadd, agent)

Cadd Company Ltd. Frank, customs & shipping agents

1902 MYERS & HARDIE, mercantile brokers, insurance & manufacturers' agents & indentors

Ducout Jne. & Co. (sample room)

Tijou, A J, customs agent

Blackwood & Bryson Ltd, merchants & agents

1904 - 1905

(40) Graves & Co. H. carriers &c. (Henry Goodwin, manager)

1904 - 1907 Sewell, C E, barrister & solicitor

1905 Allnut Lea, mercantile broker

1907 (40) Lehmann & Co. C. A., produce & provisions merchants

1907 - 1908 (42) Murphy W. A ., customs & forwarding agent

1908 - 1912 (36) Silbert & Sharp, fruit merchants & produce merchants

1911 (42) Nicholson & Morrow, agricultural implement makers

1915- (34) Elare Gasper

Douglas Roy O, case maker

1915 (42) W.A. Producers' Union Ltd., James Carter, manager

1916 (38) Gasper Elare

1917 (34) Hildyard, Mrs Mary

1918 - 1920 (34) Greenwood, John

1918 - 1920 (42) Waddingham, F, carrier

1920 (40) Marchese, Antoni, Elari, Gaspare

1920 - 1928 (36 and 38) Joyce & Watkins, import and export merchants

1929 (36) McAuliffe, John

1930 - 1935 (38) Mrs Rosa Solomon

1931 - 1934

(42) Indiabus, Mick

(off) Morris & Co. M, marine dealers

1934 - 1938 (40) Larosa Santol

1936 - 1938 (36) Nicola Candatore

1938 - 1940 (34) Italian Club

1938 - 1939 (40) Giangaspro (G.), importer

1938 - 1940 (38) Mr. Nicholas Tattoli (aka. Nicola Tattoll)

1939 - 1940 (36) Mrs Gloria Svirich

1939 - 1942 (40) Salvemini & Co. (M.), importers

1934 - 1938

(off 42) Morris & Co. (M), marine dealers

1938 - 1942 (42) Camba (A.), sail maker

1946 - 1949 (34) The Swan Providoring Co. Ltd., ship providores

1946 - 1949 [40-42] Grayson & Co., shipwrights & repairers

1949 (38) Brice (A. G.), customs agent

1949 (42) Navy Club, club