Fremantle Workers Club

9 Henry St (was 27 pre 1938)

OCCUPANTS

Lot 58 owners:

1829 - 1837 Harris, W H

1855 - 1859 Lodge, O

1876 - 1878 Roe, J S (Captain)

1899 - 1900 Mews, James, boat builder

1906

London Tailoring Depot, Fred Miller, manager

Miller, John, tailor

1911 - 1912 Boultbee, George Frederick, barrister & solicitor, public notary & commercial for affidavits

1914 - 1915 Goold, L B, solicitor

1917 Goodridge & Co, estate & com agent

1917 - 1918 Lane, George C R

1919 Nunn, William P

1920 - 1922 Atkinson, Mrs Florence E, boarding house

1923 - 1926 Clare, William E, printer & publisher

1927 - 1928

Port Carrying & Baggage Agency

Robbins, Alfred

1927 - 1929 Knap, Jack, building table repair (1927-1928 tailor)

1930 - 1932 McAulay, Patrick

1930 - 1933

Quinn, S

Lonsdale, Jeremiah

1942 - 1949 Pearce, William

38 Henry St

38-40 Henry St, Notre Dame University ND35 - School of Medicine - Fowler's Warehouse (Fmr)

The bold facade of the Fowler Warehouse, built in 1899, is richly moulded with classical details; pillars, architraves, a frieze and cornice. The balustrade bears the name of the firm D. and J. Fowler. The warehouse, which extends through to Pakenham Street, was entered through a 5.5 metre gate built for wagons.

D. and J. Fowler was a South Australian mercantile firm, whose importation of goods into Australia was significant at the turn of the century and they made a significant contribution to the commercial development of Fremantle. The company was founded by siblings from a Scottish family: James Fowler (1830-1858) and his sister Margaret, who immigrated to SA in 1850. James was joined by elder brother David (1826-1881) in 1854 and when he died in 1858, a third brother George (arriving in 1860) became a partner in the firm. They retained the name D. & J. Fowler. By 1865 business had grown to such an extent that they opened branch offices in London, Fremantle, Broken Hill and Kalgoorlie. They acquired the dealership for Shell products and set up a shipping agency to handle not only their imports but exports of wool, wheat, meat, flour butter and other materials. They manufactured Lion brand products, Fowlers Vacola bottling products and were agents for Amgoourie and Robur tea. In 1982-3 the company was taken over by Southern Farmers Ltd..

In 1897 their warehouse in Norfolk St was gutted by fire:

Despite the efforts of the brigade, the building, which consisted of wood and iron, was totally destroyed, together with the stock of general merchandise, which was valued at £8,000. It is, however, covered by insurance in an Adelaide coy. The building was valued at £600 (reference)

1899 A more substantial warehouse was built by Fremantle architect Frederick William Burwell in 1899 and opened in 1900. It included offices, a warehouse, an engine room, a packing and coffee roasting house, stables and sheds. See images in an article- (link) This warehouse also sustained a fire but this time was saved by the Fremantle Fire Brigade:

1905 WAREHOUSE ON FIRE. A fire broke out about 3 o'clock on Saturday morning in Messrs. D. and J. Fowler's warehouse in Henry and Packenham streets, Fremantle. The brigade turned out promptly, and extinguished the flames just as they seemed to be getting a good hold of one of the most valuable warehouses in Fremantle. (reference)

1905 D. AND J. FOWLER'S ANNUAL PICNIC. The annual picnic in connection with the Fremantle and Perth houses of D. and J. Fowler Ltd., was held on Wednesday last. The staff, numbering about 70 proceeded to Melville Park in drags, which left the warehouse in Henry-street at 9.30 a.m. On arrival at the ground the sports committee initiated a good programme, which was successfully carried out. The weather was perfect, and the picnic in every way proved most enjoyable. Article mentions names of staff (reference)

1911 James Rushby, a storeman in the employ of Messrs. D. and J. Fowler, fell down the lift of the firm's warehouse at Fremantle on Saturday forenoon, and sustained serious injuries. (reference)

1920 INDUSTRIAL BOYS ON STRIKE. About 40 boys, employed in the packing department of D. and J. Fowler's warehouse, Fremantle, went on strike this morning as a protest against what they characterise as the defective machinery which they have to use in their work. (reference)

1933 Mr. B. S. Kiernan, an executive was for some years with Messrs. D. and J. Fowler in their Fremantle warehouse: 'What he does not know about Chinese, Ceylon, Assam, Pekoe, Orange Pekoe, and teas from tip to dust is not worth knowing.” (reference)

1946 A Fatal Fall -WINDOW CLEANER'S END. Slipping from a position on the exterior of a Fremantle warehouse the windows of which he had been cleaning, Ernest Charles Meyers (47), fell about 45 ft. to his death. He had been cleaning the windows of D. and J. Fowler Ltd., in Henry street, Fremantle, with the aid of a ladder which was resting on the window ledge. He was seen by his employer, Walter Ernest Bush, to fall, clutching at the ladder which came away from its position… (reference)

The City of Fremantle purchased the property in 1971 and leased it to a wool stores company. In 1991–1992 the City undertook restoration of the buildings. It was registered as a State Registered Place on the 9 November 1993.

During the 1990s it was occupied by the Fremantle Furniture Factory.

2005: Notre Dame University leased the building for its School of Medicine

In 2004 the University, having received approval from the Commonwealth Government and with strong endorsement from of the Western Australian State Government, achieved accreditation from the Australian Medical Council enabling it to open a graduate entry Medical School on the Fremantle Campus in 2005. This was to be the second Medical School in Western Australia and the first in Australia at a private university… The Howard Government supported the initiative with Commonwealth funded Medical places and a capital grant for facilities. The State Labor Government, with the direct involvement and approval of the Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, provided a $3 million low interest capital loan to help develop the beautiful and historic building (owned by the City of Fremantle and leased to Notre Dame for the long-term) designated to house the Medical School, in Henry Street, Fremantle… 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

Occupants:

Lot 86 was originally owned by Curtis ( 1855) then transferred to M. Dyett (1856-1879) and Lot 87 by Lefroy & Vigors (1855-1878)

1913 - 1919 FOWLER LTD, D. & J., merchants & shipping agents, & at Murray st, Perth & Brookman st, Kalgoorlie; also at Adelaide & London.

1920 - 1938 Fowler Ltd, D & J., merchants & shipping agents, British Imperial oil Co Ltd (registered office), Canton Insurance Office Ltd (D & J Fowler Ltd, agents)

1938 - 1942 Fowler Ltd D & J., merchants, grocers, wholesale & shipping agents, North China Insurance Co (D & J Fowler Ltd, agents)

1943 - 1949 Fowler Ltd D & J., merchants, grocers, wholesale & shipping agents

1971 City of Fremantle

1990s Fremantle Furniture Factory

2005 Notre Dame University

38 Mouat Street

Notre Dame University ND8 - Holy Spirit Chapel

This building is found on the corner of Mouat and Croke Streets with an entrance on the northern side through the Bateman Courtyard.

Both Lots part 53 and Lot 54 was originally owned by Lionel Samson (1829-1837), the triangular part (Lot 54) was then briefly transferred to J.P Beete (1855-1858). Lot 53 was purchased by John Wesley Bateman in 1855 and he then bought Lot 54 in 1859.

The building on this site was Bateman's first home; a two storey residence with a cellar and verandah. He gradually acquired many other buildings on this block.

The north wall section of the Chapel with the two Stations of the Cross is all that remains of the original house. The current Chapel building was built some time after 1916. When the University purchased it, the building was derelict and had been used as Bateman Marine Supplies.

c. 1993: The form and style of the Campus refurbished buildings was a product of four main contributors: the University’s newly appointed architect, Marcus Collins, its interior decorator, Angela Chaney, its builder, Bill Fairweather, and Campus and Project Manager, Terry Craig. Refurbishment was donated by Father Tom Phelan and the Holy Spirit Parish of City Beach. The stained glass windows in the Chapel were designed by Ted Gowers, with advice from Father Peter Kenny SJ, and Father Tim Quinlan SJ, and donated to the University by John Honner. A feature of the Chapel is a large, rough-hewn wooden cross which has became an important symbol of the University, especially in graduation ceremonies, when each graduand is presented with a simple jarrah wooden cross as a memoriam of their time at Notre Dame. (reference)

The unique bronze Stations displayed in the courtyards of the Fremantle Campus were a gift from the late Diane Wansbrough, a Governor of the University, and created by artist Peter Schipperheyn.

The University of Notre Dame Australia is guided by Catholic faith and values, and so the Chapel is an important building for Notre Dame University. Mass is currently held in the Chapel Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 12:35pm for staff and students. The University's Holy Spirit Chapel (seating 120) is available for Weddings and during the Covid-19 pandemic the Chaplaincy went online: https://www.facebook.com/ChaplaincyFreo/

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