Happy Easter to our readers Join our online community at www.streetwisemedia.com.au FREO StreetWise Fremantle’s only independent magazine Issue 12 | April 2019 ANZAC Monument Pilbara Powerhouse Page 2-3 Page 6-7 Outer Heritage Fatima Faith Page 4-5 Page 18-19 StreetWise Media Easter Tidings Publisher WELCOME to the April 2019 Carmelo Amalfi edition of Freo StreetWise. Designer Four years after Fremantle’s only Beau G’Froerer independent publication was launched, the free magazine has Freo StreetWise is a free moved to its own dedicated web independent publication produced space at in Fremantle. www.streetwisemedia.com.au. Supported by local businesses and This special edition, in print and community groups, the magazine online, revisits Monument Hill on launched in 2015 is distributed in Anzac Day and the Outer Harbour cafes, bars, hotels, restaurants, threat to British settler Thomas libraries and select sites in Peel’s 1829 settlement overlooking Cockburn and Melville. Cockburn Sound. To share your story or advertise in In March, StreetWise also travelled StreetWise: to the Pilbara as part of its coverage of the 50th anniversary Contact: since Karratha was gazetted a www.streetwisemedia.com.au Carmelo Amalfi 0468608503 town. Ducking one of the biggest email: [email protected] cyclones in decades, the visit www.streetwisemedia.com.au. took in Dampier, Point Samson, Freo StreetWise was launched in 2015 published since 2015 and, for Mailing address: Wickham and Roebourne. to showcase the unique stories and the first time, provide feedback, 18 Norfolk Street, images of WA’s much-loved port city. comments, images and videos. Thanks to Freo photographer and Fremantle WA 6160 blogger Roger Garwood for his Having attracted thousands of print StreetWise also acknowledges the All content/images (Copyright 2019) blessed cover image of the olive and online readers since the launch support of our website sponsors All rights reserved. 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StreetWise to talk on the colourful history of Monument Hill, the sunset All donations All donations towards providing the appropriate setting for the special commemorative the Society meeting. publication go to Legacy WA. Friends of Monument Hill convenor Published by StreetWise Media and Claudia Green also provided an reprinted by the City of Fremantle, update on the City’s review of the the limited edition booklet site’s 2009 conservation plan. celebrates the 90th anniversary of Ms Green, who lives opposite MONUMENTAL LEGACY the unveiling of the war memorial in the memorial park, said the 1928. comprehensive plan, “makes wonderful reading and a fascinating THE Fallen Sailors and Soldiers The central sandstone pillar and The Kings Park war memorial account of the social history plaques pay homage to the war commemorates its 90th anniversary attached to the Hill that goes back to Memorial foundation stone was laid dead, including the names of the on November 24 this year. the 1880s, and the gold rush days. on Anzac Day 1928. 849 Fremantle ‘boys’ killed in WW1. “The conservation plan is now The completed monument was Their names, which were inscribed nearly 10 years out of date and unveiled on Armistice Day the same on Monument Hill at the start of needs review to ensure this reserve year. continues to be maintained in the Anzac centenary keeping with its special purpose. Monument Hill in 2015, were to be included on the (formerly Obelisk “Monument Hill Memorial Reserve original memorial requires social and financial Hill) was vested design, but there was investment and is as important as as a park in 1904. no room (detailed in any other part of Fremantle history”. Families have ‘Monument Hill - 1928- gathered here ever 2018’). Additional details on the new since to remember, StreetWise web page at The reserve is Crown reflect, watch their www.streetwisemedia.com.au. land, the majority children roll down vested in the City for, ‘Monument Hill 1928-2018’ is available the grassy slopes at 18 Norfolk Street, Fremantle ’Contemplation of Memorials, Look- while newlyweds say, “I do”. or contact StreetWise Media on out, Landscape and the Community’. Interestingly, small portions of 0468608503 or The State heritage-listed treasure [email protected]. Bateman Street and the intersection covers 4.45ha and is listed on of Swanbourne and High streets Digital copies of the booklet will be the City of Fremantle’s municipal were, for historic reasons, vested as published online. heritage inventory. a road reserve. - 2 - - 3 - 1829 HORSES AND GHOST TOWNS ONE of two planned highways to the artefacts, including the possible Western Australia’s early settlers lived and died at ‘Clarence Town’ Outer Harbour will run either into the graves of up to 40 people, left near Woodman Point from 1829 to 1831. horse exercise beach south of Alcoa behind by nearly 500 settlers who StreetWise visited the State heritage-listed site near Fremantle jetty in Kwinana or a State heritage- arrived here in three ships including where one of two highways is proposed for the Outer Harbour. listed ‘treasure’ opposite the Naval Gilmore (December 15, 1829); Base shacks site overlooking Hooghly (February 12, 1830); and More on Pages 20-25. Cockburn Sound. Rockingham (May 14, 1831). Abandoned and undisturbed for The site (marked option 2 in the nearly two centuries, ‘Clarence graphic below) also is significant Town’ was established in 1829 by to the Nyungar people who moved between estuaries and water British pioneer Thomas Peel, who sources along the coast, including later abandoned the site. Woodman Point. Also known as ‘Peel Town’, Peel is said to have lived on the archaeologists working at the bush coastal cliff edge now occupied by site in Beeliar Regional Park near the Naval Base shacks. Mount Brown have unearthed stone and timber buildings and cultural Continued pages 20-25. Will the proposed Outer Harbour destroy one of WA’s first colonial sites overlooking Cockburn Sound? Established months after Sir James Stirling arrived in WA, the undisturbed bush site established by British pioneer Thomas Peel was abandoned by 1831. Up to 40 people died here, mostly women and children, their remains believed to be still buried at the historic ghost town. - 4 - - 5 - PILBARA POWERHOUSE KARRATHA CITY THE ‘Powerhouse of the Pilbara’ celebrates 50 years since it was gazetted a town. Freo StreetWise visited Karratha City and - having survived the worst cyclone “WE want to become Australia’s “Rio, BHP, FMG are talking 100 years in decades - compiled these stories and images of one most liveable regional city. So our of exports. Woodside is talking 50 of the oldest landscapes on Earth. vision is to create a place where years more gas. So we have 50 to Details on the new StreetWise web page at people want to live.” 100 years of certainty. Our vision is www.streetwisemedia.com.au. to create a place where people want That’s the City’s new ‘Karratha is to live, invest and do business.” Calling’ vision, Mayor Peter Long and CEO Chris Adams told Freo StreetWise. “We are a vital part of the economy of the State and the nation,” the mayor offers. “Karratha exports about $45 billion a year in oil and gas, iron ore and salt.” Mr Adams said Karratha was more than just a mining town, “it is a port city”. Gazetted 50 years ago this August, the North-West community was declared a city in 2014. He said mining towns come and go (Goldsworthy, Shay Gap), but port cities will prosper. - 6 - - 7 - KARRATHA CALLING “AUSTRALIA’S MOST LIVEABLE REGIONAL CITY” KARRATHA achieved City status on “We are the centre of GDP exports in July 1, 2014. Australia,” she says, enjoying coffee at Fiorita Deli on Sharpe Avenue. This year, the City celebrates 50 years since it was gazetted a One interesting idea is to encourage construction and mining town. passenger cruise ships to visit Karratha, which fits the City’s The next 50 years of iron ore, salt AT the peak of the mining boom in One of the important questions the rebranding as a ‘port city’. and oil and gas exports will bring the Pilbara nearly a decade ago, City asks in its annual community dramatic changes, according to “The plan is to get on the cruise ship Karratha’s population reached surveys is how long people intended Karratha & Districts Chamber of circuit and have a product to service 26,000 people, plus 13,000 FIFOs.