Fremantle Markets
 Fremantle Markets roof sign | |
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| Location | Fremantle, Western Australia |
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| Coordinates | 32°03′22″S 115°44′57″E / 32.0562°S 115.749212°E |
| Website | www |
Building details | |
| General information | |
| Type | Markets |
| Construction started | 6 November 1897 |
| Completed | June 1898 |
| Type | State Registered Place |
| Designated | 9 November 1993 |
| Reference no. | 1006 |
The Fremantle Markets is a
public market located on the corner of South Terrace and Henderson Street, Fremantle
, Western Australia.
Built in 1897, it houses over 150 shops for
tourist destination considered "a Fremantle institution".[1]
History
Designed in the
jarrah
columns. The perimeter of the markets is lined with small shops, and the main entry to the market is through ornate stone arches on the Henderson Street and Market Street frontages.
The buildings functioned as a wholesale food and produce market until the 1950s, when this was taken over by the
Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1993, and the Fremantle Markets were permanently entered on the Register of Heritage Places in November of that year.[1]
Gallery
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Fremantle Markets are a popular site forbuskers -
Market Street frontage on a Friday night -
Market Street frontage, c. 1904
References
- ^ a b c "Fremantle Markets" (PDF). Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 29 December 2007.
- Victorian architect who later redesigned parts of the interior of the Weld Club.
- ^ Often working in partnership with Alfred Cox, Charles Lancelot Oldham was later responsible for such buildings as the P&O Building in Phillimore St, Fremantle Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Wellington Buildings Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine on the corner of William and Wellington Streets, Perth, the former Town Hall Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine in Geraldton, the Murchison Club Hotel Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine in Cue, and buildings at 151-165 Beaufort Street Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, 18 & 20 Howard Street Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, and 452-460 William Street Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine in Perth. Oldham died in 1920, but his company exists to this day as Oldham Boas Ednie-Brown Pty Ltd.
- ISSN 0007-070X.
- ^ This image shows the service yard at the rear of the markets before the establishment of Farmer's Lane.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fremantle Markets.
Further reading
- Wakefield, Julia.(1982) Portrait of the markets Hilton, W.A : Troilett and Wakefield. ISBN 0-949666-00-9
- Wellington, Angela. (1999) This life : Fremantle Markets. The West Australian, 20 Feb.1999, pp. 16–17 (West Magazine)