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unusual facts about Cantonment Hill, Fremantle



A Song Is a City

Vocalist and bassist Kavyen Temperley said on the Festival Mushroom Records website that the album is based on his experiences living in Fremantle.

Ann James

Ann James's illustrative work is part of the permanent collections of the Lu Rees Archives at University of Canberra, the Dromkeen Collection, Fremantle Children's Literature Centre, Seasons Gallery, and the Customs House Gallery.

Anthony Morabito

In round 21 of the 2010 AFL season Morabito missed his first game since his debut when he was one of seven players rested by Fremantle from their game against Hawthorn at Aurora Stadium in Launceston, Tasmania.

Bardo Thodol

Fremantle, Francesca & Chögyam Trungpa (1975) The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo by Guru Rinpoche according to Karma Lingpa. Boulder: Shambhala ISBN 0-394-73064-X, ISBN 1-59030-059-9 (reissued 2003).

Blues and Roots Festival

West Coast Blues & Roots Festival, a music festival held in Fremantle, Western Australia

Brad Bootsma

After spending the first seven rounds of the 2000 season playing in the WAFL with South Fremantle, Bootsma was selected to make his debut in Round 8 against Collingwood at the Docklands Stadium in a rare (for AFL) Monday night game.

C. Y. O'Connor

On 7 December 1898, his daughter Eva married Sir George Julius at St John's Church, Fremantle, Western Australia.

Cantonment Hill, Fremantle

The site includes the last remaining stand of pre-European settlement Rottnest Island Pine (Callitris preissii) on the mainland.

Childeric Muller

In 1993, he joins Reg Grundy Organisation as General Manager of Grundy TelevisionFrance/Pearson/Fremantle (Grundy is acquired by Pearson Television, and change name to FremantleMedia in 2000).

Clinton Wolf

Wolf only played four matches for Fremantle in the 1995 AFL season before retiring due to recurring knee injuries.

Clontarf Foundation

The founder and Chief Executive Officer is Gerard Neesham, former coach of Fremantle Football Club, and foundation chairman is Ross Kelly, a chairman, director or board member of many prominent West Australian companies and the former chairman of the Fremantle Football Club.

Dan Lonergan

He spent a year in Perth and learned to broadcast AFL football after calling West Coast Eagles as well as Fremantle games.

Darlington, Western Australia

Between Darlington and Boya there are two abandoned quarries: C. Y. O'Connor's 'Fremantle Harbour Works Quarry’, now known as 'Hudman Road Amphitheatre', and the Mountain Quarry which is also called Boya quarry.

Electoral district of Glendalough

A year after the Labor government's defeat at the 1993 election, Lawrence was offered an opportunity to enter federal politics with the retirement of John Dawkins, who had resigned as Member for Fremantle.

Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle

Elizabeth married Fremantle in 1797, after he had rescued her and her family from Leghorn (Livorno) during the 1796 French invasion of Italy and taken them to safety in Corsica.

The Betsey Wynne public house and restaurant in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire, was built in 2006 by the Fremantle Trust run by Thomas Henry Fremantle and his father John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe.

Fairey Fremantle

The Fairey Fremantle was a large single-engine biplane seaplane designed in the mid-1920s for a proposed round-the-World flight.

First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia

Fremantle, Arthur J. L., Three Months in the Southern States: The 1863 War Diary of an English Soldier, Greenhouse Publishing Co., 1898, ISBN 978-0961684471.

Fourth Corps, Army of Northern Virginia

Fremantle, Arthur J. L., Three Months in the Southern States: The 1863 War Diary of an English Soldier, Applewood Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-429-01666-7.

Fremantle Print Award

The Fremantle Print Award was established in 1976 with the support of Shell Australia, this partnership continued until 2006.

Fremantle War Memorial

A 21-inch-diameter mounted torpedo dedicated to the memory of United States Navy submariners who died at sea during the Second World War was unveiled by Rear Admiral Herman J. Kossler on 8 September 1967, jointly financed by the City of Fremantle and the United States Submarine Veterans Association.

Godfrey Blow

More recently the emphasis has been on his art, as his work has increasingly become a featured part of private and public collections in Australia, including Artbank, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, University of Western Australia and the collections of the cities of Bunbury, Albany and Fremantle.

Good Spirit

The album was album recorded from various gigs around Australia: The Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 14 August 2004; The Palais, Melbourne on 19 August 2004 and at the Fly-by-Night Club in Fremantle on 21 August 2004.

Henry Wray

Lieutenant-General Henry Wray CMG (1 January 1826 – 6 April 1900) was a Royal Engineers officer who arrived in Fremantle on 12 December 1851 and was responsible for carrying out the construction plans for Fremantle Prison for Edmund Henderson.

Jason Norrish

With the introduction of the Fremantle Dockers to the AFL, coached by Norrish's Claremont premiership coach Gerard Neesham, he was targeted as a priority signing.

JJ DeCeglie

Jeremy Joseph ("JJ") DeCeglie (born c. 1981) is an Australian underground novelist from Fremantle, Western Australia.

John Dawkins

In 1977 Dawkins returned to the House as member for the safe Labor seat of Fremantle, succeeding Kim Beazley (senior), and defeating his son, Kim Beazley, for the Labor preselection.

John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe

He is the father-in-law of Iain Duncan Smith, who is married to his daughter, Elizabeth "Betsy" Fremantle, and they have four children, who are being raised in their father's Roman Catholic faith.

Kirriemuir

Bon Scott of AC/DC was born in nearby Forfar and lived in Kirriemuir for a short time from 1947 until 1950 when his family emigrated to Australia, where the family lived in the suburb of Sunshine for four years before moving to Fremantle, Western Australia.

Luke Pratt

He then made his AFL debut for Fremantle in Round 7 of the 2009 AFL season at Carrara Stadium against Carlton, as a replacement for the injured Ryan Crowley.

Max Tetley

Tetley continued to play in 1940 under future politician Ross Hutchinson, but like his contemporary Tyson contemplated retirement in 1941 before staying on and helping a Cardinal team rebuilt with young players like Stan Heal, Bill Kingsbury and "Spike" Pola to a surprise premiership win over East Fremantle.

North Quay

North Quay, Western Australia, container handling port in North Fremantle, Western Australia

Old Kerosene Store

In 2010 the City of Fremantle received a Lotterywest grant to undertake conservation and interpretation works at the Old Port precinct, including the former Kerosene Store, prior to the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships.

Paraserianthes lophantha

Paraserianthes lophantha, commonly called Albizia, Cape Leeuwin Wattle, Cape Wattle or Crested Wattle, is a fast-growing tree that occurs naturally along the southwest coast of Western Australia, from Fremantle to King George Sound.

Peter Casserly

When his troop carrier, the Ascanius, was moored off Fremantle, he was refused permission to say goodbye to his mother, so he sent her a message in a bottle, which was found and sent to her.

Peter Sumich

Sumich had been playing on-and-off for South Fremantle since he was recruited by West Coast, mainly when recovering from injury or when out of form, but returned to the club full-time in 1998, serving as co-captain with Peter Worsfold.

Peter Tagliaferri

He was defeated by Greens challenger Adele Carles on May 16 - the first time a Labor candidate has lost in Fremantle since 1924.

Robert French

In 1969, at the age of 22, French contested the safe Labor Federal seat of Fremantle for the Liberal Party, which he lost to Kim Beazley, Sr..

Ross Glendinning Medal

Round 6, 2006: After Fremantle's narrow win, the medal was awarded to Chris Judd of West Coast, which attracted boos from the Fremantle fans in the crowd.

Samson, Western Australia

The suburb of Samson was named after the Samson family who have been prominent in the Fremantle area for two centuries, including Sir Frederick Samson who served as mayor for over 20 years.

Sean Terry

The son of former England and Hampshire batsman Paul Terry, he spent much of his early life in Australia, where he was educated at Aquinas College, Perth, and the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle.

Sergio Villagra

After watching his first Australian Football League match, between the Sydney Swans and Fremantle at the Sydney Cricket Ground, in 1995 he developed a fascination with the goal umpires, who at the time wore white hats.

St Kilda–Fremantle AFL controversies

Contests between the two clubs since Fremantle's admission in 1995 have a particularly high frequency of controversial and unusual events.

Stock Road, Perth

It end at Rockingham Road, which runs south as National Route 1 towards Rockingham, and north-west towards Fremantle.

Studebaker Commander

On a 3,000-mile run from Fremantle to Sydney, they smashed the previous record by 12 hours 23 minutes despite traversing 450 miles through blinding rain, and having to ford a river when a bridge had been washed away.

Thomas Coombe

Coombe financed the construction of several large cinemas in Perth and Fremantle, including the Prince of Wales Theatre on Murray Street, the Ambassadors Theatre on Hay Street, and the Princess Theatre in Fremantle.

Vhils

During Fremantle's 2013 Fremantle Street Arts Festival, the Norfolk Hotel was decorated with an original image of the first Australian female senator.

Wallace Bickley

Over time he became one of the leading merchants in Fremantle, becoming an agent for Lloyd's of London and a representative of the Melbourne Shipowners' Association.

Warren Campbell

He is the son of Basil Campbell who also played for St Marys and South Fremantle in the 1970s and 1980s.

Western Australian Party

However, the party did elect one member, William Hedges, as the member for Fremantle; he remained officially a member of the WAP, although he sat as an independent and, like Forrest, joined the Commonwealth Liberal Party when it formed.


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