South Fremantle is a suburb of

Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...

, Western Australia, located within the

City of Fremantle The City of Fremantle is a local government areas of Western Australia, local government area in the south of Perth, Western Australia. The City covers an area of , and lies about southwest of the Perth central business district. History ...

History

The first development in the area may have been when

Richard Goldsmith Meares Richard Goldsmith Meares (1780–1862) was an early landholder and public official at the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. Early life Richard, born April 1780, was the son of William Meares of Killinboy, County Westmeath, and Elizabeth Go ...

established a lime-burning kiln in 1831. Meares had arrived at the

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with

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in the previous year. As the area was adjacent to the relatively safe harbour of Owen's Anchorage in

Cockburn Sound Cockburn Sound () is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Western Australia. It extends from the south of the mouth of the Swan River at Fremantle for about to Point Peron near Rockingham. The total area of the sound is about . It ...

, the area began to be used as an alternative destination point for ship arrivals. In 1898, a railway was built from Fremantle to Robb Jetty. At that time, an abattoir was built for slaughter of livestock arriving from the north-west of the state including the

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. Livestock were unloaded from the ships onto a jetty. Extensive pasturing for the animals as well as small market gardens were established in the region around the abattoir. The Coogee Hotel was built in 1901, and in 1903 the railway was extended to

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. Commercial lime kilns were established during this period to provide for the construction boom and population growth which had been brought about by gold discoveries. The Newmarket Hotel on the border of Hamilton Hill and South Fremantle, was often identified as being in either of the suburbs. The area steadily became the centre of much of Perth's heavy industry and comprised the coal-fired power station, railway marshalling yards, abattoir as well as numerous skin drying sheds. From the 1980s however, pressures brought on by demands for residential housing triggered a process of removal of the various facilities.

South Beach

South Beach is an area of beach and adjacent land in South Fremantle. The beach and the disused railway station are parts of the South Fremantle community history.

Industrial heritage

Railway marshalling yards

A large

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with

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tower was built by

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in the 1960s during the

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railway line project from

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. The yard was decommissioned in the

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era in the 1990s.

Robb Jetty Abattoir

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Robbs Jetty Abattoir Robbs Jetty Abattoir was an operation that was part of the Western Australia government meat export industry between 1921 and 1994. It was located in South Fremantle and it utilised the transport services provided by the Robbs Jetty railway s ...

Public transport

South Fremantle is serviced by bus routes 511, 530, 531, 532, 533, 548, 549, 998 and 999.

Bus

* 512 Fremantle Station to Murdoch Station – serves

South Street South Street may refer to: Streets by that name * South Street (Durham), England * South Street, Mayfair, England *South Street (Manhattan), United States *South Street (Perth, Western Australia) * South Street (Perth, Scotland) *South Street (Ph ...

Hampton Road Hampton Road is the main road entering the City of Fremantle The City of Fremantle is a local government areas of Western Australia, local government area in the south of Perth, Western Australia. The City covers an area of , and lie ...

and Cockburn Road * 532 Fremantle Station to

Cockburn Central Station Cockburn Central station ( ) is a bus and railway station on the Transperth network. It is located at the juncture of the Mandurah and Thornlie–Cockburn lines, from Perth station inside the median strip of the Kwinana Freeway serving the su ...

– serves South Terrace, Douro Road and

* 548 Fremantle Station to Rockingham Station – serves

and Cockburn Road * 998 Fremantle Station to Fremantle Station (limited stops) –

CircleRoute The CircleRoute is a pair of circular Transperth bus routes through Perth's suburbs. History The CircleRoute was introduced in two stages. On 16 February 1998, the first stage of the CircleRoute commenced operating between Fremantle and Oa ...

Clockwise, serves

* 999 Fremantle Station to Fremantle Station (limited stops) –

Anti-Clockwise, serves

Bus routes serving

and

: * 511 and 513 Fremantle Station to Murdoch Station * 520, 530 and 531 Fremantle Station to

* 549 Fremantle Station to Rockingham Station

References

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