Elders Woolstores | |
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Alternative names | Fremantle Woolstores |
General information | |
Address | 38 Cantonment Street, 1 Goldsbrough Street |
Town or city | Fremantle |
Coordinates | 32°3′0.5″S 115°44′49.44″E / 32.050139°S 115.7470667°E / -32.050139; 115.7470667 |
Construction started | 1927 |
Western Australia Heritage Register | |
Type | State Registered Place |
Designated | 20 July 2004 |
Reference no. | 00852 |
Fremantle Woolstores were at least four large buildings on the southern side of Fremantle Harbour, in Fremantle, Western Australia.
They include:
- Westralian Farmers
- Elder Smith and Co
- Goldsborough Mort
- Dalgety and Co
The larger two operations were Elders Woolstore and Dalgety Woolstore. In 1955 Wesfarmers moved to new premises in South Fremantle.
In time the various competitors combined activities such as the Wool Exchange in Norfolk Street, where Wesfarmers and Edler Smith Goldsborough Mort combined between 1984 and 1997. In the 1940s the Dalgety woolstore was used to store for sale, locally grown tobacco.
The large woolstore buildings remained notable in the Fremantle landscape long after their wool storage facility was closed down.
The Dalgety woolstore building has a Queen Victoria Street frontage. Elders woolstore nearby on Elder Place has become a heritage listed building.
Notes
- See catalogue summary for amalgamation history of some of the major entities, in part - Elder, Smith & Co (1907), Western Australian records, retrieved 18 January 2017
- Western Australia. Government Photographer (1957), Elders Ltd, wool industry in Fremantle, retrieved 18 January 2017
- Western Australia. Government Photographer (1900), Elders Wool Store, Fremantle, retrieved 18 January 2017
- Aerial Surveys Australia; HRRC (1968), Aerial photographs of the Elders-G.M. Woolstores, Fremantle, 22 Nov. 1968, retrieved 18 January 2017
- Illustrations Ltd (1927), Dalgetys Wool Store, Fremantle, retrieved 18 January 2017
- According to the 1928 news report Perth Wool Sale "Trade and Finance". The West Australian. Vol. XLIV, no. 8, 230. Western Australia. 1 November 1928. p. 15. Retrieved 18 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- "Contract Let". The Southern Cross News. Vol. X, no. 406. Western Australia. 21 July 1955. p. 2. Retrieved 19 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- Australian Wool Handlers (1953), Records, retrieved 18 January 2017
- "Local Tobacco Sales". Western Mail. Vol. 55, no. 2, 844. Western Australia. 5 September 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 18 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- "Fremantle woolstores skatebaording site under development threat". Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- Illustrations Ltd (1958), Dalgety's Woolstores, Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle, 3 December 1958, retrieved 18 January 2017