36 Hubble Street

36 Hubble Street (map)

ARCHITECTURE

Early federation / Georgian Domestic Carpenter

No 36 (previously known as No 68) Hubble Street is a single story house constructed in timber framing and weatherboard cladding with a hipped corrugated iron roof. The place is asymmetrically planned with a full width return bullnose roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on square timber posts. The verandah stops at an extension to the north. The extension has French doors to the verandah. There is a central door flanked by double hung sash windows.

HISTORY

1912 Witness: Neil Michelson, a shunter, spoke to meeting the woman and McPhie, and the woman asked him to direct her to the Railway Hotel, as a man was following her, and had threatened to rob her. He did not take much notice of the woman at the time, as she appeared excited. When she asked to be shown the way to the Railway Hotel she went on ahead of him along Eleanor-street. He was cutting off the corner near De Fratuas` boardinghouse, and the woman was then at the intersection of Eleanor-street and Forrest-street. He shouted to her to turn round there. He had got ahead, and looking behind him saw a man coming round the corner. The man caught up to the woman near the Public Buildings, and witness heard something like a cry, a blow, and a fall. He then saw the woman on the ground and the man running away. Going up to the woman he asked her what was wrong, and she said the man had taken her hand bag and her ticket to Day Dawn... (reference)

1922 Funeral. The Friends of the late Mr. Thomas Gaynor, late of the W. A. Government Railways, Geraldton, are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Fremantle. The Funeral will leave the residence of his brother, Mr. Dennis Gaynor, 68 Hubble-street, East Fremantle. (reference)

1922 Obituary. The funeral of the late Mr. Thomas Gaynor, late of the W.A. Government Railways, Geraldton...The deceased, who was 51 years of age, was born in Co. Clare, Ireland. (reference)

1928 Mr. H. Michelson, of Sydney, is on a visit to his brother Mr. Neil Michelson, of "Kia-ora," Wokaning. (reference)

1941 The engagement is announced between Irene Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Woolmington, of Cottesloe. and Eric Neil, Toorak, Victoria, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Michelson, of Fremantle. (reference)

1945 Death on October 20 at Fremantle Hospital (result of an accident), John Patrick Francis, of 36 Hubble Street, East Fremantle, dearly loved husband of Florence, loved father of Denis, (deceased), Eileen, Norma, Marie, Laurence, Avis, Patricia and Ronald. We are going to miss you, Dad. (reference)

RESIDENTS

1907 - 1925: Gaynor, Dennis

1926 - 1927: Hill, Edward Patrick

1928: Michelson, Neil S.

1929 - 1949: Francis, John

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