Shop

Parent Place or Precinct

04033 Bay View Terrace Commercial Heritage Precinct

Physical Description

Single storey rendered masonry with expansive frontages to Bay View Terrace and Stirling highway. Symmetrical about the corner. Bracketed skillion verandah.

History

This single-storey building with three shops was on a prime site on the corner of the Perth-Fremantle Road (now Stirling Hwy) and was in existence in the early 1900s, though not necessarily in its existing form as it was initially recorded as two shops. Photographs from the early 1900s show a building with a bullnose verandah, tall, ornate pediment and every available space covered in advertising. The hoarding above the shop entrance, visible from both directions down the Perth-Fremantle Road, advertised Press Bros Cash Grocers, Military Pickles and Bee Tea. In 1908, Thomas Press is listed as the owner of Press Bros, storekeepers.
The corner shop continued as a grocery store under various owners over ensuing years, including Eves & Murray, Milner & Fraser and Harry Kerr. The other two shops fronting the Terrace sold complimentary produce such as fruit and vegetables. In the 1930s, F. A. Brown had a confectionary shop and library at No. 55. Mrs. Brown ran the shop, and as well as being able to buy lollies there, children also bought, sold and exchanged comics. Mr. Brown was a 'marine dealer', buying and selling bottles, rags, bags, kerosene tins, bedsteads, old stoves, scrap lead, brass and copper, which he transported in his utility. In 1940, Claremont Furniture Arcade occupied No.53 and C. M. Whittle's newsagents and stationer was on the corner in No. 57. Mrs. Rose Cettini's mixed business was in No.55 by 1949. A later occupant of the corner site was Doff's 'Saturday Generation' store.
In 1993, these shops were occupied by Claremont Home Furnishers (No.53), Cahill Hair Design (No.55) and Bliss clothing (1957).

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