Shop

Parent Place or Precinct

04033 Bay View Terrace Commercial Heritage Precinct

Physical Description

Single storey pair of rendered masonry semi-detached shops with a simple rectangular parapet with a central vertical ‘fin’ above the dividing wall (per 1930s). The shopfront is contemporary with a flat boxed suspended verandah awning over.

History

This building, with its parapet matching that at No. 2-8, originally comprised up to 7 smaller shops. The building appears in the Rate Books from 1903-04 to 1905-06.
In 1925, these premises were tenanted by confectioner Joseph White, wicker worker Richard Clark, watchmaker Francis Iles, bootmaker Thomas Rogers, a billiard saloon, photographer Thomas McLurie, and confectioner and greengrocer John Galatis. Several of the shops were vacant in 1935 as a result of the Depression, but one business at least was created during this period. Mrs M. M. Bovell's cake shop, later known as Bovell's Pies, was at No. 24 in 1935. This business began in 1928 when Milly Bovell began selling her meat pies in front of the library to augment the family's income. The pies were so popular that she opened a shop in front of her Terrace home. In 1985, Milly's grandson David Bovell was running Bovell's Pie Shop. Unfortunately, the meat pie and Bovell's shop were under pressure from Perth's growing food sophistication and the increasing trendiness of the Terrace. Bovells retreated to their Nedlands wholesale premises in 1987. A few years later Sportsgirl was occupying No. 24.

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