Commercial Centre (fmr) - Vacant Site

Statement of Significance

101 Throssell Street, Collie has been demolished. It is not considered to have any heritage significance. It was included in the 1996 Shire of Collie Municipal Heritage Inventory and the record has been retained for information purposes only.

Physical Description

Historic Site

History

On 21 May 1909 a fire started in the shop of WE Smith, a tailor and spread rapidly through the eight wooden shops between the Colliefields Hotel and the Crown Hotel. The Southern Times of 25 May 1909 reported that the businesses destroyed as GW Hartley, grocer; WE Smith, tailor; CAF Bond, chemist; R Waters, baker and confectioner; N Glaris, fish saloon; E Reynardson, furniture warehouse, E Watt, newsagent and the Ezywalkin Boot Co, boot merchants. Property loss was estimated at £2,000 with total losses, including stock and equipment at £4-5,000. The vacant blocks on either side of the row of shops protected the Colliefields and Crown Hotels. Most tenants were living on site. The Post Office Directories do not provide street numbers for Collie until 1934. From 1935 until 1939, Collie Meat Supply (David Forgan, butcher) is listed at the site. Dave Forgan is listed in Collie from at least 1924. From 1940 until 1949, JF Pike operates a butcher’s shop at the address. Pike had another store at 28 Forrest Street. From 1945 until at least 1947 (the records for 1948 are missing), Griffin Coal Mining Co Ltd are also listed at 57 Throssell Street. In 2016 the site is vacant. Information on the demolition of the building is not readily available in Council records. It is thought that the place was demolished some decades ago. Photographic evidence suggests that the place was the western third of a building of which only the eastern third remains.

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