DescriptionA description of the Fremantle Club from authors David Dare Parker and Ron Davidson:
‘By the 1880s Fremantle was controlled by fifteen self-made and self-satisfied merchants who believed their hegemony should be complete and extend over both the colony’s economy and the social and sporting lives of its lower orders. They moved into what was by then a coffee palace and made it into a grand display of leather chairs, cigars and fine imported furniture. Here they could ponder their own importance and wonder that their ships were trading at ports as far away as China. The exclusivity of Perth’s Weld Club had come to Henry Street and was called the (first) Fremantle Club. Members were waited on at elaborate dinners by Chinese servants wearing immaculately pressed white linen outfits. No women were allowed in.’
(accessed at https://freotopia.org/clubs/fremantleclub1.html, cited from Parker, David Dare & Ron Davidson 2010, The Clubs, FotoFreo, Fremantle) AddressHenry Street,FremantleLocation[1]
