Queen Street, Fremantle

Queen Street
Western Australia
View down Queen Street from the intersection with Henderson Street and Holdsworth Street. Queensgate Carpark and Myer building on the left – both these buildings have identified for redevelopment[1]
General information
Type Street
Length 0.45 km (0.3 mi)
Major junctions
NW end Elder Place
SE end Henderson Street, Fremantle
Location(s)
Suburb(s) Fremantle

Queen Street, Fremantle is a street that crosses High Street, Fremantle at Kings Square, in Fremantle, Western Australia, and is located away from and west of Queens Square. It is a separate Fremantle street from Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle, which is located 500 metres (0.3 mi) further north. The street is named after Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV.[2]

It starts from near the Fremantle railway station and crosses Cantonment Street, Adelaide Street, High Street and finishes as a junction with Henderson and Holdsworth street. Its extension in the 1920s was to facilitate improvements in road and tram routes [3]

Queen Street was the address of the 7th Heavy Brigade artillery, and 35th Fortress Company of Engineers prior to the Second World War[4]

See also

Australian Roads portal

Notes

  1. Wilson-Chapman, Amy (13 September 2012). "Massive blow as Fremantle loses Myer store after 40 years". Perth Now. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  2. Ewers, John K. (1971). The Western Gateway: A History of Fremantle (2nd ed.). Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press for the Fremantle City Council. p. 227. ISBN 085564 050 2.
  3. "Fremantle Street Improvements.". The Daily News (Perth: National Library of Australia). 29 September 1925. p. 1. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  4. "STATE CAMPAIGN NEXT WEEK.". The West Australian (Perth: National Library of Australia). 25 November 1938. p. 20. Retrieved 9 November 2012.

Route map: Bing