Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this website may contain images and voices of deceased persons.
Title: Corrugated iron hut at Fremantle smelters camp, 1953 [picture]
Imprint: Perth : Sunday Times, 1953
Notes: Published in the Sunday Times, 29 March 1953, p.3. Digital image taken from microfilm at State Library of WA in 2018.
Restrictions on Use: Out of copyright, no restrictions
Summary: A one-room hut built of corrugated iron and wood boards at the smelters camp along the South Fremantle and Robb Jetty coastline. The accompanying information tells newspaper readers that the people who live inside have put pictures on the wall to try and make it a more pleasant place to live.
Subject: Cockburn Region (W.A.) -- Robb JettyCockburn Region (W.A.) -- CoogeeHomelessness -- CoogeeSmelters camp
Corrugated iron hut at Fremantle smelters camp, 1953 [picture]

Click thumbnail to view full image

Contact

Address

City of Cockburn
Whadjuk Boodja
9 Coleville Crescent,
Spearwood 6163

Po Box 1215, Bibra Lake DC,
Western Australia, 6965

Visit the City of Cockburn homepage

Cockburn Nyungar moort Beeliar boodja-k kaadadjiny. Koora, yeyi, benang baalap nidja boodja-k kaaradjiny.
Ngalak kaditj boodjar kep wer kaadidjiny kalyakool yoodaniny, wer koora wer yeyi ngalak Birdiya koota-djinanginy.

City of Cockburn acknowledges the Nyungar people of Beeliar boodja. Long ago, now and in the future they care for country.
We acknowledge a continuing connection to land, waters and culture and pay our respects to the Elders, past, present and emerging.