| Title: |
Iron roofs and walls 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: |
Corrugated iron shanties along the South Fremantle and Robb Jetty coastline, built by needy people who found themselves homeless in Perth's post-war housing shortage. The accompanying newspaper article claimed over 50 people lived in squalor without running water or waste disposal, including pensioners and returned soldiers and their families. |
| Subject: |
Cockburn Region (W.A.) -- Robb JettyCockburn Region (W.A.) -- CoogeeHomelessness -- CoogeeSmelters camp |