''Appy 'Ome' Building With Horses
c. 1895A policeman is sitting on a horse, two men are in a horse drawn phaeton, and a lad is holding the head of a horse with a bowler-hatted man on it. Two men are standing and two girls sitting on the ground in front of them. There is a shingle roof stone building in the background with a skillion roofed addition on the western side. In the foreground are a grass tree and zamia and behind the post and rail fence is a tuart tree.
Freshwater Bay Mixed School, 66 Victoria Avenue, Claremont was built in 1862. In the 1880s became a boarding house for single men known as the 'Appy 'Ome. In 1883 the property was bought by the Police Department to serve as the quarters for the second constable in charge of Freshwater Bay. In 1975 opened as the Claremont Museum.
Details
Details
Australian social history from the collection of photographs and albums donated to the museum by Raymond Sharkey's family.
Raymond John Sharkey an architect, surveyor and amateur photographer was born in 1868 in New South Wales. Raymond was a Claremont resident when he died at an early age.
Copyright and Reference
Copyright and Reference
Acknowledgements to be made to 'Claremont Museum 09.188'.
Other items by Sharkey Collection
- Thomas Sutcliffe Mort Statue
- St John's Anglican Church, Northam
- Perth Town Hall
- Women In Horse Drawn Phaeton
- General Post Office Sydney
- Amateur Photographers On The Swan River
- Prince Albert Statue
- The Acrobat
- Yachts On The Swan River
- Two Storey Georgian Home
- Raymond John Sharkey
- The Great Hall of the University of Sydney
Other items from Claremont Museum
- HMS Katoomba Demonstration, Swan River Foreshore
- Boarders From Keough's Boarding House
- Keough's Boarding House
- Men On Verandah
- Man Inside Room With Privacy Curtains
- Max The Dog, Freshwater Bay
- Victorian Gentleman
- Judge Burnside's Picnic Tea
- Perth Yacht Club Members
- Yachts At Canning Bridge
- Yachts On The Swan River
- Rocky Bay On Swan River

Source: Claremont Museum 09.188
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