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''Appy 'Ome' Building With Horses

Sharkey Collection
c. 1895
Overview

A 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.

Historical information

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

Registration number
cwa-org-28--9-188
Item type
Photographs
Themes
Social History
Contextual information

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.

Year
c. 1895
Links to additional resources
Claremont Museum.
Last modified
Saturday, 28 June, 2025
Completeness
94
Copyright category
Life of creator +70 years
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Copyright holder
Claremont Museum, Town of Claremont, Western Australia, 6010
Claremont Museum

Claremont Museum

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'Appy 'Ome
''Appy 'Ome' Building With Horses
Source: Claremont Museum 09.188

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