CLAREMONT JETTY BOAT HIRE

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c. 1947

Overview

B/W prints. (a) A white clinker built dinghy for hire tied to the front of the kiosk at the side of the jetty. (b) Seven hire dinghys anchored in the bay. Peppermint Grove foreshore in the background. (c) A wooden building on piles in shallow water. It has a corrugated iron roof with finials at each end, a metal chimney on the left and electric power bracket on the right. There is a full length verandah along the front and walkway with wooden guard rails. An advertising sign [GOLDEN/ WEST/AERATED WATERS] is on the front wall and two signs on the front rail [eat Peters ICE CREAM/ SERVED HERE] and [CLAREMONT/BOAT SHED/ BOATS BAIT FISHING TACKLE/ J A WIBBERLEY Tel 2564]. On the right end of the verandah is a lattice screen and cyclone gate, on the left a window in the living quarters.

Historical information

Widow, Mrs Jessie Adelaide Wibberley, was proprieter of the Claremont Boat Shed from 1943/44 to 1952. Behind the small kiosk were living quarters consisting of three small bedrooms, a bathroom with chip heater and a living room with fireplace for cooking. A small kitchen with electric stove was added later. As well as selling drinks, icecreams, bait and fishing tackle, the family hired out boats and crabbing nets. The business did well as there were few privately owned boats and people had to book their boats for the weekend. They had about six or eight rowing boats - Charlie, West, Edna, May, Victor and Flatty - and after a few years added Atco outboard motors. During the war there was an army training camp at Point Walter and a ferry would bring the men on leave across to the Claremont Jetty.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-28--13-37-a-c

Item type

Photographs

Year

c. 1947

Last modified

Thursday, 23 October, 2025

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