SHARKEY ALBUM, PUBLIC BUILDINGS

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c. 1895

Overview

B/W Prints. (a) Ornate stone building with stone parapet and chimneys. Stone pedestal and circular structure caps front elevation. (b) Solid, stone, four- storey building with stone parapet and statues in corner niches on the upper floors. The entrance, through iron gates is guarded by a sentry and there is a white sentry box on the left. (c ) Three-storey, stone building with stone parapet and statue on front elevation. An arched colonnade surrounds the ground floor. (d) Large stone building. Central section has decorative gable and pilasters: wings on either side have stone parapets. Men and children on pavement in front of building, horse-drawn lorry and cart on road, and a woman and child in the foreground. (e) Ornate, stone, two-storey building surrounded by railing fence. It has an elaborate clock tower surmounted by a cupola and turrets capped with ironwork.

Historical information

Lived at the 'Appy 'Ome as a bachelor. Born in 1868 in New South Wales, Raymond Sharkey was an architect and surveyor and amateur photographer. He worked for a time in Esperance and the goldfields. He married Edith Florence Ray in Melbourne on October 4th, 1899. They had four children Josephine, Peggy, Maida and Bruce. Moved to 3 Victoria Avenue 'Wainomi in 1903'. While living in Claremont, worked as a draughtsman for the Public Works Department. Died of a heart attack at the Subiaco train station at age 41 on September 22, 1910.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-28--9-171-a-e

Item type

Photographs

Themes

Social History

Year

c. 1895

Claremont Museum

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